this is the menu that goes with the pictures below ...

in the event that you can't see the tiny menu on the maki roll (note the first course: Maki - menu) All of the printed items - the cookie, the nose to tail pig, and the maki menu - are all edible. The paper on the "cigar" course was edible paper, too.

I was inspired when I made last night's dinner, which included purple potatoes (I did them 2 ways, chips and creamed- with black sesame powder and sea salt on the chips), rainbow chard, and branzino (fish).

Let the penny saving begin to go again, in, say, 45 years. ;)

Moto: cook now, eat later.

Whenever anyone asks me now about my most amazing dinner experience --
hands down -- it will be Moto. check out the restaurant here:
www.motorestaurant.com Located in Fulton Market, it's a food lab.
It's Willy Wonka. It's just mind bendingly amazing. What you think
you are looking at may or may not bear any resemblance to what you are
about to eat.

oopsie

you saw a reminder I sent to myself ... unfortunately to my blogger address.  So ... in the event you've ever wondered how we plan dinner parties ... you pretty much saw!

I love this story: McDonalds, Dru, Ernie, and the neighbors.

Ever wonder what's in McNuggets? http://www.naturalnews.com/032820_Chicken_McNuggets_ingredients.html

There's a reason my kids have never had them - not by my buying them, anyway. True story - when my oldest was 6, he and his little brother, 2, went on a playdate to the movies with neighbors. My 2 neighbor friends were shocked and delighted when they brought all the kids (7 total) to McD afterward and my son said, "but there's nothing here I want to eat. What about the salad, I suppose that's not so bad." so he ordered a salad for he and his brother. The other kids ate mcnuggets and fries and sodas. Operation don't go there successful.

Evelyn has still not eaten anything from McDonald's. It never became part of our habit.  It never will.

snowmen in the park by the river

what a cool little accidental find! A park filled with snowmen! We
loved it! Dru was sleepy so he stayed in the car. Evelyn was done
about a second before she got INTO the car! What fun the two littles
had running and throwing sticks into the water! (and dodging the "52
bomber" poop!)