Check out these five New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day recipes and food tips shared by out Twitter friends: A to Z Recipes shares the Vasilopitta recipe , a bread recipe from Greece flavored with cinnamon, anise seeds and orange peel. Laurie Stasiuk shares some nice tips on how to create a New Years Eve dinner with the kids , from deciding on the menu to shopping to fixing kitchen rules. Nomelie Cupcakes thinks that champagne cupcakes would be great for New Years.
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5 New Year Recipes and Tips by our Twitter Friends
Sunshine, cheer, wine, food, music and art warmed the lawns of Rohi Villa Palace, Koregaon Park, Pune, as the third Pune Wine Tasting Festival progressed over the weekend of 19th and 20th December 2009, reports Brinda Gill . As in the previous two years, the festival was hosted by the Pune Gourmet Club, an informal group of food and wine lovers, who enjoy cooking and sharing their efforts with each other and guests.
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A Toast for the third Pune Wine Tasting Festival
Aria Hotel and Casino Las Vegas City Center 3730 LAS VEGAS BLVD LAS VEGAS arialasvegas.com While most families celebrate Christmas day at home opening gifts near the Christmas Tree, our family has a more nontraditional way to celebrate: Vegas. After my parents retired and bought their vacation home in Vancouver – Christmas is now celebrated in Vegas, Vancouver and San Diego on a rotating basis
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Aria Hotel and Casino Las Vegas City Center
photo credit: Carina Ice I was delighted to see my friend Minna Van ( The Network Hub ) grab a couple of poinsettias for the office, and I made a comment that, in reality, poinsettias’ name should not be poinsettias but Nochebuenas. It actually pisses me off that people don’t realize that nochebuenas (aka poinsettias) are indigenous to Mexico (Wikipedia entry here should you require more information). As indicated by the entry (and something I knew since the very first time I visited the US) The name “poinsettia” is after Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first United States Minister to Mexico, who introduced the plant into the US in 1828.
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Nochebuena
We are getting too big for our facebook group so we have to move our group to a fan page instead! Once our Facebook group hits 5000 members, I will not be able to send out personal messages to inform members of upcoming events anymore. We are currently 4757 strong, so we will probably outgrow our facebook group very soon. Before that happens, I am asking everyone to move over to the new facebook page instead.
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The New Ieatishootipost Facebook Page!
This week, a lot of us will be bundling kids into cars, planes or trains and taking them to whichever lucky relatives have the pleasure this Christmas – or maybe even running away from it all to a hotel. To help avoid any ‘are we there yet?’-inspired infanticide, we asked Kayt Sukel , writer, mother, Smith hotel reviewer and wünderblogger over at Travel Savvy Mom , to give us a list of her must-have travel gear for child-toting globetrotters… For the most part, I’m not a mom who is all that down with travel ‘accessories.’ In my experience, the only required elements for successful travel with kids are an extra pack of wet wipes (for all of the stuff that will be unceremoniously smeared on Mom’s pants) and a slightly twisted sense of humor. But now that Chet has ventured to nearly 30 countries, I must admit there are a handful of items we could not do without: 1
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Top five children’s travel essentials
… for the London School of Economics – as it was not sufficiently challenging – he now pounds the pavements for 10 kilometres each morning before spending the day making multi-million-pound deals and the evening hosting events at London’s top venues through his side venture AlphaParties. ….
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The is an interesting piece of research going around that says lighter coloured spirits, like vodka, will give you less of a hangover compared to spirits like bourbon. I don’t disagree with the researchers conclusion, and many people could point to personal experience and come up with the same answer. However, studies like this are bad so here’s my peer review.
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Lighter Spirits = Less Hangover?
Cuisine: Steak Restaurant Features: Bar, Banquet Facility, On-Site Parking, Pull-Tabs, Live Music Location: St Paul, MN Address: 531 West 7th Street St Paul, MN 55102 651-224-7345 Hours: Sun-Thurs 4:30-10p Fri-Sat 4:30-11p Links: Mancini’s Website Google Map Atmosphere: Located on West 7th Street just a mile from downtown St Paul, Mancini’s Char House has been one of St Paul’s most well-known and popular steak houses since it first opened in 1948. With capacity to hold 600 guests, Mancini’s is a very big restaurant. There are two main dining rooms that each hold 200 people and a large lounge area that holds an additional 200 guests. The lounge area is laid back yet lively, with live music from 8:30-12:30 Wed-Sat. The lighting in Mancini’s is dim and inviting, with candles lit on every table. It is currently festively decorated with wreaths, pine boughs and white fairy lights. The main dining room is a big, long space that has several wooden tables as well as a series of tables along the outside of the room that have bench-style booths on one side and wooden chairs on the other . You can see the open kitchen at one end of the dining room, where the only cooking equipment needed is the charcoal grill. Menu: Appetizers include Herring and Crackers, Mushrooms, Antipasti Salad Plate, and Shrimp Cocktail.
