So, unfortunately for me, my birthday fell on a Tuesday, which meant that I had work from 7:15 am and the class till 7:30 pm. On the upside, Teddy made me delicious baked, breaded tofu, sweet potato wedges, salad, and chocolate cake with fresh cream and berries. I also got some really awesome presents. My favorite is definitely my new digital ( Read more... )

As always, we did a lot of eating at Hoi Polloi. It's close, cheap, vegetarian, and delicious:

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Tiramisu might seem like something that's hard to make, but it's not. I followed the recipe given on the back of Alessi Ladyfingers and photo chronicled it. The only changes I made to the recipe was using 1/3 cup espresso vodka cause I ran out of espresso coffee and using more cocoa powder than called for. I also accidentally used 1 extra Tbs. ( Read more... )

Where did I take this picture?


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We go to Hoi Polloi, a vegetarian restaurant on Galveston in the North Side, a lot. So, here are various Hoi Polloi pics:

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April 3, we had Takami's going away party. She left Pittsburgh April 10th. :(

Here are pictures from the party:

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Takami's mom, Hiroko, her sister-in-law, Misae, and Misae's children Yoshi and Hiro, came from Japan for a visit so that they could see Pittsburgh before Takami moves home. We went over and I taught everyone how to make Pittsburgh-style pierogies.

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So, at long last, I am finally updating again. I've been a bit too busy to post any pictures, so here's food pictures from a bunch of weekends.

Barb and Ted took us out to the Melting Pot for belated Valentine's Day. It was quite delicious.

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So, we got swamped with 19 inches (~48 cm) of snow last Friday/Saturday and I took a ton of pictures. This blizzard STOPPED bus service for the weekend and closed down the city for this week so far. Now we're getting more. It looks to me like we have over 6 new inches of snow already. Teddy's working from home today cause of this second blast ( Read more... )

January 8th was Takami's Birthday. I bought her some cute coffee mugs and a cook book with a lot of pictures that I thought she'd like and we had a special dinner over at her house with Teddy, me, her, her husband Shu, her friend Keiko and her husband Yutaka and her newly arrived friends from Niigata Prefecture (I forget the woman's name but her ( Read more... )