Murray Avenue Restaurant Challenge: Mineo’s Pizza
For a quick afternoon snack, we headed up the hill to grab a slice of pizza at Mineo’s. Michael is quite the pizza snob, and he loves sampling every independent pizza shop he sees to find out if it stacks … Continue reading
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Filed under #2, #2-10, food, pizza, restaurant, squirrel hill
Cooking Light Recipes: Spinach, Cherry Tomato and Gorgonzola Penne
We went back to pasta for dish #8, although we modified the original recipe a bit. This was originally a recipe for ziti with spinach, cherry tomatoes, and gorgonzola sauce, but we substituted penne, as we were able to purchase … Continue reading
The Bridges Of Pittsburgh: Hot Metal Bridge
We revisited the Hot Metal Bridge on the day of the USA’s opening World Cup game. While it was a much sunnier day, it was also quite muggy and hot. Here is the same view of the city from the … Continue reading
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Classy Hotdogs & Extravagant Funnel Cake At The Pittsburgh Arts Festival
This was one of the 2009 list items that made it back around for the second round, as we never made it to the Arts Festival last year. If you live in Pittsburgh, you know the Arts Festival curse, where … Continue reading
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The Fabulous Architecture of Pittsburgh
In the event that you’ve never been to Pittsburgh, you may not be aware of the fantastic amount of architecture we have. The buildings are gorgeous, and old and wonderful, and we wanted to try to take some really neat … Continue reading
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Filed under #34, #34-10, architecture, pittsburgh
Freaks, Frog Legs & Killer Beer: Our Coney Island Adventure
This achievement almost didn’t happen. We had been planning to go to Coney on the hottest day of the week we were in New York (it was that West Coast mentality of, ‘it’s too hot in the Valley, let’s go … Continue reading
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Filed under #39, #39-10, amusement park, new york city, travel
Tiffany’s!!
While in New York, it would have been a travesty to skip a journey to Tiffany’s, so we put it on the list to make sure we didn’t have any excuses. It was ridiculously hot, and the store was insanely … Continue reading
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Our Fake Central Park Engagement
As one of the sillier things on our list, we decided to pretend to have a fancy Central Park engagement while we were in NYC. It was hot and muggy, and we were frantically hopping from one end of the … Continue reading
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Our Very Carrie Bradshaw NYC Trip
When we planned our trip to NYC at the end of May, it was random chance that it was the week the second Sex and the City movie was coming out. But as soon as we found out, I was … Continue reading
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Cooking Light Challenge: Baked Fish & Rosemary Potatoes
Recipe #7 was another bit of a cheat: it came from epicurious.com instead of Cooking Light, but still fit the bill for healthy and delicious. This was an easy combination, baked fish and potatoes with rosemary and garlic. Everything cooked … Continue reading