Momofuku Ssäm Bar

On Monday we had lunch at Momofuku Ssäm Bar. India Knight tweeted about how she'd had dinner there two nights in a row a few weeks ago. It was the best. The waiter made great suggestions and we split an order of pork buns and seasonal vegetables for starter and then I orderered brisket as per instructions from waiter and Johan had the spicy rice cakes and they were hot! And I ate more than I should have because it was all so good. Even the dessert which was odd, but the texture of it was sublime, we both had thai iced tea parfait. Very few pictures, we just ate. If you ever go there do have the pork buns.

Alice's Tea Cup

In the afternoon we went to Alice's Tea Cup Chapter II as it was conveniently on the way to Grand Central Station. We weren't exactly planning on eating anything, we just wanted a cup of tea. So we each had a pot of tea: Johan had Russian caravan, Eva had Lavender earl Grey (best by far, one of the best teas I've had and I've ..., yes, exactly). They didn't have the Chai I wanted or the Cinnamon tea, so I had Birthday tea which seemed fitting. As we were still full from lunch Johan had a platter of cookies, Eva an Oreo cupcake (don't know why the frosting was green) and I ordered two scones (cos that was how you ordered them, not because I thought I should have two), one pumpkin (toffee sauce) and one plain buttermilk. Obviously I got clotted (almost) cream and jam. We ate as much as we could, my pumpkin scone was v. good, but we couldn't finish even half of it. I think we did finish the tea.

I don't think we had dinner. Update: We did have dinner. We went back to the hotel and ordered room service: grilled cheese sandwich for me and a club sandwich for Johan. I ate all my chips/fries. With mayo.

I found out about Alice's Tea Cup from the rockstar diaries and I've been dying to go ever since I first read about it. Now I will go back every time I visit NY; it was that good and they had soy milk and the menu went on forever.

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Mama Mexico

I read about Mama Mexico at Ett annat New York and thought it sounded like a fab place and it was. We went for the one in. We had lovely drinks, Johan had a mojito with a huge pice of raw sugar in it, Eva had a blueberry margarita and I had a coconut margarita. We had to have guacamole (which is prepared by the table) and it was great. For main I had crab between tosatadas, refried beans and rice, Johan had chicken fajitas (his was the best dish) and Eva had trio de chimichangas. We would like to go back some day to have Mexican brunch, I think maybe Jon & Eva will go there and test eat it for us! After lunch we could barely walk due to all the food and we went to the Whitney Museum of American Art and saw thew Georgia O'Keefe exhibition which was a treat, I love her and didn't even know it was on (I did check their website, but it wasn't very clear.) They also have Andy Warhol's coca-cola bottles.

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Dunkin Donuts

Vi åt frukost på Dunkin Donuts på söndagen; inte donuts utan English muffin med ägg och jättevarmt kaffe. Donutsen köpte vi med hem till Eva, hon beställde de ohåliga med toffeefyllning och pumpaglasyr, jag valde apple cheese Danish. Johan valde de andra pumpaglaserade.

När vi kom fram på lördagen så hämtade Eva oss och vi åkte raka vägen till Taco Bell eftersom vi var jättehungriga och skulle vidare till Stop & Shop (a little bit of heaven on earth) och jag aldrig hade ätit där. (Sorry Daph, I should have written all of this in English, but I think you get the gist). I liked Taco Bell and there I tried Mountain Dew for the first time EVER and I quite liked that as well. Then we went to Stop & Shop and got Oreos (plain and peanut butter) Jell-O (watermelon, wild strawberry and blackberry), cinnamon sugar sprinkles, peppermint sugar spinrkles, American mustard, skittles and a lot more candy, popcorn spices, macaroni & cheese and more. After this we went back to Eva's place had a glass of wine and some guacamole and fell asleep.

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Sickbed

I can't blog from the iPhone which is very disappointing. I thought it was a miracle thingy.
Daph, the NY trip was fabulous, we had so much good food, but 2 days after we arrived back in Sweden I went down with a cold (not flu) and I'm still poorly. My recovery's been somewhat hampered by Edvin being even more poorly than I, and then not being as poorly as I. Today was the first day I went out since Staurday and now I'm going to have to retreat to the sofa once more. But edbin got his donuts (and I got saffron buns (!), bit of change from all the oreos). I have a lot of great pictures to show you once I'm well enough to sitt in front of the computer for more than 10 minutes.

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Happy/sad

Håller precis på att leverera 9 000 ord när jag får förfrågan om 8 000 nya. Och jag har ju en shoppingresa till NY att finansiera. Och 100 nya TV-kanaler att titta på.

Daph, I'm finally getting some work (to pay for my shopping in NY). I also finally got around to fixing the digital box for the TV and now I have 100 channels to browse.

Crimbo

Yesterday I started browsing eBay for christmas tree decorations ( I want frosted baubles that looks like cones) and I would love some snow. NOW. Nils marked Christmas Eve in their calendar the other day and I think we'll have a lovely time anticipating Christmas this year. We already planned another glöggtasting (it's like mulled wine only a lot sweeter) (we had one with Eva last year and it was great) I'll just have to remember to order this year's glögg, it's supposedly not very good. I quite liked the one that had glitter in it so we'll def. have that one again and also the chocolate one was nice.

I LOVE Roland

Häromveckan såg jag och Johan Independence Day. Eftersom vi bara har den på VHS (specialutgåva med glansigt 3D-kort) så hyrde vi den. Och den innehöll en massa bortklippta scener. Nu måste jag hyra Day After Tomorrow och se om den också innehåller mer. Älskar mer. Och snart kommer 2012. Det är som att Roland Emmerich kan se in i mitt huvud och gör film bara för mig (och några andra). Och han var dessutom extra omtänksam den här gången och tog med Oliver Platt.

Sometimes when I play at being a proper nice housewife I hoover up some cinnamon or cardamom so that the hoover will smell nicely. A week ago Johan dropped some taco spices on the floor and it's quite bad. And I'm down to my last hoover bag.