Veritasty: Truthfully Delicious

My heart flutters a little bit when I see the sea of red and white striped walls going up in Union Square around Thanksgiving.  They make a labyrinth that turns into the Union Square Holiday Market.  When you wander, thousands of other people are also converging on the same few booths so sometimes you get a little crowded, but I love exploring, shopping, and eating at this market and many others around the city in the winter. Union Square has the most popular market and vendors vie for a booth.  On one trip, I discovered a tiny treasure at the market: La Sonrisa empanadas.  We were just strolling and I decided I wanted to grab one of these to snack on.  $3.50 and a few minutes later, I had in my hand a scorching fried empanada shaped like the namesake "smile" (sonrisa).  They fried it up to order on the spot, which I found remarkable for a stall that's probably 3 feet by 3 feet in dimension.  I settled on a type of empanada only af...

Happy holidays and, today, Merry Christmas from Veritasty!

French Pastries! Sorry for the lack of foodventures lately.  It's finals season and we are undergraduates, after all.  And although I haven't even taken my finals yet, I'm sitting at my work study job doing nothing so I might as well write about one of the most delicious macarons I've had yet. Naturally. Last week, we took a little trip uptown to Rockefeller Center to see one lovely and enormous Christmas tree.  We were delighted to also be in the vicinity of a bakery famous in macaron circles, Bouchon Bakery.  We tried coming here once in the summer, but they close at 7pm so we missed out on macaronage that time.  No worries, Bouchon Bakery was buzzing and bustling this time! We waited on a sluggish line and eventually ordered one large peppermint macaron for $3.25.  That figure kind of bothered me.  I mean, the thing was pretty big, like the size of a hockey puck almost, whereas most other ones we've had are the size of half-dollar coins....