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Friday, September 23, 2011
Shoe of the Week
We've had a lot of rain in the northeast and this weekend is no different. It makes me want to curl up with a good book and stay indoors. These heels have the right idea... ;)
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Shoe of the Week
I've kept my eyes peeled for a new pair of great boots. I always look for something with a low heel so I can comfortably walk all over the city. I recently spotted these Chain-Linked Knee Boots. I think they'd look darling with jeans tucked in to really show off the detail, and they look like the perfect heel height.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Homemade Pizza
Our last meal together was quite a delicacy. There aren't words to describe how good this pizza was. Papa B made us pizza from scratch. It blew anything I ever thought was pizza before out of the water.
He threw a little of this and a little of that together to make the dough. Here he is stretching it out in the pan.
Added a little olive oil and some homemade sauce we had leftover from when we had homemade pasta a couple of nights before. Cut up some FRESH mozzarella...
I didn't even know fresh mozzarella would melt like that. I'm used to the junk Kraft sells already shredded. Never again. Added some chopped up onion and pepper...
And fresh basil...
Then he sliced up a couple of the leftover homemade meatballs...
And topped it all off with some Parmesan...
The Master Chef with his artwork.
That is PERFECTION!
Hear that nice crisp crust?
And we had a really nice wine to accompany it. What a meal!!!
And to think he could create that in a little kitchen that didn't even have a pizza cutter. ha! I have to re-arrange my top pizza list now.
1. Papa B's
2/2a. Lombardi's/Hideaway
4. Imo's
5/5a. Papa John's/Oxford Cafe
7. Gino's East
I'm such a lucky girl. I have the best in-laws ever. Thank you for visiting!!
Monday, September 12, 2011
Labor Day continued
It. rained. every. single. day. all. day. long. We didn't get much time on the lake, so it's a good thing the bar was stocked.
We were able to fit in one quick trip on the boat in between showers. I caught 4 perch and 3 blue gill, my father-in-law caught 10,000 minnows, my mother-in-law was drowning worms, and my husband was busy baiting my hook.
Other than that we were stuck inside watching the frozen concoction maker do its thing. Good thing, it's pretty entertaining.
And after making a few concoctions we were entertaining ourselves...
We were able to fit in one quick trip on the boat in between showers. I caught 4 perch and 3 blue gill, my father-in-law caught 10,000 minnows, my mother-in-law was drowning worms, and my husband was busy baiting my hook.
Other than that we were stuck inside watching the frozen concoction maker do its thing. Good thing, it's pretty entertaining.
And after making a few concoctions we were entertaining ourselves...
The grill master (my mother-in-law) was able to get the charcoal grill going despite the rain, and we managed to cook up some burgers, hot dogs, and chicken that didn't taste so bad. I might share the favorite recipe later on.
We also ate many a meal at the Roscoe Diner. Their hot chocolate is as good as I remember it. Mmmm... it could be dessert.
Roscoe has had way too much rain...
On our way home, we tried our luck at the Monticello Casino and Raceway. They don't have any table games, but you can play roulette or craps digitally. It was fun to watch, but I wouldn't recommend it if you don't want to lose all of your money. We went upstairs and watched a few of the harness races. We won a trifecta but somehow still lost money on the bet.
Afterwards, we made the drive back home for our last night of vacation. We had the most amazing last supper that it deserves it's own post.
Labor day
We enjoyed an extra long Labor Day weekend with my in-laws. We spent a busy couple of days in the city and a few more relaxing, rainy days upstate.
They arrived late Friday night. so we stayed up late with a couple of cocktails catching up. The next morning we went to Eataly as soon as they opened to avoid the crowds and loaded up on all kinds of tasty treats.
Then my husband and father-in-law went to Yankee stadium for a game and thoroughly enjoyed the Jim Beam bar while my mother-in-law and I saw War Horse. It was a terrific play (this year's Tony award winner). The mechanics were incredible - it took three people to operate one horse. If you've seen Lion King on Broadway it's the same idea but with even more animation.
