Archive for March 2008
It’s fast Sunday for our congregation - so naturally I feel like blogging about food.
Have you ever had challah? If not, you need to find some somewhere and try it out. It is a wonderful, special kind of braided bread that is made for the Jewish sabbath.
A friend recently told me about the famous Zadies bakery that makes some of the best challah you can find here in New York. Zadie’s bakery is located in New Jersey but they send their products into Manhattan and perhaps even all over the United States (I’ll have to check on that a little bit - but that’s what I heard).
I brought home two loaves of Zadies whole wheat challah and we both thought it is some of the most delicious bread we’ve ever tasted. Here’s what the label looks like:
And here’s what’s left of one loaf, just so you can see a little bit what it looks like:
Honestly, I think just about anyone who tries this will be hooked on it. You will have to look for it in stores on Thursdays or Fridays because, as I said earlier, challah is specially made for the Jewish sabbath.
Besides bread, Zadies Bakery also makes pies, strudel and other desserts - a number of which involve a very good chocolate. It’s going to be fun trying them out.
I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and am trying out various things to see what changes have been made.
One thing I like right away is that it provides the option to automatically upgrade a plugin (instead of having to download the plugin and ftp it to the right directory). It works pretty much immediately which is much more convenient. I’d like to see a similar process created for themes - so that I could try out new themes without having to manually upload/download files. I’m using a theme that was created for a previous version of WordPress - so I imagine it will be time to upgrade to a different theme. I’ll be looking at the possibilities and hopefully the right thing will pop up.
I’ll have to get used to the new interface. It’s more colorful and in some ways seems ‘busier’ in its appearance. I liked the old simple blue color scheme - something others occasionally complained about. My gut instinct is that the interface will go through more (substantial) changes and tweaks before it’s in the right place. Still, the interface is new to me and as I get acclimated to it better I may find reasons to like what has been put together.
That’s all I have for now in response to the new version of WordPress. I may have additional comments later.
In our family, the Star Wars indoctrination begins early.
As you can see in the picture below, my niece embraces the dark side of the force. She is the new Sith apprentice to her brother, the dark lord, Ethan Sidious.
The addition of the pink skirt to the Vader uniform only makes it that much more terrifying.
[This picture was appropriated (stolen) from my sister's blog]
A week ago we went to Chinatown to pick up some dumplings.
There is one particular street where we are used to seeing stores selling counterfeit knock-offs of expensive hand bags. Someone must have decided to crack down on these guys. Instead of active businesses we saw a lot of closed doors with bright-colored signs affixed to them:
While in the grocery store we noticed they had jars of dried abalone selling for unusually high prices:
I’m wondering how dried abalone is prepared and eaten. Can you just fish one out of a jar and eat it? Does it get ground up and put into soup? I could only guess. Regardless, it’s going to cost you.
