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Having to see the picture for this entry makes me overcome with sadness because I WANT THAT SANDWICH.

ooh can't wait to try making that pot de creme. but while doing so, i will sing a song about bomboloni, because nothing else rolls off the tongue like the word bomboloni!

There's a Claudia Roden recipe from Arabesque for a beet salad that's really lovely. Sliced golden and regular beets (pretty!) - roasted preferably or boiled - with strained/Greek yogurt with garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, mint or parsley, salt. When you let it all sit for a bit, the flavors all meld together and I could have plates upon plates of this.

love love love! and they come in so many pretty varieties! plus, can't eat korean food w/o radishes.

robyn showed me this commercial last week and I thought it was pretty funny. I agree with you about the mash-up-iness. There's even just one word that's a mash up of the Korean (Geu-reh? "really?") and English (for realz?) which ends up in "geu-real?!"

But it must be so much easier on the Korean-Korean side to get all the aspects, though they must require the written Korean to "translate" to native speakers. The funny thing is that they're saying incredibly mundane things in what's actually pretty elementary korean said in a total Americanized gangsta accent, like "Can I come too?" "Are we all ready?" "We've departed!"

It reminded me of this parody of Korean dramas that Bobby Lee did for Mad TV where the subtitles and the actual spoken words did not align at all which was an added layer of funniness to Korean-speakers while still offering humor to non-speakers. OK! Enough about that. Octoshrimp pizza! MM!!

i had the chicken dinner there a couple of years ago and absolutely loved the fried garlic!

Well, I know where I'll be dessert-ing all summer. =) Yay for awful jobs in the city! lol

Oh my yum! It does all look tasty, though the idea of hot chocolate that turns into pudding as it cools is a little alarming.

Roasted beets, goat cheese, carmelized onions, quinoa, vinagrette- Yum!

The Good Times Silver Palate Cookbook has an excellent borscht recipe - it is a bigger project, but the results are so worth it. I always get raves and even though my husband won't eat it (he hates beets, of course), all my friends are happy that it just leaves more for them! I have even been asked to make it for a party of 20 or so - and that was a whole lot of beefy, hot borscht, let me tell you! I didn't like beets really until I was in my 30's - so I encourage people to try them again, even if in the past it was a no go. They're incredibly good for you.