Garlic knots made from the extra pizza dough!! With @michelle_unnata #knots #garlicknots #diypizza #lancaster #lancasterkitchen
How nice! Lancaster News Online has featured our powder room in their Home & Garden section today, in an article themed — Powder Rooms That Pop!
Reporter Rebecca Logan saw pictures I had posted right here on Facebook, and reached out about adding our powder room to her article.
You can read our section of the article in the first picture below. The others pictures I have added here to fill in this post.
Michelle picked out the orange koi wallpaper, and we did some repainting and cleaning, and then I changed out all of the old chrome fixtures with oil rubbed bronze for a more antique look.
The koi mirror and the Japanese print were left here when we bought the house, and were part of the inspiration for the new look.
The 3 other powder rooms in the article were done by an interior designer, so we’re pleased as punch that ours was on the same level!
Thank you to LNP for enjoying our little powder room redesign!
With @michelle_unnata
#powderroom #lnp #koi #koiwallpaper #wallpaper #lancaster #lancasterpa
Chestnuts freshly fallen from a Chestnut Tree!
With @michelle_unnata
#nissleyvineyards #chestnut #chestnuttrees
Up close, and very personal with the Giant Hibiscus. 🌺 #pollinateme #lancaster #gianthibiscus
Grand Central Terminal, on a sunny day in New York City. With @michelle_unnata #grandcentralterminal #grandcentralstation #nyc #newyork
Ooooh! Ahhhh! It’s hard to tell just how close we were sitting to the base of the fireworks! They were literally exploding straight over our heads! And, as a result, we were being being rained down upon with chunks of cardboard fireworks shells and little blackened ash cinders. And we could really feel the ground something as each fireworks show was launched off the ground.
Benefits of a small town. We were able to walk up there a half an hour before the fireworks, and be sitting right in front with nobody in front of us. 
With @michelle_unnata
For her birthday, Michelle requested Seared Tuna, which I prepared with Asian Cucumber Salad and Furikake GABA Rice. Happy birthday honey! With @michelle_unnata
#searedtuna #asiancucumbersalad #furikakerice #birthdaydinner
Rainy but kinda romantic weather tonight. #newyork #moynihantrainhall #rainynight #nyc
First of three raised planter boxes filled. Now just add water and wait! @michelle_unnata #lancaster #raisedbedgarden #tropicalflowers #garden #backyardgarden
Good mornin’! #coffee #countrytimezone #dawn #sunrise #lancaster
Pendant lamp study. #pendantlights #pendantlamp #bedroomlights #customlighting #lampshade #hue #philipshuelights
Couple of night scenes around Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
#lancaster #pennsylvania #restaurant #nightphotgraphy #chestnuthill #cabalar #cocinamexicana
Inter-city transit.
#intercourse #pennsylvania #because
Homemade Szechuan Kung Pao Tofu, from the Lancaster Pennsylvania kitchen of Kenny and Michelle. #kungpao #tofu #szechuan
Pendant project completed. I was wanting to hang some pendant lamps over our long kitchen/dining table, but I couldn’t find anything that I loved. So I ended up purchasing a whole bunch of separate parts, to put together something unique and bespoke for our kitchen. 
I ended up choosing this really cool cloth covered herringbone pattern retro electrical wire, along with these flexible mesh wire pendant lamp shades. Lightbulbs are exposed filament Edison style LED bulbs. The three port canopy base on the ceiling came via a manufacturer I found on Etsy, and was shipped all the way from Ukraine. We replaced the light switch with a dimmer, so we can have a whole range of mood food lighting now! 
Michelle and I are on a tear, picking up the pace of house projects. We have the hope of getting through our current wish list by mid June, which will be the second anniversary of our moving into this home here in Lancaster. The icing on the cake of all of the projects will be the new color scheme and wallpaper we’ve chosen for the master bedroom. Stay tuned for that project coming up soon. 
With @michelle_unnata #pendantlamp #pendant #kitchenlighting #customlights #pendantlamps
First attempt at Pad Thai here in our Lancaster kitchen. Thank you to Hot Thai Kitchen for the recipe and technique videos! With @michelle_unnata @hotthaikitchen #hotthaikitchen #padthai #fishsauce #tamarind #palmsugar #delicious #thaifood
Taming the chaos. We’ve replaced some open dirt space in the backyard with a Zen-like rock garden. With @michelle_unnata. Ommmm! #rockgarden #zengarden #crushedmarble #peaceful #lancasterpa
Closeup of an LED Edison bulb filament. #led #filament #edisonbulb #lightbulb #macro
Originally formed by a collapsed volcanic caldera 30 million years ago, Smith Rock was layered with more lava a half million years ago. The original volcanic eruptions left a half mile thick layer of ash, which later hardened into this rock known as Tuff. 
This ultra stable stone makes for a great rock climbing, and this area is known to be origination of sport rock climbing.
Much of central Oregon is volcanic in origin, most of the major mountains being dormant volcanoes, and the rest of the landscape formed by hundreds of millions of years of volcanism. 
These volcanic areas of the Earth are my most favorite places. It’s as if the center of the planet is making itself visible still today. 
