Boston Food Festival and Legal Seafood

Hello everyone!

Boston has gotten quite chilly recently, so I thought it would be fun to look back to only a week or two ago when the weather was quite balmy.

It's so hard these days to find time to do anything but work.  I'm rehearsing and playing with 3-4 orchestra at any given moment, and teaching BU undergraduate classes and a few of my private students.  Not to mention the fact that I still have my own school work to do!  And David's working on multiple projects all at once, trying to publish papers and presenting at different conferences around the country.  

But we think it's very important to still continue to go on dates, and do 'couple'y things with each other, so we have been trying to carve out a few hours for that every week.  And of course, whenever we have any free time, our favorite things to do together involve eating food.  and dance. But today's post is food oriented  =)

There was a food festival going on in Boston a few weekends ago, so we decided to check it out and enjoy what was to be one of the last really warm days in Boston!

The weather was absolutely glorious!

and you already know my love of farmer's market-esq settings  =)

I never thought of tomatoes as particularly delicious, but I'm always happy when things change my mind!  and these were absolutely delicious!  =D

my date =)

and what seemed like all of Boston out to enjoy the weather!

Jerk chicken!

I kinda wanted to go on this, but decided that I will just wait until I have lil bebes like the rest of the folks there haha

and because we tend to eat mostly Korean foods at home, we thought we would indulge David's side of the culture here ;)

green onion pancakes filled with pork belly!

mmm! Boston's never ending supply of fresh seafood!

and kids enjoying the fountain.  They were having so much fun, and their laughter was contagious!  It didn't succeed in getting us to go into the water ourselves, but we did spend quite awhile just watching them play  =)

Enjoying the last wear out of this sundress before I pack it away until next summer!

To continue with the fresh seafood theme, we visited Legal Seafood for a date one evening!

We had never been, and we were told that it was a must!

We ended up getting the New England Clam Chowder, crab cakes, and the seafood platter full of lobster, clams, and mussels!

haha, hi there Mr. Lobster.   Definitely David's handywork  ;)

It was pretty good, and the seafood was fresh.  The atmosphere wasn't anything special, but if you are just after basic, fresh seafood, this would be a good place to visit!

Even though there's laundry to be done, our floor hasn't been swept or mopped in more than a week, and of course, there's always practicing to be done, it has been quite therapeutic to just sit here after finishing grading and doing my own homework to do some 'journaling' on my little corner of the interweb =)

Thanks for stopping by to catch up on our lives, and have a wonderful day!

--Janny

Castle Island

Hello everyone!

For a date one windy weekend, David and I went to the Castle Island for a stroll!

It used to be an actual island, but it has been attached to the mainland since the 1930's for easy access for folks like us!  =) 

It has a wonderful little beach, and apparently it's one of the most popular beaches in Boston!  When we visited, it was still a bit chilly, so no one was in the water, but I'm excited to revisit later in the summer for a refreshing swim!

For now though, we had to be content with a stroll and people watching  =)

The island is home to Fort Independence, a 5 point stone fort which was built in the 1800s.  

When we were there, it was under construction, so we couldn't go inside, but we did get to peep through the doorway and see airplanes flying just out of the reach of the cannons!

So-sad-we-didn't-get-to-go-inside photo

After having burned off So. Many. Calories from the park, we went in search of noms to replenish some of those calories  =)

We had never tried Boston Cream Pie, so we figured that should be remedied.  At first, we wanted to go to the home of the original Boston Cream Pie, but things didn't line up, so we had to put that idea on hold.  Next time...  

Though the original place didn't come through, the Flour bakery came to the rescue, and we did get to at least try our very first Boston Cream Pie!! 

And my goodness, where has this been all my life?!  The most creamy, decadent, melt-in-your-mouth, and perfectly sweet piece of cake we've ever tasted!  Usually, I'm not a fan of cake because they are usually too sweet, but this one hit the perfect sweetness level.  

Ok, Boston cream pie.  We are definitely a fan!

David now wants to try our hands in making it ourselves... but for now, I'm content just eating my way through all of the delicious layers of the Flour bakery's version!  haha  

Have a wonderful weekend, and thanks for stopping by!

--Janny