Tag Archives: New York
A Piece of Cake
I’ve been celebrating a lot of family birthdays lately – five, to be precise – and we’re only three months into 2013! With every celebration, we always have a sweet ending: cake from a local bakery or homemade desserts. Here are the different kinds of cake that I’ve been enjoying.
We celebrated my grandma’s birthday in early January, and her favorite cake comes from Eldo Cake House in Boston’s Chinatown. Eldo’s signature cake is a yellow sponge cake that is spread with sweet whipped cream and filled with assorted fruits (strawberries, mangoes, peaches, and kiwis). They also sell small individual servings …
Hot Dogs!
Part 1: Childhood memories!
Summer time for a season griller like me is time to indulge in foods like hot dogs and hamburgers more often than in the winter. I started to think about my journey with hot dogs where my love for hot dogs began and what my first memories of hot dogs were!
Growing up on Long Island, New York, my first memories of hot dogs were from the kosher delis I would go with my family. In the window you could gaze at the hot dogs cooking on one side and the knishes on the other side of the …
Sweet & Savory
If you don’t know this about me already, I have a huge sweet tooth; I love making and eating desserts. Some of my friends, however, are on the other end of the taste spectrum; they enjoy savory foods so much more. For a long time now, chefs have been experimenting different ways for those who want the best of both worlds. Let me share with you my experiences with sweet *and* savory foods that were intriguing, memorable, and surprisingly, tasty!
Bacon Chocolate
Years ago, when I was gift- and souvenir- shopping in SoHo, New York City, I decided to see what Vosges Haut-Chocolat had to …
9/11
9/11 changed us forever. Every year that passes brings back the same memories for me on 9/11. I remember where I was and what I was doing. I remember what I saw on TV when the planes hit the World Trade Centers. I remember the events that followed. I remember people walking looking for their loved ones and putting up pictures of their missing loved ones.
Now ten years later, the memories are still vivid. The enormity of the event does not change but it did change us forever. Now on most television channels, they are telling us of the shows …
Blue Sky in Brooklyn – oh what a muffin!
A stop in Brooklyn took us to Blue Sky Bakery known for their muffins. My biggest mistake was I only got one muffin and an ice coffee for the car trip back to Boston! What was I thinking! I was not thinking because after I started to eat the zucchini raspberry chocolate chip muffin I wish I had more for when I got home. By the time I started to eat the muffin, I was too far away to go back to Brooklyn! Let me tell you it is worth a trip to Brooklyn to go to Blue Sky! Everything …
A visit to Little Cupcake Bakeshop!
How I wish my visit to the Little Cupcake Bakeshop in New York could have been longer! This was the first place my sister took me to when I got to New York. She was waiting with my dog Kudzu outside so I felt my visit inside the Little Cupcake Bakeshop had to be quick!
There was so much to take in! This little bakeshop had so much to offer much more than just cupcakes! The cases and counter were filled with three layer cakes after three layer cake, pies, Bundt cakes, cheesecakes and the list goes on. Everyone who worked …
Little Italy here we come!
We are off to Mulberry Street! It has been years since I have been on Mulberry Street. Growing up in New York I would often go to Little Italy and visit Caffé Roma, Caffé Napoli, and Ferrara’s just to name a few places all the time. September would not be the same without a visit to the Feast of San Gennaro. So many memories!
Tonight as I walked Kudzu onto Mulberry Street there was an incredible amount of activity. The sidewalks were filled with people. Restaurants one right after the other had their menus on the street and each restaurant had …
