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New York Goodies

I lost my camera during this trip so all I have are iphone photos to share. The person who has my camera has the more vivid details of the trip including the BlogHer conference memories. Yet I still love you New York.

I have so much love for New York City that I can overlook its suffocating humidity. I have been adding to my list of places to eat and things to do for over a year and my plotted list ended up looking like this:

With all this on my menu plus all the fun stuff that BlogHer had to offer, I needed at least a month to make a dent in the list. Here are a few of the highlights of what I did manage to squeeze in:

From the @waffletruck – Belgian waffle, strawberries, banana and nutella – fresh fresh fresh and good good good

In the lower level of the Plaza Hotel there is a Food Hall with all types of delectable treats. We shared a trio of rolls: crab, lobster, and shrimp. And then I had a s’more made to order from the Three Tarts counter where their gourmet marshmallows are the stars.

Through the phone booth of a small hot dog shop you can enter a speakeasy style bar with silly taxidermy (jackalope) and specialty cocktails. I had the “mescal mule” a mescal laced concoction with passion fruit puree and house made ginger beer.

I’d be big as a house if I had easy access to the N.Y. Deli quick and delish breakfast of bacon, egg, and cheese on a roll.

Hey hey hey – I made elote!

Well, elote just means “corn on the cob” but I was going for the Mexican street cart style. It came out pretty well and even hubby was convinced that mayo on corn tastes good. I’ve only had it in Mexico and my cousins introduced me to it in Mexico City. When we got corn in our CSA this week, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to give it a try at home.

I went to our local Chavez market for two key ingredients:

Espazote to cook with the corn and cojita cheese to put on top. The other ingredients are mayo, butter, chile powder, and lime. I’ve seen recipes that don’t use espazote in the water and use parmesan cheese instead of cojita. I had access to both so I just went ahead and purchased them.

This is another one of those non-recipes because you just throw it together. First parboil the corn in water with espazote sprigs then grill (you can skip the grilling if you want), while the corn is still hot butter it then slather it with mayo, next sprinkle with cheese and finally add the chile powder and a squeeze of lime.

Notice anything funny about the picture at the top? Yup I was so worried about the light and getting the colors right that I forgot to add the cheese for the photoshoot. doh! I took one bite and realized my mistake and added the cheese then. Oh well. I’ll just have to make it again some time.

Here’s a video showing how it gets served up from a cart:

Summer Walk through North Beach in San Francisco

Beautiful day in San Francisco on Saturday – Sunny and warm proving Mark Twain wrong. I walked through the Financial District to North Beach. A quick stop at City Lights Books for browsing. Brunch that included a “Bloody Hammer” and Brioche French Toast at 15 Romolo. More wandering, and another stop at Vesuvio. I don’t think I’ve been in the neighborhood for about 10 years. I love that not much has changed.