More Desserts Than Days

by Emily

You guys. Oh my gosh. This is my last week at work!!? It’s crazy bittersweet and we have a million and one big life changes happening in the next 20 days and I owe my blog readers a mega update in July.

For now, let me update you about the highlights from this weekend. They are mostly desserts…

My coworkers threw me the sweetest goodbye party (a week early because someone else is out on vacation now) on Friday. Complete with cake and macarons and my coworker made Filipino ambrosia and leche flan.

And on Saturday a coworker and I went out for all-you-can-eat sushi lunch.

Adam and I had lunch at Russ and Daughter’s and ordered all of our favorites.

We got brigadeiros, oreo is the best flavor ever.

And cupcakes! Stuffed with cookie dough and cake batter.

I finally made it to Round K to try an egg cappuccino and it was fantastic. Korean cappuccino with an egg yolk stirred in and whipped cream on top.

Also we had coffees – and a cookie stuffed with caramel – from For Five.

Friday night we had friends over for the best ever buffalo chicken pizza and subsequently I had pizza for dinner Saturday and Sunday too.

Have a great week!

8Jun2018

Tasty Things

by Emily

Tasty things from this week…

Mango in plain Greek is my latest favorite yogurt combo. This bowl had nectarine in it, which was fantastic as well.

Some of my favorite coworkers and I went out for a goodbye lunch at Dekalb Market Hall and I had great tacos. Mushroom and corn / smoked crab.

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I finally got my hands on this new Reese’s Pieces bar and it was outrageously fantastic.

For almost a week I had been having an oddly specific craving for rotisserie chicken and butter lettuce and this strangely topped salad was everything I was hoping for – spinach and butter lettuce mix dressed with evoo, salt, and sumac / warm, shredded, rotisserie chicken / pine nuts / sriracha and kewpie mayo.

We made chilaquiles nachos. Tortilla chips, roasted salsa, cheese, shredded chicken and sauteed onion and bell pepper baked with an egg on top.

4Jun2018

Doughnuts, Go Nuts

by Emily

Tasty weekend! Friday was National Doughnut Day, so I took myself on a pre-work date to Doughnut Plant. They were giving away a super cool Grand Central ceiling inspired mini doughnut away with all purchases. I got a tres leches cake doughnut. <– all-time best

And Saturday we went on a six mile // six doughnut epic walking and eating tour. South from Hells Kitchen, across the bridge to Williamsburg. We walked part of the way on the High Line which was just lovely.

Stop 1 – Underwest Donuts.

Carwash – lavender vanilla.

Halvah with chocolate.

Stop 2 – Doughnut Project.

Coffee and salted toffee.

Black Gold, Texas Tea – extra dark chocolate with cookie crumbs and sea salt. This one had a great texture, so chewy!

Stop 3 – Du’s Donuts.

Strawberry.

Chocolate caramel brownie.

My non-doughnut eats worth mentioning all included beans! Coffee beans in quad shot non-fat iced lattes from Terremoto and Black Brick.

And a maple iced latte from Bittersweet.

Black beans on nachos with sour cream and jalopenos. Plus we ate unphotographed roasted cauliflower with sumac that was somehow just as delicious as the cheesy goodness.

Pink beans on yummy Chipotle bowls. Toasted broccoli rice / sauteed onion and green and orange bell pepper / shredded cheese / chicken marinated in chipotles in adobo, brown sugar, lime juice, fish sauce, soy sauce, and rice vinegar / pink beans sauteed with olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, cayenne, and smoked paprika / sour cream.

Did you eat a doughnut this weekend??

29May2018

Brigadero, Beer, BBQ

by Emily

I had a good New York weekend, one of a dwindling few remaining before the move! Saturday, a girlfriend and I met near South Street Seaport for croissants, walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, then spent the afternoon in Brooklyn for drinks and dinner.

Here were my top nine, three per day for a three day weekend…

{1} Iced latte from Everyman Espresso. I walked down from Penn Station to the Seaport and the iced beverage was sooo necessary.

{2} It kind of makes me feel like an asshole, but the frozen coffee from Stew Leonard’s is one of my very favorite things.

{3} Croissants from Cafe Patoro. Mine was stuffed with brigadero, aka condensed milk chocolate.

{4} Dessert bars from Hometown Bake Shop. Key lime pie and s’mores.

