This is a picture of me with my Mom whose birthday was this Wednesday, July 13. So tonight I'm baking a cake for her party and just thinking about some stuff that came up this week.
My friend Aimee and I were philosophizing today about The Secret Language of Birthdays, horoscopes, relationships and compatibility. Very interesting stuff...just read some details on my sign and found a lot of it surprisingly accurate, hmmm...
After a friend posted this video on Facebook, everyone I've shown it to is having baby lust. It's hard to believe that something could be this adorable.
And being one who usually can tear up at commercials this one for Google Chrome definitely got me.
So, happy birthdays to Mom, John, Lexi, Justin, Jason, Sam, Chris, Mike, Jeremy, Liz, Jennifer, Ellaine, Maria, Peter, Stevie, Eric and many many more!
I'm packing for a trip to Paris, my 1st one ever. I've been wanting to go since I started taking French when I was 11, too bad I haven't kept it up since then. Still, I'm looking forward to fitting in as much sightseeing and EATING as humanly possible. Here's my wish-list, we'll see how it goes...
- Arc de Triomphe - Avenue Montaigne - Batignolles Market - Boulevard Haussmann - Champs-Élysées - Chartres Cathedral - Chateaubriand Restaurant - Chez Josephine Dumonet Restaurant - Fauchon - Galeries Lafayette - Gérard Mulot - île de la Cité Marché aux Fleurs - Jardin des Tuileries - Jardin du Luxembourg - Jean-Paul Hevin Chocolatier - L'os a Moelle Restaurant - La Regalade Restaurant - La Seine - La Tour Eiffel - La Vallee Village - Ladurée - Le Comptoir Restaurant - Le Pont des Arts - Le Porc Noir de Bigorre - Lenôtre - Les Deux Magots - Les Fables de la Fontaine Restaurant - Les Halles - Maison Berthillon - Montmarte - Musée d'Orsay - Notre Dame - Palais de Tokyo - Palais Royal - Parc des Buttes Chaumont - Passage Vivienne - Poilâne Boulangerie - Raspail Market - Richard Lenoir Market - Rodin Museum - Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore - Rue du Four - Sacre Coeur - Saint Germain des Pres - Shakespeare and Company Bookshop - Spring Restaurant - Stohrer - Versailles
I have 3 beautiful words for you: Korean Barbecue Buffet. I want to share more about my trip to Bermuda but here's a little side post about my Monday excursion with the lovely Liz of Liz King Events.
When I saw this post from Serious Eats I just had to grab someone and go, and Liz was kind enough to pick me up and drive us out to Flushing, Queens.
To start, the side dishes were many and many were tasty. Even the bok choy, which is usually something I don't like, had some nice seasoning and I grabbed some jap chae (thin glass noodles with vegetables), mandu (dumplings) and scallion pancakes.
But...it's really all about the meat here, such a great bargain! My dear vegetarian friends, please look away (sorry, Angela...)
Now let's grab some galbi (ribs) and go!!
Liz was our bbq chef since I have so little cooking skill, and she did a great job.
The waitress came over and snipped the pieces apart neatly with scissors.
And then it was browning away as we started in on the accompaniments.
We realized part way through that we were filling up on, well, fillers, when the galbi was the star of the show!
You wrap it in lettuce leaves with sweet bean paste, or spicy chili paste, whole garlic cloves, sliced chilies and scallions to your taste. And it was seriously tasty. We'll be back!
