I’m stoked that one of my fave Japanese bakeries,Panya has re-opened again!  Panya has an even larger space now & in addition, they serve hot Japanese style breakfasts & lunch as well as cold foods from Sunrise Market! Their pastries,bread,& crustless style Japanese sandwiches are off the chain! I really thought that Panya closed up shop for good & were down for the eternal count especially when their next door neighbor, the great late night diner style haunt, “Around the Clock” shuttered it’s door. This is great, now I can really enjoy my cold & hot drinks from St. Alps & walk across the street to Panya for dessert or a bento box!  Now, if they can bring back Around the Clock, The Continental, Chick Pea, Underground Kim’s, & Coney Island High, the East village might resemble a shadow of what they once were! In the meantime, enjoy your Strawberry shortcakes & other Shinjuku delicacies in the east village!

Panya @ 8 Stuyvesant St
(between 11th St & 12th St)
New York, NY 10003
(212) 777-1930

Menu

1. Turkey breast
2. Cranberry salad
3. Broccoli
4. Honey mustard

Notes

• Now that it’s turkey season, we’ll enjoy lots and lots of poultry!  This turkey got cooked yesterday with advice from pecanbread.com
• Honey mustard is really just a mix of honey and SCD mustard.  Great, all-purpose dip!
• Cranberry recipe- I modified from allrecipes.com Cranberry Relish II
  SUBMITTED BY: Cody Taylor  What I mean by modify is- look at the ingredient list, throw in all the ingredients in random quantities (until it tastes good), and substitute honey for sugar*.  Blended this on low in my Vita-Mix, cuz I like it chunky!

Menu

1. Turkey
2. Celery
3. Oranges
4. Grapes

Menu

1. Salad with cilantro
2. Carrot curls
3. Honey mustard dressing
4. Mushrooms
5. Grapes

Half Tiffin…Half Bento Box…All Green. These Planet Lunchbox stainless steel cases would totally make you the hippest kid in the lunchroom. They come with little containers so you can pack virtually anything in them, are dishwasher safe and made form recyclable material. I would love to open up this lunchbox every day!

Menu

1. Cashews
2. Apple & Pear salad
3. Raisins
4. Honey

Menu

1. Proscuitto wraps with Bubbies
2. Apple cubes
3. Brie
4. Cherry & Raisin combo

Sourcing

Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s

Menu

1. Roast beef & provolone wraps
2. Jello with bananas
3. Celery with honey and peanut butter dip
4. Raisins

Sourcing

• Roast beef (Applegate Farms, Gluten Free) -Whole Foods
• Provolone slices- Whole Foods
• Gelatin, white grape juice, bananas, celery- Whole Foods
• Raisins, peanut butter, honey- Trader Joe’s

Menu

1. Tabbouleh Salad
2. Cheese Cubes
3. Carrot Sticks
4. Lettuce

Sourcing

• The key to make this tabbouleh SCD is to substitute chopped walnuts for the bulghar wheat.  After processing the walnuts in my Vitamix, I added chopped parsley, scallions, tomato, olive oil, lemon juice and salt.  Adjust seasonings to your taste.
  

Menu

1. Yogurt with blueberries
2. Hard-boiled egg
3. Honey stick
4. Carrots
5. Dill pickles wrapped with smoked gouda

Menu

1. Persimmon Almond Muffins
2. Kiwi
3. Flattened Banana
4. Cheddar Cheese Cubes

Menu

1. Dill Pickles wrapped in Muenster
2. Apples with cinnamon
3. Grapes
4. Orange Slices

Menu

1. Jello with blueberries
2. Chicken strips
3. tomato slices
4. Blood orange slices

Menu

1. Carrot Hazelnut Muffins
2. Orange Slices
3. Carrot Stix
4. Cashew and Currant Mix

Sourcing

• Muffin Recipe variation of “Basic Muffin Recipe” from Breaking the Vicious Cycle by Elaine Gottschall

Menu

1. Yogurt with blueberries & honey
2. Cheddar cheese cubes
3. Pepitas
4. Carrots
5. Honey stick

Sourcing

• yogurt- homemade with 2% organic milk and Yogourmet starter from Whole Foods
• Cheese, Pepitas, Carrots- Whole Foods
• Honey stick- Target
• Blueberries- MI farmers market (froze during summer)

MammaRachel’s Etsy Shop is happy to announce the addition of a few unique fun and cute vintage collectible items in the new Vintage Section of our shop. Vintage and Retro looks have always been a very popular design aesthetic. Artist and designers use vintage items for inspiration. Vintage and collectible items are powerful. They are comforting and have the ability to take you back to a happy place. Resurfacing childhood memories that have long been forgotten. For these reasons they make great gifts for others or maybe just a little gift for yourself to brighten up your day.

