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January 30, 2006
Churros and Yonkers
Work and cooking experiments have been interfering with blogging time lately -- this always seems to happen right when my traffic spikes. Sorry to disappoint you, potiential Blue Sage addicts: it's for your own good.
Anyway, because I may not get around to decent descriptions of recent escapades, here's a recap:
We went to YONKERS. Have you been to Yonkers? The whole town (is it a town?) is built on a cliff. You look up, and there's another house 100 feet up above the one you're next to, and both houses have turrets and stone walls and look a bit like suburban castles. It was quite an adventure just to drive up there (thanks, Nick, for the ride).
We made CHURROS. It was very spontaneous. I became addicted to churros con chocolate on a foreign exchange program in 7th grade that made me a pathetic blob of homesickness. I don't think I quite appreciated the weight of culture shock before I signed up, but the churros saved me. My God, the churros on the corner were good. My Spanish family -- desperate to bring normalcy back to their household -- bought me plenty and joked for years about how I was a blubbering mess but I loved the churros. Anyway, Derek picked up some spanish hot chocolate mix for me for Christmas, and it tasted EXACTLY like the churro chocolate. I mentioned this and poof, Derek found a churros recipe online and dug out the cookie press and we made them. We only had olive oil, and the cookie press didn't have quite the right tip so they were a bit oily, but we ate them anyway. It's funny, when my Spanish sister came over to the U.S. one time, she came equipped with the churro maker and recipe and we tried to make them, but to no avail. The batter just turned into liquid in the oil. I never thought I'd be able to make the real thing -- I kind of assumed I'd have to go back to Santander, but no! Anything is possible with the internet.
Now I feel better. I may be silent for a while more since we're heading to Boston (what do people do in Boston, anway?) for work and a long weekend.
Posted by csageday at January 30, 2006 11:04 PM
Comments
Ahhhh. Churros y chocolate. One of my fondest memories from my senior year trip to Madrid. I was expecting something like hot chocolate (cocoa), but chocolate turned out to be something far more decadent. It's thick, almost like overheated chocolate pudding. Yum. Thanks for jarring this delicious memory.
Posted by: Lloyd at January 30, 2006 11:19 PM
I think it has something to do with cornstarch. The ingredients on the package just have chocolate, sugar, and cornstarch. So the thick, pudding-like texture has to be the starch. Who knew?
Posted by: Cindy at January 30, 2006 11:23 PM
Come on Cindy when are you going to do an update of your blog?
Posted by: molly at February 17, 2006 12:36 PM