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Happy 26th Wedding Anniversary to us

17 Thursday Nov 2016

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Happy Anniversary to us, twenty six years ago, today we pledged our vows to each other. The vows for better, for worse, in sickness and in health have stood the test of time so far, here is to twenty six more years.

We did our celebrating Monday night with a lovely meal at Menton in Boston near our hotel where we stayed before my surgery. Today we are relaxing, watching t.v and reveling in the good fortune that my doctors pay attention to my husband when he wants more tests to get to the bottom of whatever ails me. If we hadn’t gotten the second MRI, we wouldn’t have known about the second tumor and it could have grown into my brain and the surgery would have been much worse. Thanks to my husband’s vigilance, the tumor was caught early and I’m home the next day on our wedding anniversary. Perfect.

Day two of the New York experience

18 Sunday Nov 2012

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This weekend has turned out so wonderfully. This morning we woke up nice and leisurely, 10:00 a.m, nowhere to rush to and no one to rush for, we had the luxury of being able to claim the time for ourselves. This precipitated a slow walk down to Macy’s to see about a watch repair, on the way I called my sister to see if we could come over to visit after lunch, she had invited our mother and our mother’s best friend over for lunch, it was short notice but my sister of course said “yes, I was about to call you to come over” so that was all set.

We had a great late breakfast at the Tick Tock diner, a classic old fashioned diner that still exists in New York. We both had two eggs over easy, sausage and rye toast, easily my favorite breakfast when I am away from home. I have a very specific way of eating my eggs and sausage; first I cut a bit of sausage and cut a piece of the white to eat them together, the whites of the egg are bland so the salty, smoky sausage provides the pep that the egg whites so desperately need, I then take the smallest half of the rye toast and break open the yolk and use that piece to mop up the golden essence of the egg, once I am done soaking up the runny golden yolk, I lift the egg onto the other half of the toast and I eat it as an open-faced sandwich. I do all of this once more time with the second egg, I know that it sounds way too methodical and extremely thought out just for eggs but I have been eating them this way for years and I don’t remember what pushed me to eat them this way faithfully each and every time.

After breakfast we went to Toys-R-Us to get something for our niece and nephew, my hubby picked out two remote controlled helicopters. My hubby picked well because when we got to my sister’s the kids were so excited to see us and the Toys-R-Us bag, my brother-in-law was actually quite happy with the presents as well. My sister has three kids just as I do (ha,ha). We had a great visit, all of us talking and laughing while they were eating a nice lunch of a vegetable frittata and a green salad. My hubby and I were more than happy to join them for dessert, my mother had gone to a wonderful French patisserie near her house and picked out chocolate eclairs, Paris Brest in miniature, the same with the Sainte Honore, bread pudding and a chocolate praline hazelnut cake. These little cakes were the perfect size, small smackerals of refined creamy and luscious puff pastry. We all visited for a few hours and then we came back into the city.

Tonight’s dinner plans were for Thai cuisine; a Thai fusion restaurant downtown on 6th Avenue between 11th and 12th streets. Downtown New York is very different from midtown, the night life begins much later downtown than in midtown and the ambience of downtown is much more laid back and bohemian. Our restaurant was called Kin Shop and it was very good. We started with a dish that I make at home called laab, it’s made with ground pork normally, here we had it with minced duck which we both were very excited about, it was delicious but a little too spicy. Laab is a salad made with sauteed ground meat with garlic, chives, cilantro and mint, fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, crushed red pepper flakes and you serve it with lettuce leaves. It is fun to eat and I like to make it at home because I control the spice. We also had fried pork belly and oysters, very flavorful, not too spicy and a good contrast in texture and flavor. We weren’t disappointed with our main courses; I had roasted beef marrow served with toasted flatbread and my husband had sliced breast of duck, medium rare, served with toasted flatbread and a curried sauce. Both dishes were light, very flavorful yet simple. Delicious because of the ingredients not in spite of anything complicated done to them. It was another home run for dinner.

Overall this weekend was a superb getaway with my hubby to celebrate our marriage to each other and the fact that he planned this all as a surprise is testament to how lucky I am with my hubby.

Happy wedding anniversary to my hubby

17 Saturday Nov 2012

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My hubby and I are celebrating 22 years of marriage today and my hubby has spoiled me. He surprised me with a weekend in New York City at the Intercontinental Hotel at Times Square. After the decades of spending so much time on the road in Holiday Inns, my hubby is considered a platinum ambassador guest and that gets us special rates at all hotels under the Holiday Inn umbrella so here we are, at this lovely hotel.

We are sitting in bed after having come back from an excellent restaurant called La Silhouette, recommended to us by the hotel concierge. Both the food and the service were top notch, what I especially loved were the small portions, what’s funny is that we hadn’t really known if the portions were going to be small when we ordered, we ordered two appetizers each because there were too many appetizers calling to us, so when the plates appeared with small portions, I was very happy. The main courses were just the right size as well so we didn’t leave the restaurant stuffed and uncomfortable.

My two appetizers were very different in taste, texture and type. My first course, if you will, was a heritage poached egg on a bed of truffle infused white polenta with braised mushrooms. The dish was as light as a cloud, as fluffy as a custard and tasted creamy and earthy. The poached egg, when I broke the yolk blended beautifully with the polenta and the braised mushrooms provided a satisfying base to the light and fluffy eggs and polenta. My hubby chose a country pate studded with pistachios and raisins, it was a wonderful execution of the French classic and the way it was served, with coarse grain mustard and celeriac remoulade, it was delicious.

Our second courses came, I had the seared foie gras on a bed of caramelized diced pineapple and smashed plantains, in my humble opinion, seared foie gras is one of the silkiest and smoothest things that one can ever eat. It is often paired with a sweet compliment and an acidic component to counterbalance the rich and sweet nature of the seared foie. It was heavenly to eat. My hubby’s second course was equally lovely, large shrimp sautéed and presented on a bed of roasted root vegetables and served in a complex seafood broth. He was very quiet eating this course, that is how delicious it was.

At this point, we were still open for the final course and at least in my case, I was still very curious about my third course. I had ordered sea bass and lobster with a butternut squash and hazelnut risotto and I couldn’t wait to see what the creative mastermind in the kitchen was going to wow me with. My hubby had ordered seared sea scallops served on rutabaga and other root vegetables. Were we blown away by the delicate yet intense flavors of both our dishes? Oh yes we were, the marriage of the root vegetables and the butternut squash with the seafood was perfection. There was not a single flavor out of place or un-complimentary. I love butternut squash, it goes with everything, you can make it into anything; soup, mashed, gratin, sautéed, cassoulet and even pie. In the case of both of our main courses, the butternut squash played the supporting role in the dynamic of the seared scallops and in my dish, the seared sea bass and poached lobster. It was tremendous.

We didn’t get dessert or coffee because we were perfectly satisfied. Now we are going to continue watching t.v and enjoy playing hookey from home.

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