Cia
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Posting about food, books, our dog Boo Radley, and NYCFC ⚽️ Will plant sit and design your garden in Jersey City/Hoboken, NJ🌵asianplantie.com
Cod in lemon-butter sauce with crispy potatoes for dinner tonight #ciacooksjerseycity
December 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Cod in lemon-butter sauce with crispy potatoes for dinner tonight #ciacooksjerseycity
Book no.21 for 2025: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. I plan to finish this before year’s end since I’m now officially on staycation!
#booksky 💙📚
#booksky 💙📚
December 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Book no.21 for 2025: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. I plan to finish this before year’s end since I’m now officially on staycation!
#booksky 💙📚
#booksky 💙📚
The ground is still cold and very wet from the recent snowfall, but I took Boo Radley 👻💩 out in the backyard anyway to check on things and she went wild with mini zoomies 🤪 #dogsofbluesky #ciaheartsbooradley
December 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The ground is still cold and very wet from the recent snowfall, but I took Boo Radley 👻💩 out in the backyard anyway to check on things and she went wild with mini zoomies 🤪 #dogsofbluesky #ciaheartsbooradley
Starting our holidays: croque-monsieur breakfast casserole 😋 #ciacooksjerseycity
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Starting our holidays: croque-monsieur breakfast casserole 😋 #ciacooksjerseycity
The Bar Room at the Modern still serves. #ciaeatsnyc
December 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The Bar Room at the Modern still serves. #ciaeatsnyc
The Ruth Asawa retrospective at the MoMA was great, great, great!
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The Ruth Asawa retrospective at the MoMA was great, great, great!
Last day online for work in 2025 so I’m celebrating with lemon ricotta pancakes 🥞 #ciacooksjerseycity
December 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Last day online for work in 2025 so I’m celebrating with lemon ricotta pancakes 🥞 #ciacooksjerseycity
The bike lane last night on 2nd Street off Harsimus Cove Light Rail station was still covered with slushy snow in Jersey City. 🚲 We can’t be expecting our food to be delivered during the coldest days when the people who use these lanes can’t be safe.
December 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The bike lane last night on 2nd Street off Harsimus Cove Light Rail station was still covered with slushy snow in Jersey City. 🚲 We can’t be expecting our food to be delivered during the coldest days when the people who use these lanes can’t be safe.
I wish there was an Okdongsik in Jersey City; a small bar where I can just sit and slurp a bowl of Korean gomtang during the coldest of cold days. I don’t mind going to Koreatown in NYC, but I’d rather just bike around my neighborhood to get it. #ciaeatsnyc
December 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I wish there was an Okdongsik in Jersey City; a small bar where I can just sit and slurp a bowl of Korean gomtang during the coldest of cold days. I don’t mind going to Koreatown in NYC, but I’d rather just bike around my neighborhood to get it. #ciaeatsnyc
Jersey City snow day with Boo Radley 👻💩
December 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Jersey City snow day with Boo Radley 👻💩
December 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A seal at Harsimus Cove stop. Very useful sign when it’s 38F, raining, and dark outside. It doesn’t matter when the Light Rail is coming! #njtransit But maybe @mikiesherrill.bsky.social has thought about it!
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
A seal at Harsimus Cove stop. Very useful sign when it’s 38F, raining, and dark outside. It doesn’t matter when the Light Rail is coming! #njtransit But maybe @mikiesherrill.bsky.social has thought about it!
This is why I just use Pocahontas when I buy coffee. They never misspell or mispronounce Pocahontas.
December 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is why I just use Pocahontas when I buy coffee. They never misspell or mispronounce Pocahontas.
“Chasing Me to My Grave” hurts to read ☹️ urltext.cc/b/p-5ofScwsQ...
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
“Chasing Me to My Grave” hurts to read ☹️ urltext.cc/b/p-5ofScwsQ...
