Monday Night Dinner with Farmers Market Ingredients ~ Newlywed Girl

As promised, I am posting some prepared meals using ingredients purchased at the Saturday AM farmers market. For our Monday night meal we made the following dish:

Pan Seared Filet of John Dory on a bed of couscous with sauteed spinach. The square dish is a buffalo mozzarella, basil, and grape tomato salad served warm. To accompany, [...]

Last Chance to Enter our Giveaway!

Tomorrow evening we will be picking our winner for our End of Summer Giveaway. If you’d like to enter to get a chance to win our big prize, click on this link http://puppiesandworms.com/2008/08/31/free-stuff-giveaway-contest-for-end-of-summer-back-to-school-celebration/ to go to our previous post to enter your information. You will also need to subscribe to our blog to be eligible, and [...]

Friday Night Out! ~ Newlywed Girl

I actually went out over the weekend. This is really a rare occurrance. Normally, hubby and I may go out for a meal with friends/family or on our own, and then head on home for the rest of the night. This Friday was different, we made our way out for a low key birthday celebration [...]

Mom Talk: What if you cannot deal with all the mom talk?

These days it seems all that we see in the media are pictures of celebrities and their babies. I guess that means babies are in vogue again. (See this photo of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise toting Suri everywhere with them). When I was growing up, if I went to a dinner or party with [...]

Weekend Pasttime ~ Newlywed Girl

I’m spoiled because I live in LA, the land of the year round farmers markets. When I was growing up in Boston, there was one tiny farmers market in my suburbia neighborhood, and it was only open from June to October (if we were lucky). It also had about 8 stalls with very limited items, [...]

Gossip Girl : What is your child learning from shows on television?

I was watching Gossip Girl today on Tivo as I was working out, and as much as I enjoy the show, all I kept thinking to myself was, “these people are supposed to be high school students?” I cannot help but worry as a parent what this show is teaching our children.
Children today are exposed [...]

Grandmothers and Grandfathers and how great they are for your kids…Florence Henderson of the Brady Bunch buying stuff for her grandson

Yesterday, I met my friend KL for lunch at a small salad, sandwich place in Century City known as Clementines and it was packed during lunch. I was thinking to myself, we probably should have just gotten take out and brought it over to the mall courtyard to eat, no one would have minded and [...]

Alyssa Milano and Amanda Detmer attended the Kate Spade Celebrity dinner last night Exclusive Story and information about Knightsbridge Scarlet bag giveaway

Click here to check out the exclusive photos from the Kate Spade Celebrity dinner last night. Shopgirl attended the event for Shopping and Info and got the exclusive story.
The giveaway may be over but we found one for sale on Ebay for $100 off the retail price now. Click here to get it.
She also got [...]

Vegetarian Lasagna ~ Newlywed Girl

Since I had a request to write out my vegetarian lasagna recipe, I thought I’d share it here too. Its not tough, but just takes time, and there’s quite a few ingredients. The best part about lasagna is LEFTOVERS. Eat it again for lunch, another dinner, or just freeze it for later.
Cooking Temperature:

Preheat the oven [...]

Shopbop 20% off coupon code on Jackets and Sweaters

Our friends at Shopping and Info have a 20% off Coupon code for all coats and sweaters from Shopbop. Go to their site at www.shoppingandinfo.com to check it out.