Kerry Beal

Pork ‘steaks’ with a blend akin to Montreal steak spice, smashed potatoes and veg

Cocktail hour at long last - one fish hook, one saved life - I’m ready for a drink! Averna JimJam

From Princeton - let's see - somewhere between 12 hours and 39 minutes and 13 hours and 20 minutes depending on the route you take. I'll be back in there by the time you arrive!

Back to normal! Actually a lot less bottles than last year - we did trim some. So at 2 minutes after 6 today - the Eeyore's Requiem was served! '\\ The BGE was at 600º F when I put the steaks on. They were done very quickly!

One of the first boxes I opened contained the CSO and 6 silicone ice cube trays - production is underway!

Yup - heading home around Aug 9 I believe. Coming for a visit?

Sadly no - this is a year to year unit. When the owners sell their property out at Freer Point they will move into town and we will be back where we started. So it's everything back into boxes 6 weeks from now.

I fixed the nice clean counters - also the nice clean floor with a torn milk bag. Furniture is looking familiar - they moved all the furniture from the old place to here - I was looking forward to sleeping on a brand new bed - appears it's not to be.

Brother's Perryman - premixed and brought along, ice from the ward ice machine.

Indeed you must - and you must come while we are here!

And my snack on the flight

Yes - for one year only at a time - so stuff in bins

So with Manitoulin coming up on Friday - I need to start building my alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes. Apparently this fancy lounge has two variations of beer glasses but no cocktail glasses. They do however have a lot of bottles. So I mixed myself equal parts Tanqueray, sweet vermouth and grand mariner.

After a little difficult negotiation the 3 of us are ensconced in the brand new LaGuardia Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge. It’s the breakfast/lunch turnover so we are waiting! I was muttering about no ‘plain’ tea while I headed back to my purse to get tea bags - was told they had plain - “we have a Earl Grey and camomile” - I don’t think he believes me that that is not plain tea. Breakfast for @Alleguede Lunch for @Alleguede - same shit different day apparently

Maricel seems have have earned herself a James Beard Award for that very restaurant. As well as a Beard award among others for her book on Latin cuisine. A true high achiever!

Looks like our timing for leaving is just about right. Didn't bring umbrellas with us.

47th half a block from Broadway.

While we were out and about this afternoon we saw this fellow on the street - watching the goings on down one of those sets of stairs from the street to the basement. Tonight we were invited out to Hoboken to one of Maricel Precilla's restaurants Cucharamama. Maricel was presenting the International Chocolate Awards for the Americas. Plantain chips with salsas May I just mention how hot this salsa was? Empanada's were spinach and meat versions. Chicken croquettes. Yucca sticks with green mayo of some sort. White sangria and mojitos were free flowing. A tasty shrimp with some veg and plantain chips. There was quite a crowd and after the awards had gone on for a while - it became rather warm and required escape to the cooler outside.

That works for meltaway (actually cool until it starts to thicken) - gianduja needs a little more futzing I find.

It's actually a store with Amazon products in it. We weren't looking for it - just stumbled across it. Here

Don't think I showed you what I got from JB Prince. A raplette (bit of a break on the price because it's the floor model), a pair of tiny tongs. Wish I'd gotten a couple actually - all the places I keep tongs would benefit from a pair. And they threw in a branded marker pen! We took another smelly Lyft back towards home (what is it with these vehicles that have a million little smelly trees hanging from the mirror or 15 of the air fresheners in the vents. I nearly wheezed myself to death. It's hard not to breath for several dozen blocks. We stopped in a Chick-fil-A at @Alleguede's request. He noticed one yesterday and hasn't stopped begging since. Dragged it all back to the room to eat. Deluxe for @Alleguede and Bianca. Not so deluxe for me. After we ate - we had to weigh and test the Kouign Aman from Dominique Ansel and try out the canelle. (and of course critique). @Alleguede's Kouign aman still lead the pack.

Lol - I actually know those bums so I see them at various events.

Cool to 23, reheat to 27,28

Amazon store pic for Anna

New Essex Market - great suggestion Mitch. found some interesting stuff - confectioners closed today though