We met Scruffy and a couple of the other Lil Monsters dogs three Fridays ago, and I'll write more about that experience in a later post. For now, I'm going to start writing about more-recent events and will work backwards in time until I'm all caught up on the pretty cool things we've been doing.
Last night, Tony and I went to Andy's 31st birthday party at Sardi's, which was the location for his 30th birthday celebration too. We hung out a lot with Mark McC and his sweetie, Jose. Here's a photo Tony took of the birthday boy and me:
And here's a photo he took of me acting like I'm pinching Norbert Leo Butz's cheek in his caricature at Sardi's:
Yesterday afternoon, I took Rudy to the vet to have a lump on his stomach examined. I assumed it was a harmless lipoma, and the vet thought that's what it was too, but he took a fluid sample for testing to make sure, which is what I was hoping he'd do. I also picked up Emme's ashes.
For lunch yesterday, we had leftover ribs, potatoes and carrots that Tony had cooked up in the crock pot on Friday evening. Delish! The meat-to-fat ratio on the ribs was quite high. I contributed some roasted romanesco, to which I had added only some almond oil, minced garlic, and a sprinkling of salt:
Yesterday morning at the farmers market, I bought these gorgeous dahlias:
I bought the vase after work on Friday to replace the one Rudy knocked over with his tail. I floated two of the blossoms because their stems had snapped.
Earlier yesterday morning, I went to the TKTS booth at South Street Southport to try to get discount tickets for today's matinee of Anything Goes for Dan and Paul, Dan's mother—who has a birthday coming up this Saturday—and Tony and me, but there were none available.
Last weekend, Tony's buddy Mark from DC came into the city for a too brief visit. He arrived by bus late that Friday night. On Saturday morning, Tony and Mark did some shopping on Bleecker Street while I hit the Union Square Greenmarket. In the afternoon, we went to the High Line, and Mark and I both took a gajillion pictures:
We went from the High Line to Chelsea Market. Tony bought some monkfish tail at Lobster Place to cook for dinner. I had tried to get some at our more-local Greenmarket, at Abingdon Square, earlier in the day, after I'd gotten back from Union Square and before I'd gone to meet up with the fellows, but the stand had just sold out of it.
For a starter, Mark and Tony made a no-cook carrot-ginger soup that was creamy textured thanks to the addition of avocado. (Like Tony, Mark can't eat dairy.) They prepared it using the juicer Tony had bought a little while ago. It was crazy good.
Tony did a good job of preparing the monkfish. The texture was a little unusual but not in a bad way, and I liked the flavor. He also cooked some Brussels sprouts and mushrooms. We ate it with the somewhat embarrassingly named Cupcake Chardonnay I'd purchased at Chelsea Wine Vault. I'd asked one of the people who worked there for a buttery chardonnay, which is what Tony had said he wanted to serve with the fish, and that's what the guy handed me. I liked it more than Tony, but he thought it went well with dinner and was indeed buttery. (Mark didn't have any.)
Mark left fairly early the next morning to catch his return bus. Tony took this photo of the two of us. Mark is wearing a cool new hat he'd bought the day before:
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