Posted in boston adventures, cheesy meals, family meals, parties & food, photographs, recipe, tagged lickable, yonion, gourmet, massachusetts, indian/paki, winter on November 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For my family, Thanksgiving is an invitation to indulge in cheese and wine. Ever since my brother and I got older and we stopped going to family friends’ houses to nibble on the sides- mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, pies- we’ve been celebrating Thanksgiving at our house with pots of creamy fondue, burners of bubbling raclette, [...]
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Posted in indian home cooking, photographs, recipes: small savory snacks/sidedishes, streetfood, tagged bhel, bhel puri, bhelpuri, indian, mumbai, spiced, yonion on November 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Bhel is a chaat- a streetside snack made of crispy puffed rice, coriander, mango, onion, sev, potatoes and chutney. When eaten, it is supposed to conjure memories of Bombay’s streets and warm sea air, and specifically, of the vendors on Chowpatty beach, their pink and yellow neon lights flashing into the evening as they make [...]
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La Palapa Rockola
359 6th Avenue
New York, NY
(212) 243-6870
La Palapa Rockola got a Critic’s Pick review by the NYT in 2003, so I decided to check it out. It was a slow Tuesday night when I went, and my waiter led my friend and I to a table snuggling a dark corner. We ordered [...]
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Posted in books, parties & food, recipe, recipes: indonesian, recipes: small savory snacks/sidedishes, tagged lickable, tasty, spiced, asian inspired, indonesian, fritters, dipping sauce on November 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
On Saturday we threw a late lunch party at my apartment that stretched throughout the lazy afternoon, like an early Thanksgiving, full of Scrabble games and lickable foods. We opened bottles of tart strawberry and raspberry lambics and set out plates on the wooden table in our living room. Our feast spread out, we started [...]
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Posted in *restaurants: new york, cheap, dumplings, manhattan, new york, new york*: chinatown, new york: chinese, new york: snacks/small meals, streetfood, tagged chinese, dumplings, fun-tastic!, new york, tasty, vegetarian, veggie on November 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Dumpling House
118 Eldridge Street
New York, NY
(212) 625 8008
The line was snaking out the door at Dumpling House, a bustling little store on an otherwise quiet block of Eldridge street. It was getting dark and I groaned, thinking it would crowded, and we’d have to wait thirty minutes to eat. The evening was cold and a [...]
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[bhel from Tamarind]
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Posted in *restaurants: new york, cheap, cheesy meals, manhattan, new york, new york*: greenwich village, new york: indian, new york: snacks/small meals, streetfood, tagged coffee/tea, indian/paki, lickable, spiced, tasty, tea / coffee adventures, yonion on November 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I went to Indian Bread Co. last night for a second dinner. I was stuffed after my first dinner of dumplings but my appetite grew as I sat through this event. Then I remembered that Indian Bread Co. was in the area; I had recently reread the Nirali article on its owner, Nandini Mukherjee. Last [...]
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[Sri Lankan rice]
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