We have borrowed bikes from our friends Monica and Katrina (they're in Seattle for the weekend) and wow it has been great - and fast! - to get around on two wheels instead of two feel.
I am leaving NYC tonight - D is here for a couple more weeks; I come back from the UK for just two nights. And I find myself not able to deal with it. Denial is the only sensible route, and as a psychologist, I can verify it as a very sensible course of action... Another sensible course of action is eating, so this weekend, i've been trying to re-eat my way around the city - not all the faves, but definitely some of them:
Yesterday's eating (in order):
- Fresh mango (from the Park Slope Food Coop)
- a spiced pumpkin whoopie pie from the delightful One Girl Cookies, in Cobble Hill
- sweet and salty brownie, cream soda, and vanilla marshmellow from Baked in Red Hook. The marshmellow was not as good as that from One Girl, but the brownie is moist and dense.
- bean and corn tamale from the famous Red Hook Ballfields Pupusa vendor.
- Barbacoa huarache, chorizo taco and cemita taco from Guerrero Food Centre, Sunset Park
- Apple (the least exciting option of the day)
- Dinner was the highlight of eating in NYC, and a highlight of eating anywhere, actually. everything was superb, a taste sensation that I, a 'naturally' fast eater, couldn't help but linger slowly over... The place was Falai. peruse the menu! mmmm with the free little offerings they brought between courses and with the bill, we had 7 courses! small, it must be said! One of the best meals I have ever eaten. and perfectly salted, which is often not the case in this city (too little, surprisingly)!
Today has been a massive bike, interspersed with more favourite eats:
- a spectacular fruit salad (fruit from the Park Slope Food Coop) made by David
- Olive cake from Cafe Pedlar in Cobble Hill
- A vanilla creme bomboloni and potato / mushroom / zuchini pizza slices from Sullivan St Bakery in Manhattan (eaten by Harlem Meer in Central Park)
- Fresh cherries from the Park Slope Food Coop
- Grilled corn from Habana Outpost
- A roast beef sandwich and, best of all, salt caramel icecream, from The General Greene, in Fort Green.
- A salt-caramel chocolate from Nunu Chocolates, in Boerum Hill.
- A salt-caramel chocolate-dipped marshmellow from Vosges, in Soho.
There'll probably be more before I fly out of JFK @ 11.30pm tonight, bound for London, but for now, that's all folks. And so ends bagels, bbq and brooklyn
:-(
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