Friday, January 22, 2010

Israeli Couscous with Tofu Dinner

I made some Israeli Couscous with finely chopped parsley.

Sauteed the tofu with baby corn. (I let the tofu marinate all day in a teriyaki marinade)

Turn off the heat and toss in fresh baby spinach. Stir a few times till spinach is slightly wilted.

Throw together on a plate and sprinkle with toasted sunflower seeds. Viola!

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Cucumber Cosmos!

Sorry for the stock photo. I let a friend of mine borrow my camera for a few weeks and I'm starting to realize how much I miss it. (And how often I take pictures of food and drinks). Anyways, I googled some photos and also found some recipes online, but nothing was like mine, so here's my recipe:

1/4 cucumber (sliced into chunks and muddled)
1 shot of Orange vodka (or Cointreau if your splurging)
1 shot of Lemon vodka
a heavy splash of white-cranberry juice (I kind of eyeball it - just enough to make it sweet, but not too sweet)
Put into a shaker with ice and sha- sha- sha- shake it!
Strain out into chilled martini glasses.

It's refreshing and delicious and a great spin on a classic cosmopolitan!

Friday, December 25, 2009

Xmas Food

Xmas dinner: Ham with orange sauce and homemade sweet potato gratin. Curtis made dinner. He's so good. :)

Baked brie with cranberry sauce.

I've never had baked brie before. I've had brie about 45784597845266 times, but having it baked was kind of incredible. Makes me wonder why I waited so long to try it.

Ok, this is stupid easy to make. Just buy pastry dough in the frozen food section of your grocery store. Lay one sheet out (thawed) onto a floured surface. Take a wheel of brie and cut the top rind off. Scoop spoonfuls of cranberry sauce on top of the brie and wrap it up like a gift. Brush with an egg wash and bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. You will punch yourself-- it's THAT good.

Got this recipe off the pastry dough box. (The box comes with 2 sheets of dough so I figured I'd use both). Just lay it out and wash with egg then in small bowl put 1/4 c of Parmesan and 1/2 c Monterrey Jack and 1/8 tsp garlic powder. Mix together and spread evenly onto dough. Then take a pack of frozen spinach. Thaw it and rinse it and evenly sprinkle spinach onto dough. Roll that bad boy up and slice. Makes about 8 pinwheels. Holla!

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Blizzard walks

This is us in the subway on our way home from Brooklyn. We had dinner with our friends then had to walk home during a blizzard. I was trying to portray annoyance in my face. Can you see it? (Thanks for the photo Heidi - I so took this from your blog!)

All of us looking so sweet - except Curtis. He looks like he wants to kill someone. All we were missing was Todd and Robin!

Test shot...not sure what we were laughing at. We were laughing a lot last night about several ridiculous things so it was hard to keep track...

AHH! SNOW!!!!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

B + H

I had the best grilled cheese ever at B + H the other day. It was a rainy Sunday and Crystal (my house guest for the weekend had just left). We walked over to A and 8th and into this tiny little crowded diner. Warning: If you are claustrophobic or expect amazing service, you won't like this place. We sat at the diner bar and ordered a grilled cheese with tomato soup. The cook didn't speak English very well. He served us Omelets with potato. I looked at him and said, "THIS is grilled cheese?" And he apologized and took it away and remade our order. Typically, I would feel bad if this happened in another restaurant - but he was spastic and I didn't stutter. It was clearly his fault. Anyways - once we got our sandwich it was heavenly. The grilled buttery challah bread was light and airy. The tomato and melted cheese was divine. And the tomato soup was like something the Fashion Soup lady would make - amazing. Next time I may order it and pick it up. Eating in this place leaves something less to be desired.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Time to hibernate...

Girls by the Xmas tree. SO cute!

Mark holding Lin's purple and pink flowers.

This looks like eggs, but it's not. It's a little rice cake called Puto and it has a spot of cheese.

Porl Guisado. Kinda my new favorite!

Chop Suey. Yum!

Pansit. Oh hells yeah! I love me some Pansit and it's been ages since I've had some good authentic style Pansit!

Dessert Number 5646512354897. Actually this cake was so good. It was coffee flavored and spongy. I could eat it like it was air.

I told Curtis he looked really sweet with the girls. They were drawing pictures together. He said, "Don't get any ideas". hahaha

Eating Palitow (a sticky rice cake - like a dessert).

Eating Buko Pandan. (Think of it as a sweet soup made with coconut meat that looks like noodles and two kinds of green jelly - one made with seaweed.) It was dessert #2.

Mark with his daughter.

Boys.

Out for the count.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

I love friends that love food.

Me and Missy at Morimoto's. Dinner was amazing. We split 3 appetizers to start: ROCK SHRIMP TEMPURA SPICY KOCHUJAN AIOLI, 10 HOUR PORK KAKUNI BRAISED PORK BELLY WITH HOT RICE PORRIDGE and CARPACCIO KOBE BEEF- THINLY SLICED WITH YUZU SOY, HOT OIL AND MITSUBA LEAF. Sorry for all the caps, I copied this right off the website. The pork belly was insane and the carpaccio was the best I've EVER had.

For dinner I had: DUCK DUCK DUCK MADRAS ROASTED DUCK BREAST, CONFIT RISOTTO, DUCK EGG, MANDARIN OOLONG REDUCTION. Missy had this crazy seafood dish with citrus butter. It came in a Moroccan clay pot. I think it was new because I can't find it on the menu online. Matt had: SUGI-ITA SALMON JAPANESE CEDAR WRAPPED ORGANIC SALMON, MAPLE SHIITAKE BROTH, ORGANIC EGG, YAMAIMO.

We shared a dessert that wasn't online either. It was this tiny chocolate mouse cake with ganache and sea salt. I could only do one bite because I was soooo full.

Happy couple outside the restaurant.

Me and my BFF.