Highlights from a tasty weekend…
Homemade boozy iced coffee shake! Iced coffee blended with amaretto, coffee liquor, sweetened condensed milk, vanilla ice cream, and cold brew powder.
This iced coffee with taro cream on top was even better.
Double-fried, pickle-brined fries with freshly made dill pickles!
Soothr is our new favorite Thai spot. This cocktail had spicy mezcal and fresh tamarind.
Chicken pad ki-mao.
Highlights from the last week include fruits + grains and Greek-ish homemade dinners.
There is cocoa granola and milk under that mountain of blueberries.
This Guava Squad double dry hopped IPA was lovely.
Baby chocolate milkshake!
One of our best sheet-pan hash dinners. Potato, purple sweet potato, zucchini, and Trader Joe’s sweet apple chicken sausage. I topped mine with zhoug.
Dolmas / homemade roasted garlic hummus / everything pretzel thins / Persian cucumbers / baby carrots / bell pepper.
My favorite take on a Greek salad. Chopped romaine, Persian cucumber, Trader Joe’s Greek feta dressing, sumac, crispy roasted chickpeas, and zhoug.
Trader Joe’s kunefe, aka the best packaged dessert you can buy.
P.S. No post from this weekend – now that I have include sunblock in my bag again it felt too heavy for a camera – but we are living our best lives with a long walk through Central Park and a stop at Butterfield for many desserts yesterday. Today we have a run on the boardwalk in Long Beach planned!
Highlights from the past week include…
I am a total sucker for anything labeled limited edition and I really enjoyed this double dark chocolate Perfect Bar.
Also very pleasantly surprised by the Trader Joe’s chocolate peanut butter mochi.
I made brownies for Rex Manning Day! This is my favorite, most obscure tradition. These guys had tons of chocolate chips and espresso powder in them and were fantastically fudgy.
Bahn mi chicken salad with bok choy with ginger and carrot plus taro coconut chips.
Thai take-out night – spicy chicken and long beans with veggie dumplings.
Roasted green beans with eggs, vegan pork floss, and chili crisp.
Leftover bok choy with the best pizza we’ve ever made. Just a frozen crust topped with tomato sauce gussied up with tons of garlic, chili crisp, and olive oil plus baby mozzarella and bresaola.
Turkey and cheddar sandwich (with black garlic mayo!) on toasted rye with roased brussel sprouts.
This was an exceptionally tasty week! My snacks were on point, we tried a fantastic new restaurant, and the dinners we cooked were total successes. Highlights include…
Brunch at Xilonen, a new vegetarian Mexican spot in Greenpoint. We were blown away by the scrambled egg tostada with salsa mache, queso, and a crispy blue corn tortilla.
Heirloom corn tamal, stuffed with sweet potato al pastor, and topped with smoked crema and poblano rajas.
Masa pancakes with maple and butter.
Dalgona iced coffee with black sesame vanilla bean milk.
An ideal snack array – sumo mandarin, salted peanuts, and lava cake kisses.
My parents sent us a box of St. Patrick’s Day goodies, including homemade clover sugar cookies.
Peanut butter chocolate chip Perfect Bar + boba milk tea mochi.
Boba-studded popsicles are currently my favorite snack category.
10/10 leftovers from The Meat Hook. The french onion dip was the best I’ve ever had.
Farro / glazed, baked tofu / sautéed bok choy and green onion / chili crisp / fried shallots (which we made in the microwave!!).
Soba noodles / peanut sauce (loosely based on this one) / cabbage / zucchini / ground turkey / chili crisp and smashed peanuts.
Oven-baked crispy chicken tenders (loosely inspired by this recipe) with brown sugar chili crisp sauce + roasted broccoli with fried shallots. I went back for thirds of that chicken!
We had a great time this weekend visiting some of our favorite spots and discovering some new favorites! Highlights include…
High Low Beverage Company. Vietnamese-influenced with a gorgeous backyard. Cherry and lime leaf jelly doughnut.
Tiki New Fashioned – banana-infused Four Roses bourbon, Plantation pineapple dark rum, pandan syrup, tiki bitters / HiLo Hello – Thai chili-infused mezcal with lime, passionfruit, and cane syrup.
