Archive for November, 2004
- a 2 day workweek
- thanksgiving with the charbonneaus. just like xmas, but without the gifts! and i didn’t gloat about the red sox once.
- a long weekend in nyc. i should day, a long weekend of eating in nyc.
- frank. this is the sort of place we crave on those cold and rainy nights when we want someplace warm and comforting. and we had a perfect night for it. not to mention that the black pasta was as good as i remembered.
- we are now on a first name basis with the employees of hogs & heifers
- the glory of a warm H&H everything bagel
- the pizza from sullivan street bakery. this isn’t your everyday normal sort of nyc slice joint. this is true roman-style pizza, with the closest thing to the pizza bianca at forno in campo di fiore. we tried the bianca, one with zucchini, gruyere, and breadcrumbs, a fennel, parm, and breadcrumb, and a muchroom. my favorite was the fennel, but then again, i’m a fennel freak. look for this one on the next carpenter pizza menu.
- babbo. this is probably the one restaurant that i’ve been wanting to go to for years, and we finally made it over there. who says you need reservations to get in here? just walk in and wait for a table at the bar. a very cool and small place that’s just bursting with energy. and the food? pretty much everything i hoped it would be. grilled octopus, mint “love letters” with spicy lamb sausage, wild striped bass with cockles and baby squid, and a grilled guinea hen with five lilies. the guinea hen was the big winner of the night. such incredible flavor from that bird. we need to find a place to buy it around us for cheap. i guess we can check another restaurant off of our list.
- we love our vietnamese food and we eat it all the time. but no place is as good as saigon grill. just fresher than anyplace around here, they’re always busy, and always good.
- a trip to nyc wouldn’t be complete without a visit to ‘ino, our favorite panini joint, and one of our favorite restaurants period, anywhere. it’s everything that we love about a place, great inexpensive food, friendly people, a cozy room, and they even take credit cards now.
- probably our favorite cheap restaurant of all time, where certain things on the menu cost $0.95, panna 2 is also our favorite indian restaurant anywhere. i think there’s even more crap hanging from the the ceiling now, it’s more packed than ever, but we still love it. and the total bill for two is never more than $15.
- an emergency stop at baja in CT.
- yes, we really ate this much this weekend.
- another trim of the mop. although this one didn’t cost me $50.
- the sox are SI’s sportsmen of the year
- badly drawn boy friday night at avalon. his shows never cease to impress me, and this was no exception. despite the very early show time and small early turnout, he played a great and entertaining show. and for him, the two and a half hour show was a short one.
- u2, how to dismantle an atomic bomb
- “working” from home while my car was getting worked on. hopefully, this is that last i’ll have to do with my car for a long time now. and if you live anywhere near watertown and need work done on your car, go see ishkan.
- i got my first ever migraine this weekend. what the hell is wrong with my head?
- in a new level of craziness, we cured our own salmon this week. and it came out gooooooooood. and to be honest, it was in credibly easy to do, if you don’t mind having a brick in your fridge for a few days. this is one we’ll definitely be doing again.
- susanne’s new cool glasses. now she can go out in public with them!
- having “homework” for the first time in about 7 years.
- sunday lunch in hingham
- this is probably my favorite cheese in the world right now. we can’t stop buying it.
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