22 June 2004
Mary Kate Anorexic?
I like how this was deemed breaking news. I like even more how we're going to be experiencing this drama first hand next year. Ah, NYU, how I love you.
Seriously, though, at first when I was trying to compare her to her sister, I couldn't tell a difference. All actresses in Hollywood these days appear to be starving. Sometimes, I really just want to slap them and force feed them at the same time. If you've got the money to spend on the best food around, why waste your opportunities and starve away? Is it really worth it?
Speaking of good food... oh yes, you know what's coming next. It's Restaurant Week here in the Big Apple so of course, you know me, I had to go and start making reservations straight away.
First, I called Aquavit, which was rated very highly in Zagat's and managed to make a reservation for next Friday. Apparently everyone wants Scandinavian food with a two story waterfall.
Next, I gave Union Pacific a ring and barely managed to make a reservation. Luckily, they're extending their offer to Labor Day so I'm heading there July 7.
Well, at this point, Mike (my coworker and fellow Restaurant Week conspirator) and I were getting frustrated. We wanted good food, dammit, and we wanted it NOW. So I called Blue Water Grill and scored one for 6:15 tonight.
Don't you want to be tantalized with the descriptions of delicious food we had? Oh, you know you do. Mike started off with the Chilean sea bass maki roll, while I chose the golden tomato gazpacho. I'd read about gazpacho in one of my favorite magazines, you see, and the writer made it sound like without gazpacho, summer was nothing. Well, it didn't exactly live up to the ideal I had in my head, but the guacamole was delish. For main entrees, I got the pan seared black bass which literally made me cry after I took one bite. Mike ate the corvina, which both of us had no idea what it was until it came. Apparently, it's a type of fish. Dessert, though, dessert was the highlight...
Clafouti. Yeah, I don't know what that means, but apparently it means really really delicious berry jam and sorbet and tart thing. Oh God.
Suffice to say, we were both very happy after. The atmosphere of the restaurant was lovely as well, though it was sometimes hard to see the food. We ate in the downstairs jazz dining room, which, you guessed it, had live jazz.
I'll never understand how jazz works--constant improvisation on the same sort of theme... I suppose it's like improvising for anything in life.
I like how this was deemed breaking news. I like even more how we're going to be experiencing this drama first hand next year. Ah, NYU, how I love you.
Seriously, though, at first when I was trying to compare her to her sister, I couldn't tell a difference. All actresses in Hollywood these days appear to be starving. Sometimes, I really just want to slap them and force feed them at the same time. If you've got the money to spend on the best food around, why waste your opportunities and starve away? Is it really worth it?
Speaking of good food... oh yes, you know what's coming next. It's Restaurant Week here in the Big Apple so of course, you know me, I had to go and start making reservations straight away.
First, I called Aquavit, which was rated very highly in Zagat's and managed to make a reservation for next Friday. Apparently everyone wants Scandinavian food with a two story waterfall.
Next, I gave Union Pacific a ring and barely managed to make a reservation. Luckily, they're extending their offer to Labor Day so I'm heading there July 7.
Well, at this point, Mike (my coworker and fellow Restaurant Week conspirator) and I were getting frustrated. We wanted good food, dammit, and we wanted it NOW. So I called Blue Water Grill and scored one for 6:15 tonight.
Don't you want to be tantalized with the descriptions of delicious food we had? Oh, you know you do. Mike started off with the Chilean sea bass maki roll, while I chose the golden tomato gazpacho. I'd read about gazpacho in one of my favorite magazines, you see, and the writer made it sound like without gazpacho, summer was nothing. Well, it didn't exactly live up to the ideal I had in my head, but the guacamole was delish. For main entrees, I got the pan seared black bass which literally made me cry after I took one bite. Mike ate the corvina, which both of us had no idea what it was until it came. Apparently, it's a type of fish. Dessert, though, dessert was the highlight...
Clafouti. Yeah, I don't know what that means, but apparently it means really really delicious berry jam and sorbet and tart thing. Oh God.
Suffice to say, we were both very happy after. The atmosphere of the restaurant was lovely as well, though it was sometimes hard to see the food. We ate in the downstairs jazz dining room, which, you guessed it, had live jazz.
I'll never understand how jazz works--constant improvisation on the same sort of theme... I suppose it's like improvising for anything in life.
Dizamn girl, those are impossible to get! What did you do to get those? Maybe I don't want to know...
Hmm, Clafoutis...so good. Okay, well, I guess I never really had clafoutis store-bought or in a restaurant, but suffice it to say the one I made for a French class presentation in high school was pretty damn good (if I do say so myself). Of course, it was a bit on the watery side, but I do understand where you're coming from. It's a really light dessert compared to, oh let's say for example, chocolate cheesecake. I'm not sure if clafoutis would be ruined by ice cream, but I can't imagine why it would...the creaminess of ice cream with the sweet/tart berries and the delicious tart itself. Boy do I envy you!
I read about Mary Kate in some girly magazine. yeah it's crazy!! They rarely showed pictures of her from behind or something because of her extremely bony back but yeah they're both so skinny! GOSH! What's Restaurant Week? Is that like a national declared week where you have to eat out at fancy places with live jazz which by the way is really cool. Jazz. Very hip! Nice layout it's simple but very cute
-Karla
-Karla
# posted by : 3:00 PM
Esther/Sam: yeah it was so good.. I think it was because it wasn't ice cream necessarily but sorbet, which always works better with berries I think. And especially with the clafouti. Haha, you are such a baking genius!
Karla: Welcome and thank you for the compliment! :) They really are skinny.. yugh it makes me sick looking at their photos. And I'll have to see them round school.. Hehe.. I wish we had a national week like that. No, it's a New York thing where a lot of fancy restaurants lower prices so the common people can eat like kings too. New York in the summer is great; we do have live jazz in Central Park and everything. Where are you from? Maybe your state/country has a week like this too..
Melanie: I can't believe it! I gave that beyotch everything I had.. and you get in with a BJ? Come on!
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Karla: Welcome and thank you for the compliment! :) They really are skinny.. yugh it makes me sick looking at their photos. And I'll have to see them round school.. Hehe.. I wish we had a national week like that. No, it's a New York thing where a lot of fancy restaurants lower prices so the common people can eat like kings too. New York in the summer is great; we do have live jazz in Central Park and everything. Where are you from? Maybe your state/country has a week like this too..
Melanie: I can't believe it! I gave that beyotch everything I had.. and you get in with a BJ? Come on!