{"id":1640,"date":"2009-07-25T20:11:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T20:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/2009\/07\/25\/40\/"},"modified":"2009-07-25T20:11:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T20:11:53","slug":"40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/2009\/07\/25\/40\/","title":{"rendered":"40."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 11th of this month I turned 40. I can&#8217;t believe it. I don&#8217;t think I really mind turning 40 probably because I don&#8217;t look 40 (fingers crossed!). Time just seems to be going so fast. And I always feel like I still have so much I want to do and see and make. It was hard to decide what to do for my big day since it landed on a Saturday. Yves organized a birthday BBQ for me but we had that the following weekend. I decided I wanted to get a pork sandwich for lunch from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.porchettanyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Porchetta<\/a>. It&#8217;s a little tiny place in the East Village that my friend Brenda told me about. We had tried to go there one night before a mixer but it only has 6 seats and it was raining. I managed to get a couple of bites from a sandwich she brought to another mixer. It was delicious. I wanted a whole one for myself. I actually forgot about the place until a couple of weeks ago when I saw a post on one of the foodie blogs I read who had recently gone there. Then I couldn&#8217;t stop thinking about it. Then I figured it was a good place to go while Sienna was home with my parents. And that was that.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/porchettasandwichblog.jpg\" alt=\"porchettasandwichblog.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>It was really good although I did find the skin a bit on the chewy side. I like my pork skin crispy.<\/em><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/potatoesblog.jpg\" alt=\"potatoesblog.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Potatoes with burnt ends<\/em><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/pork.jpg\" alt=\"pork.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPORK!<\/p>\n<p>Yves enjoyed the sandwich but he didn&#8217;t think it was worth the price. I might have to agree with him on that. We went back home to have cake that my parents bought for me. They buy me a cake every year and this year I managed to talk them out of going to the chinese bakery. (Not that I dislike chinese bakery cake but they order from one every year) I managed to convince them to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeandanet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Danet Bakery<\/a> (after an attempt to get them to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivybakery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ivy Bakery<\/a> failed-they thought $35 for a cake was too much which I would usually agree with them but come on, this is my 40th! Anyway, I digress&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>The cake was a chocolate cake with strawberries and chocolate pudding. They were very generous with the strawberries! The cake was delicious! So good that I forgot to take a photo of a slice.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bdcakeblog.jpg\" alt=\"bdcakeblog.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yves got me a mega stand mixer, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuisinart.com\/products\/stand_mixers\/sm-55.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cuisinart 5.5 quart <\/a>in brushed steel, for my birthday. It&#8217;s fabulous! Sienna bought me an orange case for my Ipod touch! Thanks guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 11th of this month I turned 40. I can&#8217;t believe it. I don&#8217;t think I really mind turning 40 probably because I don&#8217;t look 40 (fingers crossed!). Time just seems to be going so fast. And I always feel like I still have so much I want to do and see and make. 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