We met up at our apartment afterwards to make homemade pasta. If Michael White is the pasta king, then I'm the pasta queen. I've gotten the hang of the pasta roller attachments. And now I look the part too in my real chef shirt!
Sunday morning we all met the other in-laws. My brother-in-law is getting married in California this fall and none of the couple's parents had ever met each other. So, since all of them just happened to be on the east coast for the weekend, they arranged to meet for brunch in NYC. We started off with mimosas at our apartment and then went to the very appropriately named restaurant, Jane. They are super sweet people, and I'm so glad we got to enjoy each other's company before the big wedding.
The Vanilla Bean French Toast looked out of this world.
Then it was time to head upstate for the second half of the trip...
They arrived late Friday night. so we stayed up late with a couple of cocktails catching up. The next morning we went to Eataly as soon as they opened to avoid the crowds and loaded up on all kinds of tasty treats.
Then my husband and father-in-law went to Yankee stadium for a game and thoroughly enjoyed the Jim Beam bar while my mother-in-law and I saw War Horse. It was a terrific play (this year's Tony award winner). The mechanics were incredible - it took three people to operate one horse. If you've seen Lion King on Broadway it's the same idea but with even more animation.
We met up at our apartment afterwards to make homemade pasta. If Michael White is the pasta king, then I'm the pasta queen. I've gotten the hang of the pasta roller attachments. And now I look the part too in my real chef shirt!
Sunday morning we all met the other in-laws. My brother-in-law is getting married in California this fall and none of the couple's parents had ever met each other. So, since all of them just happened to be on the east coast for the weekend, they arranged to meet for brunch in NYC. We started off with mimosas at our apartment and then went to the very appropriately named restaurant, Jane. They are super sweet people, and I'm so glad we got to enjoy each other's company before the big wedding.
The Vanilla Bean French Toast looked out of this world.
Then it was time to head upstate for the second half of the trip...
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Shoe of the Week
With all that has happened recently in New York... earthquake, hurricane, flooding, terror threats... I'm not sure how much more we can all take. I thought it was time for something light-hearted like the Prada Bi-Color Suede Mary Jane Boots.
I think these are hilarious. The $1,400.00 price tag not so much. But what is even crazier is the line on Saks.com stating "DUE TO HIGH DEMAND, A CUSTOMER MAY ORDER NO MORE THAN 3 UNITS OF THIS ITEM EVERY THIRTY DAYS."
I think these are hilarious. The $1,400.00 price tag not so much. But what is even crazier is the line on Saks.com stating "DUE TO HIGH DEMAND, A CUSTOMER MAY ORDER NO MORE THAN 3 UNITS OF THIS ITEM EVERY THIRTY DAYS."
Monday, September 5, 2011
More KitchenAid cooking
The KitchenAid mixer has still been getting plenty of use. (Husbands, if you wish your wives would cook more often, simply supply them with awesome kitchen gadgets like this!) The latest recipes have included meat and sweets (but not together)... more meatballs, mini meatloaf, chocolate chip cookies, and Mountain Dew cupcakes.
The meatballs are a secret family recipe that I've vowed not to share, but this Cooking Light recipe is a low fat version of meatloaf that I think sometimes tastes like a McDonald's quarter pounder... it's gotta be all of the onions and ketchup/mustard sauce.
I'm not sure if I'll keep making my signature Toll House cookies in the mixer. I think mixing by hand is part of the trick to making them puffy. They turned out a little flatter than what I'm used to and got drier quicker, but they still tasted pretty awesome. The look on my husband's face proved he wasn't lying.
The Mountain Dew cupcakes really tasted like the caffeinated citrus beverage, but the icing was very soft and runny. I have a feeling I didn't add enough powedered sugar, but after my hand starting cramping from sifting I was done.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Shoe of the Week
The Cowboys season opener is today, so I'm going back to my roots with cowboy boots! I think any of these would be appropriate for game day. Go Pokes!
