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Eating out..Alone
haha never do I look at single diner's with pity since I tend to always be a single diner. you can't expect people to have company with them at all times. i love concentrating on a delicious meal if i decide to treat myself. i have some wine, indulge in dessert, etc. but even a simple pad thai dinner is easy. bring a book or a magazine or just sit and have some time to think for yourself. don't ever deny yourself the pleasure of food because you're afraid of dining alone!
once i was at the bar at the union square cafe having just dessert: freshly fried sugary donuts! and this seemingly wealthy (and a bit tipsy) older women (i am 28) took the seat next to me and proclaimed that she was waiting for her date, indicating that she was alone but not for long. she then told me how sad that a pretty girl like myself had to sit alone and eat by myself and i said, "but ma'am, i'm not alone, look at these delicious donuts i have to keep me company!" people sitting alongside me at the bar, listening in all nodded in agreement, and exclaimed how good they looked. THAT was a fun night.
Eating out in Fort Greene / Williamsburg
Fanny on Graham is off the beaten path and a more affordable version of Dumont, which can be a scene and very pricey. They have a fantastic porkchop, cripsy-skinned chicken, and delicious flank steak with fries. French-American.
Grilling: Filipino Barbecue
mmm looks and sounds great! i'm a half filipina and i use recipes from pinoycook.com. it's a filipina woman blogging all her recipes and its awesome! don't know if she has a bbq recipe so this should do.
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What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Wow great stuff here guys! My mother used to put Ovaltine in my oatmeal, making it "chocolate oatmeal". We used to make kosher hot dog fried rice and also use the cut up dogs in macaroni and red sauce. We are a half filipino household, and though this isn't exactly a food, but I was so accustomed to eating so often with my hands, it freaked my friends out, and so I stopped. But I'll still do it at home!
Eating out..Alone
haha never do I look at single diner's with pity since I tend to always be a single diner. you can't expect people to have company with them at all times. i love concentrating on a delicious meal if i decide to treat myself. i have some wine, indulge in dessert, etc. but even a simple pad thai dinner is easy. bring a book or a magazine or just sit and have some time to think for yourself. don't ever deny yourself the pleasure of food because you're afraid of dining alone!
once i was at the bar at the union square cafe having just dessert: freshly fried sugary donuts! and this seemingly wealthy (and a bit tipsy) older women (i am 28) took the seat next to me and proclaimed that she was waiting for her date, indicating that she was alone but not for long. she then told me how sad that a pretty girl like myself had to sit alone and eat by myself and i said, "but ma'am, i'm not alone, look at these delicious donuts i have to keep me company!" people sitting alongside me at the bar, listening in all nodded in agreement, and exclaimed how good they looked. THAT was a fun night.
Eating out in Fort Greene / Williamsburg
Fanny on Graham is off the beaten path and a more affordable version of Dumont, which can be a scene and very pricey. They have a fantastic porkchop, cripsy-skinned chicken, and delicious flank steak with fries. French-American.
Grilling: Filipino Barbecue
mmm looks and sounds great! i'm a half filipina and i use recipes from pinoycook.com. it's a filipina woman blogging all her recipes and its awesome! don't know if she has a bbq recipe so this should do.
What do foodies do?
i work for a non-profit doing research--but in an office full of hungry ladies, we always end up talking about food all day long! thank god the computer filter allows all this food porn.
What Are Your Favorite Food Blogs?
The Girl Who Ate Everything and a Passion for Food for ideas for New York eats. Both are contributors to Serious Eats.
Simply Recipes and Last Night's Dinner for foolproof Mexican recipes and ideas for recipes in general. Those ladies are teaching me how to cook!
Pioneer Woman because Ree is hilarious and very entertaining.
Grocery Guy for Brooklyn food happenings and rants. The Feedbag, which is Josh Ozersky's latest endeavor. Amateur Gourmet which I feel is kind of in a constant stae of flux right now.
The Food Pornographer because her photos and stories that go with them are a joy to read and see.
Proud Cooking Moments
I've started learning how to cook this year and have had a few successes thanks to recipe and food blogs: pork chili verde made entirely from scratch, chicken enchiladas, shrimp cakes, the list goes on. Thank God for the internet food world for helping me to feed myself!
Are Chefs More High Maintenance than Other People?
Haha! I just got my copy of the New Yorker in the mail and that was my favorite line from Chang, too. I totally understand where he's coming from, having dated many high maintenance men myself. A girl like me would totally appreciate a comment like that, particularly because it implies that he doesn't like most women he dates/meets. It probably made her feel extra special.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Secret Ingredients, the New Yorker Book of Food and Drink'
MFK Fisher, because her book, "The Gastronimical Me", breaks my heart every time. And makes me very very hungry,
Somerville, Mass.: R. F. O'Sullivan & Son
I love how their "Chinatown" burger comes with teriyaki sauce. Homemade no less!
