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Good Morning Delicious People!!

Greetings from the Empire State

It is a sunny 45 degree's out here on eastern long island and the ocean breeze is amazing, especially after some time in the dry desert air.

How is everyone doing? I am jet lagged but will recover. Its so nice to be back home for the holidays.

This morning I had a real NY everything bagel and have to say, if you are going to do carbs, this is the way to go. Nothing quite like it. My sweetheart and I have an ongoing joke about bagels. She scoops them out and has everyone in her office doing the same thing. This is supposed to be a way of "saving calories" but then she slipped one day and said "this makes more room for the cream cheese" Aha, I thought. This is the part of the diva conspiracy, as they try to encourage carb lovers like me to toss out the heart of the sacred NY bagel. Well, as a result of this bagel massacre that occurs in her midst, she never prepares a bagel and hands it to me. Ever. I usually head to a bagel temple, where the body of the bagel is appreciated for the iconic art that it is.

This morning in my jet lagged delirium however, she got me. I received a sweet text asking me to bring her coffee at work. As I headed to the coffee shop she sent another text asking me if I wanted a bagel since they had a delivery at her office today for the patients. Sure, I replied.

So..I get to the office and was distracted saying hello to all of her co workers (who by the way all had to show me their new manicures because another co worker just opened her own nail spa and has a nail artist there who does amazing work, I mean amazing, like Swarovski crystal inlays, crazy, styling, NY bling nail art) when she handed me an everything bagel, wrapped up. So after a few minutes, I left. When I unwrapped the bagel later on, I realized that it was in fact, scooped. Dayum!! Well, I can be glad for the calories that saved me, but I was really looking forward to the whole bagel. Eventually a request for ice cream is going to hit my phone and I am seriously thinking about replacing it with frozen yogurt (which she does not care for) and attaching a note "its less calories honey " lol.

As funny as that might be, I would seriously not do that and disappoint her.

Ok so that is my bagel story for today. Perhaps I will have better luck with a slice of real NY pizza. Funny how whenever I have been away for a while I go right for the NY classics.

Another thing that I am looking forward to as the waters on the eastern seaboard get colder is oysters. We can get Wellfleet oysters from Cape Cod and they are amazing. The colder the better. I can knock out 2 dozen for a snack in no time. Shucking them is not so much fun but worth it.

So what are all of you delicious people up to today?