I drove down to Queens and picked up my youngest - Hudson's the only one in the NYC area now - and brought them back for an afteroon hang out and bbq. We had multiple discussions about doing this the past couple of weeks but with everyone healthy now, and enough weeks of social distancing and Westchester beginning to reopen and NYC a week away - we decided it was safe. We all had a great time. Enough said.
It was leg of lamb day. I grilled a marinated leg of lamb - not a huge piece of meat but a small one, just enough for three people. Mary made her famous rosemary and olive oil potatoes and we topped it with a garden salad, all of which came out of her garden. It all couldn't have been better. We had a bottle of a Boundary Breaks dry riesling with appetizers and finished an already open bottle of Damiani Cabernet Sauvignon 2013 - a reserve and now that it's gone, it's probably irreplaceable.
It was so perfect it was absurd.
The photos were taken last September. Driving down to pick up Hudson in Queens and coming on these today made it sort of fated that I would post them.
I was walking around Ridgewood, Queens with my Hudson. We'd just come from cleaning out stuff from a house my sister-in-law and I were selling and figured it was too nice a day to not walk around. Looking at the pictures today, the song "Walking in Memphis" came to mind. Walking in Ridgewood with my kid was as interesting as Marc Cohen's Memphis, minus the ghosts, the catfish and the gospel.
We started in a cafe and finished in a Polish restaurant. You got a prayer in Ridgewood.
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