I am a tea-drinker to the core. Coffee is just not my thing. I have one-night stands with it on the weekend, but I’m more or less in a committed relationship with tea.
So, I started out drinking the weak tea stuff – Lipton,
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Author Archives: Mel
August 13, 2010
The Great British Tea Taste-Off
September 3, 2009
I ♥ Inari
A couple weeks back I got a new car. My beloved 1984 chocolate brown volvo (aka “Dr. Chocolate”,
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April 11, 2008
Fridgin’ Out: How We Eat in PortsMOUTH
This is my first post since moving to Portsmouth, NH and I owed it to Kay-o-ko to post my fridge contents. The contents are a little meager. I think I ate salad, miso soup and inari all week which was actually totally fine with me. Some of you know how much I love inari-san. So here it
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December 29, 2007
I need a bigger kitchen/chocolate OD
So, I have a couple of weeks off of work finally and I’ve been sitting on my ass for the last week watching a Twin Peaks marathon on DVD, playing with my new Nintendo DS and eating a bunch of mochi every morning. Don’t even ask me what day it is. Kayoko, who is kind of doing the same,
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November 9, 2007
PG Tips, My Wake-Me-Up Tea
I don’t drink a lot of caffeine and one of the things people notice about me right of the bat (besides that I’m some weird mix of races they can’t quite put their finger on and I have a tray full of
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October 30, 2007
3 days of Rickshaw Dumpling
(sorry for the really bad cell phone pics and sorry, Kayoko, this took me 2 months to finally post)
Back in AUGUST, I took the most boring class ever for 3 days straight – my instructor wore a piano tie on the first day. Rickshaw Dumpling was
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August 13, 2007
My Half-Eaten Birthday Cake
When I was a kid, my Mom always got me awesome birthday cakes from a woman-baker who lived in a little woodsy gingerbread house in the middle of a NH forest. She could make anything you wanted – Cookie Monster, Gizmo, E.T., She-Ra, Jem…whatever was totally
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July 12, 2007
Boi to Go (Vietnamese) in Midtown
So, Kayoko was supposed to come with me today to try Boi to Go (Boi’s take-out only outpost, on 2nd bet. 42 and 43), but she’s suffering from some mad JS-BS-OMG-WTF lately and needed to take a breather,
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July 9, 2007
The Vibe Collection Avocado Slicer
I picked up this avocado slicer at Target last week as a gift for Carlos, Japan Society Avocado Lover. I’m going to make him try it at lunch today and I’ll share the results. Stay tuned!
