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welcome to the family...
Celebrating life through food and travel...
Exploring the world through dinner tables and sharing the joy of cooking. Join me on a culinary journey filled with delicious recipes and heartwarming stories. Contact information for travel inquiries can be found on the FORA tab below.
HI and bye breakfast bars...
Lava rock at Pine Trees Beach It's been two weeks since I stepped off a plane onto the Big Island of Hawaii, and each day the island...
Melissa Scalera
Feb 19
tiramisu rosa
Imagine it's summer in Italy, you're sitting on a terrace in Sorrento overlooking the vast, blue Meditteranean Sea with a book in one...
Melissa Scalera
May 5, 2024
not your mom's chicken soup
It was a Sunday after church, and my family and I were relaxing on the couch watching Law and Order: SVU with the lights off and what...
Melissa Scalera
Apr 30, 2024
what's up sweetie - nana pat
We're talkin' bout my girl, my girl, my girl! Nana Pat (aka Adelaide, Addie, Sweetie) is the queen of all things sweet; Chocolate Chip...
Melissa Scalera
Apr 28, 2024
Collagen Cocoa with Jay Robb Collagen Peptides
No more of that hot cocoa powder packet stuff in this house… Collagen Cocoa is my kinda hot chocolate. I’m using Jay Robb Collagen...
Melissa Scalera
Apr 24, 2024
sam the man
This is my dad, Sam. According to friends he is known as Big Sam, Head Dishwasher of Teapots and Treasures, and a knock-off Mick Jagger....
Melissa Scalera
Apr 21, 2024
livy lou
Oh, Olivia, the youngest of us three and who I would consider the mightiest. You know how when you're bringing home the guy you're...
Melissa Scalera
Apr 10, 2024
magpie!
Proverbs 27:9 " Sweet friendships refresh the soul and awaken our hearts with joy, for good friends are like the anointing oil that...
Melissa Scalera
Mar 10, 2024
oh brother...
John 15:13 NLT "There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends." Nick, my not-so-little brother, you can give him...
Melissa Scalera
Mar 3, 2024
how to properly spill the tea...
Trishy and I started picking up shifts at the teashop when I was in my senior year of high school. When I left for college she started...
Melissa Scalera
Feb 17, 2024
momma trish: she's not a regular mom, she's a cool mom
Kinda like Gilmore Girls, but different.. Their coffee is our tea, Rory's Yale was my CIA, and Lorelai's inn is Trishy's teahouse. My mom...
Melissa Scalera
Apr 15, 2022
my first, and favorite, sunday gravy
I grew up in an Italian/Irish household, which translates to, we were always eating. My Nana Barb was the glue of our family, you...
Melissa Scalera
Apr 13, 2022
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