Archive for the ‘food’ Category
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
We’ve been trying to get Aviva to have a variety of spices and ethnicities in her diet, as she continues to explore the world of solid foods. Last week, we took her for Ethiopian (Queen Sheba), which she really enjoyed – especially eating the spongy injera bread, but also the veggies – they are pureed similar to baby food after all, so it works well.
Looking for another good food for “eat with hands” and pureed consistency, we ventured over to Cedar’s on Brooklyn today for some Indian food. She loved this one – sharing our full meal, she went to town on the Naan, Channa Massala with Paneer (chickpea simmered in spices with paneer), and Dal Maharani (lentil in spices). Pictures, as always, tell the full story – including watching Aviva get messier and messier as she eats; not an uncommon occurrence, of course.
BTW, for a great read about feeding babys/toddlers the various culinary delights of Seattle, I highly recommend reading Hungry Monkey by Matthew Amster-Burton. Joelle and I loved this book, and it’s given me lots of great ideas.
Tags:aviva, chickpea, dining, food, indian, injera bread, queen sheba, spices, veggies
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
As a last minute fourth of July trip, we decided to take a quick trip down to San Francisco to see a couple of friends, get out of town, and see how Aviva did while traveling. Mission accomplished – she was quite the traveler – slept the entire plane ride down (we got lucky and had an empty seat next to us, so we were able to utilize the car seat), and most of the way back home (on Joelle’s lap). She also got to experience her first taxi-ride, train-ride, shuttle-van-ride, and bus-ride – quite a public transportation guru at such a young age!
Pictures, as usual:
Tags:aviva, bus, california, san francisco, taxi, transportation
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
A couple of updates from the real world, many through the blogosphere.
- We spent time this weekend hanging out with our friends Mike and Elisabeth (and their son, Rudy). It actually was really great seeing them, and it was great to get a chance to have Molly hang out with Rudy; as any amount of training and getting her comfortable around babys will make our lives easier once Hobey is born. (and for the record, Molly’s not ferocious!)
- Congratulations to Carrie and Josh on the birth of their beautiful daughter – Ayelet Nomi Hearshen. The baby naming ceremony on Sunday was wonderful, and a great testament to the love you have for your new baby girl.
- A few weeks late, but congratulations to Aaron and Julie on the birth of Eytan Henry – we can’t wait to meet him when we are next in DC (or overlap in Detroit).
- Stephanie started blogging on the FidLorb life up in Lynnwood – welcome to the crowd! Abe has also been blogging, on a great foodie idea – there’s a tremendous amount of restaurants up on Hwy 99 (also known as Aurora) by them, some sketchy, but theoretically, some good – so their goal is to eat at all of them, and write up the experience. (in fact, we joined them for one: Spartas Pizza)
- On a completely unrelated note: Seahawks and Lions and Michigan and U-W – wow, the football teams I like are awful. Combined record: 5-30. Not a fun year on the football side.
Tags:babys, blog, food, Molly, seahawks
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
As Halloween approaches this year (conveniently on Shabbat, so we’ll be home having dinner when all the kids come a knockin’ on the door), I’ve been sick for a few days. On Sunday however, for a couple of hours at least (downturn again today, unfortunately), I started feeling a little better, so we took a quick jaunt out to the Craven Farm in Everett to do some pumpkin picking and drink some cider (however, no cider donuts to be found – damn those things were good in Michigan!)
Pictures (as always, click on the pictures for larger versions)
Is that a pumpkin in your stomach, or what you’ll look like come early next year? |
Little Hobey is about this big right now! |
Thankfully, the ultrasound shows Little Hobey to be a person, not a pumpkin! |
Riding the hay ride with Stephanie Lorber (née Fidler) |
Tonight, we decided to get a head start on carving – as it’s election season, we’re showing our support via the patterns up at yeswecarve.com/
(and yes, for Friday night, we’ll use Shabbat candles and make the pumpkins our candlesticks…)
Tags:barack obama, halloween, obama, pregnancy, shabbat
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
I’ve been told (by an amazing amount of people – didn’t know so many people read regularly) I haven’t been blogging enough, which is true – for some reason, it was a lot easier to blog when I was stuck at home with the back situation. But, I do have a lot pictures to post, so lets get started with a quick post, more to come in the next day or so.
