Holiday Weekend!

EJ and I, as mentioned by about every single morning, afternoon, and news show, took a stay-cation.  It was really fun!  After having the busiest week ever with every parent in town, we needed a break from everyone except ourselves.  Well, on Saturday we went fishing with 10 people, but that we pre-planned.  I didn’t catch any keepers, but I caught a pretty big fluke!

So Saturday was Sheephead Bay, Sunday was a short bus ride to Mitsuwa , a great big Asian market in NJ.  There was a specialty food fair going on, so we enjoyed takoyaki (octopus balls - so good) and black sesame ice cream and other tasty things.  We brought all kinds of fun things home.

We finally watched Juno - it was good, but the girl’s dialog was a little overwhelming sometimes, but o how I love the soundtrack!

Then Brighton Beach, snacking on Russian meats and cheeses, getting really burned (I’m having a little trouble walking…).  Yay weekend!  Now back to real life of blogging, applying for jobs, and turning the TV off when Rachel Ray comes on.  Which is now.

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This week…

My mom keeps going to these wedding fairs/bridal extravaganzas and entering me in all the drawings.  So far I’ve won: $100 gift certificate to beauty brands, a white salad bowl from Halls and a pair of silver salad servers.  Generally, these fairs are free.  I think she should do this for a long time after my wedding, too.

I need to involve her more in the planning, although there hasn’t been a lot of planning lately.  I’ll send her an email.

 

Last weekend was Wilco in New Haven.  I got to see Erinn, and she got to meet EJ, and we waited in line for New Haven pizza.  It was pretty tasty, (but I think I prefer Lucali’s).   We made it on the late train and were asleep by 2:00.  And we had front row tickets!!!  Up close, super stars look a little tired and sickly.  I was most impressed by the new-ish guitarist, Nells, because he was awesome, and I am not usually impressed by such things.

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Food, food, food

Yawn.  Last night was EJ’s birthday!  I got him a card and didn’t have time to make it out.  Oops.  The menu (this was the result of slightly joking conversation made while probably very tired going to Iceland…): Hash brown casserole, green bean casserole (but made fresh), and green rice casserole (a rain check was written for carrot cake).  Fascinating.  Everything I bought at the grocery store for this meal was white, yellow, or orange: sour cream, cream cheese, yogurt, hash browns, sugar, powdered sugar, white rice, cheddar cheese, cream of chicken soup, chicken broth, evaporated milk, cream…Wow.  My arteries freaked out.

 

Tonight (taking last out of the category) begins the days of good eating: today, dinner at Gordon Ramasy’s (the middle dining room), tomorrow La Esquina, and Saturday perhaps brunch at Bubby’s and dinner at café Grey.  Sunday I will not eat. 

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KC made the NY Times.

the link EJ found to this article was “apparently, there is good food outside of New York…”

Boo!

(I took the link out, but the article featured Bluestem.  Anyone want to go when I come to KC?  They have pountine!!! mmmm)

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