A Round-up; Everything I Ate Since My Last Post

It has been a week since my last post and I apologize for not bombarding you with details of my exciting excursions and extravagant eatings. Now it seems that I have waited too long and it is daunting to think of posting everything I've eaten since the last post, but for the sake of full disclosure, here goes.

Saturday:
Wine tour on the North Fork of Long Island. Went to Paumanok (great), Bedell Cellars (awful), and Old Field Vineyard (amazing). We went with some friends visiting from Spain and brought a travelling picnic. Some northeast cheddar style cheeses, almonds, marinated peppers, potato chips and prosciutto. We bought La Quercia prosciutto which is American and wanted to see how the Jamon Aficionados would feel about it. We were told its good, but a little "mushy".
We went back to my parents house and grilled pizza, yes on the BBQ grill. I will post directions in a future post.

Sunday:
Went to Ann Marie's farm in E. Setauket for fresh blueberries and tomatoes! Made blueberry pancakes for breakfast and ate tomatoes for lunch. Blueberry pancakes came from a mix, Bisquick maybe? My father made dinner, it was DELICIOUS.

Monday:
Still on Long Island. Used up the leftover pizza dough from Saturday but baked it in the oven. Threw sliced farm tomatoes on top and some leftover chicken cutlet. Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey ice cream for dessert.
We went out to dinner with my sister and parents before she moves to Chicago. Started with excellent fried oysters, in shell with a sweet potato mash and spinach. Filet mignon entree. Came with haricot verts and blue cheese studded mashed potatoes and had coffee panna cotta for dessert.

Tuesday:
US OPEN! Fun, but seriously no good food to eat. Read eighteen hundred articles about all the good food to eat at the open. Fe! It was just expensive crap. Better food at Citibank field a hop, skip and jump away.

Wednesday:
Lunch was a tasting at an Upper East Side restaurant that I am covering exclusively for another website, shhhhh. I'll link article to here when it comes out next week. Needless to say it was delicious! 6 small crostini, 5 crudo, 3 entrees and a partridge in a pair tree. All was consumed while chatting with the restaurant's general manager and pr girl.
Stopped at Financier by the apartment for some pastry on the way home, as if I didn't eat enough. Scarfed an apricot and pistachio tartlet and some madeleines, very Proust.
Dinner was spent with the Spaniards! We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to Grimaldi's. It was so touristy but so fun and delicious. The line was only a half hour! We got two pies, uno con pimientos y uno con champinones. The crust is yeasty and yielding. The sauce sweet and not overly acidic and the cheese was fresh and not overly puddle-y. I was told it was overrated, it wasn't.

Thursday:
Went to Harry's Pizza for lunch with a friend, we will call him Bomb. I had eggplant parm, Bomb had a chicken parm hero. We shared a warm spinach salad with portobellos and pancetta.
Dinner at Fig and Olive in the Meatpacking District for Z's birthday. We had a large group and were relegated to the restaurant week menu. Started with a delicious beef carpaccio, the balsamic vinegar dressing was perfect, A+. Branzino entree with figs and snow peas as accoutrement. Didn't get the snow peas, disconnect. Snow peas are Asian, dish was definitely Mediterranean.

And now it's Friday. You now know everything that I ate this week, or at least the food worth talking about. So now we can move on from here. I will post more often, I promise.