Brooklyn Blackout cupcake

from Two Little Red Hens on the Upper East Side in Yorkville.
Filled with a chocolate pudding centre. Excellent, although I didn't need the pudding.

porkalicious v4

Tried the David Chang Momofuku overnight coarse salt and sugar rub and I'm not sure that it made much difference. People complained that the original recipe was too salty, but I wonder if they put the leftover salt slurry in with their pork, in which case that would have been a bad idea.

Distrito prix fixe lunch

$15 Distrito prix fixe lunch

Camarones shrimp ceviche with avocado, plantain chips

Flatbread with the corn fungus, mushrooms, queso mixto, black truffle, corn shoots (the light yellow bits)

Hamachi tacos

carrot cake

Fancypants carrot cake from the steakhouse Butcher and Singer, one of the Stephen Starr group restaurants.

celebrating a Cornell wedding to be

Dinner at Mixto was loud but it had a fun, lively atmosphere, helped along by some pitchers of mango and hawaiian mojitos. Also a test run of the Canon S90 camera-- thumbs up.

guacamole

mango avocado salad with tuna

salmon

apple spinach salad with chicken

nyc, Peruvian roast chicken on the UES

Pio Pio is a chain of Peruvian roast chicken places. The chicken was fantastic, but I was not a big fan of the avocado salad, nor the yucca fries. Even though I've rarely met a fried potato that I didn't like, the yucca (yuca?) just isn't the same- a little too fibrous in texture.

breakfast

Chocolate morseled waffle from Bonté Waffle Cafe. I am not the biggest fan of these waffles as they tend to be too doughy/pasty/uncooked textured in the center. I do like the white flecks of pearlized sugar although I think they also give me a big sugar rush then crash, and I usually need a nap an hour or two after eating one.

 I also would like to be able to eat these by just picking them up, but they are a little tacky and stick to paper napkins.

porkalicious v3 carnitas revisited

With a 5lb pork butt from Martin's Quality Meats and Sausage located in Reading Terminal Market, one of my favourite purveyors of meaty products possibly bc they have one of the oldest guys still working behind the counter. I didn't like this one as much as the first time around, not sure if it was because I added even more hot peppers or if it was the unhappy meat.

Happy Canada Day!!

In honour of Canada Day, I made butter tarts for the first time. I used the double pie crust recipe out of Bittman's How to Cook Everything, fit rounds into muffin tins, and filled with:
1/2c softened butter
1/2c packed brown sugar
1/2 c light corn syrup
pinch of salt
2 eggs
sploosh of vanilla
400 degrees for 18 min, resulted in a soft center but not too runny. Also, no raisins because I don't believe in raisins. Overfilling the shells results in filling leakage which caramelizes (technically a booboo, but +/- depending on how you feel about the addition of chewy caramel to your tart).

The Canadian expats and the American butter tart virgins at work have expressed approval. Hug your local Canadians today.

In other news, I am getting a new stove! My old one won't hold temperature so hopefully a new one will be installed by tomorrow. Hurrahs.