So how did you celebrate St. Patrick's Day? I spent the day with few friends eating pies of course. It was also a prelude to my birthday week celebration (yes...birthday week). Which ever pie you get at Four & Twenty Blackbirds make sure to get a dollop of fresh whipped cream and which ever pie you get....it will definitely be delicious. Though I do have my favorites and they are usually the chess pies. Always creamy, always good.
Four & Twenty Blackbirds, 439 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn
Where would I be without my friends on my own birthday? I probably be grumpy and alone and eating my dying asparagus. Birthdays do not have to be elaborate or showy. All you need are friends (and a boss) to surprise you with a container of breakfast items from an Amish Market. Then your boss goes out to buy you a Doctor Who mug, yeh! Then followed by an impromptu burger and fries eatin, beer drinkin and conversations filled with laughin. And it wouldn't be a proper birthday without gettin some ice cream while huntin down Harry Potter because he's shooting a movie in the neighborhood.
Things like these make me grateful for what I have and where I am at now.
Early Sunday night. Walking from Williamsburg to Greenpoint. Sunset. Days getting longer. Far away the Manhattan skyline. The Empire State Building visible from where I was standing. Happy days.
This past Monday was the Food52 Piglet Party. For people that don't know the Piglet, it's basically having cookbooks go head to head with one another till you have only one book left. Each round there are judges picking which book to move onto the next bracket. In the end Alice Waters picked Joe Beef over Momofuku Milk Bar.
The party was loads of fun. I got to see some old friends, few new acquaintances and shook hands with an idol (SARA JENKINS OF PORCHETTA!!)
I also found out about the Craft Coffee and SoCo Creamery (ARGH their espresso chip ice cream was so good).
