New Jersey
Posts about our move from Colorado to New Jersey.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Chinatown Food Tour
I know Lynne will blog on this topic, so I won’t go into too much detail, but yesterday (on one of the hottest days of the summer) we and a friend drove into New York City to participate in a Food and Culture Tour of Chinatown.
We’ve done a couple of these in the past - Chelsea Market just a month ago, and Greenwich Village last year. You join your tour guide and group at a designated spot, then tour the area while popping into various restaurants and shops, often sampling food.
For the Chinatown tour, we actually had the opportunity for three “sit down” snacks, which was nice because we could cool off in the air conditioning and drink lots of water.
Our first stop was a Dim Sum restaurant where we sampled 5 different dumplings.
After that, authentic Peking Duck! Yum!
And, finally some stir fried Chinese eggplant with other goodies.
We also toured several shops including a Chinese “Apothecary” and a Tea Shop.
Lynne will have a lot more detail and some great photos of Chinatown, so check out her blog too and watch for it.
We had a great time and want to thank Burt for the great tour.
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Saturday, July 02, 2011
Pretty, Perfect Day
Today was a great day! This morning I washed Mia to prepare for a drive. We decided to go over to Mohawk Lake at Sparta and have a slice of pizza from a great Italian place there. It was a beautiful drive with the top down. Not too hot, but sunny.
We had our slice of perfect pizza, and took a few photos at the boardwalk there.
Then, we took a long drive home through Vernon and Warwick. Once home, we swam for a while, then fired up the BBQ for baby back ribs. Lynne made her world famous (just ask Dan Ferguson) baked beans. And, some coleslaw. And, I slow cooked the ribs using my secret cooking process. Yum!
After it got a bit dark we dipped in the pool some more, listened to “Bossa and Stones”, watched the bats feed over the pool, had (another) glass of wine and ... it was perfect!
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Closed the Pool for 2009
The water was down to 60 degrees F when we got back from vacation. So, Dennis came over and closed the pool yesterday. That will save on electricity since we don’t have to run the pump every day. Sad, though.
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Saturday, October 06, 2007
Shrooms of October
Okay, you saw my first NJ fish.
Now it is time for my first NJ mushrooms.
We signed up for a mushroom foray for today at a local farm. What a pleasant surprise when we got there. Wonderful people, wonderful land. And a great “honor system” organic store where we bought some jam, tomato sauce, squash and onions. And, she had eggs and lettuce and…
But wait, before we go to the afternoon foray…
It was time to walk the dogs this morning. We walked toward Green Turtle Pond. The road is closed below our street for a while (what a pain), but that means no traffic for a while. As we walked in the “no car zone”, Lynne noticed a group of mushrooms growing on a tree a bit off the road.
I thought it was a Hen of the Woods and got pretty excited since that is a choice edible mushroom. But, after returning home and doing some research, it turned out to be a Chicken of the Woods—even better! Lynne went and took pictures. I went with a knife and brought it home.
It was 2 pounds of choice mushroom! (Which I am sure will end up on Lynne’s blog too.)
Okay, this mushroom is going to get washed, cut into strips and frozen. It will be great in a risotto, soups, etc. Since it “tastes like chicken”, you can use it anywhere you would chicken.
Now, to the afternoon. Our goal was Honey Mushrooms. Yum. And, we found some. Since it has been so hot and dry, there weren’t a lot, but this is the only time of year you see them, and we found enough to make some pickled mushrooms to serve on toast.
If we are here to post after eating them, we’ll let you know how they were 
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Good News, Bad News, Good News, Bad News
Last Saturday I walked down to Green Turtle Pond with my fishing gear to try my hand (once again) at catching an edible fish. When I got home I told Lynne I had “good news, bad news, good news and bad news”. Clearly confused she asked for the story.
The good news is that I saw lots of wildlife. On my way there and back I saw several groups of turkeys and a red fox.
The bad news is that I didn’t see or catch any fish.
The good news is that along the east side of the lake, where I was fishing, it is very wooded and lots of mushrooms were growing. (We like searching out wild mushrooms).
The bad news is that if you are walking along the trail with your head down looking at mushrooms, you might just walk up on a bear!
That is what I did. I was walking along a not-so-well-worn path with my head on a swivel looking down and side to side when I heard a “hummmffff” sound. I looked up and about 20 feet in front of me, coming toward me on the path was a fairly large black bear. My heart sunk into my stomach and I said some foul words. I stepped behind a tree to keep something between me and the bear. He just stood there hummmfffing at me for a couple of minutes and decided to pass me by going up the hill a ways. He took his time though, and I just kept sidestepping around the tree as he moved by. When the coast was clear, I came home to tell Lynne the news.
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