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i'm looking for a great dim sum spot to take mom and sisters. anyone have a favorite?
Get Skinny #4
Started my 9 day "Master Cleanse" with a MSG/Champagne headache.....cheated a little day one with some coconut water and tea, will cheat today with tea again but starting tommorow just the lemon juice/ B maple syrup/cayanne pepper/water drinks + salt water drinks.....
Was tough to look at food day one, by mind was not on board and I almost went and bought food, had to keep reminding my mind what the plan was....
Not a great sleep but energy is good here day #2
Tocqueville is Smoking......great meal, sunshoke soup and nantucket bays, uni pasta carbonara!!, every dish around the table looked amazing "11 Mad level"......not cheap but big time DELISH!!!!.....sorry have not remembered yet how to link I will ask again my in house tekkie.....http://www.tocquevillerestaurant.com/
Fruit (and Vegetable) Smoothie
"Flexing" Today
Had some chicken soup for breakfast, light on the meat, lots of broth.....Than had some Pork Candy as I call it for my son so he eats it, san daniele prosciutto, its the best IMHO in Italy, from the north in Fruili....
I will flex again manana with some braised grass fed beef, why grass fed?? SUNSHINE!!! look its fact a homone full unhappy life caged animal is just not as tasty and whom wants to eat an angry animal?? I will adapt a reciepe from my pals Diner Journal
http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/26964/index.html
My Day of Sunshine
Morning:
8 oz raw sauercraut juice mixed with 32 oz water
Fresh raw coconut juice
Green tea
(1 hour later after exersizing) 1/2 organic banana
Raw coconut pulp + Pro-Biotic pill
Lunch:
Sandwich on toasted sprouted bread with hummas, avocado, and radicchio & Raw almonds/cashews
(2.5hours later) 28 oz water mixed with 2oz pure organic pomagranate juice & 2oz pure organic cranberry juice
Dinner:
Lots of wine:>)
Califlower in pomegranate sauce, brussel sprouts, lentil pilaf, dandelion greens (with carmalized onions)
The Weston A. Price Foundation
for Wise Traditions
in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts
new york city diners
Was hanging out long with a raw food person's life mate and her dad is a hard core 40+ year raw-head.......while I will never be a raw-head (raw eggs YUCK) cause I think cooking is good for the digestion etc, it was a learning experience and will be very healthy for me......"take in the sunshine"......need to switch my coconut water frenzy to fresh baby coconut's (pasturizing isnt good for the sunshine factor), so luckly I am good with the machette(sp) from my long trips in the carib in the 80's 90's......soaked raw nuts to release sunshine NOPE, eat raw meat that was alpine grass fed NOT.....my sunshine will have to come from wheatgrass, coconuts, greens (lightly sauteed), etc......GO SUNSHINE!!!
Guest Blogging: A Bourdain Throwdown
NOBODY ASKED ME, BUT……
via jaschw
The miracle fruit party was last night. I arrived to find a group of twenty-five or so curious people, a spread of citrus items, and, wrapped up in a Ziploc bag in the refrigerator, a bunch of little red fruits: the understated star of the show, miracle fruit.
They're bright red, about the size of an olive, odorless, and just a little bit soft. The center is mostly pit. To get the most of them, David explained that we should chew the pulpy part for about a minute and coat as much of our mouth as possible with it. Then we'd be free to spit or swallow and experience the magic of miraculin.
We started out by taking a quick taste of lime, just to get a fresh impression of what lime tastes like. Then we passed around a plate of miracle fruits, all of us taking one like eager cultists taking punch. A minute went by as we swirled the stuff around in our mouths.
The fruit itself is mostly tasteless, though slightly sweet. The pit is surrounded by a weird, slick layer of pulp. It's not bad to eat, but one would get bored with it pretty quickly. The true test came next, as we again sampled the lime. The result? Utter astonishment. The very same lime we'd tried moments before suddenly tasted like it had been dipped in sugar. All the stinging acidity was gone, leaving only the pleasing citrus and an amazing sensation of sweetness that left us craving more.
Our sense of taste completely transformed, we orgiastically began sampling everything we could get our hands on. Lemons tasted like lemonade. Meyer lemons tasted like the sweetest oranges. Grapefruits tasted awesome, and I don't even like grapefruit. Goat cheese tasted like candy. Brooklyn Brewery's Black Chocolate Stout tasted bigger and sweeter than ever. (One of us had never had a stout before. After drinking stout with miraculin, every other will probably be doomed to disappoint.)
Post rapture recap.
Day 1 of 5 of the detox juice fast. What have I gotten myself into? Breakfast was, uh... interesting. And green. I'll keep you posted here because I have no one else to whom I can complain.
Actually it sort of started yesterday because I had to get ready. Only ate brown rice and vegetables yesterday. I had a coffee in the morning, but no alcohol. I will continue the no alcohol thing all week, but will maybe drink a little bit of coffee if I get bad headaches.
This afternoon I go for my first ever colonic, and of course that is completely freaking me out (I'm from New England, what can I do? We're weird about stuff like that.)
Hopefully I'll have as positive an experience as Skinny, but at this point, to be honest, I'm just hoping I make it to the weekend.
Blue Hill NYC: 3 great courses of veggies/dairy/egg products and 2 were extra fab: a chestnut flour?? and delicata squash ravioli w/ arugula puree and "this mornings egg" which came with schrooms and lettuce broth, the flesh eaters arround me loved the venison and the crab....
Mas (farmhouse): I have never been here and it was off my radar, but we started with raw seafood and the Taylor Bay's served with stuff I cant recall is hands down dish of the year 07 so far, stunning, reminded me of how good these sea candies are (like at the old Union Pacific). The rest of the meal was super, great wine list, interesting up-market crowd.
Can a bottle of wine really be worth $700? Slate's Mike Steinberger this so:
What a nose—hazelnut, oatmeal, sweet white fruit, smoke, spice, and a touch of nutmeg. Stirring nose. Ripe, spicy, sublime, succulent grapefruit, pear. Perfect balance. Holy shit.
this is exactly how I feel, love this article, I am a flexitarian (with a vegan slant)
Get Skinny #3
2nd colonic today and I feel tired (cant eat much today so that could be part), but gotta rally for tonight/tommorow's party......
6pm: Epsom Salt Drink
8pm: Epsom Salt Drink
10pm: 4oz Olive Oil + 6oz Grapefruit Juice
6am: Epsom Salt Drink
8am: Epsom Salt Drink
My new favorite hamburger in NYC: Royale. $6 burger. Classic lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles setup on a perfect bun.
Might be a good YAT destination.
rip lundy's / sheepshead bay nyc
this place was a trip for sunday brunch. old school buffet in the grand style. friends treated me once. it was great in both senses.