February 2010
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Yelp →
It wouldn’t make sense for me to have a food blog and not review the places I’ve been to. Care to follow me and give me feedback on my posts?
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Chicken Feet
I went to get dim sum with Lewis and Vivian today in New Rowland Heights at the New Capitol Seafood Restaurant. Super cheap dim sum if anyone is interested in going! We had like 12 dishes and paid $36. It was a lot of food for the 3 of us. Today I had my first pair (seriously) of chicken feet. Lewis and my dad love this stuff. I had to try it before I could knock it— it wasn’t...
January 2010
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It's all gravy in here!
It wasn’t an alright type of pasta. It looked and tasted like actual gravy with egg noodles. Gravy’s just the stuff you make from stock, milk, flour.
Tonight I attempted to make beef (meatball) stroganoff from a recipe posted on Budget Bytes. Beth is an awesome cook that posts recipes that can feed up to 4 for less than $10 a meal. Since I usually cook for two, this was a perfect...
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Uber Cute Tea Packaging →
It can’t get anymore clever than a filtered tea bag with some string. Oh wait, it can. Also follow @goodtea on Twitter if you’re a fan of tea. Kevin Rose made a new account so he tweet about his obsession with this liquid gold.
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I Heart Caffeine →
My favorite part is the story about adenosine and what happens when coffee gets into your system.
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Food Network Junkie
When I was younger, I used to love watching the food channel. This was after my obsession with the home and garden network. I have been a fan of Alton Brown, Rachel Ray, and Iron Chef (the original). Yesterday I actually took time to sit in front of the TV and watch a new show, “5 Ingredient Fix”. Claire Robinson came up with an awesome recipe for tomato bread soup. That just made...
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The Garlic Fries from Hell
Never trust the instructions in the back or bottom of a food package that tells you to “Pour all the contents into the mix” or “You must use this whole bag!” That’s just asking for it. If any of you are fans of Trader Joe’s and have waltzed through every aisle and noticed an innocent bag of frozen garlic fries, beware!
Though the amount of fries was small and...
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Everchanging soup
Today it decided to rain and upset the skies above. The winds today took out every umbrella that was opened. I wanted to feel like Mary Poppins and float away, but we know how that could end badly. So yes, today was that type of rain. The walks to and from campus weren’t as pleasant and when the clock hit 5, I was already thinking that it was a noodle soup type of night, my day ended and...
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“It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate — you know someone’s...”
– Julia Child
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"Let there be light(ed tea)." →
Not exactly your run-of-the-mill Lipton tea bags, but it’ll do. For natural disasters or romantic lighting anyway. Wonsik Chae created these tea bags to release substances that would cause water to glow. Pretty cool concept. Check out the video.
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Can't live without fish sauce! →
If you’re like me and can’t get enough of Vietnamese food, but would love to learn how to cook more of it at home, then visit Hong and Kim’s blog. They have everyone’s favorite dishes such as mi quang, bun thit nuong, or banh xeo. You might not find a recipe for pho though, but you’ll get to see truer recipes to our culture.
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Rub not your chopsticks together! →
Lewis shared this story with me via Google Reader. He and I have been to countless sushi places over the years and we’ve learned a number ways to properly eat and greet at these eateries. Here are some examples to name a few.
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WatchMark Bittman talks about how we should really eat and what’s wrong with our eating habits now. This is a partial form of motivation for me to stop eating out so much. I love listening to TED Talks.
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“Locavore. A new food word.
“One who eats foods grown locally whenever...”
– Merriam-Webster
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When I get my own kitchen, I want this. →
Pretty please? It’s a KitchenAid stand mixer in pistachio if you were wondering. My friend Charles let me borrow his roommate’s mixer when we were making chocolate souffles. The mixer was so handy and the result of perfectly whipped egg whites were effortless!
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"It's raining today..."
Which definitely calls for an inside baking project, no? Today calls for a (sweet) bread making day! I’ve been thrilled at the idea of sweet breakfast foods for as long as I can remember and came across a wonderful cranberry orange bread at Trader Joe’s. I told myself that this type of loaf can go a long way with a larger size for an extra dollar or two (if I made it at home). And...
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Foodie Eye Candy →
And this is where my aesthetically pleasing food site comes from. Put this in your RSS feed and get at least 80 photos or links to different cuisines and recipes. Food networking for the win.
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Confessions of a Bloomin' Foodie
It’s ironic that I’ve turned into such a lover of food when I was always fearing it when I was in middle school. Yes, as a 13 year old girl then, you tend to get wrapped up in the obsession of “perfect” body images, counting calories, and crossing virtually everything out that built the food pyramid. Of course that blew over because I realized how unrealistic it was and...
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“It’s true, I am a (growing) foodie.
“A person that spends a keen...”
– Urban Dictionary