{5} Cocktails at Grand Army. The specialty drink menu is currently My Little Pony themed!!

We decided I ordered the best two things on the menu. Scootaloo – amburana cachaca, passionfruit, cardamom, lime, and orange.

Pinky Pie – blanco tequila, escubac, aperol, lime, and salt.

{6} Pasta at Colonie. Fazzoletti with blue crab, burrata, sorrel, and serrano chile.

{7} BBQ at Old Fields. I had smoked chicken with smokey bbq sauce, pulled chicken, cole slaw, and a lot of Adam’s corn bread.

{8} I made a take on the creamy rice casserole from Eat, Live, Run. Double the bell pepper, fire roasted ro-tel, and I swapped out shrimp for turkey sausage and red kidney beans. It was delicious. Topped with Sriracha and sour cream.

{9} Trader Joe’s sour grapefruit ale.

Have a great week!

21May2018

Claro, Cake, Carrots

by Emily

I worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday (and I keep working Monday, Tuesday!) but I ate enough sugar the last three days to keep me Energizer Bunny-ing through.

Highlights from a tasty weekend…

Birthday cake iced latte from Milk Bar.

Trader Joe’s cold brew bottles are the 3rd best packaged cold coffees, beat only by Chameleon and Grady’s.

Fresh alphonso mango. In strawberry lingonberry yogurt with bran flakes cereal.

Desserts from House of Inasal. Halo halo with the best leche flan of my life.

And ube tres leches!

Ice cream from Van Leeuwen. A vegan flavor that was terrible and a s’mores flavor that was my new favorite.

Dinner at Sauvage // French food.

Lemony marinated olives.

Charred heirloom carrots with labne, pistachio, vadouvan, and pistou.

We shared all the entrees with mushrooms. Salmon with sorrel, shiitake mushrooms, lentils, and buttermilk sauce.

Poulet au Vin Jaune with morels and fava beans. I don’t eat chicken skin that often but it was by far the best component of this particular dinner!

Dinner at Claro // Oaxacan food. I had the housemade tepache (a fermented, sweetened pineapple beverage) with a shot of mezcal – they separated my cocktail for me so I could taste the tepache on its own.

The menu was meant to be enjoyed family style so we ordered all of the things. Too many things in fact, I wish they had stopped us one or two dishes earlier. Asparagus and avocado tostado with queso freso, radish, and spring onion.

Tacos with chipotle shrimp and quesillo cheese.

Garnachas (like an open quesadilla) with rabbit and duck confit, pate, fermented vegetables, and cojita cheese.

Memela (masa cakes) with wild mushrooms, espazote, goat cheese crema, and pasilla.

Goat’s milk chocolate ice cream with goats milk caramel, peanuts, and toasted marshmallows.

Happy Monday!

18May2018

Broccoli And Cake

by Emily

Highlights from the week…

Coffee coffee! Irving Farms Blackstrap Espresso with half and half.

Things that taste like cake! Hot chocolate that was pretty good and a candy bar that was pretty meh.

Blackberry yogurt bowl with chopped plums and Flax Plus Multibran Flakes.

Plain Greek yogurt with black sesame halvah from Seed + Mill and an envy apple on the side.

Dinners this week were easy (and very chip forward) but good. The best night I ate a crappy sandwich on the train because… I went to the ballet! My aunt brought me along with her to see Misty Copeland in Giselle. It was beautiful and fantastic!

Chips and dip. I made homemade onion dip – sauteed sweet onion and green onions, turkey bacon, fresh chives, sour cream, and kewpie mayo. Dipped with gojuchang kettle chips, baby carrots, and bell pepper. It turned out very well and I definitely went back for more chips to keep scooping.

Nachos! Toasted tortilla chips / homemade nacho cheese sauce (you literally just melt together mild cheddar and sour cream, it was crazy easy) / ground turkey sauteed with taco seasoning and onion and bell pepper / green onion on top.

Warm broccoli salad. Roasted broccoli / turkey bacon / chives / raisins / blistered peanuts / sour cream, sugar, smoked paprika, and rice vinegar.

I work the next five days but I hope everyone else has a fun weekend!

14May2018

My New Favorite Thing

by Emily

This weekend was all about fancy coffees, restaurant brunches, and yummy home-cooked dinners.

