Weekend Report (HAMMERTIME!)

On Saturday, B & I took the free ferry to Ikea from the Wall Street area, then walked over the Red Hook Ball Fields vendors, a collection of food carts serving all sorts of South American street food. The lines for the vendors were out of control, and the number of vendors (this year forced into trucks by the DOH) were easily split by half. While we established ourselves on the longest line for the huracha (sauteed meat or veg with veg, queso fresca, sauce) I wandered to another card and got a spectacular empinada stuffed with little cubes of beef, cheese, veggies, and spices. The corn on the cob had a perfect balance of mayo, lime, salt, grated cheese and grill flavor, something I wouldn't have appreciated before C-school.

SATURDAY
BREAKFAST: 6am, smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Grapes, cherries, kiwi, blueberry, banana, good yogurt and milk, flax, dash of salt, dash of honey, dash of vanilla extract. DAMN!

AM SNACK: 10:15am, vegan snack bars, water, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Overly-sweet maple syrup bars after yoga in the park. B & the HVS were ga-ga over them, I guess because they were sugar bricks with some crunchy stuff thrown in, hrumph.

AM SNACK: 11:30pm, baby carrots and hummus, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Saving my appetite for the Red Hook vendors...

LUNCH: 1:30p, beef empinada, corn on the cob with dressing, pork huracha, 8oz lie drink, water, 2 bowls, hunger 4/5
Absolutely delicious.

PM SNACK: 2pm, chocolate ice cream cone, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
From a Mr. Softy in Red Hook. Not great, but hit the spot on a hot sunny day chasing spicy food.

DINNER SNACK: 8pm, handful of raw cashews
After napping for 3 hours, not that hungry but felt like eating something. Soon after, would be sleeping again.

SUNDAY
BREAKFAST: 6:15am, good yogurt with cashews, honey, vanilla, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 7am, 2 donuts, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Donut Plant: some of the best damn donuts in the world, and they happen to be on my street. Got one big puffy chocolate, one small dense hazelnut. Good to get the legs started on a bike ride.


LUNCH: 10:30am, dry salami slices, carrots and celery, bad onion dip, watermelon, a few sesame pretzels, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Picked up some random groceries in Nyack and feasted at Rockland Lake. No, I didn't finish the dip, only about 1/4 of it. Pretzels are HVS-approved, and quite delicious.

PM SNACK: 12:30pm, 2 donuts, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
At a farm stand, freshly fried donuts, nice and crispy. Not as good as Donut Plant donuts, but they were fresh, free of preservative chemicals and the sugar kept me moving.

PM SNALACK: 3pm, large green salad with fresh tomato, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Might be going out to eat in a few hours, need to temper my potentially out-of-control appetite.

PM SNACK: 5pm, 5 sesame pretzels, water, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6:30pm, small green salad, cup of pea soup, meat stuffed derma, 1/2 a keilbasa, 3 perogies, 2 slices challah, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Dinner with Y at Veselka. I remember huge portions, but this was very normal, surprising for a 'deluxe meat combination'.

EVENING SNACK: 7:15, chocolate ice cream, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 8:15, hot dog with kraut, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Still hungry. We stopped in at Criffdog, surprised by how not very good it was.

EVENING WATERING: 9pm, quart of seltzer

This has nothing to do with food, but midway through my ride up into Rockland County, I came across this stop sign. Someone had taken the time to come up with the idea of painting "HAMMERTIME" on a stop sign? And made a stencil, bought spray paint, and chose this sign to paint on? As I was standing there, marveling and taking a picture, across the street (out of frame) ,a 100-car freight train went past at full speed. I waved to the conductor and he waved back. HAMMERTIME! It was a brilliant ride.