2008 February : Looky Tasty – Adventures in NYC Food

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Discover Your Winter Cocktail And A Crate & Barrel Gift Card Giveaway

In celebration of the winter season, Robb Report asks you to discover your winter cocktail with their cute web app. Simply answer a few questions and it’ll suggest a winter cocktail for you. Also featured in the app – little known cocktail facts and also recipes for four class cocktails with a winter twist. Give [...]

Honey Jack Daniel Whiskey-Infused Prune Chocolate Brownies

Chocolate brownies! Do you prefer rich, fudge brownies, chewy ones or cake-like ones? So, the texture of the brownie depends on the ratio of chocolate, butter/oil, eggs, sugar, and flour ingredients. The type of fat used in the batter will change whether the brownie ends up being richer and fudge-like or less dense. Although I [...]

Recipe Testing: Sesame Wow Greens

Here’s another vegan recipe I tested for Terry Hope Romano’s upcoming international cookbook. So far, I’ve tried her fresh noodle soup in sesame miso broth, ginger marinated cucumbers, pumpkin potato panko cutlets, as well as her spicy kale coconut relish. This time I tested another one of her Japanese-inspired dishes – oshitashi, a Japanese spinach [...]

Happy Lunar New Year!

Posted by Cindy Waffles on February 7, 2008 · 1 Comment

Happy Chinese New Year! Happy Tet!(It’s the Year of the Rat!!!) Here are links to some New Year recipes: Food Network (Chinese cuisine) Allrecipes.com (Chinese cuisine) Tet Sticky Rice Cakes: Banh Chung & Banh Tet (Vietnamese cuisine) VietWorldKitchen.com is the website of Andrea Nguyen, the author of the cookbook Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, [...]

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Restaurant Week 2008 New York City

Posted by Cindy Waffles on February 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

NYC Restaurant Week Winter 2008 just ended last Friday. It’s this two week event (Monday – Friday) where they offer special 3 course lunches and dinners at various restaurants across the city at promotional prices. I usually only go out to eat during weekends, but for this event, I made an exception. Three course lunch [...]

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