¡Feliz aniversario!
you’re still the bestest. love you lots.
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1 comment June 7th, 2010
Posts with the tag 'daveo'
kokkina avga (red eggs to you!)
This Sunday is Greek Easter (and happens to be regular Easter, too) and we are hosting a slightly smaller version of our yearly Greek Easter (Greekster?) dinner party. As usual, I am stoked to get out the Badavas/Lianides family recipes and have a great reason to head over to the Greek neighborhood of Astoria to do some shopping!
This year may prove to be the year that I actually get the traditional Greek Easter Red Eggs right! The past few years have been plagued with light pink, hot pink (both from red dye packets), and reddish brown (red onion skins) eggs — but never truly the reds that my YiaYia always managed to pull off with little difficulty. I realized too late into the game last year that the homemade egg dye was supposed to be made with YELLOW onion skins, not RED, and ended up pretty close to the mark, but with a slightly brownish tint. This year I am quite determined to get the perfect red eggs, and have the giant bag of yellow onions at the ready!
And then of course, once you have the red eggs, you have the best part of Greek Easter, the part that all of our guests eagerly await, competition singing through their veins — the Greek Easter Egg Battle!! WHO’S EGG WILL REIGN SUPREME??
Wish me luck!
Here’s a good recipe if you feel like giving it a whirl.
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3 comments March 31st, 2010
investigation of form, aka congrats andrew & sheila!!!
Investigation of form is a phrase that my graphic design teacher throws around when discussing out of the ordinary design for fairly standard objects — and this spinning wheel wedding invitation fits that bill to a T. I love the idea of this, and see so many possibilities inherent in this particular incarnation.
ANNNND, seeing as my brother-in-law just got engaged to his kick-ass girlfriend last night (woop woop!), I see a lot of opportunity for design brainstorming and harassment of the happy, wedding-planning couple in the future.
(via Unstitched)
1 comment March 26th, 2010
brooklyn snow livin’
Dave fortifies with a cup of Bustelo brew
and then proceeds to clear the 1 foot of snow off the car with a plastic dustpan and an old frying pan
and after 1.5 hours, we have success!
3 comments February 26th, 2010
sorry, tokyo garden
We have done the un-doable–made homemade Seattle-style chicken teriyaki that is JUST AS GOOD as our beloved Tokyo Garden in the U District, from 3,000 miles away. We got insanely lucky that the recipe the NY Times just happened to include in it’s article about the beloved Teriyaki joints of Seattle is from our go-to, absolute favorite spot. Which is pretty crazy, considering there are approximately 3,000 teriyaki joints in the Metro Seattle area. So happy.
This was a 2 day process, but every hour of waiting was well worth it. Chicken thighs from Fairway, ginger and garlic from the veg stand around the corner, and the ever-present Kikkoman soy sauce from the fridge = pure teriyaki bliss.
With this fail-safe recipe in our hands, we can now put our money where our teriyaki is and move to Mexico and open a teriyaki joint to cater to all those gringos from the PacNW who get tired of tacos down in Sayulita.
2 comments January 12th, 2010
breakfast pizzzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
original photo by benjamin l haas
I am pretty excited for our 2nd annual Breakfast Pizza brunch tomorrow. We are prepping today, and feasting tomorrow.
Who wants in?
(ben takes other good pics, too)
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January 8th, 2010
miscellanei of the visual persuasion
Dave spied me oohing and aahing over this book, The Visual Miscellaneum, in the book store at the airport and decided to go against our 2009 Holiday Season Moratorium on Gift Buying (2009HSMoGB) and bought it for me as a Christmas surprise. I couldn’t resist getting him something either, but I went a different way with, um, socks. And magazines! I’m not ALL practical. Only 99%.
This book is a lovely, well-designed, colorful representation of some very interesting statistics and facts about the world these days, and somehow in that magical way, actually makes you care about things like statistics of fairly random things. Also, it’s originally from the UK, so it’s fun to try to decipher some of the words. Like, a courgette is a zucchini! I’m smart.
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The author is David McCandless and he terms himself (amongst many other titles) an Information Designer, which sounds like a pretty amazing job to have. He also runs the blog Information is Beautiful, which has more of these amazing visual depictions of stats and facts. Check it out–you just might learn something.
January 6th, 2010
check it, seattle
Mailed out the last holiday push of Storyboard Books, scrubbed down the apartment in anticipation of our guests for the week, did a teensy bit of shopping, passed off the car keys, actually got my nails done, and ate a delicious dinner at one of my favorite spots in the city, Otto. Now, we call the car service for 5:45am pick up and pack up the goods for 10 days in Seattle. The weather looks like it’s going to be killer–45 and sunny pretty much every day.
See you then!
