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Cooking away today..  Some of you will recognize what I’m putting together..

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Simple fare tonight.

My aunt gave me two fresh Bitter Melons (Or Bitter Gourds for some of you) from her garden last week.

Cut them up, cleaned out the inside.. Defrosted some london broil, sliced that up thin. (I don’t have flank steak and didn’t want to go shopping, k?) Salted lightly. Tossed in nice hot wok with some peanut oil, fried for about a minute, then tossed in a liquid mix of sugar, soy sauce, a little more oil and some water. Let that sizzle for about two minutes, then tossed in a slurry of corn starch and some more soy, tossed and served on top of rice.

Bitter Melon is an acquired taste, but I’ve been craving it for months now. Mmmmm… *settles in and gets back to work with a bowl of warm rice and melon*

I’m still sleepy, and won’t say much except to pass on my HUGE thanks to everyone who attended and made the event a success!  Everyone had food, snacks, and people respected my request to BYOB if they wanted drink.

Food, Drink, more Food, decorations, and prep – $300 Seeing 30 people invade apartment, 20+ of them squeezed in simultaneously – Priceless

Special hugs and thanks to Annachichan, P. and M. (Liberty Provocation), mossgreen, jvowles, and my family who came early, hung out, helped out, dealt, cooked, cleaned, etc etc..   Too much to go into detail now, but later when I’ve recovered perhaps I will.  XD

However, the summary of weekend would probably be, “OM NOM NOM, Fish and Chips,  Bread Pudding in Bacon Custard, Wasabi Ice Cream, OMFG Cook Chili now, That’s no Castle that’s City College, Chicken n’ Waffles, Make my Cake Mmmmm Butter, Ribs, OM NOM NOM NOM, Party, How could we have eaten all that, OM NOM NOM, blackjack again, How much Jack did Jim drink, The Cake Is NOT A LIE, oh look its the great wall of aluminum, Mmmm Pearl River Mart, OM NOM NOM PIZZA, OM cupcakes, Camera Mecca, bye bye everyone, annnnnd clean clean clean…”

Oh yes, gallery of weekend is up on flickr..

Tomorrow night’s “Mid Week Eats” will be at Monster Sushi.

Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Time: 6:45pm – 9:45pm
Location: Monster Sushi – Chelsea
Street: 158 West 23rd Street
City/Town: New York, NY

Special Guest – the Patricola.
Special Password – “fishcakes”

Time to eat!

He came by night – a man by the name of Patricola…
Invading on a Wednesday. How rude! But we know just how to fight back. We will STUFF HIM SILLY!

The Time : Wednesday July 16th — 6:45PM.
The Place : TBD..

Ping me if you’re coming!

Reminder, tonight is attack of om nom nom nom.  mmmmm MEAT.

Thursday night, June 5th – 7:15pm to 10:15pm.

Via Brasil
34 W 46th Street

Reservations will be for 7:30 — but if you’re coming you must tell me by noon.  LET THERE BE MEAT!

 Alright!

Thursday night, June 5th – 7:15pm to 10:15pm.

Via Brasil
34 W 46th Street

*edit*  -  We’re going to go Brazilian, but we’re not going to do all you can eat – simply crazy on costs.  This place looks good, we’ll give it a go!

Anyhow, same rules as always – come one come all but just let me know you’re coming!

This weekend has been about two things.

1. Seeing Patrick Stewart in Macbeth.

2. Getting obscene amounts of sleep.

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Cooking dinner for the parents now.   The usual “Dad went to market and bought meat” meal – steak, mushrooms and onions sauteed, salad, whatever else happens to be fresh.  Trying a different marinade for the mushrooms, a little bit of salt, pepper, hot sesame oil, olive oil, etc.  Test toasts over the fire seem to imply it will be quite tasty.

Amanda is leaving town, so a special edition of Mid-Week Eats is in order!

Monday, May 11 12, 2008 – “Why Curry”

I’ve been here several times and its never dissatisfied.
126 Saint Marks Place, between 1st Ave and Ave A

If you’re coming, be there at 7:15PM, and let me know you’re coming!

*edit* .. I wrote May 11.  I meant May 12. Monday.  Whoops.

Fish and Chips (Traditional)

Originally uploaded by Doc Stampede

Some days, all you want is something simple.

This Fish and Chips platter (sans traditional chips, but the fries were still tasty!) in Atlantic City hit the spot on Sunday.

Makes me hungry again. Mmmmm, deep.. fried.. fish… *OM NOM NOM NOM NOM*