Looking For New York Cheesecake

Here are some pictures of pizza day. This was a fun day. The first is Irene, she stays at my place on the mornings we have a 8:00 class. She takes a train in everyday. The second picture is Michael. I have not worked with him yet but a really nice guy. This one is Courtney. So nice and friendly. She is from the Virgina Beach Area. We have such a nice class I am really lucky. The last picture is my Calzone. I made it when Cindy was here so I did a vegetarian roasted vegetable with cheese and tomato sauce. As you can see it was great.

Now for last weeks blog.


Lindsay was with me this weekend. It was so good to have her here. The start of the week we did ORGANS.
Is there anything about ORGANS that really sounds good? The liver and onions were OK. Never my favorite, I can eat it. Steve and my good friend Pam always say they love liver and onions. Over the years we have gone to several restaurants that boast good liver and onions, but they never order them. So do they really like them? The sweetbreads were not bad, much better than I expected. I could eat them but would never seek them out. THE TRIPE WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is all I will say. I think I told you we need to taste everything, Chef says it is very important. We moved on the next day to meats. Everyone in the class was very happy. We cooked pork chops with the bone Frenched, (that is when they scrape the bone end and make it real pretty).
I had a great lunch that day. The rest of the week was Lamb and veal. When Lindsay got here Thursday night at 9:00pm she was hungry. She had duck confit, and pork ragu we made. I don't think she was disappointed with here selections. On friday she played while I went to school. Friday night we went to a Mexican reataurant for guacamole and sangria. We walked around Soho for a several hours and decided on Lure to eat. I wrote about it before, Steve and I went and really enjoyed it. We had a great meal. We shared a beet salad and crab claws. Lindsay got a tuna dish and I had the scallops. She loved hers and my scallops were great. The pasta vegetable dish was a little flat. My chef would say it needs alittle salt or you need to season that to brighten up the flavor. If you go out to eat, you eat alot of salt, Do not fool yourself into thinking you eat low salt. Before it hits the table there is lots of salt applied, and it hardly taste as if there is any. We tried for cheesecake but they did not have any. Lindsay wanted a New York Cheesecake. So on Saturday we set out to shop. We found some great deals. It is suprising the great prices you can find here, high and low. Lindsay was looking for the low and was not disappointed. We put the bags in my room and went to see Eat, Pray, Love. The movie was fun. I liked when they spoke Italian. I could make out what they were saying without reading the captions. After the movie we went to Commerce Restaurant. The meal was excellent. Our table was in a traffic zone, so that could have been better. We kept seeing a whole chicken go by, it was a shared meal. Then they would bring it back and cut and serve. We think we should have tried the chicken. No complaints on our meals. We shared a salad with blue cheese on top a light blue cheese dressing. The dressing was a soft flavor not overpowering at all. The slice of blue cheese was so creamy it melted in my mouth. Needless to say we were sorry we shared it. Lindsay had the carbonara, It was really nice. I has the pasta with spicy sausage ragu. I won!!! The bread at this place is so so good: little pretzels, these tiny clouds of goodness, and rolls that were so hot and soft. You should just go for the roll basket, but the rest of the food was to good to turn down. Lindsay was still looking for her cheesecake. We were not finding it here. We walked back and were going to get a piece at Rocco's but it was closed for vacation. I could not believe it. Well she was leaving on Sunday and still did not find her cheesecake. So at 8:00am being the mother that I am, went in search of cheesecake. I had a good exercise but I found it. She was very happy with the cheesecake for breakfeast. Most of the pastry shops don't put out cheesecake until later in the day. She left after lunch and I was sad. Started on that blasted Italian and soon was to frustrated to be sad.
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