It’s Easy Being Greenpoint

by Emily

Non-food things I’ve been loving lately —

Seinfeld! I obviously quite enjoyed it in the ’90’s as well but we’ve been doing a rewatch on Hulu. I can’t tolerate any TV that isn’t light/funny lately so old sitcoms are perfect for me.

“Adore” by Amy Shark has been played at least once on every one of my runs recently. I heard it on an episode of Schitt’s Creek, which I’m also completely obsessed with but had to stop watching in the middle because the final season isn’t out on Netflix yet.

Dave Chapelle’s new special, “8:46,” should be required reading for any white person who still isn’t clear on why the Black Lives Matter protests are happening/necessary.

We spent Sunday getting take-out and picnicing around Greenpoint and it was a perfect day. I love everything about how the businesses in that neighborhood brand themselves, it’s such a delight just to walk around and admire stuff.

Edible highlights this weekend —

Quad shot iced Americano with skim milk from Maman. Plus an absolutely divine double chocolate cookie with oat milk ganache.

Toasted coconut almonds. I’ve been having a real love affair with nuts lately and these were a perfect blend of salty and sweet.

Take-out cocktails and a cheeseburger from Elder Greene was obviously our best lunch of the year so far.

Plus we got cocktails from Ramona – frozen painkiller!! – for dessert.

Our long-time favorite pizza spot recently reopened so we got a giant buffalo chicken pie.

I made spicy salmon roll fries. With Kewpie, Furikaki, Sriracha, rice vinegar, and smoked salmon.

8Jun2020

Coffee Cookies And Cream

by Emily

Food highlights from the weekend included —

We celebrated National Doughnut Day one day late with a s’mores doughnut from Dough Hut.

Plain skyr yogurt topped with fruit salad (mango, kiwi, plum, blueberries, lemon juice, and honey).

This nut mix was great, it had just enough savory to offset the sweet.

These brown sugar boba popsicles knocked our socks off. How did the keep the frozen tapioca so chewy and wonderful??!

Also I made ice cream. Two-ingredient no-churn ice cream infused with coffee and espresso and layered with crushed Oreo. It was amazing.

Kettlecorn with Korean chili flake.

Veggie tacos. Baked tortillas with cheese / corn and kale / chorizo-style seitan / homemade salsa.

5Jun2020

Brinner Tacos

by Emily

This week’s best:

{Coffee} Trader Joe’s cold brew with cookies and cream milk.

{Lunch} Leftover buffalo chicken pizza with roasted zucchini.

{Snack} Coca-Cola Tic-Tacs. How did they get the flavor so spot-on??!

{Dinner} Egg tacos. These are amazing; I’ve been eating them all week and I’m still not sick of them! Pan-warmed tortillas // sauteed corn and kale with paprika and TJ’s umami powder // soft-scrambled eggs with gouda // homemade salsa (I made a big batch loosely based on this recipe).

1Jun2020

Kimchi In My Ramen And My Burger

by Emily

Real Stuff — This was a hard weekend in the United States. I don’t think my voice adds anything to the discussion but I do want to use my (small) platform share some posts with my white readers: A Guide to White Privilege // How to be Actively Anti-Racist // 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship.

Fluff — Some highlights from the past few days…

We took a social distancing walk across the Williamsburg Bridge to get take-out to eat in Thompkin’s Square Park and I must have said four-thousand times how much I love NYC.

Nowon was ridiculously fantastic. I had charred broccoli with sesame caesar, perilla, anchovy, parmesan, and seaweed and a double cheeseburger with american cheese and kimchi mayo.

Still loving making Phin coffee.

This new Chobani chocolate oat milk is insane. It tastes like chocolate marshmallows!

This yogurt bowl tasted like summer. Plain Greek, honey, cinnamon, and fresh mango.

Chicken and kimchi ramen with brown sugar milk tea with boba.

The best thing I ate all weekend = this taco. Stuffed with Kewpie, Crystal hot sauce, and soft-scrambled eggs with gouda.

29May2020

On Top Of Spaghetti

by Emily

Adam was home off of work all week (so much time together! swoon!) and I was off Monday for the holiday so we took a ten-mile social distance walk around Manhattan. We were able to do it safely and it was so indescribably nice to see the city again!

