Cook Out NYC [Giveaway!]

This post is sponsored by Cook Out NYC ™

Ahem, ahem.... let me clear my throat. *DJ Kool breakdown*

I.... have a last-minute,  first-time giveaway.*sniff* I think I popped another food blogger cherry milestone.

The people over at Cook Out NYC ™ have graciously provided me with two VIP tickets to Cook Out NYC ™ to give to one lucky sonomagun that reads my blog or tolerates my tweets. :P

Here's the lowdown. (I figured if I said here's the skinny I'd be misrepresenting myself AND the post.)

On July 7th and 8th Govenor's Island will be overtaken by a swarm of hungry foodies. Join us!

I missed out on the press preview due to something called my "I have to workout because I want to look good in general and for my wedding and oh my God when did I become that person? Am I an adult now?" crisis that leads me to train 3x a week nowadays.

How to enter:
Send your most creative tweet to @cookoutnyc and @mumblepurr at the same time by 11:59 pm Wednesday, July 4th, and I get to choose ONE winner for this weekend's event.

Something like "I promise not to pet @mumblepurr @cookoutnyc this weekend because she might stab me with a pen," could work, but won't because it's mine and it's true.

Bonus: If you were thinking of going anyway and don't win get $5.00 off your ticket by entering "BlogOutNYC” on this page.

It's the featured event of July Good Beer Month. So don't miss out on some seriously tasty brew.

Drink great beer (Sixpoint), eat great food (BBQ, burger cookout, a kimchi eating contest, hot dog competition) and support causes like Just Food's Farm School.

These people look like they had fun last year:
Images courtesy of Sebastian from Cook Out NYC

I'll see you there come rain or come shine but not hail, locusts or tiny, crunchy frogs.

M

Disclosure:
I put up this spiffy little post in return for two free tickets to CookOut NYC from Jackie over here.  I also like actually writing about food things instead of saying that I'd like to write more about food things and then playing another hour of Diablo 3.  No babies were punched, or even threatened with a punch, in the making of this post. 

i am milk

(to the tune of Milk by Garbage, photo of a piggy sundae @Farmacy in BK)

I am Milk
I am oh so tasty
I am cream
Taste good whipped on pastry

I am cheese
slice me, melt me, bite me
I'm lactose
and M can't tolerate me

I loosen,
I loosen your poo
I make you
act like you're not you

I even clog up your ears toooooooooooo.....

ahem...

I have a love, hate, love, loathe relationship with all things dairy.

If I had my way, Chrissette Michelle style, one day I'd wake up and be able to consume as much dairy goodness as possible without feeling like I'm about to have a cold.

I'd not have to substitute various nut milks that never come close to the real thing when I'm feeling particularly  health conscious.

I'd enjoy my morning frosted flakes without breathing all weird at my workout in the evening.

Anyway, due to things beyond my control I'm having a little issue with my latest set of photos or else they'd be what this update is about.

Milk, it does a body pbpbpptppbpbptptht.

klimat test run

So the day before my birthday (and the day the potatoes I won from TECHMunch arrived) I headed down to Klimat to take a few food photos. Here are the results of a quick shoot. The chef and I plan to do something more substantial next weekend.

The day was a little crazy. I rushed from work to the gym and then down to Klimat having been forgotten by the dude at Adorama who promised me my lighting equipment would be ready by that morning. When I called it was still in the warehouse. B&H I love you except on Fridays when you're not open as late as I'd like, but I understand. I'll never stray again.

This was the regular dip drizzled with olive oil:

The composition was off on this next one.  There's organic grilled chicken under there somewhere too!

 It was sweltering in the kitchen as I took these photos so my hunger was curbed by the need to not have a full tummy in heat, but afterwards I felt I should have noshed on something. It could have been the burger below.  Putting it on a pita was interesting. I like the flecks of parsley I can see on the meat. Dunno if it's the lamb or the beef one.

klimat connection

I'll be shooting some food pics @Klimat on the Lower East Side this week. A friend of mine who does interactive and digital marketing asked me to take some shots so I'm working ith the owner Peter to make that happen. 

Here are some pics from a few weekends ago along with some brunch photos at Hummus Place on St. Marks. 

This hummus was so good! 

changes are a comin

So I reset the template back to some sort of dynamic magic while I redesign the site. I got a new point and shoot (Lumix LX-5)  to take to events like GoogaMooga where they say you can't bring a camera with a detachable lens then end up letting people in with them anyway (maybe they had a press pass, I don't judge).

Anyway. Those oranges above and the umami burgers below were the two best (and almost all) food things I ate that day.

It pays to stick by the bartender as he's peeling oranges for super strong drinks so that you can eat them to keep your stomach from growling.