The Lederman Kitchen

At this point, Fall 2015 seems like a lifetime ago.  The end of the year flew by for us and by the time the holidays arrived, we had an 18 month old on our hands.   We kicked off Fall with a trip to the pumpkin patch with our friends the Vadas's.  It was a cute farm with a few animals, a play area, hay bails and, of course pumpkins.  The Vadas's also invited us over for Halloween night.  They live in a popular neighborhood for trick-or-treating and since it's probably the last year we can get by without going trick-or-treating ourselves, it was fun to be able to see all the other kiddos coming by.  I made Sydney and owl costume, but wasn't organized enough to make costumes for Brian and I.  She still wears her owl hat and always says "whoo whoo" when she see it. A little pumpkin for our little pumpkin August & Sydney having a chat on the hay bails family photo Well, this is fun Getting read...

Remember my cousin Phillip and his partner Marlon from our trip to Rome ?  If you don't, Brian and I had an amazing trip last June visiting them in Rome.  Well, they pulled out their warmest jackets, hats and scarfs and headed over to Dublin for Thanksgiving weekend. Jeff, a long time friend of Phillip's, recently moved to Dublin and turns out he and Phillip have spent a number of Thanksgivings together, all over the place - so Thanksgiving in Dublin seemed appropriate. It was great fun for us.  We were graciously invited over to Jeff and his partner Gerry's for Thanksgiving dinner.  They made huge and delicious dinner, and we enjoyed every bite of it.  I'm still dreaming about the sweet potatoes, they weren't marshmallow topped (yuck), but much better and still sweet.  They were so good.  And I'm pretty sure Brian is not going to forget the stuffing for years to come.    The rest of the weekend we spent doing some touristy stu...