Cafe Grumpy and Irving Feller

A few blocks away from my house sits Cafe Grumpy, an energetic, spacious welcoming coffeehouse on Meserole and Diamond in Greenpoint. They have another store in Chelsea which I haven’t visited yet but I just have to share my love for this place. Rows of round tables line the walls and its livelier, noisier here [...]

weekend recap

Sooo…I gained 5 lbs in the last 3 weeks. And although there are more tragic events around the world I can’t help take this as a point of departure for my current state of spastic multidinous mental combustion. There have been so many monkeys in my brain jumping from one nerve branch to another keeping [...]

TWD: Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes

This weeks TWD menu is Chocoloate Chocolate Cupcakes chosen by Iheartfood4thought. I wasn’t too excited going into it, and I’m not too excited with what came out, but here is the report.

I am not a big fan neither cupcakes nor thick glazes, its too foamy and the creamy thickness of glaze makes me a bit [...]

TWD: Pumpkin Muffins

This week’s recipe at Tuesdays with Dorie was chosen by Sounding My Barbaric Gulp! and although I was not so excited about the choice seeing as how I’m on a cake/brownie/tart/cookie fix I was glad I went ahead and made these pumpkin muffins and I am very glad/devastated to learn muffins require as much sugar [...]

Weekend recap

Today’s been a pretty off day, woke up late only to witness one of two goldfish having its life sucked out of it by the filter, lifeless and foaming. As if that wasn’t disturbing enough, in my flustered rush to perform my morning routine I knocked over a full mug of tea splashing spilling all [...]

Roasted Chicken with Joe the Plumber

Thankfully last night was the last debate. As much as its been fun sharing these evenings with friends and food, everyone concurs bake/debate/food is not a good mix and is a sure catalyst for indigestion. Nonetheless it was another night of success in the kitchen, I decided to roast a whole chicken after talking to [...]

TWD swap: Russian Grandmother’s Apple Pie-Cake.

This week’s TWD recipe was Lenox Almond Biscotti chosen by Canela & Comino. I’ve been DYING to make apple pie and biscotti was never a fave, so I swapped and made Russian Grandmother’s Apple Pie Cake which the group made back in March. My book arrived last week and my eyes were drooling flipping through [...]

quote

A quote from an article in yesterday’s NYTimes, comparing our economic struggle with that of Japan a decade ago, how similar it is and how long it took for Japan to recover.
A final lesson may be that the crisis will spill over into the real economy, confronting America with the prospect of a long, grim [...]

Happening Agenda

Happening Agenda will be for those of you in my neck of the woods. It’ll be a listing of events I wouldn’t mind attending but probably haven’t made the time or effort because of other things I’m attending that I have taken the time and effort to do.
If you’ve seen, heard or eaten at any [...]

Wordless Wednesday Guessing Game

Point of wordless Wednesday is to put up a post without words, image only. Except I’ve already posted today, but pretend it was posted yesterday, because that’s what I meant. As for WWGG I’ll just put an image on Wednesdays and you’ll just have to guess who it is.

Hint: He’s a 20th century still life [...]