UMTravels

Another glorious sunny day on the lower east side. The morning was spent helping Davey and MJ with computer technical issues. They didn’t’ realize that they actually had wireless Internet in their house. I found it when I went looking for their router to plug my laptop into. Funny.

Then there is Davey’s IBM laptop that he was going to give me — until I showed him how he could use it with his big LCD TV as the music center (he put his knee through the screen on the laptop). Oh well.

Went shopping at J&R Music World — it was a zoo — some sale. They were baking cookies outside he store, serving coffee….it already takes up most of a block of storefronts.

Hunger came over me… off to les Halles, a French brassiere which is more famous than I realized. Davey had the mussels and frites in a traditional white wine, herbs, and butter stock…. I went for the portuguese style with the chorizo. We should have gotten half orders (no frites) and then gotten an order of frites on the side. We had way too much food. I went for a couple of glasses of a Languendoc french red, nice and heavy.

To the Essex Market on the way home for cheese, meat, and salad for dinner with Russ. I had a picture of the “roast” I requested at Jeffries meat counter — didn’t specify what kind of a beef roast, just needed a 3-3.5 pounder, and got a $3 a pound custom rolled cut from a juge hunk of cow out of the locker — the guy didn’t like anything that was in the case. Davey spent $40 on cheese, made my roast look like a deal. Add a little salad, stop at the bakery on the way home, and we have the goods for dinner.

The veg for the roast were roasted vegetables from a previous meal — put them in for the last 20-30 minutes. A fine meal. Russ brought a couple of killer bottles of red wine.

The entertainment for the evening was Davey’s performance on the Food Network Candy Castle Challange — which he had the most air time, but, of course, the most problems with his piece.