baby its cold outside

cheese, its friday the 13th!

times square

we passed through columbia university on our way to try ethiopian food, 'along came polly style'

~this was like number 2 on my must do nyc list

so, we hiked over to massawa, on amsterdam in the upper west side

"Our food is traditionally served with injera and eaten by hand. Injera is home baked flat African bread with no sugar or salt added and made from Teff, which is the smallest wheat grain in the world and is found in the high mountains of East Africa.

our server was super helpful and recommended we just order combo entrees so we could try a lot of different items

our choices included:

Tsebhi Derho ~ Braised chicken simmered in a berbere sauce and exotic spices {favorite!}

Tebsi Derho ~ {no desciption on menu, i think this was like pulled chicken}

{a chicken leg in some sauce was also not on the menu, reid ate it}

Shiro ~ Chick peas cooked with ginger and seasoned with a hint of spice

Alitcha~ Potatoes, broccoli, carrots with spices

Tsebhi Hamli ~ Collard greens cooked tenderly with garlic

all eaten with the flat injera bread, which was almost like scooping everything into stretchy, spongy, tart pancakes. good but definitely weird.

i also had the best honey wine i've ever tasted & reid had an ethiopian honey beer that i think he would have traded for something with more flavor.

the camera we took on the trip conveniently kept dying when i needed it most, so we have no photographic evidence of this new experience. i am very sad about this.