Norma’s
I’ve meaning to dedicate a few words to this for a while now, but time hasn’t permitted me to do so. I’ve been off on a few courses and have started a few new projects, which have kept me somewhat busy.
So, what have I been meaning to write about? Lots of things, but mainly about a great new place I found in New York, plus some of the stuff Google has been in news for lately. One of those things was their update of Google Maps (now also available in the Netherlands). It’s still in beta, but they’ve been adding loads of (AJAX-powered) stuff – like My Maps (which lets you make your own personalised maps and, if you wish to do so, share them with the world) for instance. This makes it really easy to use, whereas before you had to have some understanding of their API.
So I thought, why not combine the two? I’ve fiddled around with it for a bit and here goes nothing.
Norma’s is really great for breakfast and best of all is the fact that you can have one until three o’clock in the afternoon! It’s probably not a good idea to have it there every day of your stay, unless you don’t mind gaining a few pounds. Since it’s not customary for hotels to include breakfast in their prices I tended to just have nothing or some pastry from Starbucks with my daily dose of caffeine, but now I have an alternative. There is one more breakfast place I want to check out, but that’ll have to wait till September.
Thank you, Madame
One of my culinary heroes, Bill Granger, has published a new book. I haven’t bought it yet, but some of his new recipes were published in Delicious. So, I was feeling peckish and decided to try out one of his recipes for breakfast. I present to you my version of Bill’s Croque Madame.
I’d never heard of a croque monsieur, the well known toasted ham and cheese sandwich from France, but apparently the female version is quite popular as well. The difference being an omelette on top. Of course I somewhat changed the recipe, as I still had some very finely sliced jamón serrano in the fridge. Some parsley on top. Yummy!