Monday, 6/12/17

Down to the Village first thing to collect our Cronuts. I was convinced that there were still long lines, so when I discovered that you could pre-order online, I made Jessica do it. Well, we accidentally ended up with SIX. And of course there were no lines at all! And the box holding it was enormous and unwieldy, and even if I wanted to bring one home it was only Monday! It was all a bit of a debacle.
How were the Cronuts? Good, of course. Strawberry-lemon, very messy. We each managed one (plus I may have also bought a caramel eclair...) and dragged the rest home. I ate another one later and the rest suffered an inglorious fate. Lesson learned.
Lunch was at No. 7 Sub, a sandwich place in mid-town. I loved the cookbook by Tyler Kord, the owner, and had made a few of his sandwiches so I was eager to try it out. I had General Tso's chicken with avocado, Jessica had a fancy tuna salad. They were both good, but it wasn't the most comfortable place to eat lunch.
Dinner: no dinner! Went to the taping of one of my podcasts (Ask Me Another) out in Brooklyn and it ended later than I expected. I insisted nevertheless on dragging us to this place Butter & Scotch, for cake and cocktails. Once again I had enjoyed the cookbook. I made their birthday cake a little while back and wanted to try the original. I was surprised to discover that mine came out very close (I guess damp and heavy was what they were after). Home late.

So many Cronuts...

Not even that pretty!

So it seems that when I am in charge of the whole day, it is hit or miss.