“Well, it was Sunday afternoon. I found myself on a hour long Subway ride back from the Target in Brooklyn, and I thought to myself, ‘Maybe I’m missing the point.’” – elaney, on why she moved from New York City
Favorite is just too polarizing, so share something you cook frequently for others to tuck into their cookbooks. The Magnolia Bakery is famous for their cupcakes, but their chocolate chip cookie recipe is the one that turns our heart to butter. With lots of butter. Check it out below…and share your own!
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/3 softened stick unsalted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 firmly packed cup light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl, cream the butter with the sugars until smooth, about 3 minutes. Add the egg and the vanilla and mix well. Add the flour mixture and beat thoroughly. Stir in the chocolate chips.
4. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets, leaving several inches between for expansion. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until lightly golden brown. Makes 2 to 3 dozen cookies.
“New York has always been a city of insecure overachievers,” – Candace Bushnell
Check out Page Six Magazine anniversary issue – interesting article on the famed Carrie Bradshaw creater.
Village favorite Dojo on at Mercer and W. 4th may be the most amazing hole in the wall we’ve ever found. Not only is it super cheap, but they make veggie burgers as well as Daniel Boulad makes crab cakes. Literally. You take one bite of the veggie burger smothered in provolone cheese and it melts in your sweet little mouth. It’s essentially a pub with an Asian flare restaurant. A haunt of local NYU students, If you are a NYC native or visiting on a college budget, you may want to check out this local gem.
Say what you want about NY women, but those ladies can dress. At the top, we have Sarah Jessica Parker, business women Evelyn Lauder, Diana Taylor, and Ivanka Trump, and philanthropist Julia Koch. We love what VF has to save about why they picked the list they did.
“It was not intentional, but it’s not surprising,” says Vanity Fair special correspondent Amy Fine Collins. ”New York women may be over-represented on the list just because New York women rule. We have access and we have the contacts that can’t be duplicated anywhere else in the world. And we’ve got visibility – a great stage on which to perform.”
But not just any well-dressed New Yorker would do. Brains are as important as beauty.
“Intelligence seeps through style,” Fine Collins explains. “It’s hard to be someone who has an original and authentic and individual style unless there’s some kind of overriding intelligence. But if you’re a copycat or if you’re fearful or weak or timid, you’re just not going to cut it.
“You’re the person that people imitate, not a person who follows,” she adds. “So you’ve got to have some kind of independent mind. There’s a cerebral factor there.”
For more, read here.
Blake and her dog Penny (choice name!) are out and about in NYC with their man Penn. We love this couple!! Blake is filming in Conn and getting ready to promote Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. We might not see that one, but look forward to seeing both in GG in the fall.
