Last post, I promise, because I actually DO have work to do today. Did you know that Twinkies have beef fat in them? That is disgusting. Wikipedia didn't make that up, either. It's on the twinkies package. I checked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie
Monday, April 6, 2009
Recipe
Also, I made this dish last night: http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1886385
It definitely needs some garlic and more salt than the recipe calls for. Adding spinach and lemon was a good touch. The cook needs more experience with the pan searing and multitasking (thank you helpful friends), but the tomatoes came out awesome.
Yea, I think I'm done for now.
Now I'm going to add a photo:
It definitely needs some garlic and more salt than the recipe calls for. Adding spinach and lemon was a good touch. The cook needs more experience with the pan searing and multitasking (thank you helpful friends), but the tomatoes came out awesome.
Yea, I think I'm done for now.
Now I'm going to add a photo:
Mostly eating and drinking in Brooklyn
Another Brooklyn filled kind of weekend.
I went with Kate and Meghan (I give up on trying to hide proper names, sorry) to Dandelion Wine in Greenpoint on Friday. They have a free wine tasting on Friday evenings from 6-9pm, complete with delicious cheeses and an also delicious but unidentifiable pate of sorts. While our empty pockets appreciated the free-ness of the wine, the pours were incredibly skimpy. The guy running the tastings (not to be confused with the friendly owners) couldn't really be bothered with the likes of us, so there was a bit of awkward standing around with sad, empty glasses. I'd go again, but probably more for the cheese than the drops of wine.
After leaving, we went over to the new Brouwerji Lane beer distributor on Greenpoint Avenue. They had $2 8oz pour tastings to sample their offerings. I am not a beer tasting connoisseur, but I can say that they were good. They have a lot of delicious brown ales in their inventory, which I'm excited about, including Abita Turbodog and Captain Lawrence Brown Bird. Ithaca beer did have a spot in their fridges, but only the Apricot Wheat. Obviously I like the Ithaca Nut Brown best, so hopefully they will add that one day. The guys at Brouwerji mentioned that this sampling was a trial sampling, but I'd be glad to go again if they keep it going.
Sunday, Meghan and I checked out the Brooklyn Standard on Nassau Avenue. It wasn't as big as I had expected because of all the hype about it, but my expectations were vindicated by the avocado sandwich with mango spread. Delicious. McGoldrick Park is a good place to eat said sandwiches on sunny days, though this proved to be a bit messy because of the wind. Other highlights include: homemade pickles, hummus, random fresh vegetables, and some soy sauce subsitite that is supposedly a lot healthier.
On to something that didn't involve eating or drinking... the Artists and Fleas market on North 6th in Williamsburg was a hit as usual. We ran into a fellow Ithacan who sells her hand sewed monsters at the flea market each week: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5288809
Dandelion Wine
153 Franklin Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
http://www.dandelionwinenyc.com/
Brouwerji Lane
78 Greenpoint Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222
http://brouwerijlane.wordpress.com/
The Brooklyn Standard
188 Nassau Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222
http://brooklynstandard.blogspot.com/
Artists and Fleas
129 N.6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
http://www.artistsandfleas.com/
I went with Kate and Meghan (I give up on trying to hide proper names, sorry) to Dandelion Wine in Greenpoint on Friday. They have a free wine tasting on Friday evenings from 6-9pm, complete with delicious cheeses and an also delicious but unidentifiable pate of sorts. While our empty pockets appreciated the free-ness of the wine, the pours were incredibly skimpy. The guy running the tastings (not to be confused with the friendly owners) couldn't really be bothered with the likes of us, so there was a bit of awkward standing around with sad, empty glasses. I'd go again, but probably more for the cheese than the drops of wine.
After leaving, we went over to the new Brouwerji Lane beer distributor on Greenpoint Avenue. They had $2 8oz pour tastings to sample their offerings. I am not a beer tasting connoisseur, but I can say that they were good. They have a lot of delicious brown ales in their inventory, which I'm excited about, including Abita Turbodog and Captain Lawrence Brown Bird. Ithaca beer did have a spot in their fridges, but only the Apricot Wheat. Obviously I like the Ithaca Nut Brown best, so hopefully they will add that one day. The guys at Brouwerji mentioned that this sampling was a trial sampling, but I'd be glad to go again if they keep it going.
Sunday, Meghan and I checked out the Brooklyn Standard on Nassau Avenue. It wasn't as big as I had expected because of all the hype about it, but my expectations were vindicated by the avocado sandwich with mango spread. Delicious. McGoldrick Park is a good place to eat said sandwiches on sunny days, though this proved to be a bit messy because of the wind. Other highlights include: homemade pickles, hummus, random fresh vegetables, and some soy sauce subsitite that is supposedly a lot healthier.
