Food, glorious food!

[saffronhare]

Two random notes:

1. I love whole milk yogurt. Hadn't ever tasted it before a few weeks ago, but zowie! It's actually a real treat! I'm enjoying Stonyfield Farm Whole Milk French Vanilla right now. Yummmmm.

2. Hey, featherynscale! Do you remember that silly Chinese restaurant near my office, where we had a bizarre lunch one day last year? Well, I think I told you it had closed maybe a week later. Now it's going to reopen as a mexican restaurant. Should be interesting.

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[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That's exciting. We should go to the new mexican place then, for scientific purposes.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

But of course. I wonder whether they're keeping the gingham curtains. Will let you know when they open again.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh I hope they did. The gingham curtains were integral to the experience.

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Culinary delights 101 -
Anything made with whole milk is generally good. From Hagen Daas to mashed potatoes, if you make them with skim milk, it is supposed to make them healthier, but as with all health foods, the taste is less desirable. Cutting out fat was a fad decades before cutting out carbs. Of course after cutting out fat, the obesity trend still climbed. Yet people still see fat as evil. But while uber-high fat diets lead to coronary disease, uber-low fat diets lead to stokes and embolysms. The body needs fats (good fats) to build vascular walls.

REAL Butter is another neat thing that turns regular meals into something much better. I have occasionally pointed to real butter as a secret ingredient in successful chains like Boston Market (before they got McFranchised), Auntie Anne's Pretzels, and Garden Cafe' desserts.


Ok, two more paragraphs withheld, I don't mean to rant here... ::grin:: The death of whole milk and real butter just bugs me.

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

Actually that restaurant was called Phoenix in a previous incarnation. I liked the food from that one more than this latest one...
I'm just wondering what they did with some of the beautiful needlework that they had hanging on the walls. I'd love to get my hands on that (though where I would manage to put it with my slanted walls, I can't even begin to guess).