nyc: Kee's chocolates

nyc: Dogmatic

The fancypants hot dogs are reasonably delicious with the potential for messy, but I go to the Dogmatic by Union Square specifically for the ginger soda which is a little spicy tingly and not too sweet. The black specks at the top of the soda? VANILLA.

nyc: Kyochon

Korean fried chicken which is honestly expensive for $1 per wing or drumette, but yummy crispy.

everyone else got salads

mmm deep fried

It turns out that 6 wing bits are enough for me.

NYC: two little red hens bakery

Midday on a weekday you can actually sit down at one of the three sunny tables at Two Little Red Hens on the Upper East Side.

Berry crumb pie on special for $2

vanilla/vanilla cupcake

chocolate/chocolate cupcake

rosemary lemon shortbread

There are a zillion recipes for this on the web. I would recommend chopping fresh rosemary as small as possible. Also my recipe involved powdered sugar creamed into the butter-- I suspect that I didn't cream the sugar in as much as I should have because there was a little bit of chewiness that I think resulted from high concentrations of the powdered sugar glomming onto itself.

pulled pork sandwich at Devil's Alley.

Not my kind of atmosphere (too dim, too loud) but the pulled pork is good and the fries are ok.

breakfast tacos from Honest Tom's foodtruck (Clark Park)

Scrambled eggs, potatoes, tomatoes, onion, guac on a taco. Basic and good.

They are on facebook and Twitter updating their location. 

peach crumble

I made the Smitten Kitchen peach shortbread and I am not all about the light delicateness of lovely flat squares. I think next time I'd pack it all into an 8" by 8" and get more hefty squares of peachy goodness. Maybe apples next time, seeing as how peaches are finished and it is now 100kinds of apples season now.

Argan: current favourite sandwich place

Argan is a Moroccan restaurant located in one of those cursed restaurant locations where nothing has historically survived because it is down a set of stairs off street level. It is also my current favourite go to place for a not too gigantic sandwich with puffy warm fresh notexactlybread notexactlypita filled with lamb and potatoes. NOM NOM NOM. The only downside is that they don't have any fried potato products.

some bananas

Ok, lots of bananas. At the Philly half marathon.

Don Memo's tacos al pastor

Tacos from the Don Memo's food truck on 38th Street between Walnut and Sansom Streets. This food truck is perhaps one of the slowest trucks ever-- you can get there at any time and it will still take at least twenty minutes. I don't like the carnitas (too fatty, not crispy), but the al pastor is nice. Also the "spicy" is a tangy tingly but not super hot spicy. 

Twenty minutes +$2/taco.