Best Chocolate Cake Ever

This stuff is heavenly - the Chocolate Decadence Cake @ Corner Bakery Cafe. I frequent the location on Piedmont Road several times a year - just for the cake. And yesterday's was with my kids to get it for Mother's Day!!!

Famous Pub Crawling: Gollem, Amsterdam

Have you seen the Heineken ad where the wife is showing her friends the shoe closet and they hear the husband and his friends screaming & yelling - turns out the husband has a Heineken beer closet?

Well I felt the same joy when I stepped into Gollem in Amsterdam which I was visiting ago earlier this month for IBC... a very small pub by any standards BUT what a selection. Went their twice and second time took the trouble of taking my 20D with me.

Across the street from Gollem was a shop selling those beers to take home .... the thought did cross my mind to bring some across the pond but ...






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Is Food Packaging Important?

I have discovered the joy of shopping for groceries and wine @ Trader's Joe - after hearing about it for so many years we finally made the trip. The first trip resulted in lot of food shopping as a discovery process. And the second trip a few weeks back to the store on Peachtree Parkway resulted in tons of wine shopping for the upcoming party we had :-)

The interesting thing about shopping at a place like Trader's Joe is that it turns the mundane, boring task of grocery shopping into an experience. Like this Chopped Basil:



I loved the packaging - each serving to be used for cooking packaged in their individual cubes!

A Simple Twist to the Pav Bhaji

I am sort of a foodie, actually all of us in my family are! My wife 

pulled a new simple but elegant twist on the Pav Bhaji. We have not 

been able to find the right "Pav" - bread that goes with Bhaji. Recently we discovered breads at Walmart and ended up starting to have what I would say is the Desi Sub - BhajiSub. I will call it the JiSub!