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The Young and Hungry Launch Party July 3, 2009

I had the pleasure of going to the Young and Hungry launch party. I was really impressed with all the sponsors, food and drinks they were able to get together. No-nonsense. I believe I counted twelve, including some of the trendy blog worthy spots like Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream, The Cupcake Stop and homemade beer from the 1st place winner of the recent Brooklyn Beer Experiment. I ran into my friend’s boiled peanuts. I didn’t even know she did food stuff. JoeDoe was serving this awesome scallop hors d’oeuvre. I was unaware of all the blog controversy surrounding him. That was probably good because I was snapping photos all over the place of him and his scallops, only because I thought it was really pretty and tasty. I wonder how close I was to getting my ass beaten. I kid. For real. All apologies, Joe.

The Young and Hungry guys were really nice. Had a fun time. Got full and pretty drunk –made me feel like an old fart and stuffed. Thank you!

Grillin Bacon! July 1, 2009

How about grilling bacon for your 4th of July cookout. Here’s grillmaster Phil to show you how…

Grilled Bacon: (for gas grill, haven’t tried this on charcoal yet, but saw some koreans at the park grilling bacon and looked good)
Method: light grill, place bacon strips on grill , set flames on lowest setting. close grill. cook for about 5 mins. ck and flip. cook for another 5-8 min. depending on how well cooked u like it

Tiffin Wallah Lunch Buffet June 30, 2009

I planned to try Kabab Factory’s $6.95 all-you-can-eat lunch kababs and curry. But like last time, I walked downstairs to the dining room and couldn’t figure out what to do. I didn’t see a buffet or any service. I figured it was a sign since my butt was already aching. I decided to ignore the sign and my butt and went for the vegetarian Indian buffet at Tiffin Wallah for also $6.95. Not a whole lot of variety, but pretty solid. I noticed the guys in front of me loaded up their plates and it looked awesome. I need to hire them as photo stylists.

Tiffin Wallah – 127 E 28th St (@ Lexington Ave) New York 10016

Lunch Box of the Day: Jimmy’s House June 29, 2009

I felt I needed my veggies. At Jimmy’s I tried to choose as much vegatables as I could, but now see that I subconsciously picked a lot of meat. Do sesame seeds count as vegetable? Look how pretty. –pick 4 items on rice with soup for $5.75

Jimmy’s House – 162 E 25th St (btw 3rd Ave & Lexington) New York, NY 10010

Pernil Pork Shoulder June 28, 2009

My friend Phil gave me a super easy pork shoulder recipe a while back. And there was a half pork shoulder at C-town for $4. Awesome!

Pernil Pork Shoulder recipe:
1. wash the pork shoulder and score it with a knife with good deep cuts
2. pour white vinegar over it and get it nice and wet
3. pat down a lot of Adobe seasoning (optional: salt and stick garlic cloves in the scores)
4. put it in the oven at 450 degress for about an hour. then turn down to 350 for another 3-4 hours. Get a meat thermometer to check. (I did a full pork shoulder about a year ago. I feel like it took just a little longer in the oven.)

The pork came out so tender and tasty. I did have to salt it after it was on my plate, accompanied by some nice creamy salsa verda sauce (almost like Peruvian Aji sauce) that I also found at C-town.

Food2 Casting Call! June 27, 2009

Victor from Food2 emailed me about this casting call. Sounds awesome!

…Food2’s reality dating show, $12 Challenge, will be returning to production this summer in New York City and they’re holding a casting call! More blowtorches, more laundromat iron frying, and more shots at romance for the dating-challenged.

$12 Challenge Casting Call Site:
http://web.me.com/stefanspringman/12dollarChallenge/Home.html

Food2 $12 Challenge Videos
http://www.food2.com/series/12-challenge

I’m going to sign up too. So maybe we’ll be on a date! I’ll request that you make me a pork bone sandwich.

Fava Mediterranean

I spent about an hour walking around because I was so indecisive for lunch. Yeah, check me out trying to pick out a toothpaste. I’m getting better though. I ended up at Fava where they have falafel pita type sandwiches. I splurged for the Mediterranean Combo (falafel, humus, baba ganoush, grape, leaves and feta cheese). It was really good. But I’m curious if you really get more when you are paying more or you’re just paying more because they have to scoop more different things in your pita. I only got one falafel. I guess that makes sense because you are only limited to the physical size of the pita. But say for instance lamb on rice and chicken on rice is both $5. But if you want lamb and chicken on rice, it is $5.50, but you’re only getting half lamb and half chicken –not more physical meat if you just picked one. I don’t get it. But I will get it, because I like more different things on my plate/pita.

Fava – 77 Lexington Ave (@ 26th St) New York 10010

Döner Turkish Food June 26, 2009

Stumbled upon this new Döner Turkish pita sandwich place on their opening day with Yoshie and Rob. What is Döner? I guess like gyro? I guess like swarma? Taste & looks like that. The people there were really nice.

Then Georgia’s surprise birthday with condom balloons …only because they couldn’t find regular balloons.

Döner Turkish Food – 189 Bedford Ave (I think), Brooklyn, NY 11211

Ben Tribute

…because we all wanted to be like Mike.

Tony’s Pizza June 25, 2009

I was talking to this girl on the train about pizza in the neighborhood. I’ve always wondered why you’d go to Tony’s Pizza on Graham Ave when there’s the awesome Carmine’s Pizza right across the street, which store looks so much better. This girl swears that Tony’s tastes better. Time to try for myself. I interrupted their TMZ show and got a grandma/sicilian slice like she says. I gotta say –not bad at all. I didn’t have a Carmine’s slice to do a side by side comparison, but Tony’s was good.

Tony’s Pizza -355 Graham Ave (btw Conselyea St & Metropolitan Ave) Brooklyn, NY 11211