Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Organic Valley guarantees the following Cream Cheese products are gluten free:
Cream Cheese, 8 oz. bar
Cream Cheese, 8 oz. tub
Neufchatel, 8 oz. bar
Neufchatel, 8 oz. tub
Artwork and detail from Organic Valley website.
New York Cheesecake recipe link
Junior’s Original link
Streusel-topped Pumpkin Cheesecake link
Gianduia Cheesecake recipe follows below:
Nothing says New York like a good cheesecake. It is a bit of heaven [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Birds, Cats, Dogs, Fish, Interstitial Lung Disease, Lung Disease and Birds, Pets, Rescued Animals, Turtles, Unconditional Love on January 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Photograph of Gypsy by the CitySon Philosopher
Of all the pets we’ve had, Gypsy – named for entertainer, Gypsy Rose Lee - is the most reserved with her love. Perhaps she needs a little vino to losen her inhibitions.
From Brooklyn, New York to Menlo Park, CA, I have enjoyed a lifetime of unconditional love . . . [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Art Pens and Pencils, Ballpoint Pens, Creative Writing, culture, Cursive Writing, Dominican Sisters, folk history, Fountain Pens, Gimbels, Handwriting, Pencils, Pens, Shaeffer Pens, St. Patrick's Elementary School on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Picture from Public Domain Clip Art
“There’s something poetic about grasping a writing instrument and feeling it hit the paper as your thoughts flow through your fingers and pour into words.”Writing Instruments Manufacturers Association
“National Handwriting Day” flitted past my radar, January 23, thanks to an announcement on KDFC by Hoyt Smith. I’d never heard of it before, but it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Celiac Disease, Chinatown NY, culture, folk history, Food, GF Chinese, GF NY Shrimp in Lobster Sauce recipe, GF P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Lobster Cantonese, NY, Oolong Tea, Palo Alto CA, Peet's Coffee and Tea, Recipes, wheat free on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photograph of grocery in Chinatown, Manhattan by Momos via Wikipedia under GNU Free Documentation License
Recommended reading: Chinatown, A Portrait of a Closed Society by Gwen Kinkead
“An ancient Chinese saying goes like this ‘Food is the nearest thing to Heaven’”.
Cooking Secrets of the Oldest Civilizations in the World, The-ChineseFood.com
Soy sauce, which is ubiquitous in Chinese and other Asian cuisines, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Coffee, Peet's Coffee & Tea, NY City, City Never Sleeps, Starbuck's, Mulberry Street, Coffee Drinks, Cup a'Joe, Chock full'o Nuts, Iced Vanilla Latte recipe, culture, folk history, Recipe on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photograph: Mulberry Street, NYC, 1900s via Wikipedia, U.S. Public Domain Picture
New York was dubbed “the city that never sleeps.” One wonders if coffee consumption could have a just a little bit to do with that?
“Coffee’s power changes over time. [Italian composer Gioacchino] Rossini has personally experienced some of these effects as, of course, have I. ‘Coffee,’ Rossini [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Battery Park, beach parties, Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn nostalgia, Brooklyn-Staten Island Ferry, Cannonball Park, Central Park, culture, folk history, Highland Blvd., Manhattan, Parades, Prose Poem, Shore Road, Shotzkins Knishes, Staten Island, Verranzano-Narrows Bridge, Zeppoli on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photograph from New York Public Library Collection
“THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH EVERY DAY,
And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or
pity or love or dread, that object he became,
And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of
the day . . [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baseball, culture, Dodgers, Ebbets Field, folk history, Giants Minor League, Karen Fayeth, Life Happens in Nine Innings, Rumi, San Jose on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Edit Ebbets Field. Brooklyn Public Library Collection.
“Beyond this place of wrong doing and right doing there is a field, I will meet you there.” Rumi
Ebbets field is only a memory and the Dodgers have moved, but the game plays on. Right about now, you just might be missing a day on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brooklyn, Brooklynite, Bushwick, culture, Early TV History, folk history, Honeymooners, Jackie Gleason, Reginald Van Gleason III, The Hustler on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Public Domain Photograph via Wikipedia
“I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.” Jackie Gleason
From his role as Reginald Van Gleason, III to The Hustler to the guest spots he made in his maturity, we loved this guy – Jackie Gleason – who came from a hardscrabble life in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged albino peacock, Behind My Eyes, From Blossoms, Li-Young Lee, New Year 2009, peace, poem, Refugee Poet on January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photograph: Albino Peacock from May (thank you), photographer unknown.
And, thank you to Ann for sharing this poem:
From Blossoms
by Li-Young Lee
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.
From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches [...]
