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Nearing the Top? – TBG Update 5/28/2020
On Monday, Memorial Day, I decided to support a local business and order take-out for dinner. I love that restaurant when it’s open; the take-out food on Monday was terrible. In a restaurant, their food is piping hot and perfectly fresh and t...
Signs are back! TBG Update 5/22/2020
We’re putting our directional signs back out this weekend to advertise two virtual open houses on Sunday; 812 S Orange from 12-12:30 and 300 N June from 2-2:30. Elia, my housekeeper of 22 years, puts our directional signs out every Sunday and...
Feeling the Feelings – TBG Update 5/15/2020
Staying at Home feels like taking on another job. As part of the new normal, during Corona we’ve been doing committed family dinner without cell phones or technology. Like so many other families are doing, this week in my home each of my kids...
The Unsung Heroes of Coronavirus
Parents are the unsung heroes of Corona. On Monday this week I asked an absolutely adorable five year old boy if he misses being in school. With the cutest expression, he titled his head with a big smile and he said “I’m good.” Mom and...
What we miss during Corona – 5/1/2020 Update
Bienstock Group Family, What we love to do during Corona and what we miss doing during Corona is insight into who we really are. During regular life, when we’re a part of society, there are things we do out of societal obligation, to fill ot...
Baking and Breaking Bread – 4/24/2020 Update
According to the media, America is short on yeast because Americans are baking bread like never before. Reportedly all over the world people staying at home are baking bread. At my house we’re trying all different versions of No Knead Bread. ...Stay At Home Update 4/17/2020
Real estate, like everything else that matters in life, is somehow more special now. 111 S Hudson just sold. The young family who is just the 4th family to own the home since 1939, requested to spend Easter at their new future home last Sunday ...
Mom’s Passover Cholent
----------Ingredients ---------- 3 packs of "flanken" - short ribs so 6 strips of short ribs 3 onions sliced 13 medium sized brown potatoes salt and pepper and paprika ----------Directions---------- 1. Cover the bottom of a...
Passover 2020
Date 4/7/2020 Dear Bienstock Group Family, Passover is tomorrow night. I’m thinking of my mom and the way she used to prepare for Passover. I vividly remember my mom standing on a step ladder in her dining room for hours taking apart every l...
Our Favorite Passover Recipes
Before Passover, my mom would field calls from so many people asking for both her staple recipes and her elaborate favorites. In my mom’s honor, and in honor of all the moms who wish they could be with their children and grandchildren...
