Friday, January 17, 2025

Frooze Balls

Frooze Balls are a quasi-confusing named healthy snack ball from New Zealand (I say confusing because many people think you are supposed to freeze them.  You aren't.  That's just their name.  Don't ask me why.) The balls all use a base of dates, nuts, and coconut.  No refined sugars, no preservatives, yadda yadda.  Vegan, gluten-free, made with clean foods, etc, etc.  The only sugars come from fruit.  Basically, healthy snack...
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Thursday, January 16, 2025

Dominique Ansel Kitchen and Bakery, NYC

Baked goods.  Desserts.  Ice cream.  Some of my all time favorite things, and all signature items at the famous Dominique Ansel establishments in New York.If you lived under a rock in 2013, or didn't pay attention to the baked goods scene, perhaps you missed out on the most famous item produced by Chef Dominique Ansel: the cronut.  Yup, the cronut, the croissant-donut hybrid, that took the country by storm and skyrocketed Dominique Ansel into culinary...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Brenda's Meat & Three

Ask a San Franciscan where to get good southern food, and chances are high that Brenda's name will come up.  Particularly if you are asking about southern brunch.  Brenda's is notorious in the long-lines-at-brunch scene, even given the less than ideal location in the Tenderloin.  But the masses still line up, and although I never lined up myself, I finally got to try it.Brenda's original restaurant was so successful they are now a mini-chain in the Bay...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Chase Sapphire Lounge, Boston Logan

Update Review, January 2025I've only visited the Chase Sapphire lounge in Boston Logan airport once before, exactly a year ago, soon after it first opened.  Since Priority Pass guests are limited to one free entrance per year (worldwide), and they frequently have space restrictions in effect, I just haven't quite had the opportunity before (waiting time was too long, or I had a very short time in airport anyway, seemed like a waste of my only visit).  But...
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