My girlfriend and our friend Genevieve were talking about black and white cookies the other night. They cooked up the idea of "the Great Black and White Cookie Search" which they have posted on the community boards on the website I help run Yehoodi.com. I know that I recently posted about how I am searching…
Category: Food and Drink
Suggest some low-carb, low-sugar snacks!
Lots of people (offline and on) have been very supportive of my diet and healthier living efforts, which is super sweet. Seriously, it has been nearly a painless, stressless process. My one fear is that I will get bored by my food options and slide back into carb and sugar binges. My tough times are…
Rik’s weight loss secret: eat more, exercise more
Over the past three months, I’ve lost somewhere around 10-15 pounds. My doctor is very proud of me, and my girlfriend of five years said the other night that I’ve never looked better. Here’s the Rikomatic two-step plan for getting healthy and losing weight: Eat More Food Exercise More There really isn’t much more to…
Nathan’s Chow Mein Sandwich? WTF?
Cindy, our friends Amy and Megan, and I met up at Coney Island today for some fun and relaxation by the water. Standing on the long, long ordering line at Nathan’s Famous, I spied a very strange food item among the hot dogs, fries, and burgers — Chicken Chow Mein, in both sandwich and bowl…
The Concrete Jungle: a nearly perfect summer dessert
I finally got to try a "Concrete Jungle" from the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park. The delicious concoction is very dense frozen vanilla custard mixed with hot fudge, bananas and peanut butter. Thankfully, Cindy came with me, or I would have eaten an entire one, which would have knocked me out for the evening. …
Why I love New York: Borsch & Congee on the same menu
Here’s the menu from Cindy’s favorite Chinese bakery, Fay Da on Elizabeth in Manhattan’s chinatown. I think it’s fabulous that you can get both Russian borsch soup and pork congee with preserved egg. I love New York.
Mmmmmmilkshakes at The Soda Shop
This is Rikomatic, undercover milkshake inspector, reporting live from The Soda Shop on Chambers Street in Manhattan. Luckily, today they had as their special flavor pistachio, my favorite. The good news is that the milkshakes are so thick that they serve them with extra large straws. This was actually very helpful since the pistachio flavor…
My new favorite ice cream flavor: Swedish Saltlakrits
I love black licorice and foods in general that are black. So when I saw that they had salty licorice ice cream in Sweden, or "saltlakrits" as its called, I had to try it. Definitely not for everyone, but I love it.
Catalonian virtual cooking? WTF?
Ok, I love Catalan cuisine and I love virtual worlds. But I can’t for the life of me figure out why I would go to a virtual world to learn how to cook a Catalonian dish. I received a press release telling me that Manuel Diez, head chef of L’Arrel del Born in Barcelona, will…
No rice = no meal
So Cindy and I are at Elvie’s, a popular filipino restaurant in the East Village, last weekend. We ordered a delightful assortment of pork adobo, chicken in a coconut sauce, and a pork skewer. We only got one portion of rice because I’m cutting back and Cindy doesn’t eat much herself. Our apparent deficit of…