My mom’s longtime boyfriend, Daniel, is from Mexico and just so happens to be a fabulous home cook. My mom is always raving about his culinary expertise (about his delicious tortas, refried beans, chilaquiles, mole, etc.), so finally, I told my mom — you know what? Just give me his e-mail address and let me [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Breakfast’
July 26, 2009
I Keep Thinking That If I Go to Le Pain Quotidien the Service Will Get Better, But It Doesn’t
So, instead of going to the Le Pain Quotidien in Georgetown like I always do, I decided to round up my lady friends and head to the remarkably convenient Dupont Circle LPQ (convenient, because only an idiot wouldn’t be able to find it — it’s right in front of the bus stop and metro, and [...]
July 19, 2009
OK, I Take It Back, the Food at Busboys and Poets Isn’t That Bad
For a long time, I really didn’t understand the food at Busboys and Poets, or the weird, hippie-dippy menu. But my mind is changed. I went with my ma and sis yesterday and ordered the buckwheat pancakes and the french toast, and it was actually super good. The pancakes and this chewy, glutinous texture and [...]
July 19, 2009
An Egyptian Breakfast from a Garden in Cairo
Beans, salty white cheese and eggs with salted cured beef. I just came back from a two-week trip to Egypt and took pictures of practically every meal I ate. Here are some pictures from a breakfast we ate in the garden in my dad’s villa outside Cairo.
May 22, 2009
Nanay’s Recipe for Beef Tapa for Tapsilog, Or If You Wanted to Use Pork, Salmuera
A typical Filipino breakfast consists of two fried eggs, garlic-fried rice and some kind of crispy-fried meat: bacon, tocino, longanisa, ham, corned beef, fried corned beef hash, Vienna sausage, kielbasa, Spam, hot dog, hell, even a slice of bologna if there isn’t anything else. But my favorite out of all these meats will have to [...]
May 9, 2009
Try To Recreate The Diner’s Banana-Pecan Sauce
I absolutely NEEDED to know what was in The Diner’s banana-pecan French toast sauce, so I begged my waiter to ask the cook what he puts in, and this is what he told me: bananas, maple syrup, pecans, brown sugar boiled together in a saucepan. That’s all he said. I think the secret might be [...]
July 21, 2008
Silver Diner on Clarendon Review
I work at a certain swanky wine bar, and I told one of the servers that I went to Silver Diner that morning and loved it. He looked at me, and said, “What!? Girl, we need to take you out to eat at better places than Silver Diner!” and I was immediately embarrassed. I didn’t [...]