2 comments December 23rd, 2009
dream element
I always enjoy reading HDYGTFAJ from ReadyMade, and even more so now that I’ve been redefining my career this past year. It’s always so cool to be reminded that there are tons of different jobs and careers out there that you don’t even know exist, and that a lot of them are pretty fricking amazing.
One of my dreams is to someday open up a small hotel–we’ve even been toying with the idea of something along the lines of a British-style Inn, with a pub on the ground floor and guest rooms above. That would be incredible–beer, food, a fireplace and sleeping. Does anyone need more than that?
Read about how Greg Henderson got his FAJ opening up the Roxbury Motel in the Catskills here on the ReadyMade Blog. I’ll be day-dreaming up my Inn in the meantime…
2 comments December 15th, 2009
starring: 6-sided snowflakes!
Finally finished trimming the tree last night, watched a Charlie Brown Christmas and Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and cut snowflakes out for the windows for a couple of hours with the hubs. Must say, the apartment is looking pretty festive! Every year I’m always shocked at my own levels of holiday shlocky-ness. I rarely go for the tastefully understated look–I go straight kid dreams with a tree covered with every decoration we have (and tinsel, pre-cats) and paper snowflakes covering most window surfaces.
Dave found this handy guide to cutting 6-point snow flakes out last night and I’d figured I’d share it in case anyone had the hankering. Well, it’s really 6-point stars that we turned into snowflakes. It was more interesting than the plain 6-point snowflake directions. Enjoy!!
Found at HighHopes, Six-point Star.
2 comments December 11th, 2009
tightwad tuesday
Tonight was the 3rd installation of Tightwad Tuesday, an informal, off-the-cuff happenstance that came about after getting together to eat Mac and Cheese with friends, and realizing that spending $10-15 per person at a restaurant can be just as fun as getting together for those ridiculously priced meals from my employed days. Almost. But then again, better, since they happen more often!
So far we have eaten at MacBar, where we ordered 6 different small mac and cheeses and rotated them among the 5 of us, commenting on each. My favorite was the chipotle chicken mac and cheese–that was the only one I could have eaten the whole thing of! The rest were delicious but RICH. It’s definitely a place fit for sharing, so grab friends, order up and be fuuullll.
MacBar, 54 Prince Street, NoLita www.macbar.net
Week 2 was dinner at Bark Hot Dogs, not too far from my neck of the woods. We shared disco fries, killer onion rings and a growler of their special-made Sixpoint brew, the Bark Red Ale. That beer is de-lic-ious! So was my dog, which I got with 3 different types of pickles on top. I’d definitely go back and have another hot dog if I’m in the hood.
Bark Hot Dogs, 474 Bergen Street, Prospect Heights-ish, Brooklyn www.barkhotdogs.com
Tonight we hit up Baoguette/PhoSure in the West Village. I’d been particularly craving Asian food, so it totally hit the spot. We shared the Hue’s Summer rolls and an order of fried Spring rolls, then moved on to the Pho/Banh Mi. I had the Sloppy Bao sandwich, their take on the Sloppy Joe which was pretty darn tasty. I definitely want to head back to try the Pho, though it will never beat the Than Bros in Seattle. No one can–that place has truly ruined me for all other Pho, for the rest of my life.
Baoguette/PhoSure, 120 Christopher Street, West Village www.baoguettecafe.com
What’s next on the list??!
1 comment December 1st, 2009
PN #3 with panache
Project night came again this week, and along with it another healthy snack courtesy of DaveO. I mean, I’m all for improving your skills and perfecting technique, but after the mac and cheese last week, and this weeks deep fried tater-tot goodness, I might ask for some perfecting of salad making skills next time. Or perhaps jello-making. Or green bean blanching?
We also got to do some brainstorming and social media chatting about a new product that my friend Marci is helping with promoting, Pestos with Panache. We snacked on the delicious different pestos above, Gorgonzola with Fig and Pumpkin Chipotle and chatted strategy and usefulness of twitter and facebook fan pages. It was fun, but it got the wheels turning and now I want more!
The rest of the time was spent practicing Photoshop skillz like color balances and the key beauty retouches, and sorting through large batches of Storyboard Books. I’m getting better at PS and liking it.
November 20th, 2009
what a life
“GOLD BIKE CRYSTAL EDITION
Ten limited edition, hand-built track bikes — with every visible surface plated with 24-carat gold and adorned with more than 600 CRYSTALLIZED – Swarovski elements.
We provide a 10 year, no questions guarantee.
80,000 Euros, delivered to you personally anywhere in the world via White Glove Service”
With the ever weaker dollar exchange rate this bike is a steal at $119,035.75! Husband, looks like I found your Xmas present! Pretend to act surprised, OK?
Bike made by Aurumania, which they take to mean “preoccupied by gold.” INDEED.
(via Oh Joy!)
1 comment November 19th, 2009
