Are you entertaining this 4th of July? I stumbled onto the Jelly Shot Test Kitchen over the weekend thanks to Mochatini. Talk about cool, Summertime F-U-N. These sophisticated Jello Shot Recipes are absolutely brilliant. The photographs are incredibly beautiful. The question is: should I make the cucumber-lime margarita, the Paloma Cocktail, or the Cosmopolitan jelly shots [...]

  Posted by Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo / Entertaining and totally delicious dishes and Uncategorized

Yes, that’s right. She’s the artist I told you about who makes artfully decorated matchboxes and beautiful handmade lamp shades. Susan Schneider was the first ‘Up State’ friend that I made when we bought the country house. Long story short: this week she introduced a brand new, perfectly vintage inspired lighting kit that I am thinking [...]

  Posted by Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo / Good Find and Shopping and Uncategorized

I take great care in selecting the food that I eat and serve to my husband. I’ve made my best effort to purchase and prepare organic, locally sourced food whenever possible. From my own experience, I realize eating this way isn’t always convenient or in the budget. And then yesterday I learned that our food travels [...]

  Posted by Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo / I love this and Nesting and totally off topic and Uncategorized

The other day I mentioned that I made a pan of roasted vegetables with artichoke and feta chicken sausage for our house guests. One reader commented that she wanted that recipe. To be honest, I never thought to write that recipe here as I always thought it was ‘too easy.’ But inquiring minds want to [...]

  Posted by Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo / totally delicious dishes and Uncategorized

Yep! I am still fixated on figuring out the master bedroom. My biggest concern about my dream upholstered headboard is that I will order it to be custom made and that it will not fit around the corner of the landing on the steps. I got a glimpse of what will fit upstairs when they [...]

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