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Funky Produce

I always like strolling down the produce aisles. Bright colors of reds, oranges, greens on both sides. Bags of [hopefully] farm fresh goods for easy pickings. At Whole Foods on South St [and I presume elsewhere] they have an endcap with a stack of funky produce.

Last night, stacks of plantaines, persimons, star fruits, coconuts, jicamas and papayas were present.

Shooting under oddly flickering flourescent lights is always a pain.

Drinking Liberally 6p

If it's Tuesday, it's Drinking Liberally

It's that time of the week again! It'll be nice to wind down the day with a few drinks [$1 off specials] and free Buffalo wings at Tangier [1801 Lombard St] from 6p - 9p. It always is. And volunteering more and more hours every week on the Pennacchio campaign, [it's basically a 2nd job at this point, a fun job, but 2nd job-like hours!] the little breaks here and there are that much more fun.

I wonder if we'll have a few more visitors, some of those entrenched folk, after the article and the Doc's invitation. Either way, it's 70° and I'll be drinking a Guinness outside.

New Deck Tavern

Lady and I had some eats at New Deck Tavern over the weekend. Blech.

Our review of the lackluster joint. My food was horrible.

Free Cone Day

Between Noon and 8p, Ben and Jerry's will be giving away free scoops of their deliciously fattening ice cream. Here in Philly, the lines will be around the corner by Rittenhouse Square at 18th/Walnut Sts and over on UPenn's campus at 40th/Locust Sts. If you dare sit through the wait for one scoop, more power to ya.

Kisso

Messy and Picky went over to Olde City with the intention of eating out for the night and capping it off with a trip to Franklin Fountain. We didn't really care where we ate, Lady preferred Japanese or some place with some salad. After a good amount of walking around, we decided to try Kisso up on 4th and Race Sts. A place I've passes several times and a place one of Lady's friends wanted to eat when she was in town a few months ago [but we didn't].

Good eats! Inexpensive by Japanese restaurant standards, but not cheap either. Their menu listed some lunch specials, but we were there for dinner. We both very much recommend the place. Our review is up on the food blog here.

After the delicious meal, we headed down to Market St for some dessert, but we were greeted by a 'Closed for Easter' sign. Damn that bunny.

They Let us Eat Cake

Last night's first anniversary of Drinking Liberally at Tangier [1801 Lombard St] was very much cake-filled as promised. They laid out a ginormous cake for us. A yummy bread cake with cinnamon swirling through the insides throughout. I don't think I've ever had such a cake.

After chowing down on a plateful of Buffalo wings and a French dip sandwich [yummy], I helped myself to a piece of cake. Then went back for another. But before I had one, the Noz gobbled down two. He went back inside [we were all outside, it was oh so nice out] for a third. And after going inside to settle up for the night, I snagged a third piece for myself. I'm not sure if Noz had another piece, but if he did, I will say that he didn't eat a proper meal beforehand and had more room for cake. Mmmm... cake.

Food Back Home

While I was home over the weekend, I had me some serious grub. Heaping piles of Korean BBQ kalbi on Friday night. Platefuls of rice with spicy shrimp and a spicy beef and tofu dish on Saturday. Sunday morning I had two bagels - real bagels, not hunks of circular bread with holes in them - with cream cheese. They were sublime. For lunch [an hour later] I had a slice and a half of pizza - real thin crust pizza, not doughy hunks with disproportionate mozz to saus ratios.

I overate. But it was so good.

Drinking Liberally 6p

If it's Tuesday, it's Drinking Liberally

The good folks at Tangier [1801 Lombard St] tell us that it's been a year since we've been coming there, I think they're a little bit off, but who the hell am I to argue with our hosts! One year at Tangier! And they're marking the occassion with some special somethings.

The usual $1 off drink specials and free [delicious] wings from 6p - 9p, but I hear there's more to come. Will it be party hats? Some info telling us that BushCo is leaving? Cake? Free bottles of hotsauce for all? Whatever it is, I want some.

16 Shot Glasses

In preparation for last night's par-tay, I discovered that I own sixteen shot glasses. Kinda nuts. We made good use of them. Filled the tub with around eighty beers and about 30 lbs of ice, that kept everyone happy. I took a couple trips to The Foodery for a few mix-a-six packs which everyone seemed to enjoy. We ran out of beer sometime after 1a, but there was plenty of liquor to go around and food to be eaten to sober up a bit.

I had two shot glasses from college, one a frat glass the other from the school store. One from my friend's college in CA. A six pack of shot glasses my friend from CA sent me as a housewarming gift when I moved down to Philly. Three sake size shot glasses, which are actually ceramic methinks. Four of the plastic freezable shot glasses that didn't get used because nobody would brave the 100 proof Stoli that was in the freezer — another time!

And with all the drinking and we think over forty people, nobody broke anything! Or at least we haven't found anything that was broken. Actually, we came out one bathroom door fixed! A friend of Lady's fixed our bathroom door which wouldn't shut.

Liquor

When throwing a party, it is essential to have lots of liquor on hand.

What's the deal with the pints of Citron and Frangelico you ask? They make a wonderful shot called Chocolate Cake. They will be poured out sparingly. The mini bottle of Black is a leftover from a Johnnie Walker tasting I went to awhiles back.

Another bottle or two of wine in the fridge and a bunch of beer on ice in the tub. Should be fun.