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Saturday night’s alright

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food / weekends

It was White Linen Night in the Heights yesterday. Everyone came in their best whites to check out Houston’s vintage scene on 19th Street. I wish I could have stayed a little longer, but I had birthday dinner reservations with the sis and her beau, and free Italian dinner is so tempting. 🙂 Those shiny, rainbow pinata and streamers blowing in the wind by Casa Ramirez had me mesmerized for awhile there. The birthday boy. […]

Las Vegas food diary

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I always get angry when I watch those food network shows where top chefs cook these delicious and amazing meals and I can only watch from behind my television screen, drooling. So I was sure I’d have to try out these celebrity chef’s restaurants when I landed in Vegas. Friday: Quick bites at Todd English’s P.U.B. in the Aria hotel. They specialize in a selection of carved meats and poultry. I picked the seared salmon […]

afternoon delight

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Cats / food

2 hours of cooking. It only takes me 10 minutes to devour lunch. Something to boast to the grand kids later on, I guess. Maggie and Joey, waiting for lunch, spends their idle time by the open window staring into the sun. Maggie and Joey, after finding out lunch was not for them, goes on a napping marathon. The one thing that makes me very jealous of my cats is their ability to have nap […]

Midnight celebrations

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food / weekends

Spent Saturday night at a midnight festival at a Buddhist temple downtown for the lunar new year. So much fun. Than we went to Tan Tan for some late night dinner , and I’ve decided that it’s one of my favorite places to people watch. Even at 2 o’clock in the morning, the restaurant was packed with an assortment of interesting people. We decided that the intimidating looking men in the heavy coats at the […]