I took a vacation day on Friday – just for funsies – and had lunch with one of my favorite former co-workers and her new baby! Plus I took myself on a long walk: Penn Station down to Chelsea Market, over to Gramercy Park, and back up to Penn Station. Saturday I had a literal every cloud has a silver lining situation – the gloomy weather gave me an excuse to wear my snazzy new rain boots!

Here were the highlights…

Fancy coffees – Iced latte from Seven Point Espresso.

Rose iced latte from Terremoto. <– best coffee of the weekend

Crack pie latte from Milk Bar.

Restaurant brunches – MeMe’s Diner.

The O.C. = cara cara and blood orange, tequila, and Tang.

I ordered the greens with chili oil and a fried chicken biscuit sandwich with spicy maple syrup and root vegetable slaw. The picture does not do justice to just how gigantic that sandwich is.

Cake! I wish I had more photos because this cake is officially my new favorite thing I’ve ever eaten. Vietnamese iced coffee cake with condensed milk frosting and cocoa cardamom fudge. Moist cake, fluffy icing, perfectly balanced.

Midwinter Kitchen. I had a salad with pistachio crusted goat cheese, frisée, watercress, a sunny side up egg, and sherry vinaigrette. Those goat cheese balls were out of this world.

Home-cooked dinners – Trout salad melts. Trader Joe’s canned smoked trout with mayo and gojuchang on toast with sharp cheddar. Plus roasted zucchini with sumac.

And I had this killer drink line-up while I cooked – creamy mango soda and key lime pie gose.

Eat Live Run’s green chile crock pot chicken. I subbed in cauliflower rice to get some more veggies in there.

Gojuchang turkey burgers on toast, smothered in a tasty sauce – kewpie mayonnaise, honey, dijon, and miso. With a side of pear slices and chips – gojuchang kettle chips from Whole Foods and kettle popcorn chips from Trader Joe’s.

Have a great work-week, guys!

7May2018

Coffees And Cocktails

by Emily

Important things first – the pink and purple trees in our complex are amazingly gorgeous.

This is the immediate view out of our front door and it makes me smile every day.

My purple hair finally got too patchy to be cute, while remaining highly pigmented in a few spots, and my hairdresser had to make me super blonde to get rid of it all.

I had a fantastic weekend – including a Lower East Side day, a Williamsburg/Bushwick day, and a Long Island day – and we ate all the things! I love New York, I love New York, I love New York.

We checked out OddFellows‘ new coffee and ice cream spot and I had an iced latte with toasted marshmallow milk.

I also had a toasted marshmallow iced latte (good, but not as good, obviously) from Sweetie Pies on Main while we walked around Cold Springs Harbor.

Japanese shaved ice from The Little One. Strawberry sauce / sweetened condensed milk / roasted strawberries / coconut whipped cream.

Arcade games and drinks at Barcade. <– one of my favorite spots in the city even if I’m not very good at Pac Man or Tapper

Craft cocktails on tap at Yours Sincerely. Adam got a tasting flight and I had a Folsom Fizz with bourbon, cola syrup, and almond.

Snacks at Smorgasburg. Belgian fries with malt vinegar aioli and chipotle ranch.

Noodle bowls at Just for Fen. Can JfF be my new living room? The space was so cute!

And the food was wonderful. I had smashed cucumber salad and spicy chicken rice noodles with housemade chili oil, pickled radish and cabbage, baby bok choy, scallion, cilantro, and peanuts.

Dinner at Forrest Point. On the patio!

I had a fried chicken sandwich with jicima and blue cheese slaw.

The few things we ate at home were pretty great too. Trader Joe’s scallion pancakes are the best frozen meal of all time. Served with baby carrots and bell peppers.

I made us delicious rice bowls. Brown rice / red, yellow, and orange bell pepper sauteed with onion and garlic / chicken breast slow-cooked in the crockpot with salt, pepper, oregano, cumin, garlic, lime, and orange juice and then shredded and broiled until crispy / sharp cheddar / TJ’s tomatillo roasted yellow chili salsa.

Plus mojito milkshakes! Cruzan rum / homemade mint simple syrup / lime juice / vanilla ice cream / ice.

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Tag Archives: sweet

More Desserts Than Days

Tasty Things

Doughnuts, Go Nuts

Brigadero, Beer, BBQ

Claro, Cake, Carrots

Broccoli And Cake

My New Favorite Thing

Coffees And Cocktails