Tag: fries

Categories
restauranting

Balthazar Fancy Pants

My sister took me out to her favorite NY spot –fancy pants Balthazar. She claims it isn’t that fancy, but it’s pretty fancy to me. I just keep thinking how my roommate Rusty met up with his friends there in sweatpants and they were too embarrassed to go in with him. So maybe it’s not so fancy pants, just a French bistro. We started off with the Foi Gras Mousse and had the special Seafood Bouillabaisse and $38 Steak Au Poivre with pommes frites and spinach. It was a lean cut of meat. I think I should have gone with the fattier (tastier) cheaper steak. Something about the vibe at Balthazar made me want to namedrop all meal long. I wonder if the Sex in the City type girls next to us thought we were total douches.

Balthazar Restaurant – 80 Spring St (btw Broadway & Crosby St) New York, NY 10012

Categories
homemade recipe

FLNL Sweet Potato Wedges

Jody cooked up some tasty Sweet Potato Wedges (like giant steak fries) at the Dragon’s Claw party. I would love to have them again with some hot sauce and ketchup!

here goes: preheat overn to 425
– 4-5 good looking sweet potatoes, olive oil, italian seasonings (or whatever you desire) salt, pepper, and patience…

wash well, cut into large wedges,  spread onto baking sheet, combine the olive oil, salt n pepper, and seasonings into small bowl, use paintbrush to lather over wedges as much as possible, stick in the oven for about 10 minutes, pull them out and flip, lightly re-season and stick back in the over for about 10-12 more minutes and your done.  good luck.

Recipe from Jody’s Flannel Blog (courtesy of christina c. penley, italy) – FLNL Fancy for Flannel

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Categories
bar/drinking burger

123 Burger Shot Beer – Slider and Friends

Yoshie found a place that had $1 burgers, $2 shots, $3 beers. It was also ladies night $1 white wines after 8pm. So I sprayed on some Axe and got ready to get drunk. The burgers don’t look like the pics and they’re really small, but then you get why they’re a dollar. We played with Yoshie’s new Sony camera that adds smiley faces. I wish I can add a smiley face to the sliders.

Then we passed a charming little bakery. They had fancy cookies like root beer float, mai tai and red velvet. They kept giving us samples maybe because we’re food bloggers? I got so stuffed. It’s good to be the king.

123 Burger Shot Beer – 738 10th Ave (btw 50th & 51st St) New York, NY 10019
Ruby et Violette – 457 West 50th St (btw 10th & 9th Ave) New York, NY 10019
Ramen & Friends cross post

Categories
lunch

Orange Lunch Truck

tried the orange lunch truck and is amazing value. big turkey sub with fries for $5. i can only eat half. great value, but felt disgusting after. damn you paul mckenna!

leftover makes new dinner entree –french fried smiley face egg turkey sandwich. rusty gets smiley face envy and creates smiley face grilled cheese.

Citywide Grill lunch truck – Park Ave Ave (btwn 25th & 26th St), Manhattan