Win 2 Tickets to the Joy of Sake
Kasadela in Alphabet City. I always go there by myself and sit at the bar. The staff, usually either the husband or wife owners of the place, are always keen to talk to me about the delicious food and the sake to go with it. You can purchase a "taste", a "glass", a "musu (box-shaped glass)", or a small carafe of any sake. I prefer mine dry. It may not be a traditional izakaya, perhaps a little more fancier than what you'd find in Japan, but the staff is always welcoming. Something particulalry important for the lone diner.
Their sake selection is vast, though not as vast as Decibel's. Though whatever Kasadela lacks in sake selection they make up for in food quality which surpasses the more popular Decibel by leaps and bounds. I like to drink the Otokoyama.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
jello with a middle layer of sour cream, bananas and strawberries (from the freezer) - for school lunch, a scrambled egg sandwich made that morning on white bread with, yes, ketchup - pork roll and swiss cheese with relish and ketchup on english muffins for dinner - still love them all!
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Mac & cheese with a can of tuna... which I still love to this day.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Rice chex as a topping for vanilla ice cream. Yum!
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
I only eat french toast with granulated sugar on it. No syrup, butter, fruit, nothing. Just granulated sugar.
Ultimate favorite sandwich: cream cheese and jelly. Grape Jelly.
Graham crackers broken up in a bowl and drenched in milk for breakfast.
Not too weird, just not common. :P
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
We also had the bologna/pickle/mayo sandwich filling growing up in Kansas. Though it was usually saved for traval occasions - we'd pack a cooler with the hash and a loaf of bread and stop at picnic tables to eat. I also loved the potato chip/mayo sandwiches.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
We too had SOS (but ours was Budding sliced lunch meat with a can of cream of something on toast), dad too implied it was some sort of Army way of doing things. Also, when we were sick, we could request "milk toast" which was basically cinnamon-sugar toast, cut up into bite sized squares drenched in milk until soggy. And mac-n-cheese with ketchup. Chicken noodle soup with ketchup. Eggs with ketchup. You may be sensing a theme.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Seeing all the references to bologna reminds me that when I was very small we had a maid and she would give me whatever I wanted to eat. It always really annoyed my mom when she found out that I had bologna with ketchup on it for lunch. Not a sandwich, just the bologna.
My sister taught me to eat hot dogs right out of the freezer and to put salt on sliced pickles.
My family still likes something we call "weenie stew" which is basically a red gravy with hot dogs cooked in it. You eat it on spaghetti. But that's the only thing in this post that I still eat, though it's been years since I've had weenie stew. I wonder if I have any red gravy in the freezer.......
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Cheetos dipped in lemon yogurt. In retrospect, I'm roughly a hundred percent certain that my Dad thought this up while stoned.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
My sister and I would put Kraft singles on a small plate and microwave it. She liked hers still gooey so she could scoop it up with a shrimp fork, while I liked mine cooked right before burning, so I could peel it off and eat it like a chip.
Also, asparagus and shrimp dipped in mayo, eggs cooked in the microwave mixed with either ketchup or soy sauce, broken up uncooked Taiwanese ramen noodles, toast dipped in hot chocolate, no salt & pepper on the table...only soy sauce.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
My favorite sandwich as a kid was an omelet with jam in a pita. The other kids thought it was strange, my sister's fav was yogurt and olive paste. But our food didnt get really weird til we went to high school, it was a boarding school, where everyone have yogurt sandwiches in like a hot dog bun with potato chips and sugar. I still find myself buying hot dog buns every so often.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
I'm glad to see someone else ate cream cheese and green olive sandwiches. I loved these--the green olives with the red pimentos, on white bread. This was my favorite sandwich to take to school. And yeah, I haven't had one since, I now have a craving!
Also, one dinner my mom made was potatoes and spinach with sour cream. Mash up boiled potatoes, add cooked frozen spinach, eat with butter and sour cream. This must have been a left-over Depression-era thing. I now eat it occasionally as comfort food.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Pei dan. I remember watching a fear factor and watching people withdraw in terror from something I'd been eating for as long as I could remember. Pansies.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
@lollie - re: the boxed mac and cheese with sliced hot dogs... my family used to do that too... my parents called it "polka dot macaroni and cheese". (I would always pick out the hot dogs, though... I've never liked them. Loved the mac and cheese as a child, but I would have none of it being defiled by evil hot dogs.)
And I remembered one more: tuna sandwiches with Pringles in them. Not real potato chips... it had to be Pringles.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Wow, lets see here...
