20 Saturday Apr 2013
I am at the first ever Hot Sauce Expo at the East River State Park in Williamsburg and Dana’s is here with a ghost pepper macaron! I actually met Dana and she was so sweet!! She gave me one of her limited edition jelly donut macarons when I told her I was a big fan! 🙂 I was totally starstruck when I met her.
10 Wednesday Apr 2013
Posted in American, bakeries, Brooklyn, bucket list, chocolate, French, fruit, herbs and spices, macarons, New York, Queens, snacks, sweets, wagashi, Williamsburg
Macaron Parlour on Saint Marks has a Cheetos macaron. They sprinkle each one with cheesy orange dust.
They also make a candied bacon macaron that has a real strip of bacon inside.
20 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted in bakeries, bucket list, celebrations, French, fruit, macarons, New York, snacks, sweets, wagashi
Ladurée on Madison Ave is now offering cognac macarons and rose tea macarons. In addition, there is a limited edition Reed Krakoff macaron featuring dark chocolate and a matching gift box.
25 Friday Jan 2013
Camotes de Santa Clara are hand made sweet potato candies from Puebla, Mexico. Sweet potato paste is mixed with fruits, such as strawberries and coconut, and rolled into a little 5 inch log. They are sold wrapped in wax paper for $1.50 per piece at various bodegas throughout Corona and Elmhurst in Queens.
03 Monday Dec 2012
Posted in bakeries, bucket list, celebrations, French, fruit, macarons, New York, snacks, sweets, wagashi
You won’t find the new saveurs de Noël macaron listed on the menu yet but if you ask nicely enough the staff at Ladurée NYC might be able to find some in the basement!
It is my new favorite macaron! The “Christmas flavors” are chocolate, candied clementine peel, cinnamon, star anise, and vanilla. The person who helped me at Ladurée today said it was “chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon, and calamansi” but I double checked in the holiday collection guide and it confirmed the first description (no calamansi). This delicious macaron is very rich, much like a brownie.
Here is a shot of two “Christmas flavors” macarons, two chestnut, one blood orange with ginger, and a hazelnut guimauve.
The new Christmas box, inspired by famous Indiennes of the 16th century.
12 Monday Nov 2012
12 Monday Nov 2012
Posted in celebrations, fruit, New York, Vietnamese
Tan Tin-Hung sells frozen gấc fruit for $1.95
I’m going to make xôi gấc tomorrow.
Tan Tin-Hung
121 Bowery
New York NY 10002
(212) 274-8811
12 Monday Nov 2012
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I found murta berry sauce at Puro Chile today. In addition to gourmet Chilean food products, they sell hundreds of varieties of Chilean wines and beautiful jewelry and accessories.
Puro Chile
221 Centre Street
New York NY 10013
(212) 925-7871
03 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in celebrations, fruit, sweets
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anniversary, ganache, ice cream, Marjoram, recipe, strawberry
For my grandparents’ 60th anniversary I made a brownie-torte with chocolate ganache and strawberries. The ganache was just heavy cream, bittersweet chocolate and butter melted in a bain-marie. It was kind of amazing.
The strawberry marjoram ice cream was also a success! I love the astringent brightness that the marjoram imparted. It may have been the camphor or pinene found in its oils.
It was the chocolatiest dessert I had ever tasted in my life and I just had another slice for breakfast because it was that good!
23 Monday Jul 2012
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berries, Breakneck, Breakneck Ridge, hiking, Hudson River Valley, mountain climbing, vegan, wineberries
While hiking in the Hudson River Valley, just an hour outside of New York City, we came across few wild wineberry bushes. Wineberries are a species of raspberry with origins in eastern Asia. They have very large, hairy calices, as you can see in the photo. A man we met on the trail told us that these berries were once used to make wine, since grapes do not grow well in this region.
They were a little bit bitter — I wonder if they weren’t quite ripe yet.
Here is a view of the Hudson River looking south from one of the white Breakneck Ridge trails.
Chinook Olive 