June 2010

  • Make Your Own Gyros

    By lisala on 6/30/10 2:22pm
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    Once you've made tzatziki, it's pretty much a given that you're going to start thinking about making your own gyros. For those of you thus far unfamiliar with the gyros, it's a Greek "fast food" sort of dish. The name refers to the large turning spit containing a roast; (gyros is cognate with Modern English gyrate, to turn). Slices of the moist-but-crispy meat are combined with tazatziki, Greek yogurt-dill-and-cucumber sauce, on a pita. Other ingredients, like tomato, or feta, or lettuce or even pepper, salt, and paprika, are optional. In Greece gyros are common fare at small cafes and street carts.

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  • What Type of Wedding Meal Suits You?

    By sparklyscotty on 6/29/10 4:38am
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    The wedding reception is a time for the bride, groom and guests to mingle and unwindafter the ceremony is finally over and the knot has been tied. Of course, socializingcan never be properly done without the right assortment of food and beverages, which

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  • Starbucks Doubleshot Energy Drink

    By erika on 6/20/10 1:20pm
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    I have to admit, I was pretty skeptical about the Doubleshot energy drink.  I imagined it being something like that wretched coffee flavored cola they came out with a few years ago, Coke Black.  OH GOD IT WAS AWFUL.  It was literally Coke with the flavor of coffee added.  VERY BAD.


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  • Big Cheap Food: Mesh Sack of Potatoes

    By erika on 6/14/10 8:03pm
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    Have you ever actually priced out the cost of those plastic mesh sacks of potatoes?  They  usually end up all stacked together in the farthest corner of the produce department, somewhere near the onions and yams.  The sacks don't look very appealing, particularly not compared to the delicious bins of loose potatoes.  But check out those prices!


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  • Rudy's Pizzeria Bellingham, WA

    By lisala on 6/8/10 10:36am
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    1232 North State Street
    Bellingham, WA 98225-5016
    (360) 647-7547

    Rudy's is a bit of an institution in this coastal Western Washington college town. It's next to a beer-bar called the Up and Up. The Up and Up features an extraordinary array of beers on tap, and (a requirement for beer bars in college towns) cheap beer by the pitcher. People would get their beer at the Up and Up and then duck next door to Rudy's to order a pizza. You'd have a fun evening with a bunch of friends, and if you split the tab, beer and pizza for very little money. A few years ago the owner of Rudy's bought the Up and Up, so now you'll see a lot of back and forth traffic between the two places.

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