Brunchadores Mexicanos
CASCABEL TAQUERIA (UES) | 1538 2nd Ave. (on 80th St.) | 212.717.8226 | www.nyctacos.com
Southern Transportation
Carolina-Style Country Breakfast | Scrambled Eggs, Grilled Smoked Chicken Sausage, Breakfast Sausage, Liver Pudding, Wheat Toast | Carolina-Style Dinner Hash | over Rice
Community Service
...The Cabot cheddar, some of the best in its class, added subtle sharpness to the sandwich, and double the texture with it's melted center and its slightly fried "skirt".... [Full Post]
A Day in the Life of Hamburger Buns
....Two were of a kind of steak burger prep, with steak sauce, raw and fried onions, and bacon. The other two had the addition of sweet and spicy elements, making a pineapple mustard from scratch, pickling raw onions in balsamic vinegar, and two slices of crispy bacon, and kicking the whole burger up with sweet relish and hot jalapeños. All four burgers sat very nicely on four toasted hamburger buns.... [Full post]
Quick Post | Pesto Change-o
...I prepared a box of couscous, first sautéing sliced garlic and pine nuts in butter in the bottom of a medium-sized pot, then using water and apple juice as my liquid, letting it boil, stirring in the dry couscous, taking it off the heat. Then, after letting it steam itself to doneness, fork fluffing it with a little extra butter and some diced mint leaves, spooning on a plate, topping it with the red snapper, and serving it with oven-toasted pita bread brushed with a rosemary-honey-olive oil mixture.... [Full post]
Five Four Sixty Six, One
... Having little client work today—and not even by design—I looked forward to making it as much as a PHUDE-related day as possible, firstly affording myself a home cooked meal. I whisked some dried tarragon leaves, fresh cracked pepper, and a little salt into some eggs, and in a separate small skillet, heated some "back bacon" which are thin, rounder strips that boast a line of fat from what is the pork belly section of the pig with the much leaner oval of the loin part.... [Full post]
Just Enough Time To Eat and Share
...But I still have just enough time to cook at home, so here I share with you this morning's breakfast (that I shared with a lovely friend of mine—just had to get that in!)... [cont.]
Temporary Heaven at Permanent Brunch
...And when a neighborhood and its restaurants start to do this well, the homegrown New York City cynic starts to come out of me. I start expecting one of these fancified, well-reviewed newbies to eventually disappoint. You know us New Yorkers; we love to be the cool, forward-thinking, savvy savant that tells everyone to go to a cool, hip place—in this case, the eateries of the East Village—and then snap that "we're over it" when everyone eventually does!... [Full Post]
Steak & Eggscellence
...Most of the stuff I would need to make this were already at home; the only things I bought were a can of baby shrimp ($4, to scramble with my eggs), scallions ($2, likewise, for the eggs), and—here's the good part!—an Angus boneless ribeye steak (only $9!). The rest of the stuff I would need I already had at home, so here is roughly what I started with.... [cont.]
