I’m off to NYC shortly, with the hopes of getting to visit some of the places I missed last time (Payard, Il Laboratorio del Gelato…) and probably won’t have time to do another post until the end of the week (or maybe next week), as I’m trying to get through a mountain of work before leaving. I had a brief photo inspiration today, though, thanks in part to a visit with my mother. She showed me her raspberry bushes - started only two years ago - which are positively flourishing. As a kid, I spent every July trying to pick as many berries as possible from the bushes in the nearby park, and it was always a challenge to get there before the other neighborhood kids did. When I saw the berries in her yard, I was shocked that there were so many. Well, nobody else had been picking them, of course!
I plucked as many as I could from the prickly branches and had some of them for breakfast this morning with just a little bit of cream-fortified milk. They are the true taste of summer childhood memories to me.
As you can see, the berries provided half the inspiration, and the rest is a little homage to Simply Breakfast, a blog I really like for its simple style and excellent use of a theme.
Be back soon, and with luck, sharing some tasty bites from the Big Apple!