food i've eaten

there is no point to give you a whole long spiel about how i am sorry for being absent from this blog for a while and how i promise to get back into it. the point is that i am excited about recent culinary delights and i'd like you to hear about them so you can enjoy them yourself. also, don't expect any personal dishes in the near future. living at home has its perks- mom cooks better than anyone so why bother? catsitting in the west village also has its perks- seamless- case and point. so this is more of a chronical of bites that i've digested over the past however many months. enjoy, dream, savor, repeat.

chai. pretty much sums up my culinary experience in africa. however, this chai (black tea, freshly pasteurized milk, and a ton of sugar) is a symbol of hospitality. i was served chai maybe four times over the course of my 24-hour homestay with a maasai family. it was delicious and required several pre-emptive immodiums.

 The Rock. the best restaurant and taste of food i had my entire stay in east africa. we took a boat to this restaurant off the west coast of zanzibar. what a treat...

south african white and the BEST chapati. 

pasta three ways: crawfish tomato sauce, fresh pesto and shrimp, gnocchi with vanilla bean

And then there was paris, back to my old tricks.

amsterdam apple pie n' mint tea.

all the way back to montreal

with its summertime corn gazpacho

 

and japanese (kazu for those mtl'ers)

green tea fro yo, yo.

home again, home again lox and bagels. 

jalapeno skillet corn bread with butter ball on top

SALAD. something you learn to miss. 

clinton street baking company--blueberry pancakes with maple butter

 fried potato skins with melted cheddar

new york macarons, jasmine

 grilled sea bass & fresh garlic puree, thanks batali

happy hour oysters on the half shell

 cheese & chutney

burrata BLT @ murray's 

oh yeah

yellow raspberries, home-grown

 blueberry waffles waddup

philharmonic picnics

#sweetlorens cookies

watermelon, heirloom tomato, basil & feta

grilled octopus and hearts of palm relish

chocolate rosemary & salted caramel goat's milk fro yo, YO

seamless. 

brooklyn star fried chicken waffle cone with mash & slaw

 

almost as good as the real thing

 

and some more FRO-YO, YOOO, because, why not?