by niccolapiccola | Nov 19, 2014 | books, breakfast, Eating Italian, restaurants
No seriously. How can you actually expect me to like you or even love you for that matter if you don’t like pizza? Who doesn’t like pizza? It’s like ice cream, everyone wants it all the time and if we could, we’d eat it for breakfast, lunch and...
by niccolapiccola | Dec 10, 2013 | Eating Italian, Everything Italian, food, soups
Even here in sunny California, it’s winter! So much so that my windows had frost on them yesterday and a few of my potato plants actually froze and I lost them because I forgot to cover them up. Rookie mistake. Darn that cold! Andy and I took a ride through the...
by niccolapiccola | Oct 27, 2013 | Baked goodies, beverages, books, Desserts and Yum Yums
Yesterday’s book club at my house was such a success! I had the pleasure of hosting 10 lovely ladies to discuss the book “Wild,” by Cheryl Strayed, while we snacked on ridiculously good cupcakes that Elizabeth brought and stayed warm outside sipping...
by niccolapiccola | Oct 22, 2013 | food, Quick dinner ideas, yoga
The first time I ever tasted a pomegranate I thought I was in fruit heaven!…when in actuality, I was in Mysore, India, in the dead heat of an afternoon summer, at the outdoor market in town, crushed within a mass of sweaty people, merchants yelling at me to buy...
by niccolapiccola | Sep 30, 2013 | books, food, Quick dinner ideas, slow cooking, yoga
“The act of bring present is a practice in itself.” Meg Whitney ________________ Although I have been doing Ashtanga for many years, I still like to take a good Vinyasa class now and again. I teach lots of Vinyasa and I base my flow classes on the...
