More Than Just Cooking

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I’m all for perfume.  In fact, I used to work at one of the largest perfume houses in the world so you know I love the stuff.  (In case you’re wondering, I prefer citrus or white flower notes in my perfumes.  I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE musky, vanilla, overly sweet fragrances.  Vanilla belongs in baked goods, people and not on your skin!)

Here we go: PERFUME DOES NOT BELONG IN RESTAURANTS!  Hello.  If you’re going out to eat, you’re better off not wearing any perfume.  OK, that’s harsh.  At the very least, just dab it behind your ears.  Once.  Too much and you’re going to distract yourself from enjoying the food and perhaps, even worse, make your fellow restaurant goers gag on their meal.  Which is what happened to me today while I was enjoying a lovely bowl of pho for breakfast this morning. Read the rest of this entry »

Yet another addition to the “I <3 fizzy citrus dink drinks” file.  What can I say?  I like what I like and I REALLY like fizzy citrus drinks!

I love, love, love, love, LOVE mangoes so when I first spotted this drink at (of all places!) Mitsuwa marketplace, I had to try it.  (Blood oranges are great – I like them alot – but mangoes are always my #1 fruit.)  I never had a mango soda before and I was curious to find out how this tasted.  It’s a good thing I tried it because I love the way it tastes!  The soda’s got a nice light carbonation, it’s not too sweet and it has a great, well, mango-y & citrus-y flavor to it.

Boylans' MASH Mango & Blood Orange Soda. YUM.

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I walked with The Other one weekend and stumbled upon First Taste bakery on Junction Boulevard.  It’s a Chinese bakery, very common in NYC but I found some uncommon goods inside:

What would they taste like? They're so structured.

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(Howdy!  I’ve been a busy bee wishing there were more than 24 hours in a day!  Thank you for being patient with me.)

Summer.  It’s a hot, sticky and humid summer this year and I don’t like it!  My hair frizzes like a Brillo pad and I melt into a puddle of sweat.  There’s an attractive picture for ya!

The good thing about summer is the weather gives you a good reason to indulge in ice cream.  I usually watch what I eat but sometimes, a girl’s gotta have her ice cream.  Hey, I’m no health food snob saint but you gotta take care of your body ’cause it’s the only one you have and I want mine to last me a long, long, long time!

After lunch at Lin’s Taiwanese in Elmhurst, NY one weekend with the +1 (and the +1 shall henceforth be known as the Other.  His idea, not mine.), we walked towards the local Chinese grocery stores for some post-lunch shopping and stumbled upon this bright gem of a delicious treat in front of Boon Chu, one of my favorite Thai restaurants:

$2 for handmade Thai ice cream sold at a cheerful stand with a kid making a cute sign. Awww!

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Howdy!  Yes, I’ve been bad with updating.  Yes, I deserve day old wheatgrass juice with lima beans in it.  My bad, y’all.  Been busy trying to get More Than Just Cooking all cleaned up.  Even at two months old, the site needs some house cleaning!  Be patient, pretty please as it’s only me alone who is doing all the blogging, editing, coding, taking photos and etc, etc, etc.  If only there were more hours in the day!

So I learned how to get a Gravatar for myself! Woo hoo!  I know, it’s a minor accomplishment but gotta relish the little victories, no?   Do you like the photo?  It was taken last fall at Penning’s Orchard in upstate NY.  The photog behind the camera is Lena Y. Zeng.  Thanks for the photo, Lena!  (By the way, not only does she take nice photos, she does great floral arrangements, too!)

This was at Penning's Orchard last year. You feel miles away from NYC in this beautiful place!

More yummy posts to come!  Thanks for your understanding!

UPDATE: Added photo.  Thanks, Tina.