Aron and I stopped to sample some of the best potato chips I’ve ever had at the Greenmarket not too long ago; they were the sort of thing that make you stop and think “oh, so that’s what that should taste like.” I snapped this photo and then forgot about the small batch chips until the other day when a salt-craving hit.
A little digging uncovered that Mountain Sweet Berry Farms is at the Union Square Greenmarket on Wednesday and Saturday mornings, and that farmer Rick Bishop is famous for his Fingerling Potatoes and was actually asked to develop a crop of Peruvian Fingerlings for David Bouley years ago. There’s a wonderful article about him, here, in Edible.
I can’t say for certain that they will be at his stand when you visit, but do keep an eye out for these Brown Butter Potato Chips. They were the real deal. And if you’re not in Manhattan… maybe pick-up a mandoline and some Fingerlings?
Teaming up with the Brooklyn Flea and vendors from its all-food counterpart, “Smorgasburg,” the Brooklyn Brewery is hosting a rotating selection of five food stalls on Sundays through March. The three of us went over this past weekend to check it out. You can find the list of vendors from week to week on the Brooklyn Flea homepage. And if you haven’t been on a tour of the brewery yet, they are giving them free on the hour. Maybe we’ll see you there one weekend!
Whenever it snows, there is part of me that wants to stay in and order delivery; but the novelty of snow in the city still hasn’t worn off enough to allow this, and we often end up in the park. This weekend, on our way home from the Folk Art Museum on the Upper West Side, we decided to walk across Central Park just as the sun was getting close to setting. It was beautiful. We had been pushing Hudson in the stroller, but when he was ready for a nap, I carried him asleep in my coat while taking turns with Ashley pushing the stroller through the snow. (Nope, I wouldn’t recommend it.) We got a little carried away with instagram along the way; here are some favorites, drawn mainly from there.