With @michelle_unnata
#smithrock #oregon #rockclimbing #volcano #basalt #hiking #dayhike #volcanictuff
A few best of pictures from our trip to Seattle, Washington and Sisters, Oregon. Hiking along the Metolius river, visiting the space needle in Seattle, and harvesting fresh oysters on the Olympic Peninsula. With @michelle_unnata @don.zur @angeladortignac @andreymarkov1312 @olikaelkina
#sistersoregon #seattle #spaceneedletower #metoliusriver #oysters #
Mid Century Modern Family. Our living/sitting room is coming together. Come on over for a chat!
With @michelle_unnata
#midcenturymodern #midcentury #midcenturystyle #livingroom #sittingroom #salon #parlour #bookshelves #countrycomfort
Just made this farmhouse style bookshelf for our kitchen. I cut all the wood to size, stained and finished with three coats of polyurethane, drilled all the holes, and then assembled it like a homemade IKEA piece! It will be the new home for our cookbook collection.
With @michelle_unnata
#farmhousestyle #bookshelves #farmhousebookshelf #cookbooks #kitchenshelves #craftstyle
Happy Valentine’s Day from Michelle and Kenny!
@michelle_unnata
It’s a Super Bowl of Mushroom Ragú over Creamy Parmesan Polenta. And it’s a winner for us here in Lancaster Pennsylvania!
You may have heard me mention that nearby Kennett Square is the mushroom capital of the world. And so we are especially inspired to make mushroom dishes in our kitchen laboratory.
This is a mix of cremini, shiitake, and oyster mushrooms, with carrots, onions, garlic, crushed red pepper, white wine, tomato paste, crushed tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, thyme, rosemary, and a bay leaf.
Polenta is cornmeal, with a healthy dose of Parmesan Romano cheese and butter mixed in and melted together into gooey goodness.
DM me for the recipe, you’ll wanna make this one for yourself!
With @michelle_unnata
#mushroomragu #polenta #parmesean #lancasterpa #pennsylvania
Mary Street Matzoh Ball Soup. 🍜
#matzohballsoup #matzohball #soup #marystreet
Ain’t it the truth?!
With @michelle_unnata
#newyorkcity #rebirth #findyourtrueself #awakenyoursoul
There’s no place like New York City!
With @michelle_unnata
#worldtradecenter #sixthavenue #newyorkcity #nyc
Do-it-yourselka!!! This is my homemade version of the Meat Combination Deluxe platter from NYC Ukrainian restaurant Veselka.
We didn’t make the pierogies (or this piece of kielbasa), but we did make the vegetarian stuffed cabbages and accompanying mushroom gravy sauce, as well as the beet and horseradish salad. 
When I see the term comfort food, this is exactly the food I think of!
Last night we made the Veselka borscht recipe from scratch, which was fantastic, and one of the best soups we’ve ever made here.
Both sets of my grandparents originated in Eastern Europe/Russia coming to the US from what is now Belarus and the Ukraine. So it’s no wonder this food really speaks to me.
Michelle’s ancestry is part Polish, so I think this food speaks to her loud and clear as well. 
#veselka #stuffedcabbage #kielbasa #perogies #homemade #ukrainianfood
Mushroom barley soup mix. Sunday morning cooking.
#mushrooms #mushroombarleysoup #lancaster #lancasterpa #homemade #soup #homecooking #stilllife
When you want Veselka so much, you make it from scratch!!! Michelle Dortignac and I dug into our Veselka cookbook tonight, and made their famous Potato Latkes and Beet Horseradish Salad.
Wowsers! So yummy!!! This was very very close to the real thing. The secret ingredient in the Latkes (********) makes all the difference. 😉
Let’s call this an early Hanukkah gift to ourselves. Interesting fact, Hanukkah falls on almost exactly the same day as Christmas this year.
Happy holidays to everyone !!!
With @michelle_unnata
#veselka #veselkanyc #potatolatkes #beethorseradish #homemade #potatopancakes #lancaster #lancasterpa
Moynihan Train Hall, New York City. With @michelle_unnata
#thanksgiving #newyorkcity #nostalgia #memories
So today, we visited the medieval town of Porvoo, located an hour east of Helsinki.
We had an absolutely delicious and filling Finnish lunch, and then walked around the old town where we saw some beautiful old Finnish homes and buildings.
It’s snowed last night in Finland, and it looks like they got much more snow out here, so it was a day trip out to an absolute winter Wonderland! With @michelle_unnata @unnataaerialyoga @unnatayoga
#porvoo #porvoooldtown #finland #helsinki #unnataaerialyoga #unnata #michelle_unnata
Michelle has finished her level one training here in Finland, and now we have three days off until the level two training starts on Thursday.
So today, we visited the medieval town of Porvoo, located an hour east of Helsinki. 
We had an absolutely delicious and filling Finnish lunch, and then walked around the old town where we saw some beautiful old Finnish homes and buildings.
It’s snowed last night in Finland, and it looks like they got much more snow out here, so it was a day trip out to an absolute winter Wonderland! With @michelle_unnata @unnataaerialyoga @unnatayoga
#porvoo #porvoooldtown #finland #helsinki #unnataaerialyoga #unnata #michelle_unnata
