Looks great! Does the cream cheese take the place of the avocado or did you miss mentioning it.
I love your eye! I forgot the avocado. Iāll update my post. Nice looking looking out.
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Your rice dish sounds delicious, @catholiver!
Ooh, I love your interpretation of Asian avocado toast, @TheCookie! The gochujangās a nice touch. Youāve inspired me to try it with sambal.
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Wolfgang Puck (whoās opening a restaurant in Manhattan) disagrees that nobody cooks in LA!
Puck made his name in Los Angeles, which he calls the hardest market: because people like to cook at home.
Then he goes on to say that
In New York, if you have a nice two-bedroom apartment, youāre not going to cook that oftenā¦You donāt have the space, and you still make good money.
which is just complete bullshit.
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[quote=āsmall_h, post:25, topic:2321ā]
which is just complete bullshit.
[/quote]Which part?
I can only say with confidence that the second part is bullshit, since Iāve never lived in LA. Iāve made breakfast there a few times, but that probably doesnāt give me much authority.
Oh okay. You mean the nobody cooks in NY part is bullshit. Interesting tidbit. Because it does have a rep for being a dining mecca. Then again, when Wolfgang Puck started cooking in L.A. it probably was harder to get people out of the kitchen, other than a special occasion. Heās greatly responsible for changing that.
It is a dining mecca, as is LA. But most of Manhattan isnāt living the Wall Street/Sex & the City lifestyle (good lord, Iām dating myself). Iām sure there are people - primarily young, single and working 70+ hour weeks - who eat all their meals out. But if all 1.6 million of us did that, weād need even more restaurants than we already have. And anyone who thinks a ānice two-bedroom apartmentā is too small to cook in is simply insane. I cooked when I lived in a studio. Iām sure Iām not the only one.
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Iād think per capita more people eat out in NYC cause you can walk so many places whereas LA is a driving city and can be a mess traffic wise. My two cents 
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Thats funny @small_h. I did think of Carrie Bradshaw keeping her sweaters in her oven. But seriously, NY kitchens do look small. Even in the nicer apartments. I remember the cool apartment Woody Allen & Diane Keaton had in Manhattan Murder Mystery. They had a big bedroom, impressive entryway, but the kitchen was the size of a pantry. I know, I knowā¦ Itās a movie. But thatās not the first movie or show where Iāve noticed this. I guess you just adjust to what you have.
Yes, and the flip side is Friends & Seinfeld - Monica and Jerry had very spacious kitchens by Manhattan standards. This is mine. Itās not huge - you have to choose between an open dishwasher or a clear path across the floor, 'cause you canāt have both. And sharing it with another person takes awareness and negotiation. But for the most part, itās big enough for me to do what I need to do.
I think thatās definitely true. Manhattan is very dense and rewards spontaneity. If you drop into a restaurant and canāt get a table, thereās likely another one just a few steps away where you can. LA takes more planning. I would be very unlikely to show up at a restaurant in LA without a reservation and risk getting turned away and facing a 45 minute drive to another place, where I also might not get seated.
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Some of my walls are orange also!
And, yes, re spontaneity. We used to live in SF. Depending on the nabe, same thing. Walk a block.
Itās actually ātangelo.ā (In my next life, I want to think up names for paint. Or nail polish.)
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Yepā¦ Thereās that narrow kitchen. It probably makes you neater and more organized in when cooking.
My mise-en-place brings all the boys to the yard.
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First thing I look at is the kitchen. I am a dramatic whirlwind when cooking and would be literally bouncing off walls in a galley kitchen.
In NY, we eat out, never have cooked there, not once. Eating in means take-out or delivery. 
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