Archive for October, 2009

If you live in my neighborhood and don’t enjoy the smell of caramelizing onion, let me apologize now, because that aroma will likely overpower everything else in the area for the next several hours. Why? Because I’m making M’Judra. I don’t know if that’s the official name of this Lebonese dish or if this recipe [...]

FUEL
1917 East Passyunk Ave.
fuelphilly.com
215-468-FUEL
*****
Chef/owner Rocco Cima is going to change your vision of healthy food. I stopped in to FUEL – the new everything-under-500-calories cafe on East Passyunk Ave. – for lunch last week and loved every bite.
We started with the salmon canapes, lightly cooked spears of asparagus wrapped in smoked salmon and served [...]

Modern Manners is back after a brief hiatus, which really isn’t such a bad thing. Maybe it’s all the yoga I’ve been doing, but I haven’t been feeling very judgmental lately. Enter my family, who never cease to amaze me in their abilities to utterly disregard everyone but themselves. That’s right, my most recent drunk [...]

I love being surprised and the product I’m about to tell you about really shocked me. Gay-boyfriend (GBF) got us tickets to the Philadelphia Food & Wine Festival last weekend and we had a grand time, indeed. Despite the fact that the cheese part of our wine and cheese seminar was canceled, we enjoyed an [...]

It’s time for my first soup recipe of the season! It’s starting to get chilly and my farmer’s market will soon be departing for the winter so I’m obsessed with finding ways to get the most out of the yummy produce while I can. It was adapted from a Tyler Florence recipe I saw on [...]

Ok, so I bought new towels this weekend for the first time in ten years and I am loving them. These rockin Ralph Lauren towels feel like I imagine the Snuggle bear does.
Shut-up! It is too a valid post!
SPF

I have decided that when we buy a house and I finally get two sinks in my bathroom, I also want one of these next to the toilet:
Yes, that’s a urinal. No, I’m not a tranny.
Until recently, I was able to convince myself those spots on the floor were, as my fiance assured me, just [...]

I’m gonna get in trouble for this post – guaranteed. My sweetie explicitly asked me not to put this on the site because, “People will think I’m a homo-phobe.” But I think he’s pretty busy right now and it won’t come back to bite me for a while. Plus I have nothing interesting to post [...]

East Passyunk Ave.’s own JimmyStyle will host a meet & greet event tonight, 10/7, with local artist Zachariah O’Hora, to celebrate the opening of his new exhibit at the shop. In addition to free drinks & food, tonight’s event features the opportunity to pick up an autographed copy of O’Hora’s latest Blue Q bag, [...]

I am thrilled to report there are now enough fabulous places to dine in our little neighborhood that East Passyunk Ave. (EPA) has garnered its own restaurant week! Brought to you by RestaurantReservations.com, Philly Neighborhood restaurant week will actually be taking place in several local hot spots including Chestnut Hill and Northern Liberties in addition [...]