Showing posts with label NYC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NYC. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 04, 2012

end-of-summer miscellany



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Blackberries still attached to their branches,
Union Square greenmarket.


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A bearded townhouse, in the west 70s, I think.

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My best friend bought a Vespa at the beginning of summer.


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The scooter expanded our breakfasting territory, among other things.
A buckwheat waffle at Village Natural, after a
morning jaunt to Partners & Crime bookstore next door.


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Last night's lights in the west village Saturday morning.

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Breakfast triptych: A chilly morning, early summer, at La Bonbonniere.


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Other people's container gardening: street limes on East 9th St.

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You should try a BLTD while there are still good tomatoes around. This sandwich was inspired by the pork belly bacon from Dickson's Farmstand Meats in Chelsea Market, which is great but a little salty. A layer of sliced Medjool dates underneath balances things perfectly.


the B in my BLTD the D in my BLTD 

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BLTD construction
(bacon/lettuce/tomato/dates).


ma-la hotdog
Also recommended, sort of a ma-la hotdog:
Dickson's lamb and beef sausage with Sichuan pepper + spicy cabbage and carrot slaw 
(dressed with Kewpie mayo, rice vinegar, more Sichuan pepper, red pepper flakes).


red currant / blueberry / black cardamom scone
Not recommended just yet: My blueberry / red currant / black cardamom scones
need a little more work. Remind me next summer.


squash at the Abingdon Square greenmarket Lolo
Abingdon Square greenmarket.


avocado squash
Thinly sliced and properly dressed — with a little olive oil, lime juice and salt  avocado squashes taste almost exactly like actual avocados.


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Avocado squash with olive oil, lime juice and Turkish black salt on sourdough toast.


Friday, July 13, 2012

frozen lunch

I was planning to return with a pineapple extravaganza but I'd feel foolish if I didn't tell you there's some very good ice cream visiting NYC from its native San Francisco today and this weekend. Humphry Slocombe! I've been wanting to try their ice cream for ages and it's at Paper mag's Superduper Market right now. I usually stay away from pop-up-shop-type-things because I'm a grouch and I don't like crowds, but this sounded manageable to me. Even if it didn't I would've ducked in for the ice cream anyhow. I had just a piece of toast for breakfast this morning in anticipation of cramming all sorts of stuff into my eatin' hole this afternoon but it's muggy today and I managed only a couple of frozen things.

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Sorry for the grim, neorealist ice cream portraiture but it was a grey day.

Humphry Slocombe's Secret Breakfast ice cream = bourbon + cornflakes. It's got plenty of bourbon in it and it's damn tasty. The corn flakes have a nice crunch to them too, which I'm guessing comes from being baked Chex party mix-style before being stirred in? (I haven't seen their book yet; maybe it explains). They'll have different flavors each day at the market but I didn't ask about the weekend because I'm looking forward to going back and being surprised. I've got my fingers crossed for Candy Cap mushroom. Today the other flavors were Blue Bottle Vietnamese coffee (which was sold out by the time I got there around 2:30-ish) and Thai Chile Lime sorbet (which I tasted a sample of). The sorbet was impressively fresh-tasting and I tried to get my friend to order a cup so I could eat some more of it, but he'd apparently been binging on ice cream all week long and refused. FFS! I need to screen my eating companions for this sort of thing.

Imperial Woodpecker sno-ball lunch in progress

That's an Imperial Woodpecker sno-ball above: cotton candy (blue) and Mardi Gras king cake (purple). I secretly really like cotton candy and was pleased to discover that this tasted exactly like it. I've never had king cake so I can't comment on the accuracy of the purple side, but it did have a nice cake-y thing going on. I hope it won't be too disappointing if I explain that I wasn't eating ice cream and shaved ice at the same exciting time. I ducked outside to eat each because it was a little crowded inside. 

I didn't do much shopping at the market because a lot of the stuff I've either tried before or know where to get year-round, but I did leave with a little sack of Salty Road's salty peanut taffy. I'm a salt fiend and after having such a sweet lunch I couldn't resist. It's not aggressively salty like a bag of chips but it's got enough crunchy, coarse sea salt in it to keep me happy, and I think it's helped me digest my frozen lunch.