A Walk with the Wildman

Chickweed, one of the wild edible plants we learned how to identify yesterday while following "Wildman" Steve Brill around Prospect Park. He gives many other walking tours, including at Central Park and Blue Hill Stone Barns.

Daysleeper

I see today with a newsprint fray. My night is colored headache grey.

Farm fresh eggs from a small farm in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Compared to supermarket eggs, the yolks are much smaller and vary in size, but the color (no photoshop here!) is so rich.

I used some of the eggs to try out my own variation of this chai ice cream recipe from the blog Not Eating Out in New York. I didn't have all the ingredients and used raw milk and cream instead. I thought it turned out terrible at first but now that I'm trying it again, it tastes pretty good!

Spring Forward!!!

I would have worked tonight, if I had remembered we were going to lose an hour today-- I was one of the suckers who worked an extra hour for free back in the fall!

But I'm also glad I got to enjoy a nice Saturday night out, even if it was raining. A nice dinner at Golden Palace in Flushing (which leftovers I am now eating!) followed by Green Zone.

Speaking of movies, I've seen quite a few lately. Last week, Petek came to visit us from Pennsylvania for a couple of days. We've only been able to hang out together a handful of times since we met as roommates in Beijing in 2004. She has lived in a different country every year since then-- and now speaks better Mandarin than me! But neither of us could understand a single word of the Northern Chinese dialect spoken by the characters in Walking on the Wild Side, one of the 7 films currently featured at the Asia Society. The series, called China's Past, Present, Future on Film is going on through April.

From Asia Society

Went to Bobolink Dairy in Vernon, New Jersey today for a farm tour. We also picked up some of their delicious breads and cheeses from their store.

Below, the ciabatta bread made with duck fat

and our favorite cranberry walnut sticks

Kumquats are definitely not locally produced, but I couldn't resist buying them anyways. I thought about making a marmalade but really didn't feel like going through all the effort to can and preserve it-- I am lazy-- so I decided to experiment with our ice cream machine.

A day later and we had kumquat sorbet!

Since I've been posting lots of food pictures, I might as well continue.

Prosciutto and mozzarella from Fairway

and Neil's pasta with bolognese sauce-- his best yet.

Making Kumquat Sorbet

More photos soon.

Lovely day.