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the best expresso in nyc to me is Blue Spoon Cafe on Chambers St near City Hall.....amazing, I avoid coffee but when I need to rock, I stop by here and do 2 singles (one after the other) and its sends me into full speed but so smoothly.....it of course comes short and creamy and it rivals Italy (made by this lady there I assume the owner named Heather, not sure the others can make as good).....from her web site ((Our passion for coffee led us to serve Intelligentsia brand coffee and teas — what we believe to be the finest available on the market. An environmentally and socially responsible company, Intelligentsia works closely with growers and importers to ensure the quality of the bean. All Intelligentsia coffee is traded fairly, paying the grower above the Fair Trade price.))....
www.bluespooncoffee.com, worth the trip to drink but only M-F 7am to 6pm
whats your favorite grilled cheese sandwich?
paula's but rub
ham salad and pimento cheese spread recipe. i have never heard of cream-cheese in pimento cheese. i like to use two kinds of shredded sharp cheddar (like vermont sharp white and some thing else orange) and mayo to taste. indeed you rarely find pimento cheese served up here in yankee land. make your own at home, its easy.
Get Skinny #5: well I failed the 9 day-er, made it 5 hours short of 6.....just had to eat.....had peanut butter and celery, califlower and chick peas, and whole wheat italian crackers.....
Soon Liver Flush Two for March, and than The Master Cleanse Two in April hopefully for at least 8 days....
Than May to August I am gonna Get Fat again:>)
Day in the life of the Sustenance Abuse Program
3.5 liters of the Lemon/Cayanne/Maple Syrup drink, drunk every hour or so
1 liter AM heavly salted water
.5 liter PM heavly salted water
1.5 liter straight water during day (s/b drinking more)
= 9.5 liters
THE artist Gordon Matta-Clark, who died in 1978 at age 35, loved to cook, but he could never quite unbraid his culinary passions from those of artmaking, with sometimes bizarre dinner party results. At one, recalled his widow, Jane Crawford, he cooked a lovely whole sea bass, but it emerged from the kitchen encased in a block of aspic nearly three feet long. He unmolded it, then gave the table a good kick, so that the aspic wobbled wildly and the bass seemed to fishtail upstream.via jaschw
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.