August 2009
14 posts
Childhood nostalgia food
Throughout my childhood the fridge was rarely without a tub of a homemade butter substitute called “better butter.” My mom made this by combining sticks of butter with canola oil and lecithin granules and something else, possibly nonfat dry milk?, in the food processor and pouring it into reusable plastic containers. This detail popped into my head unbidden recently and it made me...
Sublimation pasta
I woke up hungover in rural New Jersey after an epic wedding. Breakfast at the middle-of-nowhere conference center was served from 7 to 9 — I slept through it, of course — and lunch didn’t start til 11:30, by which time I had already been on the train back to Manhatan for 16 minutes. From one of the backwards-facing seats, I watched the scenery rush by like a movie rewinding. A...
Iced coffee trick
If someone has just come back from a fancy vacation in a distant land and is bragging to you about it, you can always ask them, “How was the iced coffee?” They’ll be like, “Umm.” Then you get to feel better about how you are stuck in New York, world capital of iced coffee, for the rest of the summer. NB: there are some countries this doesn’t work for, like...
Charmed life
Last night I went to visit a friend who lives in one of the new condo buildings (she’s renting cause they couldn’t sell all the units) overlooking McCarren Park in Williamsburg, the ones they were just beginning to build years ago when I lived way up Nassau. Back then we turned up our noses at these buildings’ prefab ugliness and sneeringly called them “Enidsview...
Fresh Fanatic
This new grocery store — located in a mythical neighborhood called “Wallabout” that I have only ever read about in Brownstoner posts about this new grocery store — just opened two blocks away from my Clinton Hill apartment. Having been curious about it ever since I first spotted its colorful awning several months ago, I decided to stop by today on what turned out to be its...
Stoop Sale Sunday 8/16!
doree:
Emily and I are having a stoop sale at my house this Sunday, August 16, from 10am to probably around 3. We have a lot of pretty awesome stuff to sell: clothes, shoes, bags, books, DVDs, CDs, baskets, chairs, suitcases, trinkets, toys, AND MORE! And everything will be way cheap. OUR LOSS IS YOUR GAIN! (That’s what people say, right?) Anyway, do come by, and bring your friends. I’m on...
Donuts/Doughnuts
At the Fractured Prune they custom-make the donuts for you, meaning you can choose from a variety of glazes, sugars, and sprinkles to be applied to your warm, just-fried donut. We had thought that getting half a dozen would mean we’d be bringing four of them home for other people but this did not turn out to be the case. Honey glaze plus cinnamon sugar (“O.C. Sand”) was the...
Beach meats
For lunch, Five Guys cheeseburger with grilled onions, jalapenos, and A1. For dinner, the “Delmarva Duo”: ribs and pulled pork, with a choice of two sides. I chose creamed corn and asian slaw.
Meee waant foood
Oh dear God. Bennett and I are at the beach with my family, eating food. On the way down we stopped in Denton and I had a crabcake sandwich; it was okay. For lunch today I had a Dickey’s frozen custard, a “small” chocolate-vanilla swirl that was the size of my forearm. For dinner I ate two platefuls of spaghetti with peppers and sausages, an ear of corn, two homemade chocolate...
Outdoor concert snacky dinner
Bread, cheese, a quarter pound of sliced prosciutto, chocolate-covered cocoa-dusted marcona almonds, mango and strawberries, Kelso pilsner while watching John Kelly doing his magical Joni Mitchell thing at Castle Clinton. He did all of ‘Court and Spark’ in order, which was even more satisfying than I thought it would be. While waiting for the show to start Bennett and I had been...
The Saddest Snacks I Have Ever Eaten
cvxn:
tesslynch:
Desperate times:
1. Chocolate chips, 5 seconds in the microwave
2. Croutons, out of the bag, a lot of them
3. Popcorn mixed with peanut butter (don’t bother, it doesn’t work)
4. Banana cut up in a bowl, as if that somehow elevated it beyond being a banana
5. “Sugar sandwich” (exactly what you think)
6. Oatmeal + whatever there is (everything you can find)
7. An apple...
