Al Fresco

by Emily

What a wonderful weekend we just had! I worked (super long, busy days) Friday, Saturday, Sunday but Adam was off in the evenings too so we made sure to aggressively enjoy ourselves. Tons of NYC restaurants are doing safely distanced / non-exploitative outdoor dining now and we took full advantage.

Highlights include…

Homemade frozen pain-killers, enjoyed on a long walk with Webster. Coconut milk, orange juice, frozen pineapple, nutmeg, and dark rum.

S’mores ice cream sandwich. This was very graham/cinnamon forward.

A birthday cake stuffed cookie from Gooey on the inside.

Drinks and dessert at Freeman’s Alley. Bananas foster with a spicy margarita and a jammy vodka cocktail with elderflower and raspberry.

Dinner at Wayla, aka our new favorite Thai spot. They have Thai iced tea with oat milk.

We had a couple good cocktails, including this Hanabi Milk Punch which was my favorite drink I’ve ever been served. Naked Turtle Rum, Blackwell Rum, strawberry, star anise, cloves, genmaicha, and Singha soda.

Lump crab fried rice

Tua Pad Prik Khing – wok-fried long beans, crispy tofu, and galangal chili paste.

Dinner at Glasserie. I had a hibiscus margarita. Also a Hemingway daiquiri that knocked my socks off.

We shared a bunch of plates, each one better than the last. Olives and pickled peppers // labne, honey, and griddled bread.

Roasted lamb with potato and grilled scallions.

Tzatziki with trout roe and potato husks. <– my favorite dish of the weekend

28Aug2020

Coconut Iced Coffee

by Emily

I work this weekend but I do have some fun date nights planned. Highlights from the past week include…

We made painkillers! Dark rum, coconut milk, coconut cream, pineapple juice, orange juice, and nutmeg (and edible glitter stars!).

And since it was in the house, I put coconut cream in my iced coffee.

A yogurt bowl with peanut butter toffee granola and fresh blueberries. I need to make an effort to eat more berries while they’re still in season.

Watermelon jerky. I was past due on eating this… it is Apple Month next week!

These birthday cake bunny grahams are a 10/10. Perfectly balanced sweetness and soooo cute.

Green beans (roasted, then sauteed with duck sauce, soy sauce, and Chinese mustard) with Trader Joe’s frozen vegan orange chicken.

A tasting plate dinner win – rainbow baby carrots, bbq kettle chips, smoked salmon dip, and roasted cauliflower with five spice.

24Aug2020

Curry Favor

by Emily

It was a very low-key weekend (I slept for ten hours Friday night!?) but I did manage to clean every inch of our apartment yesterday, a very overdue and satisfying task.

Food highlights include…

Greek Gods less sugar vanilla yogurt with peanut butter toffee crunch granola and blueberries. 10/10 reviews for all.

Sour ale brewed with fruity cereal and edible glitter. I obviously have been on high-alert looking for this unicorn-themed, sparkly beer for months.

Cheeseburger fries! Ground turkey sauteed with tomato paste, fish sauce, and yellow mustard, baked on top of curly fries with sharp cheddar, green onion, and chopped dill pickles.

Curry chicken salad with baked green beans. The chicken salad came out great – it was packed with sauteed celery, toasted cashews, and yellow raisins.

21Aug2020

Tubular

by Emily

Five highlights from this week include – – –

Arizona fruit snacks. They have a really pleasant texture and no palm oil. Does anyone else remember the terrible-in-a-wonderful-way pina colada bottled beverage Arizona used to sell?

Speaking of throwbacks, here’s a cherry cola slurpie(!) push-up(!!). Would recommend.

Beer wins. Triple dry-hopped IPA // key lime pie gose.

Dinner inspired by chana masala. Made with white beans instead of chickpeas and served on cauliflower rice.

Dinner inspired by laarb and/or fried rice. Ground turkey cooked with fish sauce, lime juice, brown sugar, Sriracha, and Korean chili flakes / with sauteed shallot, green onion, and Thai chili pepper / plus cilantro and mint / and roasted cauliflower rice / with eggs stir-fried in.

17Aug2020

Woop, There It Is

by Emily

Highlights from this weekend include – tons of coffee, tons of beer, tons of togetherness. Webster spent all of Saturday kicking it in Brooklyn with us, which was amazing.

