With each passing year, our annual Oscar party becomes less about the movies and more about the competitive nature of our friends, particularly when it comes to making food. This year we tasked our friends with bringing a dish inspired by one of the Oscar nominees. The following are some of the entries:

Juno’s SunnyD from [...]

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Matt and Freya hosted their annual Thanksgiving event a few weeks back and one of the big stars was supposed to be a deliciously deep-fried turkey. A few weeks prior, Matt approached us and the following conversation ensued:
Matt: “Hey can my mom come over to your apartment to deep fry a turkey in your backyard?”
Me: [...]

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For coming out on 4th avenue with these awesome signs! Murph has a good little video that I’ll try and secure.

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Last weekend was my 31st birthday and Karen and I started off the celebrations by running 14 miles (longest run ever!). After a little afternoon recovery nap, we headed down to the old neighborhood for some food and drinks at Sidecar.

(TOAD: Sept. 22nd, 2007) After a slew of drinks and some really delicious food (I [...]

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This past Saturday, Karen and I went out to Long Island to celebrate Kota’s First Birthday and then came back to meet Micah and others at the Gowanus Yacht Club for Micah’s 29th birthday.
We showed up around 7:30 with Matt and Freya. After sitting down, we tried our best to order some beer but were [...]

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Ok… we’re WAY behind on these so I’m just going to get the up there. So as you know we moved to a new apartment back in July and a few weeks later we had a BBQ to answer the following question: Is the North Slope is as good a place to have a BBQ [...]

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Team Kane Street had a super busy weekend between two days of the spring bocce tournament at Floyd in Brooklyn and a baptism for Kota out on Long Island. Saturday afternoon we kicked off the first day of the tournament.

First game:
Watch Your Balls!! v. the Mamalukes.
We took them down, though I honestly remember [...]

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Not people to let a tradition die, we decided to host a second annual Oscar Potluck party again this year. Alex and I prepared by staying in on Saturday night so we could watch Babel before the big event and make better Oscar picks for the pool the following day.
On Sunday we cooked, marinated, baked [...]

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Karen and I chose our favorite local restaurant, Chestnut, as the location for our rehearsal dinner.

From the first time we ate there in the late Spring, we wanted to devise a way to hold the event there. Working with chef Daniel Eardley and sommelier Michael Connolly was great from the beginning. They invited us to [...]

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