Labor Day – Feisty Family BBQ

FeistySis, knowing I am going through a rough patch, decided to have a BBQ over Labor Day weekend.  Low attendance as my brother couldn’t make it, so it was just her family + our mother and I.    I was put on salad duty… very simple salad.  Romaine lettuce, grape tomatoes and carrot shavings.  I also brought over Beer Boor’s homemade tortilla chips and the pico de gallo I’d made for our homemade nachos.  FeistyMom and FeistySis could not stop raving over this – both the pico de gallo, which they said was very fresh tasting and light (there’s no [...]

4th of July

As with any major American holiday, my family takes it upon ourselves to gorge as a way of celebrating.  4th of July happens to also be FeistySis’s wedding anniversary, so double the celebration, double the… food!  Funny, I was just about done taking pictures of her giant lobster pot – which she kept showing to me proudly – when she said “Did you take pictures of the pot?”  Yes, dearie, I did, and I’ll share it here so everyone can bask in the wonderful that is having a sister who has about three million times the kitchen products you do, [...]

Father’s Day 2011

Dear Dad, On Father’s Day, like every year, we celebrate your memory; this year we went to your favorite Cantonese restaurant, High Pearl, and ordered a bunch of dishes – dishes that I wish I could say were your favorites, but honestly, I don’t remember too much anymore about what you liked to eat.  There was quite a lot of fried food on the table, and I know for sure that you suffered from gout, and restricted your diet heavily during the later part of your life, so I sort of doubt you were that big on honey walnut shrimp, or [...]

D’s 5th Birthday Party

My darling D turned 5 last month, and you know what that means to the Feisty Family, right?  Party time!!!  I happily helped FeistySis with the appetizers by slicing up two kinds of cured meats, breaking a bit of Matzoh to put on the platter next to it and Triscuits.  I don’t know why the matzoh, you’d have to ask her, though she’ll likely tell you the same thing she told me: “it tastes good.”  (Which is completely subjective and I’m not sure I agree.)  The bottom of the three-tiered platter held blue corn chips.  And apparently, I somehow forgot [...]

Feisty Mom’s Birthday!

My brother introduced my mother to halal street meat a while back, somewhere along the way.  He works near the Famous Halal Guys at 53rd and 6th, and took to bringing home a platter for my mother every once in a while after work… so when her birthday came up recently, she requested this for dinner.  Well… okay.  I admit that I thought I liked street meat until I attended Street Meat Palooza 3, where I overwhelmed my palate with so many different spices and types of street meat, I haven’t eaten street meat since then.  I was a little [...]

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