10 Simple Holiday Rules From Merv Mail

    The holidays are amongst us and with it comes the parties, overeating and the 5-7 lbs of weight gain.  As much as I love the holidays and socializing with my friends and family I also cringe thinking of all the food and the weight gain [...]

Mary J Blige At Cabo In White Plains Thanksgiving Eve

Thanksgiving 411 and 911

Thanksgiving is always at my house.  Which means cooking, cleaning, preparing, etc.   Its the one of the holidays I actually look forward to.  My son is home and that brings life back into my house.    Here is a little help from the experts. [...]

My Thanksgiving Menu

BLT Deviled Eggs-A light appetizer I learned this From Rachel Ray Turkey With herbs de Provence – This is Giada De Laurentis’s Recipe. Cranberry Sauce With Pears This cranberry sauce is  simple but delicious. If there were one thing I could [...]

Thanksgiving Tips from The Foundary

Thanksgiving is a celebration of life’s gifts, family, and the harvest season. Honor this tradition throughout your home with warm hues and inviting accents. Invoke gratitude from the front door to the dining table.   When expecting [...]

Spins Bowl Hip Hot and Happening in Westchester County

Spins Bowling-  Bowling in Westchester was never like this.  Hip, cool and fun!    Jumbo screens, cool bars and great food it just what everyone in your family young and old alike will want to go. I love the decor and the energy of this new [...]

Be A Part of the Viola Bazaar

 The VOILA Bazaar is a juried marketplace of quality Products from a variety of designers, boutique owners or anyone looking for a primary or secondary retail outlet. Our company has located a 6,000 square foot retail space on Bedford Road on [...]

Elevation Burger in Rye Brook Shakes Things Up

Are burgers the new black?  Elevation Burger is not only the new black but its green too.  No longer is the burger considered the highlight of the children’s menu. So many burger places are opening  not only in Westchester , but [...]

Roasted Whole Branzino with an Herb Garlic Rub

Roasted Whole Branzino with an Herb Garlic Rub   Branzino is a fish I always order in a restaurant .  My friend Susan Gilman, A graduate of the French Culinary institute makes it look easy.  I am going to try to make this soon.  Check out [...]

A Taste Of Westchester To Benefit Cerebral Palsy

I am giving away to tickets to this fabulous event. To enter to win, you can do one or all of the following: 1. Become a “liker” of Stacy Knows’ on Facebook and come back here and leave a comment that you did. 2. Follow Stacy Knows on [...]

Tate’s Bake Shop Chocolate Chip Cookie Selected As ‘The Best In America’ By Consumer Reports

Fill your cookie jars! In a taste test of 18 store-bought and fast food chocolate chip cookies, Tate’s Bake Shop’s chocolate chip variety was rated “Excellent” and chosen as the best chocolate chip cookie on the market [...]

Let PMS Get You Through the Holidays

    Who wants PMS? You do! PMS stands for… Physical Vigor Mental Acuity Sexual Health   ageLOC Vitality improves the three dimensions of vitality that decrease with age —physical vigor, mental acuity, and sexual health—by [...]

Want a personal cooking lesson from Cristina Ferrare? (NY & TRI-STATE Area Only)

A nationally syndicated talk show wants to give a lucky viewer a cooking lesson with Cristina Ferrare on the show! Not the best cook and hosting your first holiday dinner? Maybe your a new mom or newly married and want to dust off the pots and [...]

Put Down the Sugar and Step Away from the Candy…

For most, intense sugar overload from Halloween is thankfully, over.  But if you’ve got kids with bags of newly-collected candy lying around, you may still be in the midst of that sugar roller coaster ride.  Next up (in exactly 23 days) is [...]

Yummy Sauteed Lentils

A yummy recipe……. Super-easy and delicious from Good-Life Gourmet in Irvington NY 1 1/2 cups red lentils 3 carrots diced 3 celery stalks, diced half yellow onion diced salt to taste sautee vegetables in 2 tbsp olive oil until tender [...]

Bye-Bye Vinegar: How Clean is your Coffee Machine?

According to the National Coffee Association’s 2011 report, “National Coffee Drinking Trends,” at home consumption of coffee is up. Over 50% of all adults drink coffee and, of those, 85% report they prepared coffee at home.       [...]

Golden Crusted Brussels Sprouts

How do you decide what to make for dinner? Eating dinner night after night, although necessary , can become somewhat boring.  Luckily, there are 1000′s of cookbooks. Not everyone can buy every cookbook.   That would just be wrong, plus [...]

What Your City is Doing Tonight?

You know that friend– we all have one–  (besides me) who knows all the trendiest and hippest things to do in your city?  Well it’s time for you to be that friend!  Thanks to some great new websites, you can now be 50 steps ahead of [...]

Everyday Dining and Food Obsessions

Do you have a friend like Susan?  You should. Susan is the friend who can cook. Susan is the friend that can teach you to cook. Susan is the friend that knows how to entertain Susan is the friend you diet all month for because you are going to [...]

Want to Party Like a Skinny Buddha?

Mount Kisco Fitness and Organic Nutrition Center Invites Public to Celebrate Grand Opening       It’s not an average day when you can enjoy healthy, organic ‘mocktails’ while taking in the live performance of an internationally [...]