Papaya salad with sambal beef jerky, cabbage, herbs, peanuts, fried shallots, fresno chili, and plum vinaigrette.
Double Chicken, Please. Draft cocktails, massive sandwiches, and clever desserts! #2 – Teeling small batch whiskey, brown butter, black raisin, honey, verjus (warm) / #9 Barcardi Cuatro rum, St. Germain, verjus, amontilado sherry, banana, walnut.
Five spice and plum salt sweet potato chips.
Hen of the woods mushroom sandwich with seaweed and bamboo / fried chicken sandwich with shrimp, brioche, and salted duck yolk sauce.
Shot – mezcal with plum and shiso / ice ice weenie – chocolate ice cream on a potato bun with salted duck egg sauce, hot honey, and whiskey cream.
We found fresh soursop juice at the Dominican place in Essex Market.
All the beers (truly, almost all of the beers) at Evil Twin. My three favorites were the ET Stay Home 6 Royal Treatment – sour ale with peaches, papaya, pineapple, passion fruit, coconut, marshmallow, vanilla, and cacao / This Deli Needs a Bigger Double Kiwi Lime Coconut Muffin Lassi Gose / Luxurious Luxury – imperial Berliner gose with grapefruit, tart raspberry candy, coconut, and marshmallow.
We also finally checked out (and loved!) Bridge and Tunnel Brewery just down the street. Everything we tried was great but the standout was the F**k the Virus coconut New England IPA.
Super Moon Bakehouse. Epic baked goods. I loved this cookie butter, dulce de leche crunch cookie with my whole heart.
I also brought home a square of sourdough focaccia and made an insane turkey and cheddar sandwich.
I couldn’t contain myself but this terrible picture is to serve as a placeholder to remind Adam and I that we want takeout from The Meat Hook again immediately. We had several sandwiches and the best french onion dip I’ve ever tasted.
Valentine’s Day weekend highlights…
Adam surprised me with a tres leches old fashioned doughnut from Comfortland, i.e., the perfect gift!
We had some crazy good beers. Prairie Artisan Ales Millennial Mansion – imperial sour ale with orange peel, lemon peel, lime, blueberry, cherry, and marshmallow (11/10). Interboro Swoon Units – imperial gose with blackberry, blueberry, lemon, marshmallow, and vanilla salt (9/10).
We got a ton of Chinese take-out. Chicken fried rice, crispy noodles with shredded chicken, garlic baby bok choy, stir-fried string beans, and taro puffs. Plus we had housemade soy milk!
I made a ridiculous take on okonomiyaki with turkey pepperoni and sharp cheddar. The million toppings make it – Kewpie, Sriracha, furikake, and Nowon’s chili oil.
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!
Flavor themes from this week include – hot sauce, coffee, chocolate.
Highlights…
Fun in coffee. Iced with fancy egg nog.
I had forgotten how much fun it is to have a milk frother!
This bottled New Orleans coffee was delicious and contained 10 grams of protein.
Seasonal fun at Doughnut Plant – a marzipan star and a mint tree filled with chocolate pudding.
Still obsessed with these cookie dough Perfect Bars.
Plain2% Greek yogurt bowl with chocolate sunflower seed butter and fresh blueberries.
Just before I left VA one of my officemates got me hooked on cinnamon gum and lately I have been loving this version from Mentos.
It was Adam’s birthday this week! He got multiple cakes at work and brought me home a delicious slice of s’mores cheesecake.
Amy’s tortilla casserole with black beans frozen meal. Topped with copious amounts of Cholula.
Shredded potatoes with smoked mackerel salad and soft scrambled eggs. Topped with furikake.
Breakfast cheese fries. Sweet potato waffle fries with cheddar, eggs, maple chicken sausage, broccoli, and shishito peppers. Topped later with Kewpie and Sriracha.
My current favorite sheet-pan hash is Japanese sweet potato + bok choy + green onions. Plus salmon candy and cashews on top. Topped with furikake, Kewpie, and Sriracha.
I made a yummy version of this baked Spanish rice recipe. I added fish sauce and green olives and subbed in vegan soyrizo for chorizo. Topped later with Cholula.
FYI – there will be no post this weekend for the best reason ever: I am going home for a few days with a couple of NY friends! Ocean, rum, and warm weather, here we come!
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