Belated
Belated birthday wishes to this blog, which turned two this month. At the moment I think I could have this blog taken away from me by blog protective services, though, for neglect.But I was inspired to post by this amazing little gadget that my very sweet Swiss Saarinen researcher gave me yesterday:
Isn't it lovely? It is a REX vegetable peeler. Kornell said that 98% of Swiss households have one of these. It is light as a feather and made peeling my potato last night feel like peeling butter. Incredible! And check out the little potato-eye-popping-out widget on the side:
In other news, we just got back from Chicago, where we ate at Alinea, for better and for worse (neither of us cared much for the spun-sugar dessert that felt like chewing a mouthful of licorice-flavored fish bones, but some of our other courses were LIFE-CHANGING), and also at Hot Doug's, where our shared three sausages and platter of duck-fat fries allowed us to go the entire rest of the day without eating, and also at Kuma's where we had incredible burgers with Kim and Eric, and at the Pitchfork festival where we ate some kind of delicious lamb + beef + pork pattie thing served with spicy eggplant sauce, and at Avec, where the lovely bartender said, upon learning that we were leaving that meal to go to Hot Doug's for Second Dinner, "It is clear that it is not your first time at this rodeo." (But actually, it marked us as mere amateurs, since we learned when we got there that Hot Doug's is only open for lunch. We went back another day.) I have a huge list of places we didn't get to. Fortunately I'm going back at the end of this month.
We are going to Still River Cafe this weekend (finally!) to celebrate our eighth anniversary together. It was eight years ago this week that we first kissed on the Gantry Plaza State Park piers to the catcalls and hoots of the kids riding around us on bikes and skateboards. Who cared about them? We just took another swig of wine from our picnic bottle and kissed some more to spite them.
Oh, right, and we are buying a house. This one:
If you have hidden carpentry skills, or an excess of plywood laying around your house, we would like to hear from you.
posted by Mrs. Delicious @ 6:21 PM
4 Comments:
ooh, a house! congratulations! i have no skills to offer at all, just the knowledge that i have real estate envy. one day i will be a Grown-up and i, too, will own property.
I have neither excess plywood nor carpentry skillz but I will be there! You know, directing and stuff.
Hi - I just stumbled onto your blog and am delighted to see it, since I'm also a New Haven-based foodie!
Have you tried L'Orcio, by the way?
Hi anon! Glad to see you! L'Orcio is great, but I haven't been in a long time. This will be a good motivator to go back!
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