• Last Books Read

    (T) This Perfect Day - Like a blast from the past, I felt like a 10 year old again reading this 1970 Ira Levin sci-fi. How life might be if everything around us was controlled to be efficient and healthy. Surprisingly, nakedness and sex plays a big role...
    ***

    (T) In Defense of Food - Eat food. Not so much. Mostly plants. An informative read on why Westerners spend so much time trying to eat right and almost always get it wrong.
    ****

    (T)Are You There Vodka? It's me, Chelsea - The ramblings of Chelsea Handler. Pretty funny. Good candy.
    ****

    (T) Namesake - I didn't enjoy this book. At all. I do now crave Indian food.
    *

  • Last Homemade Meals

    (K)Rice & Beans - Kelly makes great, classic Brazilian food

    (K) Striped Bass and Greens - With ginger and onions and includes microwaving the fish. It's damn good.

    (T) Split Pea Soup - A classic. So easy. So good.

    (T) Braised Pork Belly - A My first experience making pork belly. Super simple. So rich. So cheap. Why we pay so much for this in restaurants is beyond me.

  • Latest Restaurants



    Enoteca Barbone -Still awesome Italian/Babboo rip-off. I really like the owner, prices and pasta.
    ****

    Slurp - New Vietnamese restaurant in LES. We were the only ones there. Comparable to Compuchea, but better and cheaper
    **

    SavorNY - A FoodCandy article on the wall! Tapas from around the world. Pretty good
    ***

    Taisho Yakitori - Best in groups, Taisho is maybe my favorite restaurant in the city, currently.
    *****

    Clinton St Baking Company - An LES brunch favorite, the pancakes and crab cakes are some of the best we've ever had, but the line outside on a weekend make it something only worth it on the weekday.
    ***

    Chickie Pig's - Literally across the street, Chickie Pigs servers up thin, oval-shaped pizzas in a brick oven. Focus is on the crust and not the toppings.
    **

    Banjara - Finally! Good Indian. Embedded in the 6th St Indian madness is Banjara with delicious curries, dosas and samosas.
    ***

    The E.U. - A new chef prepares European comfort food including a thick and rich cassoulet, braised short ribs and Chicken and Dumplings along with a wide assortment of european beers. Very good.
    ***

    Falai - Modern Italian. Homemade Pasta. Creative Dishes like Beet & Lobster Risotto. One of the best meals had in NYC so far.
    *****

    Cafe Glechik - A Ukrainian cafe in Brighton Beach known for their dumplings. Try the veal and the Siberian.
    ***

    Rosario's Pizza - A tourist favorite of the LES, we read about this in one of our guide books. Pretty good pizza, but nothing special. Stay with the cheese.
    *

    Trattoria Spaghetto - Also mentioned in our guidebook, this Italian eatery actually turned out a better than expected lunch.
    **

    NY Noodletown - A decent Chinatown stop for Shrimp Wonton Noodle Soup. Reminds me of Canton Wonton Noodle House in Seattle
    **

Asian Woman Tries Her Hand at Making Jewish Food

…and succeeds! According to Diesel, at least. I know, he is my husband, so he’s a bit biased, but he has told me in the past that my food sucked, so I do regard his opinion as honest.
It all started on Sun morning when ailing Diesel entrusted me with two tasks: to [...]

New Star Wars = So Bad

I did get released on Saturday morning from the hospital and with friends in town, even made it to dinner that night. We went to Bar 89 in Soho, waited for a couple hours and got served a very mediocre dinner. I guess the martinis I downed the last time I was there made the [...]

Checkout

The surgeon and his resident stopped by just now to check me over one last time. Everything has gone according to plan and now I’m in line to be discharged. It’s pretty amazing how fast this all happens. It has only been about 27 hours since I had the appendix removed and now they are [...]

Unnecessary Organs

It is 8:37 PM and normally on a Friday we’d probably just be returning from the gym to shower and make our way out for a dinner in neighborhood. Instead, I’m sitting up in bed, starting out across the west village and down at the new yorkers just starting to make their way out for [...]

Diesel Will Kill Me

Last Friday, after our dinner with DB and Gil, Diesel and Gil broke off and went bar-hopping for a while. Apparently, shots were done. Shots and Diesel are a disastrous combination, so when he stumbled back into the house at 2:30am, he was a happy drunk.
I recently decided that I would [...]

The Third Deadly Sin

One day at work, my co-worker Winter Boots (not her real name, but she has lots of winter boots)–who coincidentally is a friend of my dear friend Lauren from Seattle–turns to me:
Winter Boots: Kelly, can I ask you a question?
Kelly: Sure.
WB: It’s not work related or anything…
K: Ok, shoot.
WB: [...]

Vive la Révolution!

The Revolution is coming.
And by that I mean the girls from the Revolution: Tarah (President), Kristin (VP), Regina (I think she was the athletic relations person?), and myself. Later on, we added Melissa as an honorary member, even though her induction into our “athletic supporters” organization (aka soccer groupies club) postdated [...]

More Weird People in NY

After a pretty stressful and busy week at work (nobody told me part of my job description was to teach people how to use Excel and Powerpoint!), I was ready to spend a leisure weekend at home.
Friday night we met up with our friend Db and a former client of Tim’s, Gil–who coincidentally also [...]

Restaurant Reviews

Since the restaurant review bar to the right of this is getting pretty long, I decided to start uploading all my reviews to Yelp!  I only joined because there’s how Molly organizes our book club.  Anyhow, it’ll be a good way to store all of the reviews Dies and I have done, especially after we [...]

Three Strangers, Juanes and Me

Last night, I had a ticket to go see Juanes with my peeps. And by my peeps, I don’t mean my Asian peeps, but my Latin peeps. Several months ago, my friend Jimmy asked me if I was interested in going to see the kick-off of Juanes’s tour with a few of his [...]