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Mancini’s Char-House & Lounge ~ St Paul, MN
Anthony mixes up his stevia-based version of the classic Tom Collins for the folks at Bombay Sapphire. Note: They edited out the fact that the ice is made from fresh-squeezed pink grapefruit juice
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Bombay Sapphire Steve Collins
Through December 25, Restaurant .com’s cheap discount certificates get even cheaper: you can save 80% off Restaurant .com gift certificate orders by using promo code “SANTA”. What does that mean for you? A $25 gift certificate regularly …
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As the tension rises for this week’s conquering hero, so does the temperature and the altitude. For sea-salty spectacle and hilltop high drama, it could be none other than Jade Mountain on the island of St Lucia … Style Supervillain’s island lair Setting Balmy bayside heights Why this week? We’ve connived to get you five nights for the price of four on stays until Christmas Day, with $250 resort credit to put towards spa treatments, food or drinks
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Hotel of the Week: Jade Mountain
What can be more appealing than a quick and easy Paneer recipe that can fill your dinner table with a bit of extra spice and flavor, without breaking your back after a hard day at work! Paneer Bhurji, also known as Scrambled Paneer, is just the thing you need to get oohs-and-aahs out of your family even on a weeknight. Just toss in some cottage cheese with some chopped vegetables and a dash of spices and you are all set. Serve it with fresh Chapatis or Naans
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Paneer Bhurji (Scrambled Paneer Masala)
Goodness me, I love the holidays as I paraphrase the words Claire Danes from the movie Stardust, Neil Gaimen I love you by the way, “Love can be mistaken for loathing.” I don’t think I’ve ever completed my Christmas shopping before the week of the damn holiday for fear of so many people who are evil. Yes, we know Christ wasn’t born on the 25th day of December. Yes, those of us celebrate it for goodness and fun it can be
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Tracy Jordan reminds me of my Greek side of the family during the holidays
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Vinyls Attack
To the untrained eye, truffles may resemble nothing so closely as potatoes and lumps of volcanic rock. But this doesn’t deter some of the world’s most refined palates from shaving them into risottos and whipping them up with scrambled eggs. The white Piedmont truffle, with its mild, earthy flavour and wonderful aroma, is the pinnacle of the fungal form
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We ask the questions: Q&A with La Villa, and a man who knows his truffles
Ouch. The subheading says it all, “The food’s not the reason crowds are flocking to Fabio Viviani’s new place.” And to make matters worse, no stars this week for Firenze Osteria , zip, zilch, zero. To start, SIV explains, “Now, I wasn’t expecting Viviani to reinvent Italian cooking or anything big like that, though he does state on his website that he’s into molecular cuisine and fusion
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Week in Reviews: Zero Stars For Firenze Osteria, "Italian Food for Dummies"
At first I really thought that the Chilli Crab had lost its place in the stomach of Singaporeans whose tastebuds might have been swayed towards Salted Egg Crab or Crab Bee Hoon. But lo and behold, our poll of 2077 people showed that Chilli Crabs are still King with 49.6% of the votes followed by Black Pepper Crabs at 30.2% with Salted Egg Crabs in third place at 20.2%. Long live Chilli Crabs! Talking about Chilli Crabs, our AGM is being held at none other than the home of the Chilli Crab, viz Roland Restaurant
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Its official! Chilli Crab is still Singapore’s National Crab Dish!
Michael Cimarusti, far left. [Photo: Leanna Creel] NAPA — Animal boys Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo were not the only LA cheffers to participate in this year’s 12 Days of Christmas at Meadowood , an annual gathering of top chefs wherein each gets his/her own night to create a menu of choice.
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EaterWire: Michael Cimarusti Hits Napa, Melgard Public House Claims Louise’s Trattoria, Eviction Notice Posted On Schmidt’s
Westinghouse Electrical Gifts:Turnover ToasterJust open the rack to turn the toast! (click any image to enlarge)Patented around 1914, the Westinghouse Turnover Toaster was said to have “a very attractive appearance.” It was made out of pressed sheet steel and finished in highly polished nickel. The toast could be turned without danger of burning the fingers, by means of an insulated knob. The
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A Suitable Gift for Everyone?