recap of 2011: 8 months of gluttony

I ate:

april: BP Oysterette 

may: Border Grill Foodtruck

june: Lemonade

july: Pho Van

august: Al Forno

I cooked:

july: cilantro pesto

december: popovers

I traveled:

Portland: PDX ACE camp

NYC: Circle Line evening tour of the harbor
with The Smithereens

Providence: with Patucci and Mark

took the bus to Utica

I chased the moon:

eclipse

Happy New Year everyone!

gluttony on tour: day 7. Dinner at Al Forno, Providence, RI

Severo made the wise decision to postpone his departure to Newark until the evening. That way, he could join us for dinner at Al Forno and have less traffic on I-95.

clams Al Forno and marguerita pizza

mmmmm

duck legs

pasta with pea shoots

me, Patucci

Dewey joined us when dessert arrived and a beautiful sunset ensued

lemon cake with whip cream and citron

Mark, Dewey

gluttony on tour: day 7. Brunch at AS220, Providence, RI

AS220 is an arts/food collective located in downtown Providence. The owners have bought and rehabbed several buildings and now serve the community with a restaurant, a funded jukebox, a gallery space, artist studios, a letterpress/ silkscreen lab etc.

We concentrated on the foo(d).

grilled Italian sausage, peppers + mushrooms,
with cheddar cheese and garlic spread
(and maybe some eggs?)

mozzarella, tomato on baby greens

gluttony on tour: day 6. Providence, RI

We were to meet Patucci and Mark at The Hot Club and needed to kill some time so we drove by my old loft on Pine St.

409 pine

The twin buildings have been converted into "luxury lofts" and the 2700 sq ft full floor spaces have been split into smaller units.
When I moved in in 1979, I had 30 windows that needed reglazing.

my windows looked nothing like this!

We had our rendezvous (no pix) and then eventually made it to dinner at Apsara's, my favorite Cambodian place

Patucci + Mark

nime chow - mmmmm

We ate a lot of dishes but I was in too much of a food coma to take pictures or make note of what we ordered.