Month: April 2017

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Food

Black Ice Cream: Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream

black ice cream
Morgenstern's Finest Ice Cream

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream

What is something that takes you back to your childhood? Something that, ironically, brings warm feelings? That something is ice cream. Unless you have a severe lactose intolerance and if so, sucks for you!! Just kidding. Really, though, as a kid you were treated to ice cream as a weekly tradition or celebrate at a birthday party or as a reward for acing a test. It was exciting choosing your flavor and telling the person at the counter your choice, if you went to an ice cream shop. Maybe you went to Carvel for scoops of mint, chocolate, or strawberry ice cream. Your parents might have taken you to a mom and pop shop for some soft serve ice cream cone. Maybe they had a seesaw outside where you where you and a sibling have a contest to see who can go higher. Or even having a tub of Breyer’s rocky road for after your dinner of fried chicken, mashed potato a side of vegetables. When you finished your veggies you were allowed a scoop of it.

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Fashion and Beauty

Trip to the Nail Salon: Purple Manicure

purple nail polish
purple nail polish for mu manicure

Today I went to get my nails done thanks to my mom

So today my mom asked if I wanted to get my nails manicured with her, she was going to treat me. Obviously, I said yes because why not? It is free, you get a hand massage and someone other than me would paint my nails and get it done better than I ever could. I rarely paint my nails let alone go to the nail salon to get it done. I am by no means a girly girl but it does feel nice to have things done like manicures, pedicures and getting your hair done. So when I can treat myself or someone treats me to it, every so often, I take the chance. It is good to let yourself get pampered. Sometimes, especially after a long week…..month…year, it feels so good to have a little relaxation.

Unless……

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Food

Cheesy Potatoes That I made Last Night

cheesy potatoes
Cheesy potatoes

A recipe look-up….

So recently my mom asked me to look up a recipe for scalloped potatoes for our dinner for Resurrection Sunday. I did, fairly easy job. I showed her the recipe and the ingredients for it. She looked them over and said “okay”. That was that. I didn’t print it nor did I write it out thinking that I would just show it to her on Sunday and it would be fine. Well Sunday rolled around and The Kid and I went to church in the morning. We got back and after I made us a snack, I worked on a blog post. I was done fairly late considering I was supposed to show my mom the recipe.

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Food

The Donut Burger I Always Wanted

burger and wings
Crazy Annie's doughnut, drinks, and wings

The News….

A few weeks ago my mother told me that a local restaurant called Heights Tavern had closed and Crazy Annie’s had replaced it. Now Heights Tavern was a breath of fresh air to the area when it first opened. The decor was like that of the upper west and east side restaurants of Manhattan. A nice change to most of the dull and out-dated restaurants in the area. They had different food which was of good quality and had outdoor seating, even providing interesting brunch options like corn flake crusted french toast. The quality of food, service and care went down after a while. There would be issues with our servers not caring if we were taken care of. People frequented the restaurant less while my husband and I stopped all together.

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Free Verse

The Fall

black and white face- sad
Sadness and hurt - the fall

The Fall

By: Jazmin A. Torres

On your face

you land

hurt bad

Your mouth

full of sand

Dark and angry

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Fun: Everything else

Mandi’s World: Our Story

Mandi and I
Mandi and I

A dream since childhood: to have a dog.

I have always desired to have a dog. I needed it. It burned inside me. Every time i saw a picture of a dog, especially a puppy, I felt a tug at my heart. I loved being around them. Aside from horses, they are my favorite animal.I mean, they are man’s best friend and I so wanted a dog to be my best friend. To get into mischief with me. I used to watch Full House and wish that what happened to them would happen to me. The Tanner’s got their dog, Comet, because his mom, Minnie, appeared on their yard. They were able to track down the owner after a while but not before Minnie gave birth to several puppies. Then they were able to keep one. I wished a puppy would be given to me. When kids had their imaginary friends I had an imaginary dog, which my siblings played along with me. I named it Comet after Full House.

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Food

The Brindle Burger: Quest for the Best Burger in NYC

Brindle Burger and fries
Does it not make your mouth water?

The Journey Begins…

My husband and I stumbled upon a video, NYC’S Best Burger, Explained on the YouTube channel First We Feast (which btw has interesting content) that was the Brindle Room burger from Brindle Room. The burger’s name is actually Sebastian’s Steakhouse Burger and it is the only burger on the menu. My husband and I have an affinity for burgers. We have actually been on a journey to find the best burgers in Manhattan so we needed to try this delicious looking burger from the video. The one drawback it had was the stigma of being called the “best” in that food category. When given that title, it usually is not. You put yourself on a high pedestal that usually you can’t live up to.

Well after we saw the video, I wanted to do two things: 1. Taste the “best” burger & 2. See if it actually is the best burger because I love food. I love eating great food and I love creating food which I hope turns out to be great.

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