There’s quite a few boutique-style dog stores in Seattle; apparently, dogs like desserts just as much as humans do – or so they want you to believe. While we’ve tried our best to not get sucked in, occasionally (i.e. twice since we’ve adopted her) things are just too cute, and it’s hard to say no. This was the case one evening last month while we were downtown, and walked by the
Three Dogs Bakery. They sell human-like desserts for dogs, and I just couldn’t pass up the doggie cupcake – i.e. a pupcake. They told us that technically, we could eat it, but it’s made without sugar, butter, or chocolate, and the texture would taste funny. We decided not to try it, but Molly sure liked it!
Video as always:
Tags:dog, Molly, seattle, video
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
While most of the time has been spent laying flat, reading, and watching TV, there has been a few activities over the past few weeks…
And yes, you can also call this post: Aaron is clearing out his camera from old pictures!
(As always, click on the pictures for larger versions)
- We’ve been wanting to get a fence put into the front yard – it makes the outside of the house enclosed, so if we are BBQing, doing yard work, or just reading and enjoying outside, Molly can now be with us. So we hired some folks (clearly, I couldn’t do it myself, with or without the back condition) to put in our cliche white picket fence – very white indeed until it starts raining again!
- Joelle finally found planters she likes, and put them out on the front porch:
- Molly bought me a book on Macaroni and Cheese for Father’s Day, so of course, I immediately wanted Joelle and my mother to make me one of the dishes – asparagus macaroni gratin. Fantastic, albeit a little heavy, was the universal agreement. Perhaps better as a side dish so you don’t try to eat too much of it.
- Got a Get Well Soon cookie from some really nice friends – overnighted from New Jersey, OU-certified and everything:
- My mother bought Molly a necklace thing from the Edmonds Art Fair (she went with my sister). I am not one to know these things, but everyone commented on how pretty she was with it on – on her end, at least she didn’t mind it the one time she wore it!
Tags:back surgery, dog, fence, housing, macaroni and cheese, Molly, recovery, seattle
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
I was going to put together some posts on the issues with the Rubashkin Kosher Meat processing plant (and why we’re boycotting), but my friend John has put together a couple great posts already – might as well just link to them:
Thankfully, Trader Joe’s has flipped to Empire Kosher only, at least the one by me, which isn’t tied into this.
Tags:boycott, food, kosher, rubashkin
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Greg, Joelle, Shay (woof!), Molly (woof!) and I spent some quality time at the dog park on Saturday – and then we got hungry for dinner. We spent a bit of time researching where to eat that would allow dogs to sit with us (since we had the dogs with us, and it was so hot out, we didn’t want to leave them in the car). We ended up back at Norm’s, the only place we know of that allows dogs both inside and out. Luckily, we were able to get an outdoor spot, so both us and the pooches were happy with the choice.
Rather than always going back there, I spent some time looking up additional places around Seattle that are dog-friendly. Found a couple of a articles with good links
- www.chowhound.com/topics/520235 – recommends Norm’s, the Islander, Tutta Bella, and Volunteer Park Cafe (so far, more likely coming). (Note: Broksonic, who replied, is me – I use that name on some sites. I think it was the brand of a TV I had a while ago, or something like that – I’ve been using it forever)
- community.livejournal.com/seattle/5202948.html – recommends White Horse Trading Company, Norm’s, Wayword Coffeehouse, C+P Coffee, Lava Lounge, Tin Hat, Stumbling Monk, Summit Public House, Edmonds The Dining Dog Cafe & Bakery. But then digresses into arguments over dogs and food, also links to DogFriendly’s and Citysearches list, but I called a few of the places on there – I wouldn’t trust those lists.
Good to have options!
Tags:car, dog, dog dining, dog park, dogs, food, seattle
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