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Surviving
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. No power sort of has that affect. Last week we survived a 5.8 earthquake and Hurricane Irene. Luckily, neither one was nearly the disaster it could have been. New York City escaped the storm, but unfortunately we listened to the experts and traveled upstate where there was tons of damage. (Apparently others had the same idea. We saw people in NYC taxi cabs and limos hours outside of the city.)
It started out as a beautiful Saturday finally christening the beer pong table and mixing up festive hurricanes.
That quickly changed. The wind and rain were constant for over 24 hours. Power lines were no match for 70 mph wind gusts and sheets of rain. We have some great neighbors who came over to check on us and invite us over for chili - that's something that never happens in the city. But after blackjack, Cowboyopoly, listening to satellite radio, and songs on itunes like Bob Dylan's Hurricane and Dexy's Midnight Runners' Come on Eileen got old, we decided to venture out into the storm and head back to the city. We couldn't take the usual route down the mountain because of downed trees and dangling power lines. But we flagged down an old mountain man and asked if he knew a different route to the highway. The scruffy veteran looked like a villain from Scooby Doo cartoons, but he showed us a winding dirt road that would get us out of town. The ride was straight out of a scary movie, complete with freaky trailer homes and a swollen river that looked like it was about to jump the bank and sweep us away at any minute. But in the end, we reached the highway and headed home.
But we didn't get far. The highway was closed due to flooding well outside of the city. We were forced to exit the highway and get a random hotel room in a small rural town. The only vacant hotel still hadn't been cleaned from the previous guests, so we changed our own sheets. (Now that's surviving!) We were a bit alarmed when a siren starting blaring in the middle of the night - where I'm from that means a tornado - but the clerk at the front desk said not to worry it was just the fire department. Note to small town fire departments - change the sound of your siren! Are those noises not universal?!
The drive home the next day was uneventful even thought the mountain sides looked like waterfalls, there were pools of water everywhere and evidence of rock slides and erosion. We got back to the city safe and in time to still hear about how the storm pretty much missed the city and everyone just partied at bars and sat in the air conditioning. Next time, we might just have our hurricane party in the city, not the sticks.
(Sorry, I didn't take any storm pictures, I was too worried about finding a dry route home).
It started out as a beautiful Saturday finally christening the beer pong table and mixing up festive hurricanes.
That quickly changed. The wind and rain were constant for over 24 hours. Power lines were no match for 70 mph wind gusts and sheets of rain. We have some great neighbors who came over to check on us and invite us over for chili - that's something that never happens in the city. But after blackjack, Cowboyopoly, listening to satellite radio, and songs on itunes like Bob Dylan's Hurricane and Dexy's Midnight Runners' Come on Eileen got old, we decided to venture out into the storm and head back to the city. We couldn't take the usual route down the mountain because of downed trees and dangling power lines. But we flagged down an old mountain man and asked if he knew a different route to the highway. The scruffy veteran looked like a villain from Scooby Doo cartoons, but he showed us a winding dirt road that would get us out of town. The ride was straight out of a scary movie, complete with freaky trailer homes and a swollen river that looked like it was about to jump the bank and sweep us away at any minute. But in the end, we reached the highway and headed home.
But we didn't get far. The highway was closed due to flooding well outside of the city. We were forced to exit the highway and get a random hotel room in a small rural town. The only vacant hotel still hadn't been cleaned from the previous guests, so we changed our own sheets. (Now that's surviving!) We were a bit alarmed when a siren starting blaring in the middle of the night - where I'm from that means a tornado - but the clerk at the front desk said not to worry it was just the fire department. Note to small town fire departments - change the sound of your siren! Are those noises not universal?!
The drive home the next day was uneventful even thought the mountain sides looked like waterfalls, there were pools of water everywhere and evidence of rock slides and erosion. We got back to the city safe and in time to still hear about how the storm pretty much missed the city and everyone just partied at bars and sat in the air conditioning. Next time, we might just have our hurricane party in the city, not the sticks.
(Sorry, I didn't take any storm pictures, I was too worried about finding a dry route home).
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