Highlights from the homefront include…

Breakfast for dessert! Sea salt caramel cold brew and a cookie dough Perfect Bar.

Dessert for dessert; this week’s baked good was peanut butter cookies with vanilla bean powder and malted milk.

I got take-out sushi for lunch on a work-from-home day which was fairly thrilling.

Caramelized onion spaghetti – whole wheat spaghetti tossed with tons of caramelized sweet onions and green onions with fish sauce, brown sugar, butter, and Korean chili powder. Topped with roasted zucchini, smoked rainbow trout, and pastrami-style smoked salmon.

Buffalo chicken baked pasta with spaghetti, ground chicken cooked with hot sauce and cream cheese, tons of spinach, and chedddar.

25May2020

Soda In My Beer

by Emily

Three things from the weekend –

{1} Is it even a work-day (Friday) if I don’t eat a giant yogurt bowl?

This one had honey vanilla Greek yogurt, espresso vanilla granola, and fresh blueberries.

{2} We got our most exciting beer delivery from Evil Twin yet.

Sour ale brewed with milk sugar, caramelized barley, vanilla, dark cherry, and cola syrup // sour ale brewed with milk sugar, vanilla, and orange soda syrup // sour IPA brewed with raspberries.

{3} We got curbside take-out from Comfortland and it was everything I’ve ever dreamed of.

I got a biscuit sandwich with egg, cheddar, and turkey bacon. Plus a pineapple guava doughnut that knocked my socks off! And we had frozen painkillers and frozen New Orleans iced coffee with oat milk.

15May2020

Espresso In My Cookies And My Granola

by Emily

Wow am I glad it’s the weekend! Even if I don’t get to leave the house it will be nice to get a quick break from my busy work-week. Actually though, we have our bi-weekly grocery trip planned for tomorrow – exciting stuff.

My dinners were largely (unphotographably) lame this week but I did have some really exciting beverages and yogurt bowls…

This week’s coffee included homemade malted milk creamer!

Plain skyr with maple, blueberries, and kiwi.

Plain skyr with apples cooked with cinnamon and brown sugar plus espresso vanilla granola.

Honey vanilla Greek yogurt with granola and plum.

I made an amazing batch of chocolate chip cookies with sprinkles, espresso powder, and malted milk powder.

We got a super exciting delivery from Evil Twin – a pink pineapple sour IPA and a chocolate egg cream hard seltzer!

Our nonalcoholic options were pretty fantastic too – Watermelon La Croix, LimonCello La Croix, and Starfruit Lemonade Polar Seltzer.

I really enjoyed this frozen enchilada.

Trader Joe’s mini chicken and cilantro wontons on a bed of peas, celery, and green onion, topped with chili oil.

Have a nice/safe weekend!

8May2020

Team Unicorns

by Emily

Highlights from a very yummy week…

Still obsessed with Dalgona Coffees.

Also yogurt bowls with fresh berries. Plain skyr with blueberries, blackberries, and amazing espresso vanilla cream granola.

Skyr with berries, cinnamon, maple, and TJ’s flax and chia seed peanut butter.

This cola seltzer was a very limited released and I was quite sad to finish my last bottle this week.

Since we did several nights of sandwiches for dinner chips as a mid-day snack just felt appropriate. Seaweed chips and kettle corn popcorners.

Our cocktail hour was 10/10 this week. We are fully obsessed with homemade frozen painkillers!

Ninja vs Unicorn double IPA.

Romaine salad with TJ’s Greek feta dressing, cotija cheese, rainbow shredded carrots, and fried eggs.

A turkey sandwich on sweet Hawaiian bread with smoked gouda, mayo, mustard, and pickle relish. Plus a side salad.

Best meal of the week = a soft-scrambled egg sandwich with smoked gouda and spicy mustard. Plus roasted okra.

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It’s Easy Being Greenpoint

Coffee Cookies And Cream

Brinner Tacos

Kimchi In My Ramen And My Burger

On Top Of Spaghetti

Soda In My Beer

Espresso In My Cookies And My Granola

Team Unicorns