Either Adam or I work the next several weekends so we tried to really maximize our fun date time!

Highlights…

We did a decadent car brunch picnic with take-out from Soul Brew in Huntington. Woop, There It Is weekend special – chocolate pancakes with marshmallow cream.

Scrambled egg burrito with potato, spinach, and smoked gouda.

Chocolate peanut butter cup iced latte.

Brooklyn Kolache Co is one of our favorite breakfast spots.

I had pimento cheese and we split a chocolate peanut butter. Plus an ube iced latte!

Lavender toasted marshmallow iced latte from Pipeline Coffee.

Frozen cortado from Better Read Then Dead. <– the best thing I ate all weekend/month/year

We were 10/10 excited to buy/try this Gushers yogurt but it was, unsurprisingly, not all that good to eat.

Evil Twin Brewing is currently our favorite spot in the city/on earth. Everything is inventive and delicious and they offer smaller tasting cups so you can try a lot of things. Blackberry peach milkshake IPA // key lime pie milkshake IPA // gose brewed with soursop(!!) and sea salt.

Triple dry hopped IPA // Triple IPA with marshmallow // a Saturn frozen cocktail – Dorthy Parker Gin, L’Orgeat, Velvet Falernum, passionfruit, Rockey’s Milk Punch, citrus, and edible glitter!

Highly recommend this chicken, corn, and rice frozen meal, particularly topped with chili oil.

(Distanced, outdoors) dinner at a Thai restaurant in Red Hook. I had spicy duck salad.

And a green papaya salad with salted eggs.

Happy Monday!

14Aug2020

BECB

by Emily

It was a super hectic week for us so we mostly ate take-out and were cranky but here were three things I loved…

The best chocolate milk with the best cold brew.

Black cherry soda. It had been at least five years since I had a Dr. Brown’s and I forgot how wonderful they are!

Bacon egg and cheese bagel. Soft scrambled eggs on an onion bagel with havarti cheese, mayo, mustard, and turkey bacon. Plus five spice roasted cauliflower that was actually even better than the bagel.

7Aug2020

Guava – Luxardo – Soursop

by Emily

Highlights from this week include – easy frozen meals, my first time making (and eating!) carbonara, and cocktail walks with Adam and Webster…

Strawberry guava sour.

Grimm (local) barrel-aged sour brewed with cashmere hops.

Soursop daiquiris.

This drink trio made a great team.

Trader Joe’s frozen scallion pancakes with Kewpie, Sriracha, and furikake.

Amy’s chile relleno frozen casserole.

I made carbonara with turkey bacon and whole-wheat pasta and it was still 10/10 decadent! With roasted baby eggplant.

We had leftover egg whites from the pasta so I made scrambled eggs the next night. With kale and Korean chili flakes. Plus turkey bacon and buttered pumpernickel-rye toast.

P.S. These chocolate-covered gummi bears were perfection! The chocolate and the gummies were both amazing so the combo was even better.

3Aug2020

Lemon Meringue Pie

by Emily

I worked (long days!) Friday, Saturday, Sunday but we still had a fun weekend with amazing date nights! Five favorites were – –

Mekelburg’s rose black halva latte – an oat milk iced iced latte with rose halvah syrup, topped with rose petals and sesame seeds.

Westbrook Brewings‘ lemon meringue pie gose might be even better than their key lime pie gose!

Friday night we cuddled on the couch with nachos and ice cream and (re)watched “Love and Basketball” and it was kind of the best. Chipotle nacho hack – order chips and a rice bowl without rice (this one had chicken, fajita veggies, corn salsa, and cheese (and guacamole on the side!)) and bake.

We got three -epic – sandwiches from Mekelburg’s and had a picnic down by the water near Domino Park. Waygu roast beef for Adam / a bahn mi with Peking duck, duck rillettes, and sambal hoisin mayo for me / a Mekelburger with dry-aged beef, American cheese, grilled onions, fried onions, and tarragon mustard on Hawaiian bun to share.

Chinese take-out to finish the weekend. I got chili oil tofu with cabbage, celery and white rice.

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Al Fresco

Coconut Iced Coffee

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Tubular

Woop, There It Is

BECB

Guava – Luxardo – Soursop

Lemon Meringue Pie