On to something that didn't involve eating or drinking... the Artists and Fleas market on North 6th in Williamsburg was a hit as usual. We ran into a fellow Ithacan who sells her hand sewed monsters at the flea market each week: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5288809
Dandelion Wine
153 Franklin Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
http://www.dandelionwinenyc.com/
Brouwerji Lane
78 Greenpoint Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222
http://brouwerijlane.wordpress.com/
The Brooklyn Standard
188 Nassau Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222
http://brooklynstandard.blogspot.com/
Artists and Fleas
129 N.6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
http://www.artistsandfleas.com/
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Luck be a Katie
After stepping on my glasses on Sunday night (I got them fixed, yay!) I dropped my phone on Manhattan Avenue while running for the bus last night. I had just left the gym and then the toy store where I was buying some Thomas trains for the little guy I babysit for. As I was getting off the bus, I realized I had dropped my phone, but when I went back, it was gone. To make a long story short, my friend Mikey was online when I got home, and he called the phone, someone picked up, and I went back to the toy store to pick it up. It had gotten picked up off the street, brought to the Verizon store, and somehow miraculously made it back to the toy store (where they knew I was looking for it), all within 30 minutes. They had even called my mom.
I've clearly been pretty careless with my belongings, but I've also been very lucky since I moved to Greenpoint. Within a week of moving to this lovely, sometimes urine soaked town, I drunkenly fell on a sidewalk and dropped my wallet. This was at 4:30 in the morning, during the glorious days of employment when the other Kate and I first moved here. About 30 minutes later, 2 cops knocked on our apartment door while we were eating hotdogs. How they got into our locked building, I have no idea. But how they found me was even better. Someone brought the wallet to the police station. The cops then found a business card for the apartment broker in my wallet, called him, and he told them where I lived. At 5am. Nothing missing in the wallet, no cash taken.
A few weeks later someone literally chased me down Manhattan Avenue calling "Kathryn! Kathryn!" I don't typically respond to my full name, because I've only been called this when I was growing up and getting in trouble by my mom. I had left my ATM card in the machine.
Some time after that incident, I left my digital camera at the Mark Bar, a fairly shady (but great!) local hangout down the road from my current place. The next day, the camera had been returned to the bartender, and to my surprise there were no obscene photos taken down anyone's pants.
I'm going to try to be more careful, but sometimes we all run and drop stuff, sometimes we are all forgetful, and sometimes we all get drunk and leave our precious belongings in shady bars. Thank you, Greenpoint.
And thanks to Mikey for negotiating my phone pick up.
I've clearly been pretty careless with my belongings, but I've also been very lucky since I moved to Greenpoint. Within a week of moving to this lovely, sometimes urine soaked town, I drunkenly fell on a sidewalk and dropped my wallet. This was at 4:30 in the morning, during the glorious days of employment when the other Kate and I first moved here. About 30 minutes later, 2 cops knocked on our apartment door while we were eating hotdogs. How they got into our locked building, I have no idea. But how they found me was even better. Someone brought the wallet to the police station. The cops then found a business card for the apartment broker in my wallet, called him, and he told them where I lived. At 5am. Nothing missing in the wallet, no cash taken.
A few weeks later someone literally chased me down Manhattan Avenue calling "Kathryn! Kathryn!" I don't typically respond to my full name, because I've only been called this when I was growing up and getting in trouble by my mom. I had left my ATM card in the machine.
Some time after that incident, I left my digital camera at the Mark Bar, a fairly shady (but great!) local hangout down the road from my current place. The next day, the camera had been returned to the bartender, and to my surprise there were no obscene photos taken down anyone's pants.
I'm going to try to be more careful, but sometimes we all run and drop stuff, sometimes we are all forgetful, and sometimes we all get drunk and leave our precious belongings in shady bars. Thank you, Greenpoint.
And thanks to Mikey for negotiating my phone pick up.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Don't run
After a full + week of total bummers which I won't get into, I got the email at work today that my company was/is too poor to participate in the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge 5k run in June. A few people even responded to this dismal email that they would pay for the registration fee themselves and wear the same t-shirt as last year. I agreed, but to no avail. This run was my only enjoyment at said company.
Also today, my boss sprung this "what does Kate want to achieve at this company" meeting that I had to BS my way through. He didn't even tell me about the meeting, I just saw it on his calendar. I may have bought myself enough time, my grad school interview is rapidly approaching. Here's hoping.
Anyway...enough of that. I just went to the Bluepoint beer tasting at the friendly neighborhood bar, and that was enough excitement for a Thursday.
Time for bed... maybe a more exciting post next time.
Also today, my boss sprung this "what does Kate want to achieve at this company" meeting that I had to BS my way through. He didn't even tell me about the meeting, I just saw it on his calendar. I may have bought myself enough time, my grad school interview is rapidly approaching. Here's hoping.
Anyway...enough of that. I just went to the Bluepoint beer tasting at the friendly neighborhood bar, and that was enough excitement for a Thursday.
Time for bed... maybe a more exciting post next time.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Cat response to cat video
My friend sent me this cat YouTube video because people always send me cat related things, so here it is: the talking kitties video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974
I decided to show this to Chubs because he usually responds to TV and video. Here's how it went:
I'm not sure if he's really smart or really dumb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974
I decided to show this to Chubs because he usually responds to TV and video. Here's how it went:
I'm not sure if he's really smart or really dumb.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Arrhythmia
A little arrhythmic poem for a change of pace:
my love expired
the same day as my Metrocard
it's like they were wired
to make life doubly hard
the fare will soon increase
but what can you do
soon i will cease
pulling answers from you
my love expired
the same day as my Metrocard
it's like they were wired
to make life doubly hard
the fare will soon increase
but what can you do
soon i will cease
pulling answers from you
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