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25 Friday Jul 2008
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this one’s for you AT & MA. nothing like a silver bullet + the beach.
TO DO:
- Red Hook is back in action babies. The ball fields will be crowded with your favorite Mexican specialties. All hail Me-He-Co.
- It’s going to be nice out so why not take that gut to the park or the beach with a few close friends and a picnic basket? Don’t forget a crisp, dry white and a piece of man-candy.
- Out of ideas for this Sunday’s BBQ? Grill up some corn, Mexican style: top it off with queso fresco or cotija cheese, chili powder, cumin, salt and lime. It’s so easy and corn is the best this time of year. Another BBQ and all-time favorite of mine is the Michelada. It’s a bloody mary beer type of concoction:
In a cold glass add: a few shakes of Maggie Seasoning, Worcestershire sauce and Cholula hot sauce (this is my fave brand), then squeeze in the juice of half a lime, add Tecate (or other light Mexican beer) and ice and chug. So cool and refreshing.
That wraps my Mexican edition of Weekending…exxes and oooohs!
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11 Friday Jul 2008
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It’s a sad moment when we mark the end of Pork Week and enter into the beginning of weekending…
Here’s a list of what we’re NOT doing this weekend:
- We are not going to the Red Hook Ballfields to eat. Why? b/c there is nothing to eat there…yet.
- We are not going to Montauk to party.
- We are not going to Smith St in Brooklyn to celebrate Bastille Day
- We are not going to the beach, oh wait. We most definitely are.
xoxo
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26 Thursday Jun 2008
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Voula’s in Mykonos, Greece. Wish we were all here…but we’re not…so:
TO DO:
- Go to Una Pizza Napoletana before they close for a month on August 11th for their annual vaycay
- On Sunday from 11am – 4pm, visit the New Amsterdam Market, housed where the old Fulton Fish Market was. Here you can find local and sustainable purveyors including cheesemongers, fishmongers, butchers and farmers.
- Take a picnic to Brooklyn Bridges Pier 1 and bask in Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls.
- Need an excuse to go to the boogie down Bronx? How about BBQ?
- Check out the I Won’t Grow Up group show at Cheim & Read Gallery. Some of the artists I am most intrigued by are rep’d here: Warhol, Koons, Murakami (though he’s more advertising-art? no?) and Basquiat.
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20 Friday Jun 2008
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Weekends make me wanna dance!
- Read the July issue of Gourmet and the June/July issue of Saveur and make the fried chicken recipes featured in each. Do a “taste test” (read: pig out!).
- Enjoy the last days of gorgeous weather before it gets July/August nasty and have a decent Latin brunch outside at Habana Outpost if you’re in Crooklyn or Esperanto if you’re in Manhattan.
- Make a Vegetarian Tortilla Soup and don’t be afraid to add in all the fresh veggies you want from the green market. In fact, you can add most anything to this kind of soup and it will turn out spectacular.
- Head to the Lower East Side and go on an eating binge tour. Let us not forget to hit up DiPaolos for other-worldly prosciutto and their home made mozzarella as well as Dumpling House for satisfying and juicy dumplings.
- Buy something: Williams-Sonoma has a 50% off sale on selected items.
- Grab a molecular cocktail.
The End.
Weekending…
13 Friday Jun 2008
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TO DO:
- The Food Film Festival starts this weekend Check it out
- Get Ice Cream at one of the ice cream trucks in DUMBO
- Go to the farmers market, get scallops, sage and bacon and make the best scallops ever. Pair this little dish with a chipotle-lime mashed potato and a cool cucumber-mint salad for an amazing and refreshing summer dish. Mashed potatoes you say? listen up beetchs, adding that cool lime makes all the difference. mwah!
- Read about Women Power on Top Chef. One day I’m going to take over Padma’s job and insist on a killer wardrobe to match each dish.
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05 Thursday Jun 2008
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Alas the work week must always come to an end…’tis a bittersweet moment as we celebrate the passing of the working portion of our week and enter into the phase I like to call: weekending.
- The Big Apple BBQ is back beetches! On Saturday from 12pm on, around Madison Square Park, eat all the BBQ you can as this annual glutton-fest returns. Be prepped to wait on long lines (that is, unless you have a coveted Press Pass…tough gig eh?) and it will be hot hot hot out but lemme tell ya’ the Q is worth it. Smell you there lovers.
- In my neck of the ‘hoods, A Taste of Prospect Heights returns for it’s 2nd year. Starting at 12pm and ending at 3pm on Saturday, pay just $25 for five tastings and eat until you run out of Pepto. Participating restos include: Amorinas, Chavellas (lurve), Udom Thai and Zaytoons. All proceeds benefit the local public schools. Show some lurve!
- One of the best things I hoovered in India was Cardamom Ice Cream. Good thing it’s summer, good thing I bought cardamom and good thing I have an ice cream maker. Do this, you won’t regret it:
- Catch the last weekend of the Sundance Institute at BAM
- Since it’s gonna be a scorcher on Sat, why not imbibe outdoors? NY Press has a nice list of outdoor spots where you can indulge in Bacchalanian festivities. Not on the list are some of my faves:
Gowanus Yacht Club 323 Smith St, Brooklyn
Harry’s at Water Taxi Beach 2-03 Borden Ave, Long Island City
4th Avenue Pub 76 Fourth Ave, Brooklyn
Bar Sepia 234 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn
Soda 629 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn
The Porch 115 Ave C, East Village (update: i went here on sat. it sucks so hard now. The clientele could not be worse it was like Murray Hill/Midtown goes to the East Villy to hang even though that crowd is the last thing the EV needs. I demand you go back to Midtown with your LV bags and colored rhinestone dresses and tanks. Puke. We’re never going back here again. Ever.)
Happy weekending.
