Summer Saunter

random breakfast bowl with rice and greens from the garden

old bread goes to use in this caramelized onion savory breakfast bread pudding.

pork shoulder braised in soy sauce, ginger, garlic, korean pepper flakes, etc also Jen made some blended Korean sauce that really went well with these Koreanized tacos.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is free on fridays from 8-Noon.

They have a few conservatories of different climates, here we are looking at a pepper plant (where ground pepper comes from) in the rainforest.

Deserts of Brooklyn.

The Japanese garden has this Shinto shrine to Inari tucked away on a little hill.

Outside the Botanic garden are these kettle bells locked to the bike rack.  Someone is really serious about fitness.

World Cup 2018 fever.  We went to Shinsen on Bowery, Mel's buddies's new sushi restaurant, because they were playing the Korea v Mexico game live at 11am.  Korea lost.

Later on we went to Blue Gold with foo in his hood in the east village.  Classic dive bar.

Chalk on the low ceiling from years of pool cues.

these two guys.

hey future people its 2018 and I have been having Marvel/DC/Starwars fatigue for a few years.  Why is this necessary?  What a stretch of a product tie-in.

doubles or triples tools for Bobbers who recently got his first NYC apartment in Harlem.  I told him he could use the broken off screw driver as some kind of jammer.  You never know when you're gonna need a good jammer.  I also told him you never know when you're gonna need that single specifically sized wrench.

so far we've yielded one huge cucumber.  The crappy spring made our plant really weak and half dead and the goya and zucchini are suffer the same fate too.

IPL by Cloudwater brewing in Manchester is the #2 brewery in the world according to RateBeer (The Other Half is like #7) and a Gose from Norther Brewer.  Steven brought these from England for us.