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Maria Helena Carey

María Helena Carey has always liked to write, tell stories and take pictures but it wasn’t until she moved to the Nation’s Capital that she began exploring all three in a serious manner. She loves poking around Capitol Hill and photographing some of her favorite things: food, her kids, quirky little dogs and cats, and Capitol Hill façades. She is also a portrait photographer and you can see her work at http://mariahelenacarey.com You can contact her at Maria@thehillishome.com

Market Meals: Homemade Pizza Is Amore!

So you’re probably shuttered today, sore and achy from unearthing your sidewalk, your car, and possibly even the nearest fire hydrant (if you’re a Good Samaritan type– not judging here). You’re hungry but you don’t feel like getting takeout. Your’e starving, but your pantry appears before you, boring and jéjune. You want easy, cheesy comfort […]

The To Do List

Sadly, this weekend has no added length to recommend it. Happily, there are still many fun things to do, even if you don’t get to sleep in late an extra day– and by “many” I definitely mean FOOD. Need I remind you that it’s RESTAURANT WEEK?! This is the week that pretty much kills any […]

Things We Take For Granted: DC in the Winter

So perhaps you’re staring in puzzlement at the title, wondering if April Fools’ arrived a few months early. But think about it for a few precious seconds: do we get enough snow to turn psychotic by May? Even if we did get decent, mildly Biblical amounts of snow a year ago, our totals were still […]

Holiday Tastes: Small Bites, Big Payoff

Need a couple of last-minute ideas for the flood of visitors that is coming in? Look no more: here to save your bacon are Jon and Vermecia, sharing some of their favorite sweet things of the season! Everyone knows that a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine (and the chaos) go down in a most […]

Hill Gift Guide: For The Epicure

We all know someone who is a little obsessed by food. High-brow, low-brow: this person will eat his or her way out of a paper bag. This person may, in fact, eat the paper bag, if he or she comes across a good paper bag recipe. Sometimes, we may turn to this person for a […]