Ice cream sundae – vanilla ice cream with chocolate tahini, dulce de leche, and crumbled miso black sesame cookie (we ordered online from an artisanal place we liked but didn’t love).
Leftover crabby greens.
Pasta salad – bowties, roasted zucchini, baked chicken breast, Trader Joe’s cilantro salad dressing, homemade sauce (food-processed cilantro, evoo, water, gochugaru, sunflower seeds, and roasted poblano pepper and green onion). Plus viral spicy cheesy honey eggs (with chili oil and Dubliner cheese).
Cottage cheese with cinnamon, vanilla bean powder, granola, and pineberries.
A savory cottage cheese bowl dinner with sauteed zucchini and green onion, a fried egg, sunflower seeds, Milu everything spice, and chili crisp.
Something I will be making again – crispy baked butter beans and shredded super-firm tofu tossed with honey, butter, chili oil, and gochugaru. Served on top of sauteed shredded brussels sprouts.
We ate the leftovers (still great!) on salads with romaine and chicory blend lettuce, cilantro salad dressing, sauteed baby broccoli with garlic, and Dubliner cheese.
A loose take on callaloo with yellow onion, red jalapeño, frozen chopped spinach and kale, ginger, urfa, coconut milk, and tons of crab. Plus homemade dumb bread.
Despite the weather this weekend we enjoyed a walking day in Manhattan! Highlights…
We didn’t enjoy this marzipan cap iced latte from Smiley Coffee (they don’t have skim so I used macadamia milk and it felt greasy) but we LOVED the experience of getting it.
On the other hand this coquito iced latte from Cafe Colmado was delicious.
I get the hype around the newly opened Homie’s doughnuts, our maple glazed was solid.
They can’t compete with the crueler though. The monthly special is lemon poppy.
Deux Luxe does make a delicious burger. We got ours with pickle and a side of fries.
Mimi Cheng‘s current dumpling collaboration is with Katz’s Deli and it’s fantastic. Dumplings filled with hand-carved pastrami, Swiss cheese, house-cured sauerkraut, and Reuben dressing.
Our favorite meal of the weekend was this dinner at home. My personal best egg sandwich – Stone and Skillet roasted herb and garlic English muffin toasted with butter / tangy dijonayo / sharp cheddar omelet. Plus steamed green beans sauteed with Milu Everything Spice, chili crisp, honey, and rice vinegar.
I bought the sando sauce almost entirely because of how it looks but it turned out to be delicious!
Frozen banana protein coffees. Coffee blended with frozen banana, skim milk, vanilla protein powder, cinnamon, vanilla bean powder, and the last of the Trick Pony maple crunch peanut butter (we both ate it pretty much every day until it was gone!). I drank mine in almost empty marshmallow fluff container for a fluffernutter vibe.
Barebells Coco-Caramel Almond. The coconut was in the form of a cream layer and it was delicious!
A fantastic dinner at Laurel Diner. Adam generously shared chocolate egg cream and matzoh ball soup.
I got the Goldburger – double smash patties with smoked gouda, crispy onion strings, fire-roasted peppers, and hot honey truffle sauce on a dark pumpernickel bun. I loved it; doesn’t make my top five list but definitely top ten. With solid but not perfect waffle fries.
Holiday Jenni’s flavors are some of the best ice cream I’ve ever tasted. Boozy eggnog and white chocolate peppermint are both divine!
Ground Up salted eggnog cashew butter is delicious in yogurt or just on a spoon.
Adam’s birthday request was zucchini bread. We adored this recipe (with Ghirardelli’s unbelievably good milk chocolate chips).
Somedays Bakery new Manhattan location is knocking it out of the park. Black sesame tahini croissant and a triple chocolate pastry.
Brunch at Dante’s West Village. I had the steak and scrambled egg burrito and a boozy affogato.
Monday’s dinner was some of our (many) leftovers from wonderful dinners with my parents. We had a fantastic time while they were here! Broccoli rabe, woodfired honeynut squash, and stracciatella cheese from Rolo’s / woodfired pita bread and roast chicken from Sunday in Brooklyn / Pizza, chicken parm, broccoli rabe, and salmon from Il Gufo / also unphotographed tater tots from Sonder.
Umami baked turkey meatballs with roasted cauliflower. Ground turkey, salt, tons of pepper, urfa chili, panko bread crumbs, and mushrooms (sauteed with green onions and butter then food-processed).
Cold egg tofu and roasted broccoli with a spicy sauce (soy sauce, sesame oil, chili onion crunch, sugar, garlic, and rice vinegar).
It was a wonderful long holiday weekend! We spent time with family, took a very cold long walk in Manhattan, and had a million weird drinks and delicious desserts…
Birdee‘s brigadeiro cake and excellent guava cheese tart.
Milk Bar‘s marshmallow brownie is their second all-time best item (after the anniversary cake).
Fantastic brunch at Win Son. Their Bloody Mary had so much umami. I also really enjoyed their green tea shot.
We came for the boba pancakes and were not disappointed.
Three pepper lamb with cabbage, rice, and egg.
Soft-scrambled eggs.
The pea shoots were my favorite dish of the weekend; with bean paste, sesame, and fried garlic.
Mommy Pai was a hit for us. This concord grape salty coconut frozen drink blew our minds.
We did fried fingers with Muy Thai sauce. I, of course, got extra dipping sauces. Sweet soy mustard was my favorite. The fries were great! And I loved the taro tapioca doughnuts with pandan custard.
Leftover stuffing fried rice with cranberry sauce and pimento cheese.
Homemade s’mores iced latte. Marshmallow creme / Trader Joe’s chocolate shell / Trader Joe’s maple pecan cold brew concentrate / milk infused with graham cracker, cinnamon, vanilla bean powder, and salt.
I had the graham crackers in the house for the fantastic pecan pie cookies I made. Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies but with chopped up homemade chocolate pecan graham cracker toffee candy in place of chips.
The best dessert of the weekend was hands-down Librae‘s halvah chocolate croissant.
I am not a big juice person but I very much enjoyed this Alldae passionfruit and guava cascara drink.
The perfect walking snack from an Asian grocery in Manhattan – spicy tuna onigiri and crab meat inari.
Mimi Cheng‘s makes my current favorite dumplings in the city and their seasonal/collaborative options are always awesome. Three cup chicken scallion pancake melt with mozzarella and fresno peppers.
Thanksgiving dinner dumplings with local turkey, cranberry herb stuffing, housemade gravy, thyme, and a side of housemade cranberry sauce.
Dinner at The Cuban. I couldn’t take pictures because the lighting was insane but we had an excellent meal. That drink was a coquito mojito!!
Eating Chalk 