Archive for the ‘Weekends’ Category
Saturday, July 29th, 2006
Happy early birthday, Dannyson!To celebrate his 21st, we were chaffeured out to Flushing for some good eats on Kissena Boulevard. Just a few blocks from and IHOP, Book Chang Dong describes itself as a Natural Tofu Restaurant.When you first walk in, the vestibule is filled with articles from the New ...
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
For a quick snack after breakfast but not quite lunch, I indulged a little after surveying what was in my refrigerator.Ultimately, I decided this on eating the last Thomas' whole grain English muffin. But how?
Toasted English muffin
Sliced Haas avocado
Sliced mozarella cheese
It isn't the nicest presentation, but that only means you ...
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Can calories not count on weekends? I think so.If we spend all our weekdays being careful and conscious about our nutrition, I think weekends should be the time of the week where we can get a little leeway. I'm not saying we should eat everything in sight and uncontrollably, but ...
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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
My mom's friends from high school had a small get together. So we went to my aunt Connie's house in NJ for the first time. She's not really my aunt, but in my culture, anyone who is a friend of your parents can and is older than you should be ...
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Ever since we had a backyard, my dad has been the greenthumb in the family and each summer, the small plots of soil are filled with healthy eats. In the past we've had chili peppers, strawberrys, some Chinese gourds, bitter melon, winter melon, tomatos, kidney beans, string beans, peppermint, basil, ...
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Just another type of food I forgot to add on the list of what Chinese people typically have for breakfast.These happened to be filled with a mixture of glutinous rice and shitake mushrooms. The shape? Well, they're usually round, but these were crimped and teardrop in shape. I should mention ...
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Get it? Productive? Produce? To produce?Saturday morning entailed going out with mom, as usual. And when we got back in the mid-morning, we unpacked the groceries we had bought and prepared an early lunch for the family. She went to go do laundry and I took care of washing produce.All ...
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Saturday, July 8th, 2006
Every time I got to Thai Son, I think about how many times my father has brought me here. There was this one time we went as a family after celebrating Chinese New Year in Chinatown. Another time, I remember this more distinctly, was just a few days before becoming ...
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