I am once again begging for Mercury Retrograde to be over
Also, have some peach water.
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Chocolate olive oil snacking cake at home
From Jessie Sheehan Bakes
Boy oh boy I cannot wait for Mercury Retrograde to be over. I don’t care if you think astrology isn’t real: This week, I had to trap a live mouse with a mixing bowl and carry it out of my apartment like a little cursed gift (but of course it escaped in the hallway), my cat peed on my boots while looking me straight in the eye, and just feel like general shit about myself and everyone else which is enough proof for me. I rarely ever crave, or make, chocolate cake, (usually preferring chocolate chip cookies or brownies), but this week? Only the big guns will do. Thankfully, this chocolate olive oil snacking cake is exactly what I need in a cake. First of all, it’s called a “snacking cake,” which automatically makes it cuter and more friendly than a non-snacking cake. Second of all, it’s super super easy to mix up. Third of all, it’s so fudgy and rich (I threw in half a cup of dark chocolate chips) it doesn’t need any frosting and is a perfect contrast to a scoop of ice cream (I love Speculoos cookie butter ice cream from TJ’s). Make your own here, and don’t forget to underbake it just a little for maximum fudginess.
COCA COLA Irohasu Transparent Japanese Peach Flavor Water at TESO LIFE
1265 Broadway, New York, NY 10001 and several other locations
I love Japanese Peach Water. I do not know if it’s for everybody. Despite having COCA COLA in all caps in the name, it’s not at all fizzy or related to soda whatsoever in taste. It’s kind of like… peach water… like you boiled a peach in water, and then you added some simple syrup to it. It tastes 0% like juice. The best analogy I can draw is to Propel, except that the peach flavor is much better than artificial strawberry, if any of you remember this early 2000’s darling that I absolutely got for special occasions when I went to gymnastics practice. Anyways, that’s my five-star review of peach water.
Chive pancakes (gui chai tod) at Mrs. An Thai
173 E 99th St, New York, NY 10029
One of my favorite things to do when I am Having A Shit Day is to order a dinner for delivery of only appetizers. I feel like appetizers are the kinds of things you only get to have if you’re at a dinner date or something, but they are in fact my favorite part of the meal so it feels nice to order a meal of only appetizers because I love myself and I am a nice date. My favorite Thai food appetizer is these crispy, deep-fried chive pancakes. These are not really “pancakes,” in the same way that scallion pancakes are in no way pancakes. It’s more like delicious, fat, deep-fried, shattery-on-the-inside, chewy on the inside mochi fries. It has the same flavors of my favorite jiu cai jiao/Chinese chive pockets, but it’s even better because, see Deep Fried above.
Pandan pistachio mochi ice cream at Mochidoki
176 Spring St, New York, NY 10012
“How much better can this fancy mochi ice cream be than the ones at Trader Joe’s which cost the same for a whole box?” my friend and I wondered, upon learning about the luxury mochi ice cream shop Mochidoki (only in Soho, of course). The answer? Much, much better. So good, in fact, that it’s almost a shame we had to find out, because now I never want to go back to the frosty old TJ’s box again. The main selling point was just how soft and chewy the mochi wrapper was; it really tasted fresh. The ice cream inside tasted like fresh milk and cream more than pandan (in a good way!), with little crunchy bits of pistachio. They apparently sell gift boxes there (I saw someone walk out with one), although the physics of that confuse me as it’d pretty much melt immediately, but, hey, maybe they ate them all after turning the corner, which I respect.
Chicken mole tacos at Sullivan Taqueria
71 Sullivan St, New York, NY 10012
These tacos are good. I am too tired to write more.
Soph
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