Once a year when I take my daughter to a swanky salon to get her back to school haircut, we go out for lunch to The Continental and without fail, we order the Lobster Mac and Cheese. It is made with orzo, gruyère and fontina cheeses, and full of big chunks of lobster, it is so […]

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  • February 7, 2014 - 8:57 am

    mike - this sounds like it would be good!ReplyCancel

    • February 7, 2014 - 11:26 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - It was really yummy!ReplyCancel

  • February 8, 2014 - 10:34 am

    Jennifer Steck - OMG. This sounds fabulous! Is there a way to mail order it? 🙂ReplyCancel

    • February 8, 2014 - 5:25 pm

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Jennifer, you can make this!!ReplyCancel

  • February 9, 2014 - 11:57 pm

    Magical Mystical Mimi - Finally a recipe on line that I have all of the ingredients for! This sounds so delicious I can’t wait to make it! Emailing the link to my daughter-in-law too!
    Thanks for sharing this!ReplyCancel

    • February 10, 2014 - 7:55 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - That’s what I love about this, I always have the ingredients on hand!ReplyCancel

I can’t recall the first time I had an egg cream, but I was too young to question the lack of both egg and cream in this delicious treat. For years, Dave’s on the corner of Canal and Broadway was the place for an authentic NYC egg cream, and I would often stop there on […]

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  • February 5, 2014 - 9:27 pm

    Jennifer Steck - I’ve never heard of an egg cream. I obviously have some new things to learn about and eat…ReplyCancel

I can’t believe this is my first post about dim sum! I have loved dim sum for almost the entire span of my life. When I was in college at NYU my friends and I frequented New York’s nearby Chinatown; my friend Alice and I had lunch at Sam Wo’s every Friday. Once I moved […]

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  • February 3, 2014 - 9:59 am

    Rhonda - Those look Amazing, Nancy! I’ll certainly be trying those out!ReplyCancel

    • February 3, 2014 - 10:16 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - They are so easy!! Hope you like them!ReplyCancel

  • February 3, 2014 - 11:25 am

    Mike - This sounds terrific, Nancy. Oh my gosh now I’m craving Dim Sum! I would love to go to Num Wah. I made my first pot stickers from scratch last year and I was so darn proud! Now I’m hungry 🙂ReplyCancel

  • February 3, 2014 - 2:53 pm

    Haralee - I love dim sum and am going out on Wednesday with a friend for lunch. Shrimp and pork anything. I don’t go for the ‘real’ Chinese delicacies like chicken feet and tripe but give me a sweet pork hum bow and I am in heaven.ReplyCancel

  • February 4, 2014 - 7:45 pm

    John - The marvelous dim sum joints are fast-disappearing from NYC, much like the fast- disappearing Chinese restaurants. Whether they are victims of skyrocketing rents, or the belief that such foods are as unhealthful as it gets, I do not know, but to my fellow NYCers, get to Nom Wah or Ping or your favorite Chinatown dim sum restaurant ASAP. They may not be around for the next Chinese New Year.ReplyCancel

    • February 4, 2014 - 8:26 pm

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Well, I guess I better get back to NYC soon to get some good DS!!ReplyCancel

  • February 5, 2014 - 5:25 am

    The Egg Cream; a Sweet New York Treat » Chefs Last Diet - […] was the place for an authentic NYC egg cream, and I would often stop there on my way to or from Chinatown. I am partial to a chocolate egg cream. I’m not sure exactly when Dave’s closed, but […]ReplyCancel

  • February 10, 2014 - 6:18 pm

    Sarah @ Thank You Honey - Dim Sum is my favorite. We had a fabulous place in Sarasota that still used the carts. Haven’t found one, or looked for one yet in Philly. Any recommendations??ReplyCancel

    • February 10, 2014 - 8:28 pm

      nrlowell@comcast.net - There are a few places in Chinatown, I still like Imperial Inn (very old school, but good), Dim Sum garden has great stuff, but no carts; you order off a menu. To me these are the best. There are a few in South Philly with easier parking, but if you go to Imperial Inn you can get validated parking at the lot on Race betw 9th and 10th.
      Would be happy to meet you for DS sometime!ReplyCancel

  • September 15, 2014 - 6:38 am

    Chinese Pastries » Chefs Last Diet - […] I was well acquainted with the pastries of dim sum, it wasn’t until I moved to Philadelphia where I had such easy access to the bakeries of […]ReplyCancel

In culinary school the longest class we took was a class called Wines and Menus.  It was really two classes, and if you were lucky  (and I was) you had menus in the morning and wines in the afternoon.  We met five days a week, working in small teams to create a plan for a […]

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Butchery is something most of us don’t really think about.  Many of my friends say they don’t enjoy any meat with bones, and I generally attribute this to some degree of squeamishness, and a preference to not think about the animal that is the source of their dinner.  I may be wrong about this, perhaps […]

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  • January 29, 2014 - 8:58 pm

    Michelle Matthews-DeLorge - I’m not saying this to be facetious at all but information like this would really come in handy during the zombie Apocalypse. I’m always thinking about end of the world stuff but seriously, this was very informative and I want to start to try doing this on my own because it’s a really good skill to have.ReplyCancel

    • January 30, 2014 - 9:02 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Thanks, I have been thinking of doing a video of some instructional techniques, but am a bit tech challenged…ReplyCancel

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