Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Short list of street carts and food trucks in NYC

Published on June 25, 2009 in new york city.

53rd & 6th Halal Cart
Location: 53rd and 6th Ave
Open: 7:30pm to 4:00am
Serves their popular chicken gyro “Platter” on evenings and late nights.

Calexico Carne Asada Cart
For locations and hours, follow on Twitter: @CalexicoCart
Open: Weekdays 11:30 to 3:30pm
Serves their authentic calexico carne asada tacos, chipotle pulled pork tacos, burritos, rolled quesadillas, and more. Naked burritos available.

Cravings Truck
For locations and hours, follow on Twitter: @nyccravings
Open: 11 am to 3:30pm
Taiwanese style fried chicken, pork chop, or fish cake over rice with secret pork sauce and handmade steamed dumplings (vegan, pork, or mix).

Cupcake Stop
For locations and hours, follow on Twitter: @CupcakeStop
Chocolate cupcakes, oreo cupcakes, chocolate peanutbutter cupcakes, and more. Specialty cupcakes like cappucino, mint chocolate, and others available on select days.

Daisy May’s BBQ Cart
Multiple locations: 47th St between Park and Lexington Ave; 49th St between 6 and 7th Ave; 55th St between 6 and 7th Ave; 40 Wall Street
Open: Weekdays 11:30am to 3:00pm
Known for their chilli. Also serves pulled pork, beef brisket and chicken sandwiches. NYTimes calls it “A taste of Texas on the sidewalks of NYC.”

Dessert Truck
For locations and hours, follow on Twitter: @desserttruck
Open: Weekdays 12pm to 3pm (at East 55th location) and 6pm to Midnight (at St Mark’s Place location 8th and 3rd Ave)
Was featured in Throwdown with Bobby Flay in a chocolate bread pudding Throwdown and won.

Le Gamin Truck
For locations and hours, follow on Twitter: @legamintruck
Sweet and savory crepes, Moroccan lamb sausage dog, baguette sandwiches, ratatouille salad, ice cream, and cafe beverages.

Rickshaw Dumplings
For locations and hours, follow on Twitter: @RickshawTruck
Dumplings, dumplings and more dumplings.

The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck
For locations and hours, follow on Twitter: @biggayicecream
“Serving the queerest dairy treats in NYC!”

Treats Truck
For locations and hours, follow on Twitter: @TheTreatsTruck
Cookies, crispy squares, and brownies. Also offers a Daily Special.

Van Leeuwen Ice Cream
For locations and hours, follow on Twitter: @benwvl
Ice cream flavors include vanilla, chocolate, pistachio, hazelnut, ginger, coffee, red currant, giandujia, and more.

Wafels & Dinges
For locations and hours, follow on Twitter: @waffletruck
Sweet and savory brussels wafels, liege wafels, and mini-wafelinis, with a nice selection of dinges (toppings).

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Green tea tofu soy ice cream

Published on June 16, 2009 in dessert, recipes and vegetarian.

The recipe I ended up using was the Vegan soy ice cream recipe from Post Punk Kitchen. The recipe was very basic and used minimal ingredients. All I had to do was customize it with my choice of flavor.

Ingredients:

  • 12 ounces firm silken tofu
  • 1 cup plain soy milk
  • 1/3 cup maple syrup
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 5 tsp green tea powder

Directions:

  1. Combine the ingredients in a blender and blend until the mixture becomes smooth.
  2. Next, I added the green tea powder. I added a little extra for a stronger green tea taste.
  3. Pour the mixture into the ice cream maker and freeze following the manufacturer’s instructions. For my machine, I left it on for about 20 minutes and that did the job.

Here’s the green tea ice cream.

It came out great! The texture of the ice cream was very smooth and creamy. The green tea flavor was perfect too. I didn’t add any sugar, because I like my green tea ice cream bitter. There’s something about sweeten green tea ice cream that just bugs me a bit. This recipe made about 3 cups of delicious ice cream.

I can’t wait to try more flavors… avocado, wasabi, pumpkin, sesame, …
I still have yet to try lobster ice cream. Maybe…

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Ice cream maker

Published on June 15, 2009 in kitchen and photo.

Although my weekend was pretty busy, I did manage to put aside some time for ice cream making! I received a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker as a gift several months ago (Thanks!). Since it was the winter back then, I decided to save it for spring/summer time. The first day of summer is about a week away, so I figured it would be a good time to get familiar with ice cream making.

I took the ice cream maker out of the box and washed it with some warm soapy water, being careful not to scratch the freezer bowl. Next, I placed the freezer bowl into the freezer overnight. The ice cream maker came with a small booklet with instructions and recipes for ice creams, yogurts, gelati and sherbets. However, being lactose-intolerant, I browsed the internet to find a good recipe for an ice cream base which used tofu and soy instead of milk and heavy cream. Once I have that, I can experiment with different flavors.

For my first attempt, I decided to make some green tea soy ice cream. Recipe and pictures coming soon.

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