Wednesday Night Dinner Night

Last night we went to Blaue Gans (warning: you will have to navigate to that restaurant since this link leads you to a stupid flash site). We were a day late on our Tuesday night dinner, and just picked this place on the fly. It is a German Bistro in Tribeca that had great atmosphere and very attentive service. The walls are also covered in vintage posters (one of which I had in my bedroom growing up!) They had your standard assortments of Wrstel and Schnitzels, plus a bunch of lovely daily specials "fresh from the farmer's market". I got the hanger steak special with asparagus and fingerling potatos. Doug went with the Hungarian Beef Goulash with Fresh Herbed Sple.





It was a very enjoyable restaurant that I would totally go back to - if there weren't like a million more to try! But, even still...

Tuesday Night Dinner (8/19)

We actually have been going out to dinner on Tuesday nights. The reason you don't know about it is because our restaurant choices have not been very bloggable. You know how it is, you are in a certain part of town because that is where the Bloomies is or whatever and then you just go to the first place you see because you didn't have the time to do the investigation necessary to find somewhere memorable (and you're just downright hungry).
But we are putting forth a renewed effort to go to better Tuesday restaurants and it started last night.
We went to Flatbush Farm in Brooklyn. We have walked past this previously and noted how cute it looked, but saw some bad reviews. But, we figured we would just go see for ourselves (and I am sure glad we did). We ate out on the back patio which was perfect because the weather last night felt more like the beginning of fall. It was breezy and just plain gorgeous!





If you check out their website you will see that their food is organic and from local purveyors (Kingston got a shout out)! Doug got the vegetarian special: Cranberry and Bean Stew with Heirloom and fried green tomotoes. And I got Striped Bass with corn succotash and fava beans. They were both delicious! Doug has proclaimed this is favorite restaurant in NY so far! And we discussed all the people we know who would enjoy it, too. So, people, get your asses up here and let us take you out to dinner!

Sascha's Day Out!

So, because we are completely lack dog owners, this was Sascha's first time to go to Prospect Park during off-leash hours. Since they end at 9am, it is a little hard for me to get inspired to be leaving the house that early. However, now that I have seen the indescribable doggy pandemonium, we will have to go back often. Since I just don't have the words to describe this, Doug made a video:



It looks like Sascha is dancing there at the end! As fun as this video is, it still doesn't capture the sheer expanse of dogs there were. I swear the whole borough's population of dogs were out there running around. It was a great time for all!

Of course on our way home, she decided to lay down in a mud puddle and get completely filthed up. Then we had to give her a bath, which was just pure torture for the poor animal. You know, clean water is poison to her... only muddy or green and stinky water is acceptable!

And since it seems Pumpkin never gets any blog time, here is a picture I took today. She got some window time today she seemed to enjoy. Doesn't she look cute?



Hope you are all well!

Field Trip to Queens

Last weekend we went to Flushing Meadows Park to take a look at the old World's Fair remnants. It was much cooler than I expected. Doug had really wanted to go for a while, and I was a little yawn about it. But I must say, it was pretty neat. Here are some pictures:









To see what the above structure looked like once up a time, click here.
As you can see, it really hasn't been kept up very well. I hope I don't look that bad when I am 44 years old!!