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On Friday we received an excellent box! Not only did we get ultra-crisp pink lady apples and dark red blood oranges, but mushrooms for the first time and two bunches of dandelion! Normally, the extra dandelion wouldn't be a good thing, but we discovered Cutie (the little cat) happily nibbling on a leaf so she and Harley (the big cat) can help us reduce it - it's a combined household effort.

Saturday was mainly spent at Citygirl's wedding bash in Long Island. The catering was shockingly good; the last wedding i attended at a "hall" was merely okay, more show than substance - they made a big deal of wheeling out numerous dessert carts, spotlights and annoying MC included, but the desserts were repetitive and not that great. Today's wedding however, was so yummy i must have eaten 1 lb of cheese alone during the cocktail hour. The fruit platters contained delicious starfruit and pineapple almost as good as on Oahu. be ate a ton of large shrimp. At the dinner, we made the idiotic mistake of standing in the shortest line, which was short for a reason! It was mainly pasta dishes and a falafel-making area. Back at the table, we realized the long line was for Indian dishes, so we ate a few bites of pasta and waited with the masses for the good stuff: saag paneer (which be loves), biryani rice, dal, kofta curry, idly, vada, sambar. I was so stuffed!

After a quick clothing change we met up with O, Doey & Yumi in the East Village. We ended up at Centosette since it was quite late and our other options were closed. be's cappuccino mousse was tasty and creamy; i really liked the chocolate cookie crust. My tiramisu slice was good, but still nothing like the piece i had in Paris - at a vegetarian restaurant called Aquarius! be and i both agree we would easily pay $50.00 for that tiramisu cake. It was one of the best desserts i ever had.

We like to do things in reverse, or perhaps it's because dessert is more important than the meal, so we ate some food at Veselka after the cake slices. Most of us ordered soup but if i had any room i would've eaten some fried pierogies, mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy or a veggie burger.

posted by beXn @ 3:35 AM