Until Sarah marries the man of her dreams!
I’m currently in Argentina and am unable to celebrate and party the day away at her bachelorette party.
These photos are from her bridal shower-
Have fun!
Nicole
24 Saturday Aug 2013
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inUntil Sarah marries the man of her dreams!
I’m currently in Argentina and am unable to celebrate and party the day away at her bachelorette party.
These photos are from her bridal shower-
Have fun!
Nicole
17 Saturday Aug 2013
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inHey everyone!
What a crazy 7 weeks I’ve had with a summer intensive program at Weill Cornell’s Medical College MS in Clinical Epidemiology program on top of grant applications, a paper that I’ve been trying to submit, and experiments.
But I’ve made it and didn’t get sick until the final week! Now I just need to pack, clean out the refrigerator and then I’m off on vacation for two weeks, yay!!
I will leave you with this cute picture of Mei:
And one great meal of the week-baked halibut with a roasted corn, peach and tomatillo salsa:
Oh and a cheese plate from last Sunday’s dinner:
Catch you on the other side,
Nicole
07 Wednesday Aug 2013
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inBastille-“The Things We Lost in the Fire”
Lemaitre-“Time to Realize”
Disclosure-“F For You”
Later,
Nicole
06 Tuesday Aug 2013
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inHey guys,
So this city is always full of new kinds of treats, thank goodness we are also forced to walk a whole lot!! Also, by eats of late I mean like over the last 2 months.
First up the Yummm! Bun! and Doughssant from Chikalicious dessert club. I had a bite of the former about a month ago, it was okay, Ryan was a fan. Ryan had the doughssant last week and thought it was only okay, don’t think he would have another. The treat comes after the recent cronut craze from Dominique Ansel Bakery, as in the croissant doughnut that requires getting in line at 5am. The Chikalicious version is always available-but not something that makes me too excited.
The Yummm Bun.
And the macaron ice cream sandwich from Payard’s. This was amazing, and I would go back without hesitation!! I had the raspberry pistachio which was my favorite, but also tried the strawberry cheesecake, and mango coconut-shared bites from friends.
To balance everything out lots of vegetables in between including a wonderful veggie filled dinner from Dirt Candy. My favorite dish that Ryan and I need to recreate, Parsnip gnocchi!
We also had the mango poached tofu with these spicy crispy sea beans, pretty yummy!
We’ve also created some restaurant worthy meals at home. Slow cooked ribs, asparagus, and fava beans.
With corn ice cream and sweet olive oil cornmeal cake for dessert! It was the cornbread we didn’t have with our ribs ;).
And to end the post, a slice of Artichoke pizza which Ryan shared with me. The pizza slices were huge, it was the size of Ryan’s face but so good…just not something to have everyday.
Catch ya soon,
Nicole
05 Monday Aug 2013
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inYay a new post! How is the summer treating you?!? Can you believe it’s already August? August always makes me sad because it means summer is nearly over, but I’m going to stay positive, and enjoy the warm weather while it last. Plus I’m posting from my new MacBook Pro, so I really can’t complain!!
And enjoy the warm weather I did this weekend. On Sunday Ryan and I went on a nice 2.5 hour bike ride uptown, around Central Park, and back down, lots of fun and I couldn’t believe how quickly the time passed. We then picked up some groceries for an impromptu dinner with a friend who was in the city for the weekend.
For an appetizer I made beet, watermelon, mozzarella, and basal skewers with coffee balsamic vinaigrette, olive oil, and sea salt sprinkled on top.
This was served along a bourbon cocktail-made with bourbon, ginger syrup from the last post, cayenne pepper, and a little negro modelo to finish it off.
For the main course it was a summer chicken salad with roasted chicken, fava beans, mushrooms, red onions, green peppers, maple cured bacon, and homemade croutons.
All enjoyed in our outdoor courtyard.
The wind was quite something so we moved back to the apartment for dessert-birthday cake from the momofuku milk bar.
Umm, that was some seriously awesome cake!
We finished the night with several rounds of bananagrams. A great to end the weekend :).
Have a great week,
Nicole