Artichoke Basile... a mini DiFara closer and quicker

So I went to this tiny place (14th b/t 1st and 2nd) a couple days ago and had to get the Artichoke pie..

It was good, very good, but it's not what made me swoon with delight.

This...this... smallish slice of Sicilian pizza heaven is what will keep me going back for more:

The crust is infused with generous amounts of olive oil. The sauce is perfectly chunky and the cheese just coats the whole thing in a blanket of deliciousness. There's fresh basil on this and the regular slice and when I go back I'm going to skip the artichoke slice so I have more room for these.

When I went they didn't have the cauliflower fritti because apparently with the volume of people coming through it's hard to make it in a sensible amount of time.

I look forward to the day when I can try that too. =)

it's not easy cooking greens

...but the results sure are tasty!

I love greens... mustard, turnip, collared, kale, cabbage, spinach, whatever...

This is a mixture of collared greens and kale with some smoked piggy tails.



Sooooo good.

bombay frankies makes me want to l-l-l-l-l-l-l a lollipop...

...chicken wing.

These were amazingly flavorful, greasy morsels of well seasoned chicken. The only issue I had with them was that the bone fragments from shoving all the wing to one end crunched my teeth.

I've been here before, many times before for their shrimp frankie roll (see the contents below) which is my favorite. This ties with it.

more curried chickpeas

So the second time I made them I used cream. It was mighty tasty again. =)

Grandaisy's not so grand sometimes

So I went back to Ettia spa for Spa Week and thought I'd hop over to Grandaisy and try the zucchini pizza this man got the last time I was there.



It looked really good (and so did the plain slice simply covered in tomato which was quite yummy), but tasted ever so bitter.

Maybe the zucchini were a little ticked off about the cold weather setting in. I'll give them another chance some day.


I also went to try Sal and Carmine's pizza on 102nd and Broadway. It's supposed to be the best plain ny slice in the area...


When I got there I had high hopes. After all two men behind a counter with a mound of dough next to them and a bunch of congealed offerings in the display case is what NYC is about, right?

Well.. I took that baby out mid walk home and bit into it...



SO SALTY. Too salty to even have a picture taken.

Maybe the dough was having a bad day too.

So, for now, if you go to Grandaisy get the plain tomato pizza and if you're going to Sal and Carmine's hope that it's not too salty. I was so glad I didn't order the pepperoni after that first bite... and I adore salt.