Dumplings from a truck

I have a dream that for one full day I will only eat food items bought out of a truck. There are several food trucks in NYC, starting with the famous Mud truck (has great chai), there is a cookie truck (I have yet to see for myself), a dessert truck, and of course the ubiquitous Mr. Softee. There is also a knife sharpening truck that comes into our neighborhood mostly on the weekends. Today I took one bold step toward my dream and bought lunch from the Rickshaw dumpling bar truck stationed at 52nd street and Lexington Avenue. I paid $6 for 6 chicken and basil dumplings, and I was a little skeptical that the dumplings were a dollar a pop, but when I got them home and bit into one I was very happy. They provide a tbai peanut dressing for dipping. I was a little low on cash, but next time I'm gonna also try the watermelonade. Yum. Longish line, but the novelty of eating from a truck means bonus points.

Baltimore fun

Was down in B-more over the weekend seeing family. Had a nice relaxing afternoon Saturday, then had a late dinner at Nick's Fish House where three out of four of us ordered the $30 prefix menu and the three of us had three huge crab cakes to take home as left overs. Great atmosphere, live music, by the water, a good place to stop right off ot I-95. Then on Sunday morning we decided to head over to the Sunday Farmers Market for some hot outta the fryer doughnuts, I love the Balitmore Farmers market, we gorged on the mini-doughnuts, snowballs, and sausages. Yum. If you are ever in town I highly recommend stopping by, but don't get there too late, many stands sell out of their fine produce or baked goods or whathaveyou. It also pays to shop around must corn vendors were selling corn for $5 a dozen, and we found a guy with a sign that said $4.50 a dozen, then he only charged us $4 and threw in an extra ear. :)

Poor chalups

She had an abscess on her front right paw. Now she has to wear a cone when she's alone so she doesn't lick it.

How much would you pay for your dream?

El Paso in East Harlem

Hi folks, sorry for not updating my posts regularly, I figured no one was really reading this so why bother. But I heard in person from two friends who want me to start posting again, so here goes. A few weeks back my sister asked me to transfer her VHS video tape of her wedding to DVD. Since we own a combo DVD/VHS player I was happy to do this. But when I put the tape into the VCR part of the player, the VCR wouldn't grab it. I tried pushing it in myself, which I knew wasn't a good idea, but did anyway, and to make a long story short it's broken. We've maybe put five VHS tapes in the damn thing, we hardly ever use that part of the player. But go figure. So, fast forward and the DVD/VCR player sits in our dining room gathering dust, while we watch movies on our X-box. It was difficult but we finally found a place that would even attempt to fix our player and it happens that that place is in East Harlem.

So last weekend, we took a cab ride up to 105th Street and dropped off our DVD/VCR, and then proceeded to wander around looking for a place to have brunch. We stumbled upon a little gem known as El Paso. We walked in at just the right time, when they still had ample seating in the back court yard. And the place was just lovely combine that with a beautiful day and amazing delicious food and you've got a bonafide winner. I can't recommend this place enough, it's worth it to take a trip up there just to eat here. I ordered the roast pork burrito and it was just so flavorful. One small caveat was that the ends of the burrito were filled with chopped jalapenos, and a big mouth full was just a little too much for me..but if you like the hots..go for it. This place was beautiful, good service, great prices and mouthwatering food. I'm hoping maybe something else will break and we'll have to take another trip up there...I'm already counting the days until we can pick up the DVD/VCR player...they can fix it for about $130. Oh, and while you're up there walk around the corner to Third Avenue and buy an italian ice for $1 from the man with the little cart, and you have the makings of a great Saturday.

Same blue dye in M&Ms linked to reducing spine injury - CNN.com

Same blue dye in M&Ms linked to reducing spine injury - CNN.com

This is an interesting article, but the very blue little rodent is what caught my eye.

A great Sunday

Dimsum, lychee sorbet at the chinatown icecream factory, then hanging out at whiskey town while John and Co. drank pickel backs. Hit a Chinatown bakery, then we ducked into the Tribeca Grand to use the bathroom and the weather gods decided we should stay for drinks and appetizers. Now we are also enjoying free popcorn from their movie night.