winter weight...

the winter is an amazing chance to appreciate your home environment...cause you tend to be stuck indoors, so you better love the ones your're with, hahahha.
and i can truly say I DO.

my roomie treated to house to some homemade teriyaki.





then my cousin made me ricotta pancakes with a lemon curd sauce.

family affair...

the other day i took the opportunity to decorated for halloween and made a stew for dinner.


my brother came over to the house have a music writing session with our younger cousin.



the stew was total experiment...had no idea what i was doing. lets just say it wasnt horrible. hahhaha

top shelf...

had the opportunity to have dinner at this great restaurant Back Forty while i was in Manhattan. their heirloom tomatoes were sweetest i ever tasted. having grown up on the new jersey beach line...thats saying something.




the next day, i got invited to taste some wine. tables and tables of expensive reds, whites and even champagne for me to try. so there i was...booklet in hand, and i dug in HAHA.





at a tasting, you are supposed to spit out the wine after you sip it. uuuhhh, yeah? i know thats the proper thing and all...but spitting into a bucket on a crowded table wasnt working for me. i decided the only appropriate thing is to get a buzz HAHA. one was priced at a few thousand but my favorite was Chateauneuf-Du Pape Tres VV 2005 at $449 a bottle.




a mirror/self portrait?? ...couldn't resist!!

whats cookin....

a random neighborly visit turned into a samosa-sensation! i played the role of supportive yet apprehensive taste-tester. i guess the logic was...'if elizabeth likes it, it must be good!' this may have been a jab at my less than sophisticated palette.....but i will chose to ignore it. hahahaha

thanks Sarg!

gobble gobble...

fakesgiving-


realsgiving-

somethin' to chew on...