Monthly Archives: February 2011

Tossed: Garden Fresh Salads

By Miss Yunks | Published: February 25, 2011

Timing is everything. Earlier this week, Tossed‘s PR rep contacted me to ask if I was interested in trying their products and blogging about them. Tossed, a mostly salad restaurant, recently opened in the Prudential Center in Boston’s Back Bay. Coincidentally, I had plans to have dinner with A + B in Back Bay and [...]

Posted in Boston, Cheap Eats, Reviews | Tagged Back Bay, boston, fresh, salads, Tossed | 8 Comments

Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

By Miss Yunks | Published: February 23, 2011

Suddenly the Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookie is popping up everywhere, but it looks like the trend started on Picky Palate. Well, this cookie idea was too simple and delicious for Miss Yunks to not make at her first chance. My KitchenAid is still broken (damn thing still hasn’t fixed itself) so I used store [...]

Posted in Cookies, Dessert, Recipes | Tagged chocolate chip cookie, oreo | 12 Comments

Homemade Potato Gnocchi

By Miss Yunks | Published: February 22, 2011

Gnocchi served as the inspiration for Miss Yunks’s Valentine’s Day dinner. Gnocchi was fresh on the mind from reading menus to pick a restaurant for birthday dinner and from reading about Katie’s homemade gnocchi on The Small Boston Kitchen. There was no doubt gnocchi would be the star of dinner. I used yukon gold potatoes [...]

Posted in Recipes, Vegeterian | Tagged gnocchi, tomato sauce, valentine's day | 8 Comments

Cornflake-Crusted Challah French Toast

By A-Tooch | Published: February 18, 2011

Not to be a sap but… for Valentine’s Day this year, A-Tooch requested “breakfast for dinner” from her BF. He went above and beyond. During our travels to Portland, OR last year, we brunched at the highly-recommended Mother’s Bistro & Bar. I got the crunchy french toast which was out of this world (and way [...]

Posted in Brunch, Recipes | Tagged bacon, breakfast, brunch, cornflakes, french toast, maple syrup, raspberry | 3 Comments

NYC Restaurant Week: Fishtail by David Burke and Bobby Van’s Steakhouse

By A-Tooch | Published: February 17, 2011

A-Tooch loves when restaurant week comes to town. OK, so maybe it is a little over-played. It’s still a great excuse to get out and try some new and otherwise pricey places. This go around I started day one at Fishtail by David Burke, a place I’ve been wanting to try for a while. Let [...]

Posted in Events, NYC, Reviews | 4 Comments

Cafe Luna – Central Square

By Miss Yunks | Published: February 16, 2011

On Miss Yunks’ actual birthday, she enjoyed a fabulous brunch at Cafe Luna with her parents, BF, and BF’s mom. Cafe Luna is a very small (read: 30 seats) restaurant in Central Square in Cambridge that appears as a simple coffee shop from the outside, but from the inside it’s a vivacious cafe with an [...]

Posted in Boston, Brunch, Reviews | Tagged brunch, cafe luna, cambridge, central square | 5 Comments

The Blue Room – Cambridge

By Miss Yunks | Published: February 14, 2011

Miss Yunks did some serious research to pick a restaurant for her birthday dinner. She checked several Cambridge menus and reviews before making a decision. She finally narrowed it down to The Blue Room in Kendall Square. What solidified this choice? The hubbarb squash gnocchi. But I’ll start at the beginning. I don’t have any [...]

Posted in Boston, Reviews | 7 Comments

Gran Gusto – Cambridge

By Miss Yunks | Published: February 10, 2011

This past Friday night, Miss Yunks dined out at a very local to her Cambridge restaurant: Gran Gusto. Gran Gusto is an authentic Italian restaurant with a homemade feel tucked behind an unsuspecting building in North Cambridge, somewhat between Huron Village and Porter Square. My sister and her boyfriend were in town and BF and [...]

Posted in Boston, Italian, Reviews | 8 Comments