Creamy Avocado Milkshake
I have been craving ice cream and milkshakes lately. Most likely because as a girl who grew up in the Midwest, June signifies the beginning of summer to me; warm weather, baseball games and the ice cream man. I grew up in a small town called Waterford, just south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and fortunately the…
Tostones with Mojo Sauce
I recently had an epic night of hanging out with my friends Madeline and Julio at their apartment in Crown Heights drinking beer, dancing to Prince and drunkenly finishing up the night watching Key and Peele. Julio and I were discussing the glory of eating fried Puerto Rican specialties, such as cuchifritos, empanadas and tostones…
Green Machine Breakfast Shake
There was a glorious period of time in the mid-2000s when 4 of my beer guzzling friends from The Blind Tiger and I started The Burger Club after reading a list of NYC’s best 100 burgers. We decided it would be a good idea to check each place off the list once a week and…
Wisconsin Beer Brats with Pickled Sweet Onions
If there’s one thing you should know about a Sconnie bratwurst is that they are nothing like the ones you find in Germany, or anywhere outside the Midwest, for that matter. The great ones, like you’ll find at a brat fry in Sheboygan are the shorter, stubbier and spicier cousin to the long, pale versions…
