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Stoofpot = possibly my new favorite Dutch word.

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Around this time of year, especially if it’s cold, windy, and rainy (like it’s been here lately), I start thinking about Holland.

The dashing young man you see in the foreground (hauling my ridiculously overpacked suitcases) is my husband of approximately 10 days. We spent a two week honeymoon traveling from Amsterdam to Delft to Maastricht […]

The most sourful time of the year.

Monday, October 30th, 2006

So, this morning, I staggered out of bed, down the hall to the kitchen… where Mount St. Sourdough Starter had erupted during the night. As far as I can tell, while I was asleep, the (now dormant and innocent-looking) starter foamed up, overflowed its crock, and hardened into a 1/4″ crust in the recesses of […]

Food Bloggers For Dinner Meme

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Julie of Kitchenography tapped me with following meme last week:
This meme was created by Angelika of The Flying Apple. The question she poses is: Which Menu Would You Serve Blogging Friends For A Welcome Dinner Upon Their First Visit to Your Home? And asks us to “describe a sort of signature menu revealing much of […]

Taste of Chinatown: The Big Finish

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Okay, I think I can stop coughing just long enough to bang out the rest of this ToC series. Thus, in the words of the immortal Mr. Tone Loc: “Let’s do it.”
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Restaurant 9: Fried Dumpling, 106 Mosco St.
Food: The eponymous fried dumplings
Now, my husband loves dumplings and is always on the lookout for The Perfect […]

Intermission.

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

I have emerged from my Fortress of Sickitude (fashioned out of old issues of Entertainment Weekly, mortared together with snotty Kleenex) long enough to pose the following question: When you are sick, what do you crave? Old-fashioned comfort food, like the fabled chicken soup? Or maybe something more practical, like a sinus-clearing spicy food?
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Taste of Chinatown: Part III

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Previously on gezellig-girl.com: the roast pork I would marry if I could, fried fish balls, and a mystery sweet that may possibly be mochi.
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Restaurant 7: A Chau Deli, 82A Mulberry St.
Food: Bánh mi — which I’ve been misspelling for the past two days. Oops.

Thanks to Nicky’s Vietnamese Sandwiches, my husband […]

Taste of Chinatown: Part II

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

To recap: so far, I had some really nasty tripe, some okay noodles, and a neat little fried bun thing. I was ready to eat something I knew would be good.
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Restaurant 4: Big Wong King, 67 Mott St.
Food: Roast pork

Now, anyone who’s known me longer than ten minutes knows I think Big Wong’s […]

Taste of Chinatown: Part I

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

Over the course of an afternoon, we ate twelve foods from eleven places — which was still a mere fraction of the fifty-five restaurants showcasing their foods that day — so this should probably be broken down into more than one post. (Note: all the photos in these next posts will be clickable so you […]

Friday night is Beef and Beer Night.

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

On Fridays, we usually eat some sort of beef-based takeout (pre-NYC, this would often be a roast beef with sauce from Kelly’s) and we drink whatever beer we have on hand, then when the kid is in bed, we geek out on the best show on television, Battlestar Galactica. [And, if I may inject a […]

Ads or no ads?

Friday, October 20th, 2006

I’m playing around with Google’s AdSense ads. On the one hand, I’d like to cover the cost of hosting this site, but at the same time, I have no problem ditching the ads if I think they’re annoying. I’m still playing around with what they look like and where they’ll go. Let me know what […]

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