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Market Watch: Swiss Chard
Swiss chard may be the most ubiquitous of the winter greens at the market. It’s easy to love the way it looks, since it comes in bright red and yellow as well as the standard green. I have had trouble finding a recipe I like for chard, however. The most success I’ve [...]
Lan Cafe
I was speaking to my sister about her visit to Minneapolis when she mentioned she’d eaten vegetarian pho. I instantly became jealous — how come she could find vegetarian pho in Minnesota, while I live in freakin’ New York City and had never seen such a thing? I googled vegetarian pho in NYC [...]
Al Di La
After trying a bite of the ricotta pound cake (with cranberries and orange whipped cream), Donny remarked that he thought it was “good, not great.” Although I liked this dessert a lot, “good, not great” pretty much summed up our entire dinner at Al Di La, a Park Slope neighborhood favorite.
Holiday Market Watch: Pickles
Last weekend I was alerted by Serious Eats to a holiday market over on 5th Ave and 4th St. here in Brooklyn. To my surprise the market was nothing more than two booths set up on a street corner — one run by Dickson’s Farmstand selling meats, the other selling Horman’s Best Pickles. [...]
Banh Mi Coming to Park Slope
I had heard rumors that a Vietnamese sandwich shop was coming to the former Tea Lounge space at 7th Ave and 10th St. I’m happy to see that the rumors are true. I work a mere four blocks from here — my lunch hour is about to get a whole lot better.
Top 5 Blogged Meals of 2008
I always enjoy reading Top 10 lists at the end of the year. As a writer, I enjoy posting one of my own because it allows me to be a little lazy — I’m just recycling old posts.
I restricted myself to meals I paid for, and meals that I blogged about (it may be [...]
