Archive for April, 2008
I know it sounds too good to be true, especially because everyone seems so bummed about the economy, housing market, gas prices, and the problem of “big corn.” However, tomorrow rejoice! Stop by your local Baskin-Robbins between 5pm and 10pm and you can get a single-scoop cone for only .31¢ Awesome!
The ice cream event is to honor America’s firefighters. How that corresponds with cheap ice cream, I’m not entirely sure. But I’m not asking any questions.
You can read more about it (and verify it’s true) here.
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Hi there. So let’s get a show of hands. Who is browsing the internet right now using Internet Explorer 6? Anyone? Well if you aren’t sure, I’ve devised a little test. This website is supposed to look like the picture above. I know crazy. It looks good right? If The Little Dish doesn’t look this way in your browser it means that you are using Internet Explorer 6. If the picture matches what you are seeing on your monitor then you can disregard the rest of this. IE6 is evil and from a web designer’s standpoint, it’s the bane of their existence. I don’t really want to get into the why, but basically it is a broken and an outdated program. It makes beautiful websites that are supposed to look like the picture above, look like what you are seeing now. Basically it’s the only browser out there that fails to render websites correctly and Microsoft actually has a newer version for you anyway.
So, I’m offering you some solutions so you can read The Little Dish in the manner that we intended. If you want to stick with IE then go and get IE7. Follow that link and choose your operating system and install. Everything will be the same. It’s just like IE6 but prettier and better suited for the internet. Some other alternatives are Firefox or Safari. Both are beautiful programs and superior browsers so your internet experience will be greatly improved. So please, heed my advice and update to IE7 or move to Safari or Firefox. I thank you ahead of time and will check back next week to see who’s been listening. Now go get Frisky.
Leave me a comment if you have any questions, I’d be happy to help. We just want your experience here to be enjoyable.
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So I’ve been waiting with anticipation for this day since we decided to participate in April’s
Sugar High Friday hosted by
Le Petite Boulangette. On Monday, we posted our contribution to the “Asian Sweet Invasion” themed event:
Japanese Matcha Green Tea Crème Brulée. Today, in the
Sugar High Friday Roundup, we got take a look at the rest of the entries.
I am so impressed with the creativity and talent displayed in the other blogs’ recipes! One of my favorites is Not Quite Nigella’s adorable Panda Sesame, Vanilla & Green Tea Cupcakes. So cute. I also really liked the killer looking tapioca milkshakes from Addicted Sweet Tooth. I am a big fan of boba tea and the thought of making a tapioca drink myself never occurred to me. It’s ridiculous to choose favorites though because there were so many fun ideas. I enjoyed the process of pondering which dish to create and then seeing what other people came up with. Matcha ended up being really popular ingredient and appears in a lot of the other recipes. There was even another crème brulée contribution from Asparagus Thin! Guess we were thinking along the same lines. Their entry though, with kabocha winter squash and Chinese five spice, was definitely a walk on the more adventurous side.
Was a fun little project; bravo to everyone who participated. We’ll definitely be back in May! 
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So two weeks ago, the little dish “staff” attended a cooking class at the Central Market off Lovers Lane in Dallas. It was the first cooking class that either of us had been to and the experience turned out to be an awesome one. Basically, now we want to go every weekend.
If you are unfamiliar with their classes, they usually range from $50-$70 dollars per person and are all themed to a specific culinary adventure. Our evening was a celebration of fresh herbs. We cooked a herb-encrusted beef tenderloin, herb and parmesan risotto, a vegetable casserole (ratatouille!!), a spring salad with a delicious vinaigrette, and for desert a rosemary bundt cake. Everything was delicious, but by far our favorite was the ratatouille. It was simple to make, and never has the combination of tomatoes, zucchini and fennel ever tasted so good. Overall it was a fabulous time and I couldn’t recommend it more. We met some super nice people and our instructor for the evening was a delight as well.
So, as a service to our readers we would like to inform you of an upcoming cooking class that you shouldn’t miss. Lidia Bastianich and Joe Bastianich, mother and son super Italian cooking combo, will be offering a class at Central Market, along with a book signing on May 2 at the Dallas location. I’ve watched Lidia’s various cooking shows on PBS (the original ‘Food Network’) for some time now and she always makes the most authentic and delicious Italian dishes around. Don’t miss this event, it should be a treat and you might even catch the little dish in attendance.
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My cute friend Anna showed me this site today which I immediately fell in love with because it a.) helps feed the poor and b.) increases your vocabulary skills.
The idea behind Free Rice is so simple. All you have to do is play the site’s vocabulary game. For every word you get right, they will donate 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program. It’s a little rice, but it all adds up. According to their site, Free Rice has already donated enough food to feed over 20,000 Myanmar refugees.
So how long would you have to play to earn one cup of rice? Well, according to the all-knowing WikiAnswers, there’s about 7,200 grains of rice in one cup. My average of questions answered per minute (at a rushed pace) was about 15. So at that rate, in about 24 minutes of killing time at work, you’ve donated one cup 
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This month we’re really proud to participate in Sugar High Friday for the first time! If you’re unfamiliar with the idea, here’s a summary in the words of its founder, Domestic Goddess:
It’s your best excuse to make something sweet and different, at least once a month. And to do it with tons of other people from around the world. It occurs during the last week of every month, entries due on the Monday and the round-up posted on the Friday (the Sugar High Friday that is!). The rules and regulations – really, anything goes! Just make your favourite dessert that revolves around or highlights the specified ingredient, which is always something different every month.
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meats
Tags: Add new tag, chicken salad, kalamata olives, parmesan dressing, pasta salad, pesto, pinenuts, Salad, tuna, tuna salad
April 18, 2008
Calling this dish a “salad” seems a little like cheating. Yes, the cornucopia of ingredients is laid upon a bed of spring mixed greens. And yes, there are three types of salads involved: tuna, chicken, and pasta. However, this is hardly the kind of salad I think my trainer was talking about. No matter. The calorie splurge is definitely worth it. The three salads are seriously delicious. The chicken salad was creamy and very flavorful without being mayonnaisey.
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So, this isn’t a dish or recipe review, but we recently had a food adventure so lovely it would be a shame not to share it… I love Unwrapped. Watching one (or two) episodes before bedtime has become nearly a ritual. There are some wonderful subtleties of the show that are quite amusing, but the [...]
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Back to back pancake posts…I know, it’s like pancake week or something. Our last post was about great pancakes, the kind you try and replicate at home. These pancakes, not so much. I really wanted to love these pancakes at Cliff Cafe in Oak Cliff. So much of them was so right. The warm blueberry [...]
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So I’m more of a French Toast kind of guy. In the coming months I’m going to go on a ‘Best French Toast’ in Dallas tirade, so keep your eye out. My affinity towards the Toast stems from my earlier years. When I was a kid, my family and I would always go out to eat every Sunday after church and I would always get french toast for my meal. I loved it. So growing up, pancakes were never really on my radar, or my plate. I mean, my mother would make them every so often, but If I could do anything about it, it was gonna be french toast.
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