As today is Halloween, I feel it only fitting to post at least one pumpkin related post. So I searched around and found a really impressive site:
PumpkinGutter is the website of one really impressive pumpkin carver. Clearly a person with talent who up dates the site one month out of the year, but what impressive work there is in the galleries.
A junior high school teacher with really honed pumpkin carving skills, definitely worth checking out today.You can even check out previous years galleries and see how hehas improved over time.
Reflecting upon Cook. Eat. Drink. Live., I noticed a bit of a trend developing amongst mixed drinks.
Herb’s Vodka flavors their vodkas with rosemary, dill, coriander and fennel.
DH Krahn Gin was serving a Basil Martini.
U’Luvka Vodka had a drink that called for fresh rosemary and another on their website that calls for sage leaf
And of course there is always the mojito with fresh mint.
I think this is going to be the summer of the herbed drinks. To get you started on mixing the perfect summer cocktail, here are a few recipes that you can work on to get you through the winter and look forward to what awaits: Read more »
Do you have awful neighbors? Maybe a slum lord managing your building? Feel like you have no recourse about the problems you are dealing with in your current situation? Well, that really kind of sucks. And this isn’t going to make things too much better for you, but it will help others from falling into the same situation you are in.
RottenNeighbors is a site that let’s you locate your apartment on a Google map, label it and write your problems with where you are, allowing other visitors to learn about the pitfalls of that seemingly perfect building they were considering renting in.
Gripes go from the paper thin walls and loud neighbors next-door to stolen grill components, homeless sleeping on the stoops and collapsing roofs. It even says on the site: “we are here to help you find and discover bad neighbors no matter where you are thinking about relocating.”
Of course it only works if you take part as well, the more people who write their stories on the site, the more neighborhoods are covered. There is even a blog that discusses different ways to deal with bad neighbors and advice on how to resolve problems with neighbors. Pretty interesting, well at least until your apartment is highlighted as an undesirable neighbor… So preempt that, go on their and write yourself up as being an excellent, caring neighbor, as oppossed to all those other bastards who live in your building.
Different folks like different levels of scary for Halloween, some people are all about watching the slasher flicks and checking out the newest haunted house guaranteed to make you wet your pants, others prefer something a bit tamer like Bedknobs & Broomsticks.
While people are headed out to the parade or heading to their local watering hole to get their Halloween groove on, if you are one of the ones who prefers a good fright maybe you are up for something a little different. If that’s the case the NY Post has just the thing for you: A list of the 10 most haunted sites in New York.
Included on the list we have Washington Square Park, the Chelsea Hotel and a couple of restaurants also some other hotels, churches and cathedrals and the like. The list was compiled by FindingDulcinea, a site that works to compile information.
Kind of neat and worth checking out if you are up for a good Halloween scare.
Thank you for tuning back in for the stunning conclusion of Cook. Eat. Drink. Live. Review.
Yesterday we discussed prepared foods and some of the classes at the show, today we are focusing on pre-packaged food and booze. Also at the end you will get a little rant from me about last minute price dropping and my thoughts for the future of Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.
On the pre-packaged food side of the event, everything I had was really tasty, though didn’t necessarily “rank” as far as I was concerned, there were some cookie people who had a decent product, but by no means great. Stonybrook yoghurt was there, that just confused me, then on the flipside there was Snooty Foods which had some fantastic spreads and dips (their pickles were so/so though), Feed Granola (which I admit, I liked before I cam into the show so I am a bit biased there) who have a great story behind the company which we will hopefully be able to write about and a new flavor called “Bittersweet-ness” which was really tasty. And then there was Pesto with Panache by Lauren. They had four different varieties-Smoked Salmon, Blueberry, Strawberry and Pumpking Chipotle, apparently they are sold frozen, defrosted and served- they were excellent pestos, the blueberry was especially good (and I am not a huge blueberry fan, so that says a lot). Read more »
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