Tag Archives: Dessert

Happily “Hen”-Pecked

Written by Kerry Cheeseboro on February 5, 2013 — Comments

Two Little Red Hens | 1652 2nd Ave. | (bet. 85th & 86th Sts.) | 212.452.0476 | twolittleredhens.com/

Posted in Diet Days, Dining Out, Manhattan, Meatless Monday, Quick Post, Takeout, Upper East Side, Yorkville | Also tagged baked, bakery, chocolate, chopped, cocoa, cream cheese, cupcake, cupcakes, Diet Days, Dining Out, frosted, frosting, icing, Meatless Monday, peanut, peanut butter, Quick Post, red, red velvet, shoppe, sweet, sweets, Takeout, Two Little Red Hens, ues, Upper East Side, Yorkville

A “Step” In The Right Direction

Written by Kerry Cheeseboro on January 11, 2013 — Comments

Ritz® Cracker Mini Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches

Ritz® Cracker Chocolate Ice Cream Sandwiches

Posted in Cooking In, Quick Post | Also tagged chocolate, cold, Cooking In, cracker, crackers, family, ice cream, mini, Quick Post, Ritz, salty, sandwich, sandwiches, savory, step-mother, sweet, sweets, trend

A Black Label Experience

Written by Kerry Cheeseboro on November 30, 2012 — Comments

Minetta Tavern | 113 McDougal Street (off Minetta Lane) | 212.475.3850 | minettatavernny.com

Posted in Dining Out, Dinner, Greenwich Village, Manhattan | Also tagged baguette, bar, beer, Black Label Burger, bone, bone marrow, burgundy, cake, caramelized, confit, custard, Dijon, Dining Out, Dinner, dry-aged, foie gras, fries, frites, Grand Marnier, Greenwich Village, hors douevres, marrow, Minetta Tavern, mustard, old New York, old school, onion, onions, oxtail, pommes, pommes frites, potatoes, prime, roasted, shallot, soldiers, souffle, terrine, truffle

Wonder The Sea

Written by Kerry Cheeseboro on March 17, 2012 — Comments

Posted in Dining Out, Just Photos, Manhattan, Revisited, Upper East Side, Yorkville | Also tagged Appetizer, bacon, bread, candy, cheese, corn, creamy, crunch, Dining Out, dulce de leche, entree, grits, herbs, Just Photos, passion fruit, sautéed, seafood, shrimp, The Seahorse Tavern, toffee, ues, Upper East Side, Yokville

Quality Quebecois in Queens

Written by Kerry Cheeseboro on August 6, 2011 — Comments

…Especially export was how the razor clams were diced thin, while the large scallops were left to size, cooking through the initially tougher razor clams while not over cooking the plump, delectable scallops…. [Full Post]

Seafood Cobbler with Scallops and Razor Clams

Posted in Breakfast, Dining Out, Long Island City, Lunch, Queens | Also tagged banana cream, bechamel, Bill Irwin, biscuit, biscuits, bone, bone marrow, cake, cheese, clams, cream, diner, donuts, doughnuts, duck, escargot, green beans, Gruyere, hearts, LIC, Long Island City, M. Wells, maple, pie, potatoes, Queens, razor clams, salad, scallops, seafood, snails, tortilla

The British Are Cooking!

Written by Kerry Cheeseboro on May 12, 2011 — Comments

Jones Wood Foundry | 401 East 76th St. (just off 1st Ave.) | 212.249.2700 | joneswoodfoundry.com

Posted in Appetizer, Dining Out, Dinner, Manhattan, Upper East Side, Yorkville | Also tagged baked, bar, beer, cottage, crust, Dining Out, draft, egg, English, gastropub, Irish, Jones Wood Foundry, kac, kacphude, kidney, mashed, molasses, nyc, outdoor, pastry, phudenyc, pie, potato, pub, pudding, recently opened, sauce, sausage, scotch, seating, steak, sticky, suet, tartar, toast, toffee, traditional, treacle, ues, upper east, Upper East Side, Yorkville

Colombia On Lex

Written by Kerry Cheeseboro on March 30, 2011 — Comments

…Everything in the shop was made from scratch, including the dough for their arepas, as well as the masa more typically (if less commonly here in the states) used as the “shell” for their empanadas, stuffed with aromatically seasoned stew beef/chicken, deep-fried to order, and served to me in mere minutes piping hot…. [Full Post]

Posted in Breakfast, Delivery, Dining Out, Lunch, Quick Post, Takeout, Upper East Side, Yorkville | Also tagged arepa, arepas, authentic, bandejas piesa, beef, chicken, coffee, coffeehouse, Colombian, cream, cuisine, custard, desserts, dough, Dulce Vida Cafe, empanada, empanadas, filling, latin, Lexington, masa, pastries, pastry, Spanish, stuffed, Upper East Side, vanilla, Yorkville

Sweet-aly

Written by Kerry Cheeseboro on September 16, 2010 — Comments

…The food Parthenon that is Eataly, divined by restauranteurs and celebrity chefs Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich brings a spectacular culinary museum of Italian cuisine to the masses, who are literally and figuratively eating it up…. [Full post]

Posted in Dining Out, Dinner, Flatiron District, Gramercy/Flatiron, Just Photos, Lunch, Manhattan, Takeout | Also tagged chicken, Dining Out, Eataly, emporium, fish, Flatiron, food, Italian, Joe Bastianich, Mario Batali, meat, mecca, panini, panino, pasta, rabbit, restaurants, store

Take To The Hill

Written by Kerry Cheeseboro on September 15, 2010 — Comments

Posted in Dining Out, Dinner, Flatiron District, Gramercy/Flatiron, Lunch, Madison Square, Manhattan, Opening/Coming Soon, Takeout | Also tagged a la mode, batter, biscuit, biscuits, black cherry, brined, brulee, buttermilk, cheese, cheesey, chicken, classic, coconut, cream, creme, creme brulee, cripsy, crunchy, custard, desserts, dipped, drum, drumstick, Elizabeth Karmel, fountain, fried, fried chicken, herbal, herbs, Hill Country Chicken, ice, lemon, Mama El's, mashed, meringue, pecan, pie, pies, potato, potatoes, savory, skin, skinless, soda, south, southern, thigh, vanilla, wing

Sweet and Simple

Written by Kerry Cheeseboro on August 22, 2010 — Comments

…What did stand out—to me at least—was their options for savory toppings, including pretzels, tortilla chips, and, yes, wasabi pies! I decided to get a medium cup of the strawberry Fruizo (their other default flavors being banana and mango), and topped it with the wasabi peas, some pretzels, and some sliced almonds, which were a wonderful contrast flavor- and texture-wise to the robust sweetness of the strawberry in the icy, creamy-without-dairy, flavor Fruizo…. [Full post]