Gifted Slacker

I share my kitchen with around 7 other people. If I’m really hungry, my kitchen will be too busy. You can set your watch by it. I’ve been trying to get in there to make something to eat for the past 3 hours.

I’m going to brave the cold, windy day to spend money I shouldn’t buying food that I can eat without going into the kitchen.

This is ridiculous.

A list of all the food I miss from Albany, Troy, and Saratoga Springs:

1. D’Andreas for pizza: sweet, flaky crust, very non-greasy
2. Putnam Market for the Putnam Street sandwich and their big cookies
3. Cupcakes from the Bread Basket
4. The butcher at Lake George (can’t remember the name)
5. Clifton Park Pizza for the greasiest pizza ever, Venezia pizza for old times sake, and the place that opened the year I left for really good huge slices.
6. Ali Baba for the best Turkish food in the area. Lavash bread and raita to die for.
7. Deli & Brew for some of the best buffalo chicken pizza ever. They do an awesome sicilian pizza, too.
8. Sitar for one of my favorite Indian meals on planet earth. Chicken Tikka Massala, naan, vegetable samosas, mixed appetizers… *drools*
9. Sushi Thai Garden in Saratoga Springs for some really nice Phad Thai and Prik Prow fried rice.
10. Chris’s bakery for a cannoli
11. Bella Napoli for… pretty much any baked good. Radio bars are one of my favorites.
12. Indian Ladder Farms for apple cider and doughnuts.

Update in response to comments: Karavalli is excellent. I only got there a half dozen times before I moved, so I don’t have the long standing love for it that I do for Sitar. Latham Biryani used to be AMAZING, but the last several times I went there it was shit.

I’m having trouble remembering good Mexican food in that area. Pancho’s is usually really good tex-mex, and the El Mariachi restaurants were always hit or miss. Bomber’s has good burritos but you can’t really call that stuff Mexican.