Fun
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Bad Blogger
I went away for the weekend and didn't even bring my camera. For shame. A recap, in no particular order — grilled pizza, four mile run, oysters at the swanky new Out, a little singing, grilling in the rain, s'mores, Pegu cocktails, hot tub, challah french toast, bacon, more bacon, more rain. Home early for
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Off the Grid
I spent 4 1/2 days deep in the woods, and although I had cell phone service, I was pretty much off the grid the entire time. I had a wonderful and relaxing time — it was a perfect way to ring in 2009. I learned a few things about myself while I was there: The
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Jam-Packed
What you see here is just one jam-packed part of my weekend — a cooler jam-packed full of grass-fed and finished beef from a farm in CT, taking the ride home with us on Metro North. This is only a portion of the half of a cow that we picked up — the rest is
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More Pictures, Fewer Words
You'd think I'd have a little time on my hands these days, now that I'm done with Gothamist, but alas, not so much. I ran off to Chicago for about 24 hours last week then drove up to VT and am finally catching up. Some photo highlights: Deus — the champagne of beers. Literally —
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The Other Side of Summer*
Am off to the beach for my final sharehouse weekend. Although I'm not sure the weather will cooperate, I know it'll be fun regardless. Plus the food should be pretty damn good, as usual! Tonight is lamb tartare and an amazing Lebanese spread, and tomorrow I'm helping a novice group cook make crab cakes, pears
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Of Sand Castles and Sangria
It was a gorgeous beach weekend and a perfect Saturday for the 2nd Annual Sand Castle competition. Although I wasn't part of the artistic or labor crews, I did play a vital role — working on the team responsible for getting the cocktails and the prizes down to the beach. Mission completed. Many thanks to
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Hold on to Your Silverware . . .
I know Pete was disappointed when he realized that there wasn’t anything terribly exciting happening after I said that. I literally meant that people should hold on to their silverware for the next course — it just sounded like something wild was coming up next. “Hold on to your silverware, folks, it’s time for the
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A Fun, Food, and Friend-Filled Foggy Fourth
Well, the weather didn’t cooperate all that much, but the weekend was still a success. Not so great for tanning, but perfect for the annual pig roast (complete with annual rice and bean-cooking panic), a day trip to Ocean Beach, quality time on the deck, two semi-decent runs, the nastiest sandwich I ever ate (although
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Beach-bound
Today is all about counting the hours until I can take off for the beach. Looking forward to sun, sand, good times, and THE PIG!!!! (see past entries for details)
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Three Day Weekend
Just got back into town from a long weekend at the beach. Today was not the best beach day, but I took advantage of the relative coolness to go on a long run. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's the longest I've ever run — over 6 miles. Now I've just got to do