‘Dessert’ Archives
Zinneken’s in Harvard Square Brings You Belgian Waffles
This exclusive tip just in: Zinneken's, a Belgian waffle shop, will be opening in about four months in Harvard Square. Zinneke in Brussels dialect means someone of mixed origins, which not only represents the founders, but also their ambitions to introduce authentic Belgian food to Bostonians. They promise that Zinneken's baked-to-order offerings will to put your standard Americanized "Belgian [...]
Gluttony as Work: Interning at Serious Eats
Working at Serious Eats is, pardon my pun, serious business. What are aren't paid in wages we're more than compensated for in amazing food - the creme de la creme of what New York can offer. I've sampled NYC's top 7 falafel sandwiches, 11 bowls of the best Taiwanese shaved ice, and countless sandwiches. Whenever editors travel, they tend to bring back regional specialties - chess pie from [...]
Kickass Cupcakes to add ice cream cupcakes
Kickass Cupcakes, the Davis Square cupcakery (which famously abhors Yelp) is announcing a new line of ice cream. The inaugural flavor is vanilla with chocolate chunk - with the added kick of choco and vanilla cupcake bits. One cone is $2.99, 3.99 with frosting, and a pint is 5.99. I always liked their Cupcake happy hours on the last Monday of the month when they give out free mini cakes. And I [...]
How to make and eat biscotti
Here is a template for an ideal morning: Wake up early, exercise. Shower, put on a dress and heels. Apply lip gloss, even though it'll come off on the coffee lid. Brush your hair by running your fingers through it. (You don't own a comb.) Stop at a coffee shop (it can be Starbucks, but better pastries are to be had elsewhere). Buy black drip coffee and biscotti - just one. Get your own [...]
Chocolate cake at Troquet
My gay best friend and I rushed in 20 minutes late to a cake and wine tasting at Troquet, so I missed the cake making demonstration. But hey, I did get to do the important part: eat it all. Twice. The space is a cozy. It's narrow, with a line of black lacquered two tops in warmly painted room, perfect date material. And the best part? Over on the counter were over a dozen small plates of [...]
A love affair with coffee shops – The Biscuit in Somerville
It was spring, freshman year. By then, the Cambridge frost had receded from the cobblestone, and warm air spilled out from T stop as you walked by. To cheer myself up, I'd appoint myself in a wrap dress and green wedge sandals, the ones my mother bought me from China, and slip on a pair of $10 sunglasses. Then I'd find a coffeeshop. And I'd sit there, feeling the caffeine ooze into my blood, [...]
Valentine’s Day in Boston ideas: Shoulda put a ring on it
Since my foray in Jewish speed dating clearly hasn't earned me a date for Valentine's Day, I'm turning all my brilliant ideas over to you, dear reader. This list of a sugar-themed crawl of Cambridge is meant primarily for the adventurous and thrifty, a winning combination in my eyes. I realize that my awkwardly inserted mentions of makeouts perhaps should be cut. I've spent too long with my [...]
Food porn: sfogliatelle and a cappucinno from Modern Pastry
Whenever I think of Italian, I actually think of Giada. I remember the first time I saw her - it was in paper version of the New York Times. I mean, who even reads the paper version of the Times anymore? Nobody. They're bleeding cash. Anyway, it was the cover of her book. She was wearing a blue shirt that matched her eyes, and it was the kind of photo that takes your intestines and whips them [...]
Piattini Gelateria and Match mini burgers
It's Reading Period! I granted myself a free day wander down Boston's beautiful Newbury Street, visit some fabulous friends, and eat some junk food... because I deserve it. I have a good relationship with gelato. We've gotten along thus far - I had some truly makes-your-mouth-sing gelato on my brief stopovers in Rome and Paris. (Not as glam as it sounds, I was on a rowdy Topdeck tour that [...]
Getting fat again
So I use "fat" in a tongue-in-cheek way. But I definitely spent the last few weeks watching what I ate, which meant no crazy banquet dinners, dinners of scrambled egg whites and vegetables, and the occasional helping of cheese dip, heaped high with guilt. As a result, my stomach became a cast iron tank. My collarbone and ribcage took greater prominence. When I lay down, I marveled at how my [...]
Sweet treats from around Boston
This is a durian shake from Chinatown. Durian is the infamously stinky fruit that is sometime even banned by law from consumption in certain places since it smells like... an outhouse on a hot day. But its spiky exterior belies a decadently rich, creamy custard-colored flesh, which has been ground up here into a shake. A friend and I drank it one sip at a time, speculating what notes we picked up [...]
Little insects make your honey. No, really.
Read my article at GoodEater.org about the joys of beekeeping wearing funny looking suits. I've still been working on my little jar of Mike Graney's honey, produced in Boston's Jamaica Plain. I've now mixed it into my nonfat plain Greek yogurt from Trader Joes, along with some Bola granola (see last post), a pretty damn awesome combination. Bizarrely, I kind of like my yogurt to be kinda thin [...]
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