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NYC Nom Nom is a blog about food. Restaurants and recipes... from the good, to the bad, to the un-nommable. Recently, I joined Weight Watchers. But I refuse to give up my love for food. Join me on my journey of recipes and restaurants (whether you're dieting or not).

I am very fortunate in that I get to try many of the best restaurants in NYC. I also am realizing that I love to cook and have been expanding my culinary skills with my boyfriend, Mike. So what better way to chart my path through the world of food than with a blog?

I would not consider myself a foodie, as that moniker carries with it some level of expertise, of which I have none. I just really love food and am very lucky to have both access to good restaurants and a really great kitchen (by New York City standards anyway).

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9 August 10

Scaramellas - Dobbs Ferry, NY

So there are complications with writing a blog and people knowing about it.  Mainly, when a review isn’t so good and it’s your boyfriend’s family that chose the location.  So, in advance, I’m sorry Mike’s family!

For fathers day, we took the train to Dobbs Ferry to eat at Scaramella’s. They  have a nice menu and we ordered some items that sounded quite good.  First was a special.  I believe it was seafood and gnocchi in a pesto sauce.  The pesto was bland. How do you make pesto bland?

I chose the veal marsala.  All I remember was “chewy” and “bland.”

Which came with a side of ziti in (runny) tomato sauce (that tasted right out of a jar… or worse).  Now there is no excuse for bland tomato sauce.  You can always make a tomato sauce taste good (though making it taste great is an art).  This was blander than bland.  It gave me flashbacks of eating food in a hospital where they add no salt and no seasoning to be perfectly reasonable to a palate without taste buds.

They did do a nice job on the capucchino though…

Overall, just one word comes to mind for this place: Bland.  Don’t bother. (Sorry again Mike’s fam!)

Total Nom Points: 4 out of 10

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