Archive for the ‘Weekends’ Category
Saturday, July 8th, 2006
My friend Ariel onced asked me during Sociology recitation what Chinese people eat for breakfast. To be honest, I have not experienced a traditional breakfast in my house that replicates that of my ancestors in China. From my understand, they have congee, some fried gluten sticks and maybe some pan-fried ...
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
...a great song by Cole Porter. Or maybe he didn't write it.Heat. Nothing like heat (and later, humidity) to remind us that we are indeed experiencing summer. Summer often means less appetite for food and/or a strengthened desire to eat foods that are not hot in terms of warmth.I was ...
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
Dumplings! A whole bag full of homemade dumplings fell out of our overstuffed freezer this morning when I was inserting frozen pizzas into our icebox.Dumplings!Yes, we make them at home when we have a surplus of Chinese chives (jiu cha, Mandarin.) I can't remember how many weeks ago we made ...
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
What can I say? Sundays are lazy, especially when the weather is hot and I'm slothing around at home. Weekends are the days of the week where it's okay not to be uptight about eating things I wouldn't normally eat.
At the moment, my gastrointestinal system is distressed, perhaps from too ...
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
Nothing brings be greater joy than healthy food for breakfast.The weekend is usually the only time of the week I will eat oatmeal for breakfast-- 3 minutes of cook-time in the microwave is too much to ask on a workday morning. Since there must be at least a dozen bananas ...
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
When I a child, we had strawberry runners all over my backyard and in the early summer, they would often be ripe. We would pick them as they were ready to eat through the summer, until the season was over.One morning, my mother and I sat at the small marble ...
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Ok, well maybe it is. But considering how welcoming the waitstaff is, the variety in its menu and the fair-pricing, the Tick Tock Diner in Midtown Manhattan was a pleasant exeperience this Thanksgiving Break (November 26, 2005.) Dannyson, Eugene, Dorcas and myself went for breakfast together and it was a ...
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
After sifting through many different themes, I finally decided on "Blueberry Boat." In doing so, I also thought of a decent tag line and of course, could not help but say to myself that enough is enough, I need to get things posted. At the moment, many food pictures are ...
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