Sunday Nights at Home

I'm spoiled. There, I've said it. My mother is an excellent cook, and now that she and my grandmother are home, I never go hungry. Between the two of them I'm in food heaven, and you know what? I'm done feeling guilty about it!

Sunday, Mi Cariño and I took our sweet time getting up and being productive, which is a nice thing to do once in a while. We followed that with rushing to the West Village for our first Volleyball Class. Thankfully this one didn't hurt the body as much as the try-outs did, but I didn't play as well as I did in the try outs. We'll see how it goes in the forthcoming lessons.

After the almost 3 hours of delicious torture I made my way back to Brooklyn where Mami and Abuela made sure I was hooked up with some locrío de pollo, with banana, and a side veggie and cabbage salad. Feast your eyes on this beautiful example of Dominican cooking:

For a close-up of the locrío:

And yes, banana and rice? beyond awesome.

Killer Queen

So Steph found out that a great Burlesque troupe would be making an appearance at Joe's Pub and we decided to make a night of it. We started by meeting up at Apple, a pan asian place in NoHo.  We began with some Vegetable Tempura

Vegetable Spring Rolls

I finished that with some steamed stuffed cabbage rolls with wild mushrooms. They were served in a tomato scallion sauce.

The service was good, and we had fun with our waitress. Apparently, there's also a private room for Karaoke, which sounds like a lot of fun. The food wasn't to die for, but it certainly helped that I was quite hungry when we ate.

Afterward, we walked to Joe's Pub. We still had to wait around a bit for the show to begin, but it was certainly worth the wait. Extra points go to Anita Cookie for either being drunk while on the job, or playing the part really well. She was hilarious, while all kinds of sexy. The good thing about this particular Burlesque troupe was that although there was strip teasing, the show was more about being fun than about being titillating.