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My favorite sandwich ever:
Crusty ciabatta bread with brie and chopped spinach drizzled with balsamic vinegar and olive oil, broiled until the cheese has melted. So good!
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Best Boba Teahouses in Southern Cali
I really love Cha for Tea, which is also in Irvine, near UCI. Yum (:
Eating in Vegas
I'm going to agree with some of the commenters above and recommend Lotus of Siam. I've known the owners since I was a little girl, and they owned a restaurant in Norwalk, California called Renu Nakorn. I'm in love with Thai food, and I can safely say that the best is from them. It's a hole in the wall type restaurant, far from the glitz and glamour of Sin City, but it's definitely worth straying from the Strip.
What do you eat for breakfast on holidays?
In my family, breakfast is the main event on Christmas. We're Japanese American, but for as long as I can remember, the siblings have all gathered at my mom's house for a meal of posole and tamales. There's always drama around finding fresh nix tamal (hominy) for the soup in the days leading up to Christmas breakfast. No hominy means no posole. And I don't even want to think about what no posole would mean.
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Best Boba Teahouses in Southern Cali
Where the heck are the great Seattle joints, then? I can't stand the milky ones, which seem to be the majority here. Crunchy tapioca balls also suck.
Best Boba Teahouses in Southern Cali
hey babpul,
Sorry you weren't fond of the choices. I actually grew up twenty minutes away, and used to hang out at these spots on weekend nights throughout high school. Us 18-year olds loved our bubble tea adventures up the 5-fwy. I'd love to hear your favorites and check them out next time I'm out West. Unfortunately DC is dry on the boba front. We've got one measley source called Snap in Georgetown (also a crepe joint). Otherwise those tapioca balls demand a trek out to the Eden Center in Virginia!
Erin
Best Boba Teahouses in Southern Cali
I think it's very telling that
1) all the boba houses listed are chains
2) the correspondent is based in Washington DC
Not that Tea Station is bad or that Lollicup is horrible -- they're alright, but anybody who regularly drinks boba knows that they've had better. Even the Guppy House is better than what's listed above.
::shakes head::
Wouldn't it make more sense anyway for a DC-based correspondent to give us all the skinny on the best boba joints in DC?
What do you eat for breakfast on holidays?
My mother made several beautifully decorated fruit, nut stollens every year for Christmas breakfast. We would have that nuked or toasted prior to opening gifts. Afterward, we'd have a more traditional eggs and bacon or sausage breakfast. If one of her children couldn't be with the rest of us for the holidays, she'd make their's earlier and mail. If she was staying with me, I'd know that she'd be in the kitchen most of Christmas Eve, making a mess. Secretly, we all thought they weren't quite worth the effort, and were on the dry side. Mom is gone now, and I wish I knew how to make her beautiful, delicious stollen. Even more, I wish she were here to mess up my kitchen.
What do you eat for breakfast on holidays?
nothing special for Thanksgiving but Christmas morning is croisant bread pudding. totally decadent and bad for me but yummy!
What do you eat for breakfast on holidays?
Thanks for sharing comments on your holiday breakfast fixings :) I prepare our traditional Christmas brunch after gifts are opened---menu varies from year to year as the grandkids grow & tastes change. Hot chocolate is always a must, tho'
What do you eat for breakfast on holidays?
I like to start out with steaming hot mugs of spiced apple cider (make it in a big coffee urn) and hot cocoa with homemade marshmallows and homemade cinnamon rolls while we are opening gifts (BIG family event-around 25+ people). Then for the actual sit-down breakfast we have eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits and grits-the whole Southern deal.
We don't eat until around 7 or 8 in the evening on Christmas day so I like to make a hearty breakfast. We eat earlier on Thanksgiving and New Years, so it's usually just homemade cinnamon rolls/yeast rolls and hot cider/cocoa for breakfast.
What do you eat for breakfast on holidays?
For Thanksgiving, usually some sort of homemade muffin with scrambled eggs, though one year I made mini quiches the day before instead of scrambled eggs. Always, I make hot spiced apple cider.
For Christmas, I've started making my own panettone, along with scrambled eggs and hot spiced apple cider.
What do you eat for breakfast on holidays?
I try to start the day virtuously, with my usual homemade fruit & yogurt shake with a few TBSP protein powder, telling myself it'll hold me til the Big Dinner Thing, but knowing deep in my heart that I am deluding myself.
When my relatives get together for holiday eating- and may I mention they're Polish - you can't get away with just a shake til dinner. These are people for whom the word "punczki" - (a jelly-filled donut) - is a personal term of endearment, which they utter while pinching your cheek with great affection.
What do you eat for breakfast on holidays?
On thanksgiving I don't eat breakfast because I know I am going to nosh all day on the food I am cooking for the main event.
But on Christmas, I eat normally. It's the breakfasts after Thanksgiving and Christmas that are my special breakfasts. I always have a big hunk of Pumpkin Pie or leftovers!
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