Gratuitous Breakfast Food Porn: Irresistible Banana-Macadamia Nut Flapjacks at Norma’s in Le Parker Meridien Hotel
January 19, 2010
Two crispy-edged, fluffy on the inside, plate-size pancakes studded with slices of ripe banana and topped with mixed candied nuts and a melting river of whipped banana brown sugar butter! Syrup is superfluous. If you want to avoid the $21 price tag, you’ll find the recipe for this decadence in the thumbnails below. Let us know how they turn out.
Posted in MANHATTAN, MIDTOWN WEST, Norma's
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January 19th, 2010 at 8:17 am
$21 pancakes? You got a fever or something? Lol.
January 19th, 2010 at 9:03 am
I’ve not been in many years. Although on occasion my father would stay there and I’d meet him for breakfast, but this was some time ago. At the time, the restaurant did not offer such cinematic items the menu. (I had an odd personal history with that hotel, when I was at Lowe Marschalk across 56th. I belonged to the health club there, would swim in their diminutive pool, and hired a trainer who was a dancer with Martha Graham’s company. Of late, when I meet Paul Rich for breakfast at Michael’s on 55th, I order pancakes—a mirror flat, blueberry variety. They are a curious treat—nothing so voluptuous as the plate above, instead, something good but puritanical about them. Crisp at the edges but not thick enough for a “fluffy” interior. As for syrup, absolutely necessary, although I like to order them with very soft poached eggs and break the yolk over them. Of course, I’d break yolk over shredded fried strips of the NEW YORK POST and enjoy it.
Lawrence, well done, which, as Robert Sawyer has observed, is rare.
January 19th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
….stop it….no, really….oh my heck!! You’re killin me!!!
x
January 19th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Beautiful,
Thank you,
Moe
January 19th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Gross! Guess I’m a nocturnal meat man. Shuddup, King of Ketchup! I mean culinary, not erotic.
Taste for syrup, I conclude, is probably determined genetically, and I don’t have it. Along that line, there is a true genetic aversion to cilantro. I’m serious! Some people are truly REPULSED, and it runs it families. They perceive it as “smells like death”. I can’t make this up.
Anyway, Food Guy and King, my wife (yes, WIFE!) have not forgotten the must-go Sammy’s adventure. Let’s make plans.
Dr. D
January 25th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
I had the foie gras french toast. First few bites were yummy, but I kinda feel the asparagus and mushroom sauce overwhelmed the tastiness of the foie gras. Which is a waste because the french toast was really good, plus it’s foie gras! They should have just kept it plain and simple, with not so much sauce.
February 5th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
damn (in a good way)
April 2nd, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Oh man — do you have access to the Decadent Chocolate French Toast Recipe from Norma’s? It is absolutely the most awesome trillion-calorie breakfast ever. Would pretty much kill for it.