1) Vintage Mr. Men and Little Miss Thermos

Little Miss Sunshine Thermos

Description

Little Miss Sunshine and two friends from the Mr. Men and Little Miss Series pictured on this vintage thermos.
Mustard Yellow Cap that turns into a little cup.
This Thermos design has a pop up straw

It was probably part of a Lunch Box Set.

Item in good condition

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2) Assorted Kawaii Japanese Plastic Molds

Japanese Musubi Molds Fun Shapes

In Hawaii we make MUSUBI

5 Musubi (Japanese rice) Molds Assorted Shapes.

Use this to create a unique Kawaii Bento Box assortment.

Also fun for other crafting projects.

Only one is open the rest are still wrapped in original plastic.

Cute Fun Shapes
-Triangle
-bird
-fish
-panda
-bunny

Shapes are 3″ wide and 1 1/2″ deep
height ranges 1/1/2″-3″ depending on the shape.

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3)Vintage- 4 Suits Playing Cards Cookie Cutters Set

Vintage Playing Card Cookie Cutters (4 Suits)

Vintage Cookie Cutters shaped like playing card suits. Fun to make Las Vegas style cookies! Hawaii People LOVE Vegas! Maybe even use it on fondant to decorate and unique Las Vegas theme cake. . . so many possibilities.

Use this set of 4 cookie cutters to give your cookies a nice fluted edge.

The Diamond is 2″ x 3″
The Spade is 2.25″ x 2.5″
The Club is 2.25″ x 2.5″
The Star is 2.5″ x 2.5″
These cutter are .5″ deep with a little handle.

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4) Vintage Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy Cookie Cutters

Raggedy Ann and Andy

What a sweet pair. Sold as a Set

Made by: Bobbs Merrill Co., Inc
Vintage RAGGEDY ANN & RAGGEDY ANDY Cookie Cutters.

Not just for cookies use it for cake decorating and many other crafts

These cutters are 4.75″ tall! Raggedy Ann is 2.75″ at the widest part.

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5) Vintage Gingerbread Christmas Cookie Cutter by Hallmark Cards Boy and Girl Set

Christmas Cookie Cutter Set Boy and Girl Gingerbread Man

Another Sweet Pair

Vintage Gingerbread Man and Girl Gingerbread in Dress with Apron and Boots

Boy and Girl set

Classic Collectible Cookie Cutter made by Hallmark Cards.
Perfect for any craft for the upcoming Holiday Season.

Make some Gingerbread boy and girl Cookies as a wonderful Christmas gift.

Very Good Condition
Cutters are approx 5″ tall and 3.5″ wide
Cutter is .25″ thick

This item Ships First Class Mail

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MammaRachel is Happy to Ship International and to Canada if a shipping price is not listed for your item please ask for a quote.

I LOVED this article today in the New York Times “Room for Debate” blog.

While I was waiting at the Drexel’s Hagerty Library for the Dragon Shuttle to take me to my new work at Hahnemann Hospital, I noticed a series of three food trucks. Feeling kind of hungry at the time, I decided to explore the choices. There was a Philly-American cart which served hoagies (Philly language for sandwiches) and steaks, a breakfast-crepe cart (I really want to try this out next time), and astonishingly a Japanese food cart: Ton-Ton!

Ton-Ton Food Truck

Japanese food??! I’ve been craving that since I left NYC, so I had to take a closer look. I was happy to see on their menu an abridged list of my favorites from Cafe Zaiya at good prices.

Ton-Ton Menu

Missing the flavor of home-style Westernized Japanese dishes, I went straight for the hamburg bento. The nice blond girl in the cart told me I could also add curry at no extra cost!! JAPANESE CURRY!! That’s only my most favorite type of curry out of all the other bajillion types of curry.

