More Bacon

Another of my friends is also a bacon lover, so I told her about the delightful Baconery on Manhattan's Upper West Side and we met there for lunch. She had The Babe, which is the eggs, bacon, and cheese sandwich I had the first time I went there, and not being as hungry, I opted for the delicious Miss Piggy (Geez, that sounds awful, doesn't it? Poor Miss Piggy), which is a grilled cheese with bacon. Bacon is the main ingredient in these sandwiches, nice thick pieces of bacon with the eggs and/or cheese or whatnot added in almost as extras. Nothing can overwhelm the bacon flavor!

My friend's a coffee drinker and enjoyed her bacon-free coffee, while I had a hot chocolate, sans bacon this time because, really, the hot chocolate is so rich, it doesn't need anything else. I asked one of the owners about it (and I wish I'd gotten his name) and he said, no, no cinnamon in it, but it does have a kick which must come from the cocoa powder added to the chocolate.

I got a nicer photo of the hot chocolate this time. I also got a couple of bacon chocolate chip cookies to bring home.

Hot Chocolate

This is a fun, friendly, yummilicious cafe. I wish it was closer to where I live/easier for me to get to, but it's a nice excuse to visit a neighborhood I lived in for about a year in the '70s and where I enjoy strolling along the photogenic streets.

Feeling: sated


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The Joy of Bacon

I love bacon. It's one of my main food groups. My main food groups are:

• Chocolate
• Bacon
• Cheese
• Eggs
• Potatoes

Truly, these foods go with anything and can be prepared in myriad ways. So, how could a friend and I resist the lure of the Baconery? Located on Manhattan's Upper West Side, near Columbia University, the shop offers baked goods and sandwiches. We had sandwiches for lunch and I tried a bacon hot chocolate that was amazingly rich -- I'm sure I tasted cinnamon in it -- though the texture of bacon bits in the creamy liquid was weird. The salty bacon flavor worked well with the chocolate, however.

Hot Chocolate

I had the bacon on the side for the hot chocolate because I wanted to taste it pure before dumping in the bacon bits.

The Babe: Grilled Cheese/Egg/Bacon Sandwich

After, I bought a thick bacon chocolate chip cookie which I ate today. Again, there was the textural aspect to get used to, but the flavor was rich and divine. The chips were still melty and a nice, rich dark chocolate. The bacon bits were nice chewy pieces.

Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookie

They also went, uh, whole hog on the decor.

BaCoN Pillow

I'll be paying the Baconery a return visit!

Feeling: sated

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The Yummiest

A friend and I had lunch today at Kutsher's Tribeca. We each had traditional matzoh ball soup, followed by potato pancakes. Both dishes were very yummy, but it was the desserts that won us over. She had a Chocolate Babka Bread Pudding and from the little taste I had of it, it was divine.

Chocolate Babka with vanilla ice cream

I had a Rainbow Cookie Hot Fudge Sundae, which was amazing. This delightful concoction featured marshmallow fluff, which was made in-house, as were the cookies and hot fudge sauce. In fact, they make everything in-house. And to my delight, not only were there 2 rainbow cookies on top, which I quickly devoured, but an ice cream-drenched cookie was at the bottom, a treasure I was thrilled to find, as if it were a coveted prize. Then I ate it. :)

Rainbow Cookie Hot Fudge Sundae

If you're visiting NYC, or are local, it's worth a visit to Tribeca to dine on modernized Jewish comfort food and desserts to die for.

Still having work-related dreams, btw. I wish they'd stop, along with the feeling I need to go back to work after my "vacation." I'm retired, damn it! This is not a vacation; it's life! :)

Feeling: sated

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Much Ado about Mousse

chocolate mousse

Dessert from last night: the yummiest, chocolatiest, thickest mousse at Markt, a wonderful restaurant featuring Belgian food. The food there is wonderful, the bread is to die for, the butter must be freshly made because it's a lot better than what you typically get, and the desserts are rich and yummy. I had to take a photo showing a few spoonfuls removed from the mousse so you can see how rich it is. Just blogging about it is making my mouth water. If you're in NYC and have time for a trip to the Chelsea/Flatiron District in Manhattan, this restaurant is worth trying.

Feeling: content

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Good Eating

This is within walking distance of work. Yum.



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