this weekend, the weather was quite volatile, the clouds dark and heavy, appearing as if they could burst at any moment. the sun barely peeking through the canopy of clouds until late sunday afternoon.
we were thinking of making 牛肉面, but that would have required a trip to chinatown to pick up ingredients required for the broth seasoning and the long multi-hour process of making stock. while we were wandering around wholefoods' ethnic foods aisle, i saw it - summer roll wrappers! :) i had made plenty of these in college - they were tasty, healthy, and fun to make together. then i recalled having summer rolls the previous night at pho sure, and the delicious lemongrass porkchops which followed. i have always wanted to learn to make that at home!
and that's how we decided to spend the afternoon rolling up our sleeves and getting in the thick of things making lemongrass pork chops, summer rolls with wild-caught prawn, peanut dipping sauce, nuoc mam cham, and one day later, a banh mi for lunch, bread from sullivan street bakery.
it rained quite heavily overnight and into the morning, so our nyrr queens 10k was was postponed by an hour for a 9am start. the course was narrow and filled with potholes and messy puddles, and the majority of it was through corona park in queens, which is basically along the queens expressway (not super pretty).
it was 80F and 90% humidity when we crossed the start line and oh those were two really fun first two miles, as i clocked myself going 7:20 pace, shocked at how great i felt ... or so i thought. perhaps it was the recent speed workouts at central park, but i was out of the gates way too fast for that distance, and i was crushed for the next four miles, including the last 200 meters. so glad that race is done and i will probably never sign up for it again ...
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