Le Weekend

This weekend, it was for the shopping. Not the window shopping, the serious, expensive, I need light/a place to sit/something to stare at that will keep me in touch with pop culture/something to put my books n' clothes n' stuff on and in. The only thing I actually brought home was a TV (where /a TV/ is a 32 inch flat screen LCD that looks like it belongs on the deck of the Enterprise and not on the floor), as the lamps, bookcases and couch had to be ordered, being either not in stock or it just takes them forever to upholster and deliver it. (I'm not telling when the couch is expected to arrive.) But bringing home the big screen meant that the speaker system got hooked up, and it had to be done because the cable/internet guy comes tomorrow morning to set things up.

This weekend, it was also for the eating. Dinner Friday was at my new favourite local place, Hearth, where the hostess wore Marc Jacobs shoes, the bartender designs jewelry, and the wait staff were incredible. We started with arugula and shaved fennel salad with marinated white anchovies, pickled cipollini onions and bread crumbs, followed by braised wild striped bass with artichokes, fennel, blood orange and cockles, and roasted sturgeon, wrapped in prosciutto with a black olive & garlic rub. For dessert, apple cider doughnuts with apple compote and maple cream. Sunday brunch, after viewing the Nan Kempner exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was at Sarabeth's - a pickled bloody mary and a pumpkin waffle with pumpkin seeds, raisins and sour cream. Scrumptious.