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Happy Hour and Dessert in Capitol Hill

  Happy Hour Street Tacos with Carne Asada and a Miami Vice from Poquitos.  Poquitos is located in Capitol Hill and they're serving up authentic Mexican cuisine and cocktails. Their happy hour deal is a good one- during Ocho hour, everything on the happy hour menu is just $8! I went with a Miami Vice, a classic Pina Colada with Strawberry. This blended cocktail was so fruity and delicious. To eat I had two Carne Asada Street Tacos and a Birria Poquitos Burrito. The Burrito was small and served with a side of Consommé sauce. Both food items were tasty and satisfying.  My husband also had some Street Tacos and a Margarita from the happy hour menu. My sons had a Cheese Quesadilla and beans and rice. Everyone enjoyed their dinner. I first visited Poquitos in 2012, also for happy hour, and I remembered liking it then, too. It was time for a meal there again.  For dessert, we walked about ten minutes west to  Voodoo Doughnut . The Seattle location opened late last ye...
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Sticky Toffee Pudding

Sticky Toffee Pudding is an English dessert consisting of a moist sponge cake, made with nuts or rolled dates and then covered in a toffee sauce.  Then its topped with custard or ice cream.  Its delicious and it was also also fun to bake.  At the time it was my first experience tasting any English desserts.  I've never been to England, but when I visited Paris I ate at an English Pub and enjoyed some out of this world Chocolate Pudding.  Like the Cherry Clafoutis I baked, I made this in 2011 before I started blogging.  The recipe I used to make my Sticky Toffee Pudding was from Nigella Lawson on The Food Network.  

                                                                Easy Sticky-Toffee Dessert

Yield: 6 to 8 Servings

Ingredients

for the cake:
Butter, for baking dish plus 1/4 cup, melted.
Scant 1/3 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1 cup plus 2 T. self rising flour
1/2 cup whole milk
1 egg
1 t. vanilla
3/4 cup plus 2 T. chopped, rolled dates
For the sauce:
3/4 c. dark brown sugar, packed
2 T. butter in little blobs
2 1/4 c. boiling water

For the cake:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 F and butter a 1 1/2-quart capacity baking dish.  Combine the sugar with the flour in a large bowl.  Pour the milk into a measuring cup, beat in the egg, vanilla and melted butter and then pour this mixture over the sugar and flour, stirring with a wooden spoon to combine.  Fold in the dates then scrape into the prepared baking dish.  Don't worry if it doesn't look very full, it will by the time it cooks. 
For the sauce:
Sprinkle the sugar over the cake mixture and dot with butter. Pour over the boiling water (yes, really!) and transfer to the oven.  Set the time for 45 minutes, though you might find the dessert needs 5 or 10 minutes more.  The top of the dessert should be springy and spongy when it's cooked; underneath the butter, dark brown sugar and boiling water will have turned into a rich, sticky sauce.  Serve with vanilla ice cream.

 
 

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