Monthly Archives: October 2010
Murray Avenue Restaurant Challenge: Aiello’s Pizza
Dear world, I think I have a new favorite pizza place. To be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever had a true favorite pizza place, besides Pizza Roma on Perry Highway, and that was only because when I was little, … Continue reading
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Filed under #2, #2-10, pizza, restaurant
In Which We Fake-Celebrate The Pittsburgh Pirates’ World Series Win
As I’ve mentioned before, we were kind of searching for things to add to our list at the start of the new year,and one of our ideas (well, my idea) was to celebrate something imaginary at a nice restaurant. This … Continue reading
Living It Up At The Primadonna
The Primadonna is a formerly-well-known Italian restaurant in McKees Rocks that I know about for a funny reason. Back when we were little (maybe 10 or 11?), my friend Jessica’s parents took us to the Neville Chemical Plant open house. … Continue reading
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Filed under #23, #23-10, dinner, italian food, restaurant
Our Year In Overindulgence: Seafood Buffet (And More) At Hokkaido
Ok, I’ll admit, when it came to the end of the list, we may have been scraping for ideas a bit. But this Achievement is just so inclusive, covering so many different aspects of indulgence! We completed our seafood overindulgence … Continue reading
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Filed under #100, #100-10, buffet, chinese food, food, restaurant, seafood, sushi
Cooking Light Recipes: Crostini, Pasta, And Herbed Chicken Parmesan
Either Michael really loves elaborate dinners, or he’s trying to finish up the Cooking Light Achievement way ahead of schedule. In a new masterpiece, he managed (yet again) to make three dishes for one dinner. Ladies, you all know why … Continue reading
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Filed under #7, #7-10, cooking, dinner, italian food
Halloween-ing: War Of The Worlds As It Was Meant To Be Heard
Our third Halloween event of October was attending Bricolage’s Midnight Radio presentation of War of the Worlds. This was always an event that fascinated me in our history: on October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and his radio group Mercury Theater … Continue reading
Murray Avenue Restaurant Challenge: Zaw’s Asian Food & Sweet Tammy’s
Our next restaurant was another take-out stop, Zaw’s Asian Food. I really had thought this was a grocery store, and not a restaurant, up until we started doing the research for this Achievement (oh, you didn’t know there was research … Continue reading
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Filed under #2, #2-10, bakery, chinese food, dessert
Halloween-ing: Lucy The Bumblepit
Our second Halloween thing of October was to dress up our dog. Poor Lucy has such stocky shoulders, it is rather hard to find clothes that fit her (although it is necessary, as this little beast loves wearing clothes for … Continue reading
Going Back In Time At Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor
Pittsburgh has some pretty unique places, as I always like to talk about in here. One of those places is Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor in the Strip District. It’s an authentic 1920s ice cream parlor and drug store, complete with … Continue reading
Party With The Penguins!
I swear, I didn’t plan it to be that the hockey Achievement was #66. (I’m sure you know the significance of this to Pens fans – #66 is the great Mario Lemieux’s number.) Anyway, we love hockey. Freaking love it. … Continue reading