Highlights of East Coast tour
Cindy Fuller wrote:
> We got back Wednesday night from the mad dash down the East Coast to
> visit family and friends. We also spent two days in Baltimore for
> business. A few highlights:
>
> Takeout from Dinosaur Barbeque in Syracuse. We arrived on Saturday
> night and the joint was slammed due to an appearance by the Fab Five (a
> Beatles tribute band), so we took our goodies back to the hotel. I'd
> been to the Dinosaur before and had their food at Reunion last year, but
> this was SO's first time.
>
> Sunday dinner with the family. We finally got to meet my great niece,
> age 15 months. She was a little shy at first, but she warmed up after a
> while. My sister made mass quantities of lasagna. We stopped at
> Wegman's on the way up from Syracuse and bought ingredients for cucumber
> salad and fresh mozzarella-stuffed Peppadews.
>
> Aunt Mary's Cafe in Oswego, NY. Oswego's economy wasn't exactly humming
> when we visited two years ago, and the recession has only made things
> worse. However, Aunt Mary's served good food at a very reasonable
> price. One lunchtime we got a complete turkey and trimmings dinner for
> $7.50.
>
> Serendipity Cafe in Liberty, NY. We were on our way to Nyack and just
> happened on this place. When we sat down, the manager said, "You've now
> entered a classroom." This cafe is run by special needs students under
> the tutelage of two teachers. They learn the restaurant trade, life
> skills, and academics. The cafe and the kids have been featured on
> Emeril Live in the past. The tips go toward funding class trips at the
> end of the year. Their soup du jour was pastrami soup, which contained
> the aforementioned meat, white beans, and hominy (?!). Tasty and
> filling, although not exactly health food or what SO's Bubbe would have
> made.
>
> Kitchen Arts & Letters, NYC. While SO and a friend went to a
> photography trade show at the Javits Center, I made my pilgrimage to
> this holy shrine of cookbooks. I bought only three books: Save the
> Deli, Andrea Nguyen's Asian Dumplings book, and Jim Lahey's bread book.
> I also stopped by Gourmet Garage and bought a jar of Rao's pasta sauce
> on sale. It managed to get back to Seattle without breakage or
> abduction by TSA inspectors.
>
> Miss Shirley's Cafe, Baltimore. This was my favorite lunch on the trip.
> We both had a tasty salad of spinach, roasted beets, pomegranate seeds,
> and goat cheese. The other benefit of this place was free refills of
> real brewed, unsweetened, non-tutti frutti iced tea. For this member of
> a discriminated against minority group (tea drinker in Seattle), it was
> near heaven. The waitress actually remembered that we wanted
> unsweetened iced tea, which wasn't always the case when we lived in NC.
> She got a good tip from me.
>
> Blue crab-o-rama in Maryland. It's been a while since we whacked crabs.
> One night we had whole crabs and a crab cake for dinner at Ocean's Pride
> in Towson, the next night we had Maryland crab soup at a joint near our
> hotel called Razorback Grill. The ribs we had at the Razorback paled in
> comparison to the aforementioned Dinosaur.
>
> Cafe Spice in Towson, MD. We were staying out in Towson and found this
> place on yelp. This was some of the best Indian food we'd had in a long
> time. The only off note was the overpowering rosewater flavoring on the
> fennel seeds we grabbed on the way out--bleah!
>
> Airline food--WHAT AIRLINE FOOD?!? We got cookies with our beverage on
> one leg of the trip. The rest of the time we snacked in airports or
> bought food to eat during the flight.
>
> All in all, a good trip that caused weight gain. Weather permitting,
> I'll get back on the bike this weekend.
>
> Cindy
>
Thanks for sharing Cindy.
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