Monkey Monday: live from the east coast edition 12 May 2008 10:35 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books, cooking, dessert, friends, pictures, travel , trackbackGreetings from the Garden State, y’all! Um, I mean, youse. So far the trip has a daily average of meeting up with at least one awesome person I haven’t seen in over a year, and that trend is looking to continue well into the week, to which I say, “Right on!” Highlights so far are as follows (and wouldn’t you know, they’re all food-related):
On Saturday I got to experience The Bent Spoon of Princeton, NJ. I had crème fraiche gelato and rhubarb sorbet, and they were both fabulous. The gelato was like vanilla on steroids, only with a nice fresh tinge of tartness, and the sorbet was amazingly smooth and creamy, like I could easily have been fooled into believing it was sherbet, with cream added. YUM.
Also on Saturday I got to see all the other responses to the Show Us Your… Spice Collection! challenge by Gabi of The Feast Within (the one for which I made my Spices are magic post at the beginning of the month). Good times, even if it made me a little self-conscious about the rampant disorder of my mismatched jars compared to all the others: there’s some seriously stylishly photographed beauties over there, I tell you what, so check it out! Clearly, I have some learning to do about food photography, because I’m pretty sure my kitchen organization scheme will remain somewhat, um, organically evolved. (But who knows? I don’t know what my next kitchen will be like — that’s what this trip is, I hope, about!)
Finally, on Saturday I got to make my parents dinner from the cookbook no longer topping my Most Wanted list because it is mine, mine, mine, woo!
Yesterday my brother and his girlfriend Jen and I used our collective superpowers to make a fantabulous Mother’s Day dinner (with help from Mom and Dad, who had all kinds of clever plans and schemes about what that dinner should entail). Again, good times. I am such a huge fan of team cookery, I really am.
Today I made dal bhaat and cauliflower-pea tarkari for some of the aforementioned awesome people I’m looking forward to seeing more of as we move to this coast, i.e. Liz and her partner Jason. Also I got to meet their beautiful baby Ryan, and yes, I got pictures of dinner (including a luscious mixed berry cobbler which I had nothing whatsoever to do with beyond the eating, ummm yum yum the eating) but those aren’t uploaded yet.
Tomorrow I’m having second breakfast/early lunch with a very old friend before going into New York for realy-reals, and of course I’m sorta freaking terrified about that second one, but in that energizing kind of way, really. (I even almost believe myself when I say or write that.)
Coming up later in the week (besides some sort of report about my continuing travelicious adventures), a picture of the contents of my freezer back in Eugene, and my hilarious attempts to identify its contents from 3,000 miles away, where I can’t open packages or even turn them around to read their labels. Wooo!
P.S. I posted some new Nepal pictures on Flickr if that’s what you’re into. Now you know.