I watched as the girl added Japanese-style vinaigrette to the side salad, and a Japanese woman named Keiko (or at least that’s what the other customer called her) next to her dice up some tamago (Japanese omelet).

When it was finished, I excitedly hurried over to the bus stop, only to find that I had missed my bus… So I sat on the curb and opened my little take-out box. The contents totally made up for my missed bus. Not only was there a nice hamburg patty topped with hearty curry on rice, but a cup of fresh salad, a piece of tamago, and an adorable little octopus sausage (octopus-shaped sausage characteristic of the bentos Japanese mothers make for their kids).

Hamburg Steak Bento

After picking off all the onions with my chopsticks (yes I dislike onions), I bit into the hamburg. It was delicious with a home-cooked lightly grilled flavor. The meat was thoroughly cooked, but not to the point of drying up. It still retained a certain juicy warm meatiness that was nice and chewy rather than tender or mushy (as a medium burger might have been).

Hamburg Innards

The curry went really well with everything. Not too thick, not too thin, just right. It definitely had authentic Japanese flavor, a giant step up from Teriyaki Boy. The only problem I had with the curry was its quantity; there was only enough to cover the meat. I wish there was more to mix in with the rice…

The tamago was cold, eggy, and sweet. It was also pretty delicious although the coldness implied lack of freshness. The cute, warm octopus sausage was just extremely fun to eat.

Overall, I was impressed by the authenticity of Japanese food from a truck. I mean Ton-Ton was still quite Americanized compared to places like Hiroko’s, but it definitely tops most other Japanese fast food joints, and it’s a nice break from the awful attempt at Asian food in Handschumacher (Drexel’s cafeteria).

Grade: I feel tempted to give it an A, just because it’s the only good Japanese food place in campus for now, but I think A- is a more realistic unbiased grade…

Conclusion: I found Japanese food! In a truck!! Yay!

Location: Map

Menu

1. Pumpkin Pie
2. Egg
3. Grapes
4. Carrots

Sourcing

• Whole Foods
• Crustless pumpkin pie is a modified version of the basic muffin recipe from Breaking the Vicious Cycle by Elaine Gottschall.  To the recipe, I added about a cup of homemade yogurt, 1 1/2 t cinnamon, 4 eggs and the flesh of one sugar pie pumpkin (about 2 cups).  This made one pie plate, one small loaf pan and 6 midget muffins.

Menu

1. Yogurt with blueberries
2. Apple slices
3. Carrots
4. Limas (fresh)

Sourcing

1. Yogourmet, Whole Milk, Carrots- Whole Foods
2. Apples- our tree
3. Limas- our garden
4. Blueberries- Michigan farmer’s market (froze during the summer)

Location:

2318 Royal Windsor Dr, Oakville

Cost: approx $15 pp

We were craving some sushi take-out and decided to give Eastern a try on the basis that you just never know!
Well, who knew, indeed? Eastern is amazing.

We went in to check out their take-out menu and decided they certainly have a variety of foods (from sushi to thai to chinese). And once we spoke to Andy we decided on keeping it simple with a salmon bento box and a spicy schezuan chicken dish with rice. While we waited we were served tea and it’s at that point that we decided we liked that place (even before tasting the meal).

And it was a damn good meal, let me tell you.

Tasty and spicy (with real dried red chilies) schezuan chicken (with loads of chicken).

The peppers, green onions etc were all very fresh (unlike the slightly rotten tasting veggies so common in many asian restos).

The bento box sushi was incredible; the tempura just perfect.

They also have all-you-can eat sushi for $12.99 at lunch and $19.99 at dinner (I believe, but will confirm).

Now a definite favourite in the ‘Ville!

Menu

1. Pomegranate Seeds
2. Raisins
3. Carrots
4. Cheddar Cubes

Sourcing

• Pomegranate, Cheese- local grocery
• Carrots, Raisins- Whole Foods

Menu

1. Chicken
2. Concord Grapes
3. Cashew and Raisin Mix
4. Honeycrisp Apple

Sourcing

• Whole Foods
• I baked the chicken for supper, refrigerated and tore off bones