Posted in food on January 30th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve cooked Indian food from powders, kits, and pastes before, but this was my first attempt at making a curry-type dish totally from scratch. I got the recipe from a Pakistani girl who I work with. Don’t have time to post the recipe right now but this was a curry made with ground chicken, potatoes […]
Posted in food, turkey, travel on October 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Posted in food, mundane on October 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Bertoletti wins grits-eating crown
Mohawk-sporting chef stomachs 21 lbs. in 10 minutes
Pat Bertoletti, who won $4,000 on Saturday, outperformed hot-dog champ Joey Chestnut.
AP
BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — He’ll never want breakfast again.
Pat Bertoletti, a mohawk-sporting chef from Chicago, gulped down 21 pounds of buttery, goopy grits in 10 minutes to win $4,000 in the first […]
Posted in food on September 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I made these a while back but didn’t have a chance to post it. Thanks to Nana Schwartz for the recipe. Click below to see the details.
The procedure for making great pickles is so simple and so fast that I don’t know why I never made them before. Maybe it’s becuase I can go downstairs […]
Posted in food, turkey on August 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Posted in food, turkey on July 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Posted in food, travel on May 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Went to Montreal last weekend for the bachelor party. A good time was had by all. Montreal is a great if not strange city. First it’s strange, yet cool, that you can drive 7 hours from NYC and feel like you’re in Europe. The city is odd though - that it seems mostly dead except […]
Posted in food, new york on April 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
Summer time is coming, and with it I start drinking one of my favorite drinks, the iced coffee. Unfortunately this is also stressful for me because I have to put up with one of the biggest scams of all time. I can never understand why when you get the same drink, but a day old, […]
Posted in food, turkey on March 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
We ate last weekend at the brand new Turkish restaurant which has opened in Park Slope called “Alaturka”. They had only been open a week when we went. Usually I like to give new places a few months to settle in before trying it, but since we’ve been waiting so long for a Turkish restaurant […]
Posted in food on January 4th, 2007 No Comments »
I made these for New Years Eve and can’t describe how good these were! Click link below for the recipe:
Ingredients
5 oz semisweet chocolate
2 oz unsweetened chocolate
3 tb cocoa powder
1 1/2 tb instant espresso or coffee
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Posted in food on December 29th, 2006 1 Comment »
Tonight I made Mousaka. This is the third time I made this dish and this one came out best by far. The first time I followed a recipe but tonight I improvised. I can’t be happier with how it came out!
Click below for the details:
First I used my eggplant-frying-substiute method - which is brushing eggplant […]
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