autumn

Its autumn in new york and i love it...kind of. 

My mother calls me almost every afternoon, asking me how the weather is and if i'm still alive. The answer usually goes something like, "its really fucking cold and kind of raining. And its really fucking windy...and yes, i'm alive." 

Everyone is starting to wear those MichelinMan coats, gloves and scarves and other things I don't own yet because I'm from Texas and those sort of things aren't necessarily required when the temperature never gets below 70 degrees. 

I realize I haven't blogged in a while, thats probably because college was roasting me alive for a good two weeks. Now things are finally starting to get a little easier and I have more time to do things I actually like. 

For the past two weeks, my boyfriend Logan and I have cooked each other dinner. Each Saturday after breakfast, we walk to the farmer's market in union square to pick up fresh ingredients (mesclun, onions, peppers, goat cheese, etc.) and then go to food emporium (because wholefoods is way too overpriced and trader joe's makes me claustrophobic)  to pick up everything else. its probably my favorite night of the week, even more so than caturdays. 

Here is the tiramisu I made last week. I didn't beat the egg whites stiff enough, but it still ended up pretty good. I was scared it was going to turn into tirami-soup. Luckily, it tasted pretty great, especially with the expresso chocolate we put on top. The rest of the meal consisted of falafel, salad, warm pita bread, and little bits of things you normally put on falafel sandwiches (pickels, onions, tomatoes, hummus, etc) mind, we also made the falafel, granted it came from a box and all we had to do was add water, but still...i feel like making falafel is an accomplishment worth noting. 

This week, we decided to make a salad with pomegranate seeds, peppers, onions, mesclun, and fried goat cheese. it was good, like, really reallllly good. honestly i didn't do much in the kitchen this time. Logan wouldn't let me. Instead I dj-ed and danced around my kitchen whilst logan did all the dirty work. 

pom porn

Red peppers cost 3.75 at the farmers market....but i mean, its organic and worth it. plus that pepper is like, the size of a small child's head. 

The finished result, goat cheesy pomegranate goodness. 

Here are some other pictures from the farmers market

orchids

this wasn't in our salad, but i love the way the watermelon radish slice looks transparent in the sun. 

A little girl in a red dress. 

i own a turkish coffee set, so i figured it might be nice to make some with the orange chocolate trifle Logan made. Nearly 1/3 of it was whipped cream, so needless to say, i throughly enjoyed it.