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I read about this in some magazine and Kate and I have been chowing down. We even got other 'brarians hooked. It's strange at first, but give it a try and eventually you, too, might find you like it. I'm talkin' about DATES AND TAHINI. You take a date and you dip it in tahini, simple yet delicious.
My college roommate and I got tattoos in Cedar Rapids, IA in college. She carefully researched hers and I got mine on a whim, picking a design out of their binder. She always teased me that it looked like Sonic the Hedgehog, which it kind of does, but recently I saw the cover of the newest (?) Sonic title, Shadow the Hedgehog and the design on the cover really is almost identical to my tattoo.
I met Kate and Alex at Hostos after work and we checked out G-Bar on Grand Concourse. We had gnocchi and mojitos, the poorly lit photos I posted don't do it justice. This was a great place to go after work. The next day Kate and I got up early and waited for four hours to get a Wii at NintendoWorld in Rockefeller Center. And I thought the people waiting out there to see the Today show taping were crazy... We succeeded! To celebrate, we went to the gym and to brunch at Sacred Chow where we had biscuits and gravy with scrambled tofu. We came home and have been playing ever since.
Kate just redesigned iPalimpsest aka kateandjenny.com. Still working out the archive pages, but look to hear from us there soon!
From sexybitcheslikeitraw.com, I've got Amae's Concrete Flowers stuck in my head and Persia White (from TV's Girlfriends) band XEO3 has some great videos on her myspace page too.
Kate and I went cell phone shopping this weekend, a way way overdue trip. We ended up getting T-Mobile Dashes and I'm really psyched and having a ball trying to learn how to use it. I really wanted to get a Palm OS something or other since I hung on to my beloved Handspring for way too long and even read the book "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins, the creator of Palm Graffiti, since I loved the Palm OS. Anyway, Kate and I shopped around at several places and a lot of them, Best Buy in particular, had Sean Hannity Fox News screenshots on all of their Palm PDA sample displays. I'm sure they paid for the endorsement, but, ew... It made me glad that the Palm didn't end up being the one I wanted to buy.
On a whim, I entered a contest on shazzie.com, to describe my "best bits", that is, the best things in my life. It was actually a great exercise and made me feel very positive, I highly recommend it. It turns out I won! My best bits were some of the best! Shazzie sent me a copy of her "Detox your World" which I've wanted to buy for ages, but is only sold in England. You can read what I wrote here.
Today Kate and I ran downtown to Fairway for breakfast, ran back, went to the Bronx botanical gardens to see the Chihuly exhibit of blown-glass sculptures in the gardens, then had lunch at an Italian restaurant on Arthur ave and cappucino icees for dessert. The weather was great today and it was a perfect combination of sunshine, exercise and carbs.
I've hated Matthew McConaughey ever since "The Wedding Planner", so I have to admit I was thoroughly amused by this.
Kate and I got back from our vacation today, and we picked up dinner from a fruitstand on the way home. We wanted dessert, however, so what to do? We had three smallish Champagne mangos that Lia brought to my birthday party and that had been in the fridge for a week, but were surprisingly, in pretty good condition, two ripe bananas that I had stuck in the fridge with the skins still on, and some phillo dough. I chopped up the fruit and added a teaspoon cinnamon and half a teaspoon allspice and layered it with the oiled phillo dough. (Phillo dough can be hard to work with, but it was just for us, so I just let it thaw a bit and didn't worry to much that the sheets weren't whole). I based this on a Vegetarian Times recipe that called for vegan sour cream, but since we didn't have any, we walked to the store and got some Coconut sorbet. (We brought $4 with us, the sorbet was $3.99, how Rachel Ray $40 a day is that?) I baked the phillo desert at 375 for 10 minutes (and turned on the fan) and we served it with the sorbet. It was so good. The mangos were so ripe and the sorbet was so sweet that it didn't need to add any sugar.
