Month: October 2007

• San Francisco Cupcake Tasting Tour

  After last month’s NYC cupcake tour that put us in a cupcake coma, we decided to replicate the fun and go on a cupcake tasting tour in San Francisco. The cupcake scene in San Francisco is still in it’s infancy compared to NYC. There aren’t many pure cupcakeries in the Bay Area, but the number…

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  October 30, 2007

• Oysters and Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dogs

  The frankfurters were stuffed with mustard, ketchup, cheese, onions and sauerkraut, then wrapped with bacon! I usually don’t like sauerkraut on my dogs, but I didn’t mind it this time. Who’s not going to like a bacon-wrapped hot dog on a toasted bun?!?

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  October 25, 2007

• Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake

  Hungry Bear and I love good old-fashioned chocolate cake. Nothing beats a moist, tender and airy piece of chocolate cake for dessert. The hard part is finding a recipe that has the right cake texture, chocolate flavor and sweetness level.

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  October 21, 2007

• Pork, Pasta and Strawberry Cream Cake

  After a weekend filled with Korean BBQ, Hawaiian, Chinese and Burmese food, I was wondering what to make for Sunday night dinner. Thankfully, Jane texted me Sunday morning stating that dinner was at her place. Her brother, Garry, was planning on making a slow-roasted pork shoulder and his wife, Karen, was making a strawberry cream…

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  October 19, 2007

• More Spaghetti Bolognese

  Jeff made the spaghetti bolognese and used this simple bolognese sauce recipe by Giada De Laurentiis. It’s an easy recipe that requires minimal prep time and ingredients. Compared to Michael Chiarello’s bolognese sauce that Hungry Bear made in August

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  October 15, 2007

• New York City Cupcake Tasting Tour

  http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser.swf <!– Hungry Bear and I love cupcakes, but I think our friend, Aimee, is a bigger cupcake fanatic. Last month while visiting Jeff and Aimee in NYC, Aimee organized a cupcake tasting tour around five popular cupcake shops in the city. We even had a scorecard, created by Jeff, to rate the shops and…

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  October 8, 2007