sarah in nyc

I haven't much energy to write today, Erev Shavuot, the day before Shavuot. I did turn this ( farmer cheese, goat cheese and eggs) into this that is three layers of super thin noodles filled with  the soft cheese filling you saw the beginnings of above. We are also eating this noodle, vegetable  and cheese salad . The fish is cooking as I type. We are eating this bread which is my attempt at making the bread served at Bukharin restaurants. Did I have a recipe? I did not but I had an idea in my head. We will see how far that got me. Chag Sameach and Shabbat Shalom!  

 We have been busy, too busy for me to post. I'm feeling a bit as if I have missed a passel of school assignments. Let's see if I can catch up enough so that posting will feel just too difficult to do. Thursday we attended graduation at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Two dear friends were being honored with honorary doctorates. Friday we went out to the Poconos to a retreat center for a reunion of a group of my husband's dearest buddies. Google Maps sent us mostly on tiny rural roads. It was a beautiful ride. The weekend itself was wonderful . As we turned into the gas station I had noticed some Hebrew or Yiddish writing on the tan building in the center of the photo. It reads Satmar Bungalow Colony Our older son is visiting from Israel for the week. We had had a big family dinner on Thursday evening. Yesterday my husband, my son and I went to MOMA. Back when I was an Art History major there was a specific way one had to look at art. Each piece of art needed to be looked ...

 The Kips Bay Decorator Show House is a fundraiser for a fancy Upper East Side charity that raises money for a  settlement house that provides programming for kids in Harlem. Each year they tap a select group of interior designers to decorate a big townhouse that is on the real estate market. Designers get some big deal publicity. Suppliers of high end wall paper, interior fabrics, antique dealers, drapers, carpeting companies and the like get to show off their wares. A potentially hard to sell home gets lots of foot traffic.  Thousands of people pay a fair amount of money to see all of the goodies in the house and the kids benefit from all of it. It is truly a win-win situation for everyone involved.  My older sister may have been the person who convinced me to go the first time I went. Usually the show house is on the Upper East Side. This year for the first time it was held on the West Side. Yesterday, three friends and I went together. You couldn't ask for a pret...