Pearls

Sliced beef with hot peppers.

Diced chicken with peanuts and hot peppers.

Broccoli in brown sauce.

White and brown rice.

Ordered in some Chinese with the fam (we are still backtracking to last month here).

Easter Dinner

Lucky me, I got another birthday cake: carrot with cream cheese icing.

Blackberry cheesecake.

Carved roast ham.

Pogachka is heavy with a crunchy, glazed crust and an almost pound-cake-like consistency on the inside. It has a slight citrusy taste.

This is an Easter tradition on my mom's side of the family. It's a Croatian Easter bread called pogachka, the recipe has been passed down and both my mother and my aunt make some every year. My mom made about 8 loaves this year.

I forgot to get a picture of this in the tray, but it's zucchini parmesan.

Salad.

Hard-boiled Easter eggs.

Rolls and scallions.

Gina won the Easter Egg Hunt as usual.

BBQ at Haley's

The lovely hostess sporting dessert: key lime pie!

One of my many plates (Haley even cut up fresh jalapenos for me since she knows I love spicy food, thanks Haley!).

Basil and cheddar sausage.

Burgers and doogsss.

This has nothing to do with food but was too cute to leave out: Haley, looking adorable and pretty much the same, circa 2 years old I am guessing.

Asparagus and mayo dip.

Veggiessss.

Haley's signature guacamole accompanied by a multitude of chips (and a few stray beers).

Republic with Lucy, Shannon, and Pauline

My glass noodles with chicken.

Lucy's noodles with beef.

Shannon's (curried chicken soup, perhaps?).

Pauline's: i think it was pad thai (with all the exceptions possible).

Lucy and I split this appetizer. I believe it was fried tofu in a peanut sauce.

Sapporo.

Miss Lucy came to visit NYC for an evening and her, Shannon, Pauline and I went out to dinner. I forget what everyone ordered because it was so long ago so (unless any of these ladies could/would care to remind me) just the pictures for ya! I suck, sorry.

Motel Motel BBQ

Before my friend Erik's band's last show at a house party (dinner number 2 for me).

Ako with Allie and Alex

Dessert: red bean and green tea mochi.

My dinner: Tuna Love Roll.

We shared some edamame.

Allie brought cold sake.

Bodhi Tree with Katie

I had spicy basil rice with tofu.

Katie had pad thai.

Chicken Satay.

We split appetizers: summer rolls.

Forgive me, all four of you who read this! I am so far behind. Here are pictures from last month when I went to a Thai restaurant called Bodhi Tree in the east village with Katie.

Otto with the Fam

My main course: Cheese and mushroom pizza- yum!

Another glance at some of the antipasti.

Cheese platter.

...lentils and pasta with cauliflower.

Some antipasti: 3 types of olives, mushrooms, eggplant, broccoli rabe, asparagus...

Dips for the cheese platter: apricot, truffle honey, and cherry.

For my belated birthday dinner on April 14th, my parents, Gina, and I went out to Otto. It was delicious and filling, per usual. And they have a great wine list, of course.

Chinese Food and Band Practice

A couple weeks ago, Mattie and I ordered in from Pearls to keep us going through our late-night band practice. We split an order of fried pork dumplings, she got the sesame chicken, and I had the diced chicken with cashews in hot pepper sauce.