My favorite form of baked goods is the cupcake. Eating a cupcake is like enjoying a treat that was specifically baked for you and only you. I enjoy baked goods so much so that I even enjoy baking baked goods. Every once in a while I frenzy bake. What I mean by this is that…
Nature is a Mad Scientist
Nature is defined as, the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations. There is nothing more diverse and beautiful to me than the plants that are produced in nature. Flowers and trees can either be jewels that…
Savory Nugget: Pure Thai Cookhouse
“Delicate” or being of “very fine in texture or structure; of intricate workmanship or quality,” is usually not the first word I think of when eating a perfectly cooked piece of meat. However, delicate is the perfect term to use when thinking about the braised beef in the Pa-Yao Beef Noodle Soup from PURE Thai…
Metal Goddess? …. Umm, Not Quite
Pewter Casting Workshop Learning about new crafts is one of my favorite past times. That’s why when I saw the announcement about a Pewter Casting Workshop at the Brooklyn Brainery, after a brief hesitation, I jumped at the opportunity to take it. Prior to taking this workshop, I thought, “this isn’t for the faint of heart.” Basically,…
Travel
An Affair to Remember (original published on August 11, 2014) I am having a love affair and his name is “Travel.” Traveling is thing I do when I want or need to escape my normal life. My first adult vacation was a visit to San Francisco in 2003 with one of my closest friends. For that trip,…
Ahhh-mazing!
The final stop on my Restaurant Week Summer 2014 tour was David Burke Kitchen located in the James Hotel in Soho. Opened in 2010, the restaurant has two main dinning spaces: a 130-seat loft-like space and glass enclosed Garden and Treehouse Bar, which also seats up to 130 guest. For this meal, I was joined by…
Yummy, Yummy, Yummy I Have Love in my Tummy
The second stop on my Restaurant Week Summer 2014 tour was Tom Colicchio’s Craftbar in the Flatiron district in New York City. If you only have time to go to one restaurant for lunch during Restaurant Week, Craftbar is THE one place that is a must visit. Craftbar scores in the stratosphere in both presentation and…
Get in my Belly!
For this little foodie piggy, New York Restaurant week is this twice a year a magical event that could be equated with the choice Indiana Jones had to make once he found the location the holy grail; you must choose wisely. When I was first introduced to restaurant week in 2012, I went crazy. Within a…
Lets Wrap!!!
One of my favorite things in the entire world is wrapping gifts. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it. When I was a kid, my favorite time of year was waking up on Christmas and seeing all those wonderful, beautifully wrapped gifts under our fake Christmas tree. Growing up with 4 kids (my sister, my 2 cousins,…
Kara Walker’s “A Subtelty” Exhibit/Domino Sugar Factory
I love spending time with my mom. Over the past ten years our relationship has evolved into a true friendship well beyond the mother-daughter bond. We can talk to each other about almost anything. In recent years, I’ve tried to take time off from work around her birthday to do something fun. One year we…
Savory Sweet Neat 