From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Then she said ‘hi’

by mango on 28 February 2009

in vacation

We began the evening at the Plaza. The Champagne Bar was nice, small, and pretentious. Of course. We each had the Imperial Plaza cocktail and the gross bar nibs (solid butter on the side still) and moved on.
Stopped at Henri Bendel and then went to 21 for another drink. We first got seated next [...]

Tagged as: new york city

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the best chocolate chip cookies

by mango on 19 February 2009

in baking, recipes

For the inaugural cookies of the fortnight post, there’s no recipe more fitting than my favourite chocolate chip cookies. I got this Jacques Torres recipe reference from an article in New York Times on chocolate chip cookies (thanks, Spends2Much!) and I have never looked back. I’ve tweaked it a little here and there [...]

Tagged as: cookie of the fortnight

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alive and kicking!

by mango on 17 February 2009

in housekeeping

since i’m resolute on launching the blog by end of february (actually, february 25th is my deadline), i am unveiling it now!!
considering i’m not fully immersed in coding and databases, i’m quite happy with what’s presented here tonight. i lovingly coded everything from scratch in the wordpress template, no WYSIWIGs to help me :)
things [...]

Tagged as: launch

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