At the beginning of the year, I made a list of 13 restaurants I needed to try this year. I find making these lists really help me to explore different areas of New York. Unfortunately, I only made it through 9 places but they were all very good places, worth checking out.
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Baking As A Form of Therapy
My mother used to tell me that cooking isn’t a man or a woman’s job. It’s a person’s job. It is in everyone’s personal interest to learn to cook and feed oneself and not be dependent on going to the restaurant or fast food (in truth, my mother always had the fear that someone would spit on her food ordered at the restaurant).
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A Midsummer’s Night at the Greenmarket
It hasn’t quite been midsummer yet but the sweltering slosh of heat and humidity awashes the city, making fatigue and temper run high. Too hot to hang out at crowded event, too humid for outdoor bars. But I couldn’t resist the ticket to attend the Greenmarket’s free Night Market in Union Square. I found the event by chance when I was perusing through the list of Eventbrite recommendation.
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A Weekend of Food at LIC & Celebrating Bastille Day
It was another hot and humid weekend, a heathen summer, thus far. I can count the many hours the heat has hindered me and held me down to slumber. This weekend was not going to be another wasted weekend.
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Food I couldn’t live without
When I joked to my boyfriend that he may be allergic to dairy, the Italian in him vehemently protested. “Life is not worth living without cheese,” he bemoaned dramatically.
It had me thinking, what would be the food I couldn’t live without?
I love food but I have 2 allergies that prevent me from eating everything under the sun.
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Chili Basil Shrimp
I’ve run out of food in my refrigerator! All I had was a measly bag of shrimp, some fish, and chicken, and some really bad vegetables. I went to my balcony and saw basil and researched some idea and found a simple enough recipe.
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Garlic Fried Rice
I spent this past Independence Day having All You Can Eat BBQ at this Japanese restaurant, Gyu Kaku. The first time I dined this restaurant was with my coworkers at A&E and I remember thinking it was very expensive. But recently, I stopped by with a friend after a movie and they have happy hour from noon to 5. Amazing!
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Basil Tofu Cotta with Strawberry
With my boyfriend’s mother around, I’ve been eating more creamy food and sometimes enjoying it and other times, not so much. I’ve found that I like many of the Italian desserts if they are made right, such as tiramisu, bomboloni, and panna cotta.
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Mixed Citrus Salad
This recipe was inspired when I went food shopping and I saw this giant fruit. Was it a grapefruit? No, it was something called pomelo. I’ve never had one before and it was so intriguing that I couldn’t resist not buying it.
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Smorgasburg Winter Flea Market
This would be my second weekend in a row visiting Brooklyn. Now that’s an anomaly since I rarely visit that borough, being that it takes an hour train ride. But I needed to visit BAM to exchange performance tickets. Since I’ve been told time and again from my friend, Chris to visit the Flea Market at the Skylight One Hanson and I didn’t want my trip to Brooklyn wasted on changing tickets, I walked around the corner and found the entrance to the winter flea market.
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