favorite meals — Robin Hood roasted chicken, best marinara sauce, wonderful and favorite carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, lemon sorbet, best vanilla ice cream, and the list goes on and on. They have been a great...

", they are as garlicky and delicious as, but different in taste from, Korean kimchi) are brought out with water or iced tea. When no pickles appeared on our table we asked for some. The waiter said “no more kimchi. Kitchen...

and an apricot tarragon cookie. Impressive and delicious, but the crew at Chez Panisse might just sit and look at this basket of luscious flesh toned apricots (a delicate wallflower who bruises easily but charming with its fleshy...

during the wedding wars about Dale being seen as THAT guy. Niki is a smart cookie — she knows how to play.

ever feel any kind of resentment or hostility; although it was a bit hard to communicate with the bartender who spoke very little English. In fact, it was my Montenegrin neighbor who first broke the ice by turning to me to chat...

We’ve been enjoying our CSA bounty. Here are some recent dishes that come to mind: Cherry compote—to serve w/ yogurt or ice cream Beet/Tomato Gazpacho—this was amazing! We made a mostly traditional tomato gazpacho...

of delicious, one-bite dessert: really good truffles, or petit fours or miniature pastries from a bakery, or an assortment of little elegant cookies. And of course Champagne! Set up a nice romantic picnic area in front of the...

and at least a half dozen chocolates, cookies, etc. They were the highlights of our trip for dining. We have had four trips to Florence in the past two and one half years and seven total in the past eleven. During this time I...

variety of hearty and delicious soups. It’s a bit of a barebones store front located just North of Diversey on Broadway. The owners convert it to a fruit ice emporium in warmer months (good business people in addition to...

the Asian supermartets. After the watermelon and jackfruit slices, we got our fortune cookies and the bill: All the dishes+rice + beer (4 big bottles of Tsingdao) +Tax+Tip came to $242 ($22 a head. Loraine got tons of singles....

The finished product looks kinda like an assembly line version of nigiri. The rice is pressed into a rectangular mold that is slightly smaller than a typical ice cube tray but with a matching lid. The ingredients are placed on...

Don’t forget the Halo-halo, a shaved ice dessert with lots of goodies, much like Singapore Ice or A-B-C. Mmmmm

Oh, another downfall of mine, the choc. chip “bagel”. How many calories do you think those have anyway? On another note, the choc. bread at Boston Bread in Coolidge Corner and their humungous choc. chip cookies are...

cookies, no Kraft mac n cheese, no Jiffy muffins, etc … can you tell I’ve eaten low on the hog before? Two things are driving this (more in another link) … - The SF Ferry Plaza Farmers Market … it is NOT only for the wealthy - Dumb...

re: water loss, I used to know this chubby guy who regularly drank several pitchers of iced water a day (a pretty healthy habit). A few days before a “big date”, he’d cut out the water and drop a visible several...