Archive for the ‘ Food ’ Category
New York City is back on my good side! On Sunday, Travis and I went for a late (really late, like 4 pm) brunch at Penelope Cafe in Murray Hill. (It was very delicious, by the way. I highly recommend it.) Afterward, I thought I should do my blogger duty and pick up some more [...][ READ MORE ]
Living in New York City is difficult. Especially for a midwest girl who spent the previous four years in the laid-back, hippie town of Eugene. I have been trying to stay positive about the move (almost a year later!) and have tried to be the strong, confident, optimistic woman that I would like to be. [...][ READ MORE ]
So… I missed my thing-a-day yesterday. To be honest, I was having a bad day. I was trying to work on Swap-bot, but I came down with a bad case of cabin fever. Plus, the Superbowl really gets on my nerves. Finally, Travis broke down and took my out to dinner at Miriam, an Israeli [...][ READ MORE ]
I made cookies today. Another food for my thing-a-day. They are chocolate chip-style with a combo of MnMs and swirled white and dark chocolate chips. They were made with whole wheat flour in an attempt to be a little bit healthier. I hope they hold us over during the snowpocalypse that is supposed to hit [...][ READ MORE ]
Today’s “new creative thing” is this healthy salad that I made for dinner. It is Bob Greene’s Black Eyed Pea Salad with Turkey Bacon recipe from today’s Oprah show. It was extremely tasty considering that it is part of a “managing diabetes” diet. The whole Oprah Show was about diabetes, and even though I don’t [...][ READ MORE ]
I went a little crazy and signed up for a big blog challenge for next month: Thing-a-Day 2010. The rules are simple, you create one new thing per day in the month of February and post about it on your blog and the group Thing-a-Day blog. It is supposed to be an exercise in creativity [...][ READ MORE ]
For my second official NYC Cupcake Review I went to my local, neighborhood bakery, Trois Pommes Patisserie. Trois Pommes is a tiny, but very cute and cozy place on 5th Ave here in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I love this bakery for its breakfast items and its good taste in coffee (Stumptown from Portland), but there [...][ READ MORE ]
Last night, I went on a girl date with my friend, Emily. (Emily works with Travis and she is completely brilliant, and into literature, and has lived in the city for a year longer than I… so she is pretty much way out of my league. Thanks for hanging out with me, Emily!) We had [...][ READ MORE ]
This post is the first in my new series of NYC Cupcake Reviews. Since reviews require taste-testing, I hope to publish many more honest and objective cupcake reviews in the near future. Check back often! Pictured above are the six cupcakes I bought at Sugar Sweet Sunshine Bakery, which is located in the Lower East Side [...][ READ MORE ]
After fueling up with our traditional Thanksgiving meal we were ready to hit more sights on Friday and Saturday… Friday started with our usual walk to Prospect Park. Then, the three of us traveled to Bloomigdales and 5th Avenue to immerse ourselves in the shopping insanity. It was crowded, but not much more so than on [...][ READ MORE ]