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.

vanilla for baking

1. Buy vanilla beans off ebay.
2. Buy cheap vodka.
3. Split a pile of beans lengthwise, scrape the insides.
4. Get rid of some of the vodka to make room for the vanilla beans.
5. Put the beans in the vodka.
6. Shake.
7. Wait for weeks to months for the extract to mature- when it doesn't smell like vodka anymore.