- potato chips in sandwiches, and french fries in sandwiches too (before I discovered Primanti's)
- french fries dipped in applesauce
- chicken nuggets slathered with mashed potatoes
- ketchup sandwiches
- broken up graham crackers in a bowl of milk until they get absolutely mushy
- my sister and I would eat curls of margarine when we were little
- condensed soup with so many saltines crushed up into it that there was no broth left (a trick I learned from both of my grandfathers)
- buttered toast dipped into morning tea (the whole English side of my family does it)
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
My grandfather used to eat chocolate cake with french's yellow mustard
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
What?? Nobody ate fried baloney and cheddar sammies on white bread? The THRILL of watching that slice fry and suddenly puff in the middle.. how awesome it was to POKE and watch it deflate. Why? I have no idea.
My dad and sis loved peanut butter, mayo, and pickle sam's *shiver*
I still like peanut butter and bacon as well as a schmear of liverwurst with sharp cheddar, pickle and spicy mustard on toast. MMMM! Odd to be a kid and like the liverwurst.. but it was gooood.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
My husband grew up eating white bread and ketchup sandwiches, as well as bologna and Dorito sandwiches. His dad would mix Tang with instant coffee. Yerrrgh.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
my dad's "creation" - elbow macaroni, fried hot dogs, and scrambled eggs mixed together and topped with ketchup. I still love it once in a very long while. my kids might eat it but my husband (who is a missionary kid and will eat anything) flatly refuses to try it.
The only soda in our house was Tab, so I was the only 8 year old at camp drinking diet soda for that refreshing artificial sweetener!
And tacos were always corn tortilla shells, manwich sauced-hamburger, mozzarella cheese, chopped dill pickles, and diced tomatoes. Still a yummy, if not authentic, combo!
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
toasted marshmallow grilled cheese sandwiches. My husband is horrified, I keep trying to tell him to give them a chance.
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
this wasn't necessarily a family food, but when I was young, like 5 or 6, I actually indulged in butter, straight up. Oh to be young again.
Grilling: Filipino Barbecue
Oh, we consider our Philippine Pork "BBQ" as "the best". LOL. ;D We have a recipe on our site, including the variation to make Philippine Chicken "BBQ" and notes to make the peanut sauce for the chicken version.
However, we have also recently made a different version of Philippine Pork "BBQ", but have yet to post about that.
links:
http://www.eatingclubvancouver.com/2008/08/philippine-style-chicken-bbq.html
http://www.eatingclubvancouver.com/2009/04/philippine-pork-bbq.html
Eating out..Alone
I'm another one who feels self-conscious, and I end up eating too fast. But I look at those eating alone with jealousy--they always seem so confident doing it, and I want to be like that! (I do my best to project confidence, though.) Waitstaff are always very nice and not condescending, and I really need to just get over it.
If I weren't in my home town I wouldn't think twice; weird, huh?
Eating out..Alone
I like to eat alone every now and then because a. it gives me a chance to just have my own quiet time and enjoy a meal and b. it somehow reinforces my self-esteem that "hey, I CAN do this!" My one stipulation is that I prefer a perimeter table rather than being out in the middle of the room. I am an only child and have always been somewhat independent and done things alone, so it really doesn't bother me that much (which most of my friends totally do not get). Anyway, when I see other people eating alone I think "there's a confident person, who enjoys their own company from time to time" and I think that's GREAT! Down with co-dependent diners!
Eating out..Alone
I am quite self-conscious and refuse to eat alone in a restaurant. I don't mind having a drink alone at a bar, but food is different, somehow. On the very rare occasion that I am traveling alone for work, I order room service.
I know, I'm pathetic. Then again, I have very weird social dining rules, like never ordering a sandwich at a business lunch. You never know when things could get messy!
Eating out..Alone
I am self concious of eating alone when they seat me at a table because I feel kind of isolated, but if there is a bar area in which I can sit at and talk to a bartender or watch the kitchen do their thing I can usually find it pretty enjoyable.
I actually had one of the most pleasant times eating by myself 2 weeks ago at California Pizza Kitchen. I got recommended a great pizza, pear and gorgonzola, and was given excellent service. I chatted it up with the bartender, manager, and the "quality check" pizza woman. All very friendly and extremely enjoyable to talk to.
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Wow great stuff here guys! My mother used to put Ovaltine in my oatmeal, making it "chocolate oatmeal". We used to make kosher hot dog fried rice and also use the cut up dogs in macaroni and red sauce. We are a half filipino household, and though this isn't exactly a food, but I was so accustomed to eating so often with my hands, it freaked my friends out, and so I stopped. But I'll still do it at home!