buttermilk soaked fried chicken & sweet potato fries with brown sugar, lemon and butter sauce

chicken:

Soak the chicken overnight in a mixture of buttermilk, garlic powder, cayenne, salt, pepper, ancho chili powder, smoked paprika

When ready to fry, fill pa pan with flour, add salt, pepper, cayenne, a lil bit of oregano, adobo, and garlic powder to the flour and mix well. Lay chicken piece atop flour and dust with flour around each piece to evenly coat.
Let sit at least 15 mins, dusting any bits that turn moist.

Fry till done.


Fries:

cut up garnet yams into long strips, dunk in ice water till ready to fry, remove from ice water, pat dry, fry for 2 mins and remove from oil. Let cool to room temp, fry again till golden.

Sauce:

butter, brown sugar and the juice of one lemon. heat in saucepan til combined, add a swig of heavy cream and whisk.

holy trifle batman

This... this was the start of my cooking in the new apartment.. now I use cooking gingerly because at that point our oven didn't work at all so I had to buy cake from zarros to make this.

There's homemade blueberry sauce, canned peaches and fresh strawberries in syrup as the fruit layers

vanilla and walnut pound cakes as the cake layers

marscapone whipped with lemon sugar syrup and whipped cream with vanilla and a little sugar as the cream layers.

serendipity: the sweetest thing

forbidden broadway sundae. nuff said.

wondee wonderful

Somehow I forgot to post these, but I went out to lunch in Hell's Kitchen with a WoW friend and I suggested we go to a Thai place I'd been meaning to try, Wondee Siam. I think there are about five of these, because the fifth one is up in my current neighborhood.

tom ka soup with shrimp (my favorite place for this, lime, coconut milk, galangal, mmm!)

haw mok (fish mousse with coconut milk in it, spicy)


something he got that i forgot the name of

mieng ka na (dried shredded pork with cashews and lime bits and deliciousness served with chinese broccoli leaves)

indulgent ippudo

So I've been apartment hunting and that's really, really stressful.

I decided to treat myself to a dinner I've been waiting months to go try.

I've always heard the lines are ridiculously long at Ippudo and they were for the common people.

Ok, I kid, I kid!

Really all you have to do is go in by yourself or maybe in a duo and say you don't mind sitting at the communal table.

Arriving after people told the wait was over an hour and 45 minutes long, I got sat right away.

I knew what I wanted. I knew what I craved.

I've read all the yelp reviews. I sorta knew what my tummy could handle.

I got the shrimp fritters with mayo, the pork hirata buns, and the akamaru modern ramen with extra pork belly.

I plowed my way through the appetizers and stopped dead short midway through the ramen. My tummy could not take it anymore, oh but it wanted to.

Instead, I finished off with a light and delicious annin sweet tofu with fresh fruit on top. It tasted like cream and coconut milk and yummy goodness.