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Friday, March 9th, 2012 | Link to this Post

Fire it Up Fridays - Reviews on Fine Dining and Not-So-Fine Driving

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Back in February, Jeremy and I took our annual NYC fine dining trip, Synthroid Mg. This time, japan, craiglist, ebay, overseas, paypal, we stayed at the Hudson Hotel thanks to Will. [waves excitedly to Will who probably doesn't even read this blog]. Synthroid from canadian pharmacy, Great location. Right around the corner from Columbus Circle:

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...which we visited several hours after Ko, Synthroid Mg. Buy Synthroid from mexico, So not a full-blown meal. Perfect late-night snack type of place.

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And to work it all off, we went shopping (or I should say, I went shopping):


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Oh yeah, for all you other foodies out there, here is a review you must read. I swear I kept on scrolling up to make sure it wasn't something from the Onion. All this review is missing are some poorly-lit pictures taken by a second-rate camera :) Our favorite line...

"Instead of the raspberry lemonade she suggested, I drank water."

Apparently, people were making fun of this 85-year-old lady. So now I feel bad. Maybe we should go to Olive Garden tonight for dinner...

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Saturday, October 29th, 2011 | Link to this Post

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on a completely different note, I've created a new section entitled "Education" located on the left sidebar. I meant to post this on Thursday but forgot (was too busy sewing up costumes for the kids.) I've updated the "word families" page and added a page for free resources that I've found extremely useful in schooling our kids outside of school. Hope it can be some use to you.

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Friday, September 16th, 2011 | Link to this Post

Order Lipitor, Fire it Up Fridays. Restaurant Reviews


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We did the river tour... and then partied to Rebecca Black's infamous "Friday" song (our friend got married on a Friday...) Can't you tell how much fun we are having?.


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Friday, August 5th, 2011 | Link to this Post

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Here is our favorite savory salad dressing.


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- 4 tbs Extra Virgin Olive Oil

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- Green Garlic

- 1 tsp honey

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Friday, April 8th, 2011 | Link to this Post

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Saturday, February 26th, 2011 | Link to this Post

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2½ cups finely chopped scallions

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¼ cup vegetable oil

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¾ teaspoon sherry vinegar

¾ teaspoon kosher salt (or to taste)

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1 lb. ramen noodles

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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 | Link to this Post

Dining Notes - Eleven Madison



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Overall, it was a good meal, but not quite as good as Per Se... or as good as we remembered them. The dishes seemed to have come together for the sake of being creative instead of delicious that just so happens to be creative.


Those who are into strong alcoholic drinks would like their final complementary glass of pear-infused brandy. It smells wonderful. But brandy is just too much for our taste :)

Definitely worth eating here, but I think for roughly the same amount of money, I'd go for Per Se's salon menu.

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Friday, February 11th, 2011 | Link to this Post

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Friday, February 4th, 2011 | Link to this Post

Armour Cost, Fire it Up. Fridays - Chicken Under A Brick


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1 whole chicken (roughly 4 lbs.)

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Friday, March 26th, 2010 | Link to this Post

Craft Flop

The other day, I confirmed something I sort of already knew: My kids hate getting their hands dirty. I first saw this (in my mind) awesomely creative yarn bowl and immediately put it in my craft queue. I mean, how hard could it be? Yarn + glue + balloon + bowl. Got it all set up and even took "before" pictures in preparation for an awesome blog post:

One fingertip-dip in the tiniest dot of glue later... "Mommeee! My hand is diirrrty! I need to go waaash it!" Whine whine whine. Long story short, I was only able to get Calvin to do a few strands (Charissa was off somewhere playing with her balloon the second I finished blowing it up for her...) Not wanting to waste an entire bottle of glue I just sacrificed on a plastic plate, I proceeded to continue with mine. There are no "during" pictures because I was too busy trying to help Calvin finish the project without getting his hands "dirty" (yeah...) and my own hands were all gooey and fuzzy. We waited for our yarn mess to dry overnight and popped the balloons this morning (which Calvin thoroughly enjoyed, so I guess, not a complete flop... although I can't really say the same for Calvin's end product, see below). Here is mine:

Not horrible (I think it would have been better with "less fluffy" yarn), but not nearly as pretty or functional as these. Then there was Calvin's:

I'll leave the captioning blank on this one. This craft really is neat, just not "neat" enough for us. (I hope, for their sake, they won't have to do too many of those papier-mâché projects we were forced to do in art class some 20 or so years ago...) Ending my post here would be too discouraging (since, you know, blogging is like a mini self-esteem booster... oh yeah! I did do something else today besides catering to my childrens' every need... and guiding, correcting, and harnessing their energy and natural "tendencies"...) So, to end on a happy note: chocolate covered pretzel rods with sprinkles:

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