Julia Sea

2012 Fall Bucket List

Now that we’re in the double digits of September I thought it would be a nice idea to makes some plans. Here’s a tentative bucket list for the next few months. Let’s see how this goes…

EAT

~~Baked~~ (Nov. 18)
~~ChikaLicious~~ (Oct. 13)
~~Cafe Cluny~~ (Nov. 6)
~~DiFara Pizza~~ (Nov. 18)
~~Littleneck~~ (Nov. 2)
~~Mike’s Donuts~~ (Sept. 16)
~~Vinegar Hill House~~ (Nov. 30)
~~Truffle Mac @ Spitzer’s Corner (highly recc’ed)~~ (9/24/12)
~~An Old Fashioned @ Blueprint~~ (Oct. 12)
~~Smorgasburg DUMBO~~ (Nov. 4)

MAKE

~~Pumpkin Doughnuts~~ (Sept. 16)
~~Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies~~ (Sept. 18)
~~Pumpkin Salted Caramel Brownies~~ (Sept. 15)
~~Caramel Apple Sticky Buns~~ (Oct. 8 **good but you could halve the filling and caramel sauce and be FINE!**)
~~Busy Day Cake~~ (Sept. 27)
~~Sour Cream Coffee Cake~~ (Oct. 30 **AWESOME. Truly awesome. Two things: 1) this overflowed like crazy, next time I’ll make a 13x9 and a few muffins and 2) you can cut the sugar down to 1.5 cups.)
~~Oatmeal Pancakes~~ (Nov. 4)
~~Whole Wheat Autumn Apple Pizza~~ (Oct. 3)
~~Black Bean Pumpkin Soup~~ (Sept. 17)
Honeycrisp Apple Sangria (aka: the internet’s favorite drink of Fall 2011)
~~Roasted Pecan Pumpkin Butter~~ (Nov. 17 **Good but much more pecan-y than pumpkin-y)

READ

~~Geek Love - Katherine Dunn~~ (Oct. 8)
~~Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk - Ben Fountain~~ (Sept. 21)
~~Back to Blood - Tom Wolfe~~ (Nov. 17)
NW - Zadie Smith

Museums: PS1, The Cloisters, ~~Warhol @ The Met~~ (Nov. 6)
Apple picking + wining upstate
~~Picnic in the park(s)~~ (Oct. 14/Prospect - as long as a bagel counts as a picnic)
~~Massage~~ (Nov. 24)
New Amsterdam Market
~~NYRR Race~~ (Nov. 18)
~~Reading @ 92Y~~ (Oct. 18/ Nick Hornby, First Reads)
~~VOTE~~ (Nov. 6 #gobama)
New York Film Festival (MISSED IT)
CMJ (MISSED IT)