A Wintry Update

Happy New Year! If you're excited about 2012, you aren't alone. 2011 was mildly rotten for a lot of folks (Corduroy Appreciators aside), and it got off to a rocky start for me too. I blame the awkward way "twenty eleven" rolls off the tongue. "Twenty twelve" is so much nicer, isn't it? This year is a leap year, the end of the current Mayan Creation, the Queen's Diamond Jubillee, the OLYMPICS for Pete's sake! It's going to be good.

We spent our New Year's upstate, hiking in Minnewaska State Park on New Year's Eve in the glorious unseasonable weather that no one in New York seems to be complaining much about (so out of character!).

We ate Korean-Style Steak & Eggs, a recipe from The Good Fork in Red Hook (where we got hitched!) from The New Brooklyn Cookbook(Christmas gift from Chris. Good job Biggie!) (but you can find the recipe here)

We made cardamom marshmallows, because Chris unceremoniously tossed the last of my stash from the last time we made them. So what if they were a year old?! What's with his obsession with food going bad? He's as incorrigible as Heather's Gary.

Today, it finally snowed.

Chris and I went for a walk just to get out of the house and out of (my) PJs.

We happened on a tasting that was going on at a delightful new shop nearby called The Winey Neighbor.

A nice guy from Janelle's was there handing out samples of a Trini dish I'd never had before, called buljol & bake. Buljol is a salt cod salad with lime, cilantro and guacamole in a fresh, warm "bake," which is essentially fried bread.

The big news around here, though, is that (if all goes well) we are moving apartments to a place we're going to own! After a decade of pressing our noses against realtors' glass, two lengthy post-graduate educations and one expensive one, and five years of gainful employment, we're buying our first home. We'll be doing some renovations, and I expect to post about them here, but I have to tell you it's beautiful just the way it is. Especially the two bathrooms. And the roof deck.

We'll be moving to Crown Heights, changing neighborhoods ever so slightly (and only by NYC standards . . . it's a 10 minute walk from where we now live).

Here is one of our new neighbors:

As you can see, St. Paul & Mohammed live there! And our new street:

Not too bad, huh? Anyway, stay tuned for that.

I also have a FO to show you next week!

Posted by jess at January 21, 2012 4:49 PM | TrackBack