Featuring Reviews of Triangle Area Restaurants, and Food and Drink Recommendations!
Posted in Food on Jan 27th, 2011
I’ve never been one to give up on something in cooking. I made Bearnaise sauce until the emulsion stayed. I made Tonkatsu until the breading stayed on. And I wasn’t going to give up on the pancakes until I got recognizable Star Wars faces on them. I made the same Star Wars pancake batter again, [...]
I bought the set of 3 Star Wars pancake molds from Williams-Sonoma and was very excited to try them out. I was hoping that they would turn out as well as the cookie cutters I bought. The set comes with a storm trooper, Darth Vader and Yoda. The set also comes with a pancake recipe, [...]
I stopped at the Williams-Sonoma at the Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh 2 weekends ago and found a bunch of really cool Star Wars supplies. I ended up buying 2 sets of cookie cutters, a Darth Vader spatula, a set of 3 pancake molds, and a lunchbox with 2 sandwich cutters in it. The lunchbox [...]
Posted in Cary, Food, Triangle Area Restaurants on Jan 20th, 2011
My husband is a fan of Italian and Bocci offers kids foods that would appeal to my son, so we decided to stop by Bocci for lunch on Monday. It’s quite a ways further south than we normally go for restaurants, in a small shopping center off Kildaire Farm Rd. There’s only a small sign [...]
Posted in Cary, Food, Triangle Area Restaurants on Jan 10th, 2011
Yuri is next to Trader Joe’s on Kildaire Farm Rd, so I’ve driven past it many times but from the exterior it looked something like a fast food chain, so I’ve never bothered to stop by. After our trip to Shabashabu last week, my husband was in the mood for tonkatsu, so I deliberately picked [...]