1. This news makes me very, very happy. Yes, I'll already be seeing it live, but I have a sinking suspicion that it will be SO very good, that I'll just need to share it with all my friends who won't happen to be in England this year. Woohoo!
2. In TV land this week, while everyone was talking about the end of Two and a Half Men or the return of House of Cards, I was too busy not being able to get enough of Suits and Supernatural. Holy moly, were those episodes good! What's even better is that they were so gorgeously shot and performed. Every shot in Supernatural could have been taken from a big budget movie (also it broke me like a big budget tear jerker too!), while Patrick Adams' directorial debut in Suits, was super creative and really fantastic. Gotta love when plot, acting, writing, direction and cinematography all come together in my favorite shows.
3. File this under strangest story I read all week:
On Saturday, "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" host Guy Fieri will officiate the large-scale wedding of 101 gay couples at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. The mass service represents the latest iteration of an annual gay rights awareness event hosted by chef Art Smith, who picked the brides and grooms for the free event in a social media contest, according to People. Following the Fieri-helmed ceremony, which we imagine will involve large grease flames and a lot of shouting about nacho cheese-covered, tequila fried steaks, participants will be treated to a cake made by Duff Goldman of "Ace of Cakes" fame.
While a fabulous idea - why in the world would anyone want to be married by Guy Fieri? I love Diners, Drive ins and Dives as much as the next girl, but honestly? There are like 5 other chefs off the top of my head, I'd rather marry me than Guy Fieri and all his bling...
4. Kinda went a little hog-wild on the photography pins last night. I really, really, really want to learn how to decipher the manual settings on my camera. I have way too many cool places to go this year, and I want to get some awesome photos of these places. Hopefully these will help. The settings seem quite helpful, but my only question is this - how to I manage to set these settings on the darn thing?
5. This Supper Club, while off the wall, seems super amazing! It's sort of like the Little Paris Kitchen but in a much better city. Also, who doesn't love the Tube?
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Hand Pulled Noodles...
...were a bit of a bust.
Here's the deal. I've been looking for a restaurant in the general vicinity that served hand pulled noodles for at least the last year. Everything about them, including the cool whack! they make when someone's pulling them, sounds perfectly scrumptious. In all the food shows I'm addicted to, they always pair them with some delicious sounding sauce filled with peppers and spice. So when we heard about the new Korean place that was doing hand pulled noodles in Columbia, we just had to try it out.
Unfortunately, a Columbia strip mall is not really the place to find authentic hand pulled noodles, or Korean food in general. We should have known when we walked in at prime dinner time - there wasn't a single soul there. When we sat down, we were given hot tea - in a soda glass filled only half way...After a few tries, we managed to coax some ice water out of the kitchen as well. We finally decided to order, the hand pulled noodles in a bean sauce with pork, and Sweet and Sour Chicken and Pork.
Problem number 2 came when all we were given to eat with were chopsticks. I'm completely and utterly chopstick challenged. No matter how hard I try, I've never mastered the weird thing you have to do with your fingers to get them to actually work, so mine were being used as spears instead. The sweet and sour pork and chicken was actually quite good. Delicious actually. Crispy and sweet, just not so spicy. The noodles themselves weren't that bad either, it was mostly the weird bean sauce on top. I just couldn't get past the taste. Don't ask me to explain it because I can't. It just had one of those flavors that gets even worse the more you eat it. Ick!
But, I'm not ready to give up the quest just yet. I think this was just a bump in the road. I'll just need to find a better quality of restaurant to feed the craving.
Long story short: Having a father daughter foodie date eating something we've both been dying to try - Wonderful!
Bean sauce on hand pulled noodles - Terrible!
Here's the deal. I've been looking for a restaurant in the general vicinity that served hand pulled noodles for at least the last year. Everything about them, including the cool whack! they make when someone's pulling them, sounds perfectly scrumptious. In all the food shows I'm addicted to, they always pair them with some delicious sounding sauce filled with peppers and spice. So when we heard about the new Korean place that was doing hand pulled noodles in Columbia, we just had to try it out.
Unfortunately, a Columbia strip mall is not really the place to find authentic hand pulled noodles, or Korean food in general. We should have known when we walked in at prime dinner time - there wasn't a single soul there. When we sat down, we were given hot tea - in a soda glass filled only half way...After a few tries, we managed to coax some ice water out of the kitchen as well. We finally decided to order, the hand pulled noodles in a bean sauce with pork, and Sweet and Sour Chicken and Pork.
Problem number 2 came when all we were given to eat with were chopsticks. I'm completely and utterly chopstick challenged. No matter how hard I try, I've never mastered the weird thing you have to do with your fingers to get them to actually work, so mine were being used as spears instead. The sweet and sour pork and chicken was actually quite good. Delicious actually. Crispy and sweet, just not so spicy. The noodles themselves weren't that bad either, it was mostly the weird bean sauce on top. I just couldn't get past the taste. Don't ask me to explain it because I can't. It just had one of those flavors that gets even worse the more you eat it. Ick!
But, I'm not ready to give up the quest just yet. I think this was just a bump in the road. I'll just need to find a better quality of restaurant to feed the craving.
Long story short: Having a father daughter foodie date eating something we've both been dying to try - Wonderful!
Bean sauce on hand pulled noodles - Terrible!
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Craftiness and
What could be better than a weekend full of a Ravens win, scrapbooking with friends and cooking and eating with family, with some fairly nifty finished products to boot? An absolutely perfect weekend full of good times and relaxation and the perfect way to prepare for my first day of the new job in the morning. Bring it on!
This album has been 6 years in the making. Not that it's taken me 6 years to create it. No, it's taken me 6 years to figure out what to do with it. The darn thing still isn't filled, but at least it's started and since I start my new job tomorrow and I want it on my desk, it's a safe bet that I'll get a move on it soon.
Lasagna Cupcakes courtesy of an idea from the Food Network. The picture isn't stunning at all but rest assured these babies were out of this world yummy!
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