Thursday, April 8, 2010

Trucks Galore





New York is a city about convenience. Every city block has at least one deli cafe, a starbucks, and a drug store mixed among swanky restaurants and boutiques. The convenience is not only limited to the interior of buildings. You can buy nuts, coffee, hot dogs, pastries, wraps,fruit, and kebabs from vendors scattered along the street. My all time favorite convenient food related invention is the trucks. If you can eat it there is a truck for it. Taco truck, cupcake truck, coffee truck, sweets trucks, waffles truck, schnitzel truck, ice cream truck, dumplings truck, bistro truck. I am in love with these trucks. In the presence of them I warp into a crazy tourist and start snapping photos. I belong in a floral button down, khaki shorts, and teva sandals with a map in hand. I would like my own truck, but I don't know what kind of truck that would be. Maybe a cupcake truck, but there is already one of those. Maybe a soup truck, but how would one walk and eat soup at the same time. Defeats the purpose of getting food on the go. The cuisine I would sell out of a truck will come to me one day before my time in New York is over.
Since I don't know what kind of truck I would have, I will create recipe for another truck. I am going to guess Taber would want to drive a teriyaki truck, so I will create the signature teriyaki sauce for his truck.

TERIYAKI TRUCK SAUCE
INGREDIENTS:
-1 cup water
-2 cloves garlic, mashed
-1 tablespoons ginger juice*
-4 Tablespoons shoyu
-6 Tablespoons barley malt
-pinch of sea salt

DIRECTIONS:
-Combine all ingredients.
-Process in blender until smooth.
-Reduce over medium heat until sauce is syrupy.
-Enjoy with any veggies, meat,rice, or teriyaki noodles.

*To make ginger juice: grate fresh ginger. Place grated ginger in a cheese cloth. Wrap ginger in the cloth and squeeze over bowl. Discard the cheese cloth.

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