Deb Space

On our last trip to Chicago, Scott and I stocked up on some of his hometown goodies: Vienna Beef Hot Dogs (food writer/blogger Michael Ruhlman waxes poetic about the dogs here), Sport Peppers, and Chicago Relish so we could have Chicago-style hot dogs whenever we want. Our celery salt comes from Penzy’s, another Chicago institution, which has a shop in Grand Central Station. The dill pickle spears, yellow mustard and fresh tomatoes are easy enough to find locally. Here is the result of our latest effort:

I kept checking the Cherry Blossom Watch at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, but I never managed to get there this year. Scott started traveling for work and so we would end up doing stuff closer to home on weekends. The last thing Scott wanted to do was travel more on his rest days, and I found myself pretty tired from running Boo! around three times a day.

I was also less motivated by the fact that the complex I live in has lots of cherry trees around and for three weeks I had many different trees to catch my eye.

It started with these lovely white blossoms.

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