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Spring Cleaning: Vanity Edition

I’ve said before that I have a pretty cluttered beauty cabinet…and here’s the hard evidence.

That is a lot of products.

And the truth is that I’ve used most of them at least once – I write about beauty a lot on RG (and elsewhere), and really do try to take as many products as I possibly can for a spin so that I’m reasonably well-versed in what’s out there and reasonably capable of making decently informed comparisons between brands.

SIDESSALADS

Out With The Kale, In With The…Scapes?

Over the past few years, kale has become trendy to the point of…well, of making me nuts. I know, people who love it love it and will hate this next sentence, but:

I don't like it.

I don't like it in salads, I don't like it in juices, I don't like it in little chip-things. Just don't like it.

Recipes

Blueberry-Cinnamon French Toast

Suggestion for your weekend: make this.

It takes about five minutes total, and is a huge crowd-pleaser for all ages. The key to this recipe: use blueberry bread instead of regular bread (this is Pepperidge Farm Blueberry Swirl bread, which I think is delicious…but my son's obsession is on another level entirely: he insists on eating it every. single. morning, calls it "my muffin", and was literally still talking about it as he went to sleep last night).

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The Cookery: Dobbs Ferry

When I first started blogging a few years ago I was over on Tumblr, a platform that lent itself to much shorter, more diary-style posts ("Here I am at sushi! Here is the shirt I bought! Here is my dog!" et cetera). And so I did a lot of blogging about local spots I went to. If I went to a restaurant and ate something, it probably ended up getting posted on my site.

I don't really do that anymore, mostly because I don't want to bore non-Westchester-or-NYC readers, but every so often I discover a place that I need to let you know about.

Kendrick's been telling me about The Cookery, in Dobbs Ferry (a short MetroNorth ride from Grand Central, if you're based in NYC) and how we haaaave to gooooo for a few months now, ever since a friend took him there. On Sunday we got the chance to stop in for brunch, and: