Hamersley's al fresco

Paris, right around the corner.
Grilled sardines over arugula for a starter and rabbit over fried polenta with braised summer vegetables

Braised Sunflowers

Yesterday on our daily (hourly?) walk, we passed by the place with all the sunflowers. Seduced by the scores of people in the small shop and the piles of sweet corn on the sidewalk we wandered in and met the owners. Siena Farms is a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) shop much like Maxwell Creek was back at Sodus. Here, you don't have to subscribe to the service and can just pick up items from the store a la cart. The store not only sells fresh local produce but herbs, flowers, honey, cheese, milk and pastry items. 

The owner of the shop was telling us how local chefs use their products and often show up buying their daily provisions. She told us that the chefs of one of the restaurants actually uses sunflowers in his dishes. Just as we were leaving, the chef walked in and we were introduced. He explained that the sunflower has many edible parts and actually can be used to make a cocktail... go on...

He gave us the web site that has videos of how to make several of the dishes. Here is a video of how to use the sunflower like you would an artichoke. What an imagination!

So enchanted we made dinner reservations for next Sunday. Each day is a different menu, so we will report back. From pictures of customers, wild boar braised in fresh herbs is apparently popular. He and his dishes are from the Piedmont region of Italy. 

Here is the link to the restaurant.

P.S. My bracelet said I walked over 7 miles yesterday, obviously we did more than go to Siena Farms, cause it just right around the corner.

Dr. John is in the house

I knew the song, but not the man.

Copley Jazz

Bourbon Street Comes to Copley Square.

Backstage with dr. John

You know...
"Could of been the wrong time, could of been the right place".
Walked home from dinner and just found this going on

Promotion for new bar

Right around the corner

Cindy does her magic

She is on the south end cultural consistency committee, changing the old Salvation Army building into the new liberty mutual building was her first task.
Looking good so far

Future remains bright

http://southend.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/three-south-end-students-win-scholarships?utm_content=buffer648ce&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

$35 computer

Yep a full computer with wifi for $35. Check out raspberry pi on the goog.

Just add monitor and keyboard/mouse.

What do your lights do?

Yeah, can you program your lights to blink whenever your favorite team wins ( well I guess if its the bills that's easy, no light bulb necessary ), or how about set your light bulb color to tell you tomorrow's weather ? Yep programmable lights via wifi. Given the price of wifi chips why not !

Going to set up the Casa to predict the weather just like the building across the way.

Bam!

Habanero watermelon margarita !
@masa

Open Hardware Summit

One of the great things about this city is the available inexpensive ways to become more informed about technology. There are 1000s of meetups on different topics, college lectures and sometimes rare events like the Open Hardware Summit. Basically a set of talks about do it yourself and share with the world hardware design. Check out this video of the event badge.

Paris ou Boston?

Shaken not stirred

Ok this was parked in the zip car lot around the corner, an Aston Martin DBS, starts at around $275k.

Batman sky

Looks like Gotham city

Convenience

Does your 7/11 have 3 kinds of cocktail bitters?

At the corner of walk and don't walk

They are installing these everywhere. Apparently they help blind walkers know of an upcoming intersection.

Working hard

Pizza Piranha

Shout out to MM2 for the Piranha sauce recipe.

The following is my payback to all the dull english teachers I had who forced a certain writing style. This recipe is more formal than english, can be parsed by a computer, and once you get used to reading like this, written english is chaotic.

Here is the rule, an ingredient is made by applying some cooking function to one or more ingredients, the ingredients of course can be the result of performing some cooking function on other ingredients. This is an example of the word recursion.  If you google the word recursion, the funny people at the  goog will ask did you mean "recursion"? 

This formula can be written as

Ingredient -> (CookingFunction ( one or more Ingredient))

PiranhaSauce -> (ImmersionBlend (1 head of cilantro leaves, 2 cloves garlic, (stemmedAndSeaded (1 Jalepeno Pepper))))

flattenedPizza - > (FlattenOnOiledParchmentPaper (one dough ball))

UncookedPizza -> (Spread (PiranhaSauce , 1/3 lbs thinly sliced genoa salami, flattenedPizza))

RolledPizza -> (RollUp (UncookedPizza)) 

CookedPizza ->(Cook@425 until brown (RolledPizza))

Once cooked you can cut into slices to serve.

Bucket list appetizer

Pig and oyster, a great combo

Health food

Organic tater tots, must be like a health food, now if I could just find the organic hot dog section.

Hot time in the city

Perspective

Walked to whole foods today to pick up some non dairy items. My NSA issued bracelet said I burned 134 calories in my just over a mile walk. Heck that's not even a Sam Adams beer (180 calories). Wait I walked both ways; cheers!