Lemon Chess And Derby Pies
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
Birthday Burger
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.
Why I Love This City
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.