Two CHICKENS and 100 EGGS

100 EGGS…………waiting for a face……….that they will NOT get.  So….they will NOT appear on my Easter Hat.

HAT LADIES……who did NOT make the cut!

These  sweet ladies are “pissed off”……

…..they did NOT make the cut for my new EASTER hat.

This group of ladies got a new face………..but are impatiently waiting for their HATS.

There are FOUR DOZEN more…….. hoping to be chosen.

The VESSEL at Hudson Yards

If you want a view of the HUDSON RIVER…..and you want to climh 152 flights of stairs…………and wait in line for your “ticket to climb”……….head on down to West 34th street.

Is it a honeycomb….or a……….New Yorkers are calling it whatever they want.

It weights 60 tons and cost $150 million.

It is part of a new mega-mall on the Hudson River………even Neiman Marcus has opened a store there………….and 30 new restaurants are scattered about the buildings…….all very UPSCALE.   Tres chic…..and expensive.

Can you Bake a Cherry Pie TOMMY BOY TOMMY BOY?

I can try….I can try

And I did it….using frozen sour cherries and a lot of sugar…..a lard crust and…….

with NO cornstarch or tapioca.

 

 

 

Getting Wasted on St Pat’s Day

What would SAINT PAT Say?

Guiness……Kilkenny……..Harp…….or Smithwicks?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L’Avenue PARIS come to SAK’S Fifth

L’Avenue is a celebrity magnate in Paris……and the chef Pierre Hermé has brought his talent and fame to New York.

His interior in Paris is POSh………

and Philip Stark has brought the same posh to Sak’s fifth.

Breakfast……..lunch…….snacks…….. dinner or just cocktails……….await you and will cost you $$$$$.

Lobster will surely please………

And it wouldn’t be a Parisian Restaurant without MACARONS.

TOM’S New Food Sketches

I did these sketches using only colored pencils………no watercolors.

I buy my “still-life at the Whole Foods Market.  I draw it…..then I cook it.

Then I eat it.