January 21, 2010

2010 - Day 21

I met up with a few people for dinner at a little Venezuelan place on West 18th Street. They had arepas with just about every kind of filling which was amazing. I choose the chiquinquira which had guayanes cheese, avocado, and tomatoes. We also tried the Venezuelan beer which is called Polar and is pictured here.

January 20, 2010

2010 - Day Twenty

I got a dessert recipe of the month calendar from the Grammar School Christmas party. So I decided that I would get it started with the January cookie which is a ginger/molasses cookie with a chocolate candy.

January 19, 2010

2010 - Day Nineteen

When I opened the mail this evening, I had a letter from AirTran. I had a pretty horrible flight on January 4 getting back to New York, but apparently the free flight they said we had coming is actually going to be a reality. I'm pretty excited! Now I just need to decide where I want to go. Any suggestions?

January 18, 2010

2010 - Day Eighteen

We did not celebrate MLK Day at my job this year, so it was just another manic Monday for me. I even went to spin class after work, so I had to make Monday dinner in a bit of a hurry. Fortunately Jay and Amanda helped out. I didn't get a picture of our actual food, but we had chicken picatta and roasted potatoes both of which were delicious. Thanks to Kumi for the recommendation.

It was also exciting that 24 had returned, so Monday night dinner has gone back to its former glory where we eat way too much and then watch way too much tv. I can't think of a better way to get the week off on the right foot!

January 17, 2010

2010 - Day Seventeen

Brunch today unfortunately coincided with the start of the Cowboys/Vikings game. Obviously, I had to be a Cowboys fan because I do not cheer for my arch nemesis. Anyway, I talked the rest of the group into trying a bar around the corner so that we could have football and food. It was a cute place, but this picture of Tammy makes it seem like something a little nicer than it was.

January 16, 2010

2010 - Day Sixteen

One of my very favorite things to do in the city is discover new things, and when you live in a place like New York, you can never have seen everything. I heard that they had found an old slave cemetary in Lower Manhattan while doing new construction, and I really wanted to go and see it. Turns out this happened over a decade ago and now it is just a museum that closes at 4 PM. However, there was this exterior monument, and I was convinced that if I could just look in the pit that they would have preserved some of the bones the way they found them. Unfortnately, this was not the case, instead it was simply a triangular structure with a map of the triangular trade in the pit. It still turned out to be a cool picture though.

January 15, 2010

2010 - Day Fifteen

This is a super lame picture for what was actually a really nice day. I had a good day at work and then a nice dinner at Cilantro which is one of my favorite restaurants. Apparently, I was too busy to take a picture of anything besides the exit sign on my way home however.