dell’anima

I celebrate every occasion with food (and some non-occasions, clearly), so the 2012 FBM Cookie Swap was no exception.  This year, it was up to Hungry, KC and myself to do it up big and show what’s up when it came to cookies… but before that, we had to eat, of course.  A quick consultation and Hungry suggested dell’anima, and KC and I agreed immediately.  Apologies in advance for the blurry photos – I didn’t drink, so I’m not sure what caused the shake… excitement, perhaps?  Our appetizers arrived quickly, ‘bruschette’ were really a basket of crostini served with the [...]

Rubirosa

My darling KC, one of my very favorite people in the world, had only one birthday request: “I want pizza.”  Easy enough, I gave her a list from which to pick, and Rubirosa came up the winner.  The menu tantalized her for weeks beforehand; every other day I received a new message with another suggestion for something she wanted to eat there, and I agreed – the menu looked like it was tailored entirely to the things she likes to eat.  I was excited.  Since we were a group of six, and the small pies came with 6 slices each, [...]

Veniero’s

After Dok Suni and Mock Your World, dessert to end the evening on a sweet note – since we were nearby, I took DLS to Veniero’s, one of my favorite Italian bakeries.  DLS ordered the fruit tart, which looked really tasty… but I didn’t try any.  As I told him on the spot – fruit tarts are for boring people!  I’m anything but boring.  Since I’ve written about Veniero’s quite a bit already, I wrote this post mostly just to show off this photo.  I ordered the pistachio tulip or something… I just pointed at the picture they had in [...]

Jean Georges

If you look up the definition of “spoiled” in the dictionary, you will not see a picture of me, but you will see a reference to my existence.  Exactly a week after we went to Le Bernardin, DLS took me to Jean Georges because… much like Le Bernardin, the executive pastry chef of Jean Georges, Johnny Iuzzini, was leaving at the end of 2011.  Of course, I’ve actually ‘worked with’ Johnny in the past (click the link earlier, you’ll see) and sampled desserts that he literally made on the spot, but it would be different to eat what he makes [...]

Ayhan’s Fish Kebab

After an hour looking at puppies at the North Shore Animal League, DLS told me he was starving because he hadn’t eaten before meeting me in Queens (so I could drive to LI for the puppies!).  So I thought for a split second and remembered that we were in Port Washington, where once upon a long long time ago, FeistySis took our father, mother and I to a couple of Mediterranean restaurants.  Obviously I know this was ages ago because my father was there… in any case, I said, “I know of two places nearby that are pretty good – [...]

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