NYC: The High Line & The New Amsterdam Market
on Oct 26, 2009 in high line porchetta new amsterdam market craft sweets stone barns The High LineHave you checked out the High Line yet? This cool elevated city park (30 feet above ground), located in NYC between 10th & 11 Avenues, was formerly used as a freight railroad till 1980.Section one (b/t Gansevoort & 20th streets)...

You Wanna Pisa Me? Wise Guy Burger at Red Robin
on Sep 24, 2009 in chicken caprese sandwich red robin wise guy burger sauteed shroom burger towering onion rings The limited time only Wise Guy Burger at Red Robin. Savory seasoned burger, spicy pepperoni, zesty marinara, cheesy mozzarella sticks, and tangy banana peppers…how could I resist?Hubby Kris tried the limited time only Chicken Caprese burger, charbr...

Chocolate Honey Cakes from Bee Desserts!
on Sep 13, 2009 in Bee Desserts chocolate honey cakes NYC A couple weeks ago, Heavenly Housewife sent me a link about these tempting chocolate covered honey cakes. So I swung by Bee Desserts (located inside La Palette restaurant in NYC's Greenwich Village) before meeting friends for dinner on Friday night.B...

Poutine-Palooza Part 1: Festival de la Poutine 2009, Drummondville QC
on Sep 8, 2009 in La Banquise poutine Fromagerie Lemaire Festival de la Poutine Le Roy Jucep Horace Poutine Chez Louis Poulet et Pizza Drummondville Restaurant Du Boulevard Restaurant Auguste Danny St-Piere "Fact: Poutine is from Drummondville, a pee stop town just between Montreal and Quebec City. - http://www.festivaldelapoutine.com/"This comment was left a couple months ago by an anonymous reader on my post on 12 Poutines in 12 Days (Vancouver Poutin...

Weird Food Wednesdays: Tripe
on Aug 26, 2009 in tripe omasum beef tripe bible tripe dim sum honeycomb tripe reticulum Weird Food Wednesdays Beef tripe, one of my top 10 favorite foods! For real.If tripe is on the menu, I will order it. I have such a weakness for it that my husband has used it to bribe me (usually to get me to spend time with my in-laws).Yes, it's the stomach of a cow. Ge...

Weird Food Wednesdays: Juustoleipä
on Aug 19, 2009 in reindeer milk juustoleipä Carr Valley Cheese ostbrod bread cheese brun-uusto Wegmans juusto kaffeost fennuusto leipäjuusto Weird Food Wednesdays Juustoleipä or leipäjuusto translates to "bread cheese" in Finnish and its signature browned exterior comes from being baked during the cheesemaking process!You're unlikely to find the reindeer version of this cheese outside of Finland or Scandinav...

Awards & Thank Yous
on Aug 18, 2009 in heavenly housewife from donuts to delirium Chic Eats kreativ blogger award kennyt one lovely blog award Many moons ago, I was the happy recipient of 2 blog awards, both in the same week! And then I was off to Ireland to watch U2, try black pudding and search for spice burgers. With all these distractions, I almost forgot to thank the two amazing blogge...

Weird Food Wednesdays: Spice Burger
on Aug 12, 2009 in Leo Burdock save the spice burger spice burger Dublin Walsh Family Foods Picture this: one extremely jet-lagged American and his equally exhausted Canadian wife, wandering the unfamiliar streets of Dublin at dusk, searching for the elusive spice burger.The spice burger, invented in the 1950s by Walsh Family Foods, is desc...

Vancouver Banh Mi Roundup
on Aug 7, 2009 in Ba Le banh mi roundup Kingsway Deli Au Petit Cafe vietnamese sandwich vancouver Tung Hing banh mi An Nam I’m a little embarrassed to still be writing about our trip to Vancouver in May, but after forcing some friends to eat 5 banh mi sandwiches one afternoon, I feel like I have a duty to blog about it. Just to clarify for any new readers, hubby and I...

Weird Food Wednesdays: Black Pudding
on Aug 5, 2009 in boudin noir black pudding Bewley's cafe Winding Stair morcilla Dublin blood sausage Weird Food Wednesdays As a weird food enthusiast, I couldn’t leave Dublin without trying some black pudding, a variety of blood sausage made by cooking pig’s blood with some type of filler ingredient (onions, barley, oatmeal and/or suet).I know what you’re thinking.