weekend update

so, lots of cooking and lots of knitting this past weekend.  but i have pictures only of the cooking.

friday night dinner with my brother was fun and good.  we went to bianca which was as good as i hoped it’d be, and we did indeed order the gnocco fritto.  it was mighty tasty.  not like italy italian food tasty, but tasty for america italian food.

saturday was spent at the farmer’s market, and what felt like the rest of the day was spent searching fruitlessly for organic/free range/humanely raised pork in brooklyn.  they didn’t have the cut i needed at the farmer’s market.  sadly, none was to be found in brooklyn (though the word at d’agostino’s is they’ll start carrying it next week) and a and i ended up making a mad trek into manhattan and then madly trekking back to brooklyn so he could grab his stuff and then madly (yet again) trek BACK to manhattan to try out drummers.  the rest of the day was spent cooking and fighting off the headache that resulted from all the mad trekking.  dinner turned out pretty good but not unbelievably good as i’d hoped it would be.  pork hominy stew and scallion corn muffins.

the muffins look pretty good, right?  though we’ve disposed of six (six!) mice using a variety of different mouse-dispatching methods, another one showed up in the middle of the night and thought the muffins looked good too and started chewing through the corn muffin storage bag.  we haven’t caught him yet but i saw his cute little face peeking out from behind the tv stand last night.  why do they have to be so cute AND diseased?