Eat Drink Laugh Love

By google se google

Home >> March, 2008

Sel de la Terre

Posted on: Thursday, March 27th, 2008 in: Dining Out

When:  Thursday, 20 MarchWho:  A whole bunch of us, for our friend Mark’s 40th birthday As I mentioned in my last post, we went to Sel de la Terre last week for restaurant week.  It was our friend Mark’s birthday, so there was a big group of us – 10 people.  We had a great [...]

Restaurant Week!

Posted on: Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 in: Dining Out

Twice a year, Boston participants in Restaurant Week.  A bunch of restaurants offer special menus where dinner is $33.08 and lunch is $20.08 (it changes every year:  last year it was $33.07 and $20.07. Clever, huh?)  We always try to take advantage of it because it a great way to get to restaurants that we [...]

Chocolate Bread Pudding

Posted on: Monday, March 17th, 2008 in: Cooking for friends

After a nice light meal like Beef Bourguignon, bread pudding is just the thing.  I got this recipe from a series of cookbooks from Food & Wine.  It was one of those too good to be true deals where you got a “beautiful cookbook” with a subscription to the magazine.  Unbeknownst to me, I kept [...]

Beef Bourguignon

Posted on: Sunday, March 16th, 2008 in: Cooking for friends

When:  Sunday, 9 March Where: Home Who:  Andreas, Me, Mick & Monique What:  Sauteed Shrimp Pizza, Beef Bourguignon, Chocolate Bread Pudding. My friend Liz gave me this really interesting, in-depth recipe for beef borguignon.  This recipe calls for you to actually blanch bacon, make a herb bouquet, and a beurre manie.  It sounded like a [...]

Cafe D

Posted on: Saturday, March 15th, 2008 in: Dining Out

Andreas and I are members of the Museum of Fine Arts and took advantage of a special open house they had on Tuesday evening.  It was for their Asian, African, and Oceanna exhibits and it was quite interesting. We saw a slide show on bird and flower art that gave us a lot more insight [...]

Going Local

Posted on: Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 in: Uncategorized

As I mentioned in my last post, Andreas and I both finished reading books regarding the state of food in America.  I learned much more than I think I even wanted to mainly because it’s hard to go back to some eating habits that I had knowing what I know now. In some ways, I [...]

Lupa Osteria Romana

Posted on: Monday, March 10th, 2008 in: Dining Out

  When:  Tuesday, 4 March 2008Who:  Andreas & meWhere:  Lupa Osteria Romana, 170 Thompson St, NYC I just finished reading, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.  It is a wonderful book and if you are at all interested in learning about the slow food movement and local, sustainable food movement, this is a great place [...]

Marching into Spring

Posted on: Saturday, March 8th, 2008 in: Eating In.

The folks here at Eat Drink Laugh Love have been busy gallavanting across the Northeast and apologize for the lack of posts!  We are back and boy, do I have some good stuff to talk about.  First a delicious soup for these last days of winter.  The lemon adds a brightness that gives a glimmer [...]