Bistek Tagalog using beef chuck roast with caramelized sweet onions 😋 #ciacooksjerseycity
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Bistek Tagalog using beef chuck roast with caramelized sweet onions 😋 #ciacooksjerseycity
Unbelievable. The Jersey Avenue Light Rail wait time screen has a wallpaper. Meanwhile, Garfield Avenue still doesn’t have any screens! NONE! #njtransit @mikiesherrill.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Unbelievable. The Jersey Avenue Light Rail wait time screen has a wallpaper. Meanwhile, Garfield Avenue still doesn’t have any screens! NONE! #njtransit @mikiesherrill.bsky.social
Dry-fried green beans and then finished in soy, Shaoxing wine, and sesame oil
#ciacooksjerseycity
#ciacooksjerseycity
December 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Dry-fried green beans and then finished in soy, Shaoxing wine, and sesame oil
#ciacooksjerseycity
#ciacooksjerseycity
One of my favorite cookbooks of all time is Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Land of Plenty”. I think it was responsible for introducing Sichuan cuisine outside of China; it certainly introduced it to my stomach. This is “yuxiang qiezi”, or fish-fragrant" eggplant. #ciacooksjerseycity
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
One of my favorite cookbooks of all time is Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Land of Plenty”. I think it was responsible for introducing Sichuan cuisine outside of China; it certainly introduced it to my stomach. This is “yuxiang qiezi”, or fish-fragrant" eggplant. #ciacooksjerseycity
Dim sum for dinner last night: soup dumplings, shrimp shumai, dry-fried string beans, steamed seabass, Spam fried rice
#ciaeatsnyc
#ciaeatsnyc
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Dim sum for dinner last night: soup dumplings, shrimp shumai, dry-fried string beans, steamed seabass, Spam fried rice
#ciaeatsnyc
#ciaeatsnyc
Isn’t Transit app more reliable? It’s always 20+ minutes away when I need it from JSQ after 7pm but at least it’s there. The NJ Transit app is so badly designed, so I rarely use it except to complain about the Light Rail.
December 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Isn’t Transit app more reliable? It’s always 20+ minutes away when I need it from JSQ after 7pm but at least it’s there. The NJ Transit app is so badly designed, so I rarely use it except to complain about the Light Rail.
Feels like 24F outside and windy in Jersey City and the Light Rail decided
to skip my scheduled train. Been waiting 26 minutes out in the cold. I wish @mikiesherrill.bsky.social was here to keep me warm.
#njtransit
to skip my scheduled train. Been waiting 26 minutes out in the cold. I wish @mikiesherrill.bsky.social was here to keep me warm.
#njtransit
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Feels like 24F outside and windy in Jersey City and the Light Rail decided
to skip my scheduled train. Been waiting 26 minutes out in the cold. I wish @mikiesherrill.bsky.social was here to keep me warm.
#njtransit
to skip my scheduled train. Been waiting 26 minutes out in the cold. I wish @mikiesherrill.bsky.social was here to keep me warm.
#njtransit
When I shared that article via text, the meta data is different:
December 4, 2025 at 3:49 AM
When I shared that article via text, the meta data is different:
Make sure you pick the fruit! LOLZ
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Make sure you pick the fruit! LOLZ
I’ve been watching “Antiques Roadshow” on Netflix. One of the episodes featured a painting on leather by Winfred Rembert. The painting was appraised at ~$100k. The appraiser said Rembert survived a lynching, learned to paint in jail, wrote a Pulitzer memoir. So this is Book no.19 of 2025. #booksky
December 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I’ve been watching “Antiques Roadshow” on Netflix. One of the episodes featured a painting on leather by Winfred Rembert. The painting was appraised at ~$100k. The appraiser said Rembert survived a lynching, learned to paint in jail, wrote a Pulitzer memoir. So this is Book no.19 of 2025. #booksky
Sunday Scaries roasted branzino filets served with homemade green salsa. The skin was broiled for ~2 minutes and was so crispy.
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Sunday Scaries roasted branzino filets served with homemade green salsa. The skin was broiled for ~2 minutes and was so crispy.