Shaz by the Sea

The Easter Bunny came to our house! We had a wonderful, busy weekend.  On Saturday, we went to Chelsea and  Brian's house - a new set of friends who live a couple houses down  from my parents. They have two young boys who are just about Conor,  Caden and Cal's age. We had a lovely brunch spread and they had an  Easter egg hunt around their house for all the kiddos.  They also had  a pinata in their garage that the kids loved hitting. It was a riot. On Sunday, we woke up to find the Easter Bunny had visited our house.  There were eggs hidden everywhere and three Easter baskets with tons  of arts and crafts, slime, candy, and stuffed animals. Lucky boys!! Later in the day, we went to my Aunt Debbie's house in North Reading.  I  made a few desserts. My Dad's Aunt Frances' famous marble squares,  and a homemade white cake all decorated for Easter. We spent the  entire day at my Aunts house, but Cal wasn’t fe...

Here are two more meals to add to the list! I thought my previous blog post was getting a little long, so I decided to separate it into two posts. Here is a recap of a stuffed zucchini boat (with side of cavatappi pasta) and a chicken dish on top of  a delicious creamy spaghetti squash. 1. STUFFED ZUCCHINI AND WINE TASTING!! We originally planned to make stuffed zucchini boats - then decided to add some pasta to the side - which we tossed with the leftover meat sauce that we used to stuff the zucchinis.  We all had different red wines, so we decided to have an impromptu wine tasting to compare/contrast all the different flavors!  We started with a Sangiovese, then a Malbec, and ended with a Cab Sav. We talked about the different flavors, the different acidities, and different colors/tones/tannins. It was fun! 2. CREAMY SPAGHETTI SQUASH WITH CHICKEN My friend Katie basically made this dinner entirely herself, so I don't know exactly what she...