April 2009
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Vermont post II
On Saturday night (still this past weekend), I ventured forth from Stowe and arrived at Hen of the Wood restaurant in Waterbury, VT. I’ve read many reviews about this place and heard quite a lot about it from my friend Hughes. All reviews were good and some were even great so it was time for me to eat here.
The restaurant itself is situated in an old mill barn that sits against a...
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Vermont post I
I spent the past weekend in my friend’s fantastic home in Stowe, Vermont. He needed someone to do him a favor and check on his house. I needed to get out of the city. In the end, he’s the one who did me a favor.
Despite it being over 300 miles away, the ride up isn’t bad. I followed my friends directions and avoided I-95 and made it up there in about 5 hours.
And then I...
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dumb founded!
I’m just dumb founded at how good a baked and steamed pork bun can be. After having a shitty morning at work today, I received a lovely email (thanks Nish!!!!) reminding me that the infamous and cult-followed Chinatown bakery Mei Li Wah (see previous post) was still up and running and churning out it’s heavenly pork buns.
I wasted no time! I hopped on my bike. Hoofed my walk down...
To Taste (in my near future): Brussels Sprouts!!!!
This from Natalie Portman:
Ilili is the best Middle Eastern food in New York. I dream about their Brussels sprouts.
Can’t wait to sample ‘em out for myself. I can’t imagine them being better than David Chang’s fried brussels sprouts concoction at Ssam Momofuku but who knows…
[via Daily Beast]
My Secret is OUT
Thanks for freaking NOTHING NY Mag!!!! You just couldn’t let a small restaurant, well, stay that way. I’ve bragged and praised Sorella secretly before. But now the loud blabbermouths have undone that which I was trying to shush.
Today, NY Mag exposes the truly excellent little Piedmontese restaurant known as Sorella. I will have my final meal here tomorrow now that the UES...
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Lunch at Scuderia
Just had a fantastic little (maybe not sooooo little) lunch at Scuderia - the offspring baresto of Da Silvano’s.
We sat in the sun. Enjoyed a glass of rose. Enjoyed the people watching and dined on some fine and simple and light Italian fare.
Burrata with prosciutto and truffle shavings. What do you think? Looks like it didn’t taste good right? It MELTED away. This dish...
Eisenberg's
I had an Eisenber’s tuna fish salad sandwich today. Photo coming later. Sandwich was good but did not live up to it’s billing.
The best tuna fish salad sandwich I’ve still ever had is from Dino’s on the Jersey shore.
Update: Here’s the pic of the tuna sandwich from Eisenberg’s. Upon reflecting on this sandwich, I gotta be honest and say that it was just...
Beef Peen →
Now available at a sandwich shop near you: beef’s twig. They couldn’t have chosen a better location….
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Paella
“The first rule of Paella making is NEVER to stir it once you have added the stock to the rice. If you get a crust on the bottom that is the sign of a perfect Paella. The crust is called “Soccorat” in Spanish. “
I’m looking for good paella recipes that include and mention obtaining a nice crispy soccorat at the bottom of your dish.
So far I’ve found the...
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A pastrami comes to life
I don’t know where to start. Do I write up a storm about yesterday’s pastrami party and put the photos in later? Do I tell you guys just how mouth watering and tasty it came out? Do I tell you how I saved the pastrami three hours into the smoking when I checked it’s internal temperature (the recipe called for four hours in the smoker)? Or do I just start with the photo...
Kasadela - a mini place with big eats
I had the pleasure of dining this past Friday night at Kasadela - a tiny Japanese “tapas” joint on East 11th Street and Ave. C. Big ups to my amigo Donny for recommending this place.
I got here at 9pm. The place was half full. By 9:30pm it was full full. The whole space is probably just 10 or so tables. It’s small and the food portions are small but the taste is far from...
Num Pang vs. Baoguette
My verdict is in. I’ve eaten at Num Pang three times since it’s opened. And today, for lunch, I had the the namesake Baoguette banh mi.
So which tastes better my friends want to know?
Let me start by saying that there are no losers here. Each of the sandwiches makes me so happy to be living here in NYC during this golden age of cuisine. Baoguette’s banh mi is bigger. The...
On the cover of today's Dining section of the...
More Banh Mi!!!!
The shouts are being heard loud and clear. Banh mi is clearly the go to sandwich of 2009. Me like.
Read the whole article here.
Does anybody else love POUTINE as much as I do?
If so, then you know there is a dearth of restaurants, cafes, and fast food establishments that serve the fatty franco fries in NYC. I love me some crispy fries basking in chicken gravy and sprinkled with cheese curds. Add some peppercorns for a little spice and you have a meal fit for Henry VII. I reminisce of road-trips past to Quebec city where I had poutine for breakfast, lunch and dinner. ...
Banh Mi here →
Today’s NY Mag has a nice sum up of Vietnamese “hoagies” - Banh Mi sandwiches - across NYC. I’m glad to see Num Pang, despite being open just a few weeks, already make the top 4.
Link via Nish.
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it's heavenly!!!!
The salmon is done and the smoker is a broken in!!!!! Can you tell I’m excited and giddy? Just a tad. That I am my friends. That I am.
So, I basically followed this recipe. It called for a gallon of water, 2 cups of brown sugar and 2 cups of table salt. I’ll give the ingredients a negative 10 on the difficulty scale of 1 to 10.
I soaked a 1.5 lb filet of wild Alaskan...
we're a kippering today
I’m breaking in the indoor smoker today. I got a 1.5 lb sockeye salmon filet from Whole Foods and plan on hot smoking it shortly.
Right now, it’s sitting in a salt water and brown sugar brine. After the brining, into the smoker it will go. Again, this can be a colossal failure or not. I got the recipe here.
