I've written before about the Brooklyn flea markets, held every weekend in Williamsburg and Fort Greene. The same collective also run two food markets every weekend, Smorgasburgs, in Williamsburg (natch) and DUMBO. A couple of weeks ago we visited the latter, for the last market of the season. We spent our time munching through the stands, some crunchy schnitzel on pretzel bread here, a little pulled pork slider there, donuts, pizzas, pesto popcorn and even some oysters for our market companions (not for me though, sorry for being so graphic but oysters make me think of salty snot. Ick).

The people of DUMBO love them some BBQ.

Inspired by all the food on display at the Smorsgasburg, we decided it would be rude not to revel in the tradition of the Americans by cooking a meal for Thanksgiving, when in Rome and all that jazz. A couple of Canadian friends came to join us and we dined on turkey and an enormous mega ham, which Mr procured despite my protests about its size. Mr was right though, that ham was deeeeee-licious and we got a whole ton of meals out of it. Tasty AND frugal! Apologies for the schoolboy error of not taking any pics of the turkey before carving. I'm sure you can imagine roughly what it looked like (hint – like a roast turkey).

Yesterday we met some friends for brunch at Sons of Essex in the Lower East Side. The interior of the place is beautiful, all wood panels, leather corner booths and vintage nick-nacks… And the ambience was helped along by a merry crew of hipsters strumming some twangy jazz in the corner. Here's a little shot of the place, swiped from the Internet. I felt like far too much of a geek to take one myself.

I wasn't too ashamed to photograph our delicious food though, here is Mr's Loisaida steak huevos.

My butter scrambled crostini, with maple glazed bacon, truffle tater tots and mental mouth watering truffle Bloody Mary.

To finish, some dinky pancakes. The rest of the afternoon was spent propping up a bar supping many sangrias, perfection.

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