Market In the City

Fruits ..........

...........and Veggies.

 On any given week-end in New York one will find crowds flocking to every kind of shopping outlet in the city. Scores of people find their way to the more known and frequented stores around.

Cheese and more cheese!

Chocolate treats, yummy!

However, in spite of what TV shows and the movies portray,  it's not all about high end or expensive gourmet stores. The city also offers a variety of  markets that offer fresh produce to it's city dwellers and visitors.  Many markets can be found around the city and in outer- lying neighborhoods with top quality items at reasonable prices.

Pasta and Pesto

Coffee, hmmmm, I can smell it brewing!

The Graybar Building, adjacent to Grand Central Terminal, is home to one of these markets. It offers a large variety of everything from baked goods, sweets, meats and poultry, to seafood and caviar. So tempting!

I truly had to refrain from giving in to my sweet tooth at the chocolate shop. No can do, doctor's orders! So I blog about it, that should give me some satisfaction. No? Oh well..................!

Enjoy your week!

First Frost

No napping on bench today! 

Well, it's here! The first Northeastern snowfall. Here in New York City wet snow graced us with her icy splendor. It's funny how beautiful icy, glassy, crystalline snow can look on some things and how dangerous it can be.

October 29, 2011, first snowfall in New York City. Better bring that parsley in!

Wet snow is very slippery and one should tread with caution when trekking around the city. This Saturday week - end we had a little wet snow fall. The first of the new season. Snow in autumn is no fun! I'm not ready for it!

I hope you enjoy your week end, wherever you are. Snow or no snow.

Fall Is In the Air

I cannot believe that I just totally deleted everything I wrote. It's in cyberspace somewhere. I cannot find a way to retrieve it. I will not attempt to keep trying. That muse will not be back.
In any case as I said before in my now non existing post, I love Fall. I can sit outside in my front door patio I call "El Frente" (The Front). It's a small space, but nevertheless, it contains at least 21 species of plants, including the herbs for cooking. Not that I use them. I just grow them. Ok, ok sometimes I use them. Right now the cilantro and oregano have dried out. They got water logged from so much rain this past month. The parsley is thriving though. And the lavender! Oh, the lavender! I can smell the fragrant perfume of the plant from the other side of the patio! Next year I'll plant only lavender. Which means I have to pull out all the other perennials from the window boxes and other planters. HMMM, do I want to do that? We shall see.
The joy of Fall doesn't come without work though. I have to keep sweeping the falling leaves all the time. The neighborhood trees drop their leaves and they end up in my "Frente". The house is situated on some kind of "windpool". Is that a word? Well anyhow, Fall is in the air, which means 'ole man winter will soon show his cold, icy claws.  So I'll enjoy my coffee and croissant "en el frente" as long as I can. For now.

The hydrangea is already changing colors.

My bistro style mornings.

City heat.

My goodness I just wrote this blog twice! I think I like the second one best after all. Even though I was truly inspired in the first. Oh well....

May you all have a great day!