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[skygiants]

aberration asked me to talk about anything related to food/cuisine that I feel like talking about for the 21st!

This is a huge topic! I LIKE FOOD. I mean, I don't pour immense amounts of energy into food. But I like food a lot. I like the feeling of accomplishment from making something edible out of disparate ingredients in my house, and I like the magic of going somewhere to eat and having someone provide me with something delicious. I also like the social aspect of cooking -- cooking for and with people -- and the feeling of validation from watching people enjoy eating something that you made.

But I don't have any pictures of food I have made recently, aside from the Thanksgiving and Rosh Hashanah ones that you've all already seen, and I feel like this is the kind of post that demands pictures, so in order to do something different I am going to post about five of my favorite things to eat in NYC that I don't make myself!


1.

Masala mac and cheese from Sarita's Mac and Cheese restaurant! I have no idea what's in it except mac and cheese and spices. Also tomatoes maybe? WHO KNOWS. Pure deliciousness, anyway.

2.

Chilaquiles from Chavela's in Brooklyn! Chilaquiles, as Chavela's does them, are fried tortilla chips and refried beans and amazing green salsa and queso fresco and a fried egg on top, and I have been craving them -- Chavela's chilaquiles, specifically -- for a solid month, like, since Thanksgiving. AND TOMORROW, unless something goes horribly wrong, I am going to eat them.

3.

I would be completely remiss to do a post about New York food and not put an image of Mamoun's falafel here. So many nights when I was in grad school I would get out of class at 10 and be like "I need something fried IMMEDIATELY or I am not going to make it home." And Mamoun's was there to provide, at $2.50 a pop. They have now raised their prices to $2.75 I think, but I'll still take it!

4.


So what you do at B&H Dairy, which is a tiny vegetarian Jewish deli -- or what I do at B&H Dairy, anyway -- is you drag someone with you and you talk them into splitting an order of blintzes and an order of potato pancakes. Then you look wistfully at the challah that everyone else is eating, which is made in-house, and reconsider all your life choices, but the potato pancakes and blintzes are so good and you are so full that there is nothing else to be done.

5.

There was a time in my life when I could not walk by the waffle and dinges truck without being drawn in by the siren waffle song. That time is gone; slowly but steadily, I have built up a resistance. But the waffle truck is still PRETTY AMAZING.

Tell me about your favorite thing you ate recently!

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[skygiants]

Oh my god, how did you live 27 years without potato pancakes? WHAT A DEPRIVED CHILDHOOD. I'M SO SORRY.

Also, all those things sound delicious! I made broccoli-cheese soup last weekend and it was great. Then I made baked potato soup, which was essentially ... exactly the same soup ... except with baked potatoes as a central ingredient instead of broccoli. ALSO DELICIOUS. Please do report back on the white cheese and asparagus pizza! I almost included spinach-artichoke pizza from Artichoke here in NY as my fifth food item instead of the waffles, but I decided everyone would be confused by how not-NY-style pizza it is...