Archive for the ‘Comfort’ Category
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Back in the day, when I was small enough to fit in the seat of a shopping cart and too small to drink out of anything other than a tumbler, Mom and I would go food shopping together at the A&P.In fact, I went food shopping with her every opportunity ...
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Dad is crazy about the brand-new 12" bamboo steamers we recently bought.So the next day (today,) he went food shopping with Mom and they bought these: Chef Kong's Siu Long Bao (Xiao Long Bao.) These XLBs were okay. The shape was nearly perfect, but the dough was too thick. It ...
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Mom decided it's time to learn how to make pad thai. And this past month, she did in fact make pad thai. Once. :(
And I told her that's not the way it looks when I get it. This meant having to go get takeout for dinner one of these nights, ...
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
The most favorite NY-defining fast food that I have occasional urges for would have to be pizza. Granted, I'm sure Chicago holds it's own when it comes to pizza, New York-style pizza will always have me as a consumer. Pun intended.Pizza in NY is tasty for many reasons, I think. ...
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Eugene is a hand model. Only on some days.
Emack and Bolio's is an ice cream chain that I discovered this past summer either by reading an AMNY article on ice cream places in NYC or by using Menupages. I can't decide, because I can't remember.The location I went to ...
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
There are certain areas in baking that I am not quite ready to attack.And pies would be one of them. But thanks to having no shame in using frozen pies, ala Mrs. Smith, pies are usually a dessert option in my household during the holidays.My favorite since childhood would have ...
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
What better way to spend time with friends than over a good meal? As per Dannyson's suggestion, we headed to Dizzy's in Park Slope, Brooklyn.For whatever reason, Dizzy's sounded dangerously familiar. It might have been one of the restaurants that were madeover on the Food Network show.But I digress. The ...
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Innocently enough, Frangelico is bottled in a very monk-like bottle, complete with a thick piece of rope for his outfit.Frangelico was the first thing I recognized when my brother and I were browsing for liquers. Thanks to many food network episodes of Emeril, I knew offhand what Frangelico was-- hazelnut ...
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