Since Little Squid missed out on 12 family miles last week, we made it up with a Mommy-Monster breakfast ride. While Mike took Squidette to band practice, Little Squid and I pedaled uptown, purchased muffins at Fairway and then rode a mile more to some picnic tables along the Hudson River.
We had a lovely time and even made up our own theme song to the tune of the Addams Family. I had figured the song as blog fodder but Mike and Squidette vetoed it.For lunch we all walked up to the Ninth Avenue International Food Festival. This particular street fair is unique in that many of the vendors are actually local food establishments. There are the usual assortment of generic street fair peddlers of sausage and peppers and crepes but then there are the churches and neighborhood associations and local restaurants plying their fare.
See all those people -- look toward the back of the photo -- people stretching all the way up to 57th street (photo taken at 42nd street).
I love the different spellings of the same words ... shiskebab / chishkacab. 
Pork sandwiches, any one?
I chose a Caribbean vendor and feasted on jerk chicken, rice and peas and sweet plantains. The Squidlings dined on arepas -- "standard" street fair food but purchased from a less commercial stall.
Dessert was apple tart, bread pudding and zeppole. Yum!
Yes, yes they are wearing different hats in the two pictures. Like them? I got a new hat, too!
3 comments:
Looks like a good time was had by all! Love the new hats.
We had kabob for dinner tonight too. Well, DH did. I had a gyro.
Mmm, first the calamari, and definitely a stop at the Little Pie booth...What is carne a la llanera? At first I thought it said llama.
That's certainly a reason for a festival...FOOD! Yum! Love the new hats. And...can't your readers vote? We want to hear the song :-)
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