I turned 39 last Saturday! It’s been a week since then, and more than two weeks since I’ve blogged, and it’s been busy and eventful and so much has been going on. So I desperately need to catch up here.
Tag: bakeries
So I was wrong about the International Food Festival. It was an additional event, not replacing Riverfest. Red Bank is just crazy with food festivals this year, and I am not complaining.
The wonderful ladies from the Princeton alumni chapter of my sorority, Phi Mu, threw me a baby shower at Nicholas on Saturday. Audrey, the matriarch of the group, organized the whole thing, and it was really sweet. I had a great afternoon. Audrey took my obsession with cupcakes and turned it into the theme for the day, which I loved.
I’ve already mentioned this new cupcake bakery in Red Bank here and here. I love this place, I’m so happy to have a good local place for cupcakes given the Reeve family obsession. I thought I’d post about the shop itself, which is right down the street from Riverview hospital.
Yesterday Laura Ann gave me the best birthday present: we spent the day getting massages at Bliss SoHo, picking up baked goods, and eating at Peasant.
The Cupcake Stop truck was parked up the street from Bliss. So after LA and I were transformed into gobs of putty and spent an hour in the Bliss lounge chilling out, I needed to go. I’ve been stalking them on Twitter since they opened in 2009. I got the mini cupcake sampler, and Adam and I are still eating them. They are so frakking good.
My friends got together for my birthday, and we had the best time. Dinner at Fresco by Scotto with several of my favorite people.
Then a bunch of us headed into Brooklyn for Floating Kabarette, an amazing burlesque show held every Saturday at Galapagos Art Space. Can’t recommend it enough, $10 bucks for the most fun I’ve had since my last birthday. Aerialists, can-can girls, the Red Hook Ramblers ragtime band. Fabulous!
I had a wonderful, busy day in Manhattan on Sunday with 2 great friends and a lot of shopping.
I met up with Kathy to deliver her NYC pillow and enjoy Cafeteria’s macaroni and cheese sampler (my favorite!) and their truffle fries (now I’m addicted). I was so excited about this lunch (I also had tomato soup) that I completely failed to take any actual pictures of Kathy and me. I see carbs, and…things happen to my attention span. Sorry, Kathy! You know I love you. Read more on Kathy and Maggie Day…
My family came over to our house today to celebrate my mom. I made 2 chicken pot pies. We gave my mom a really pretty hydrangea. And we had these cupcakes.