Bamiyan Afghan Restaurant
I ordered the lunch special Mantoo (steamed beef dumplings; topped with yogurt and meat sauce) $9.95 and a Doogh (salty yogurt drink) $2.50. It came with a small side salad. The dumplings were definitely comfor...
Mashed Potatoes and Green Peas
I made this. Like a KFC Bowl Minimalistic.
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Sirtaj Indian
Sirtaj Indian restaurant is by no means fancy. You order at the cash register, you pick up at the cash register, the food is served on cheap styrofoam plates on orange cafeteria trays, the water in tiny plastic...
Ramen Setagaya St. Marks & Dennis Hopper Photo Exhibition
Jasper and his team painted some awesome photo-realistic billboard copies of some of Dennis Hopper's iconic photographs, now showing at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery. I was walking around exhibition trying to find ...
Stewed Beef Shin
My first attempt at stewing. I used a cut of beef shin ($2.24), can of vegetable broth, can of chopped collard greens, a little balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper, oregano, garlic powder and MSG. I brought it to a ...
Bushwick Music Studios – Jerk Chicken
We played a show with our friend Rig 1 at Bushwick Music Studios down the street from us. They have live shows and I saw Junior grilling jerk chicken right outside once again. The last time at the McKibben Bloc...
Ross & Rebecca’s Labor Day BBQ
Always good food at Ross & Rebecca's. Classics like Applewood smoked Pork Shoulder with Mediterranean spice rub and a new dish of Pasta-less Pasta salad with Spaghetti Squash, fresh basil, yellow cherry to...
Pongsri Thai’s Pad Kee Mao (Drunken Noodles)
Thai at Pongsri was common with my lunch crew at work a few years back. We'd get some Thai Ice Teas and wonder about Thai Todd the waiter (I don't think that was his real name). My usual was the Massaman curry ...