Thursdays with TT: Stadium Pizza

My second Yankee game of the year and the first with CT. She was supposed to go with me a couple weeks ago, but got sick. She was convinced that she was cursed from going to a game at the new stadium, since she also tried to go last year. If we were both able to leave early enough, I wanted to check out the “secret cheap bar” near the stadium that I haven’t been to in a while. A couple years ago my buddy took me here because they have 3 beers for $10. [...]

Tuesdays with TT: BONUS: The Edible Garden @ NYBG

Since Yvo has been traveling for what seems like months and months by now, I have been able to take advantage of the different events she gets invited to. One such event was organized by Alejandra from AlwaysOrderDessert at the New York Botanical Garden. The NYBG has a summer exhibition going on called The Edible Garden. They are hosting different chefs and farmers for presentations on growing and preparing good food. Some famous chefs have even setup their own gardens on the grounds, but more on that later.
I had never been to the NYBG, but heard [...]

Yankee Stadium

This post is going to physically hurt me to write this.  Not because of the sunburn I received while sitting in left field by the foul post, not because I stupidly forgot to take a photo of the outside of Yankee Stadium (although, to be honest, there didn’t seem to be a good angle at which to take the photo – Citi Field, as soon as you come off the train station, there it looms large in front of you and everyone takes this photo – besides, the new stadium looks almost exactly like the old one… all concrete…), but [...]