It’s been two months since I told you I was dreaming of California and I’m afraid it’s not over yet. I thought maybe I was just craving warmer weather but spring is more or less here and I’m no less craving avocados that don’t have to float for a week to establish their narrow window of edibility. I thought maybe I just needed a vacation but we took a short one and I found myself looking at pictures of a certain huge music festival in the Coachella Valley and thinking that looked kind of fun. (WHO AM I.) And then last month I went down a date shake rabbit hole and haven’t come out since. At least we can easily make these at home.
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Debunking Bacon Myths (The Secret to the BEST Bacon)
Date palms were planted in the desert between Palm Springs and the Salton Sea as early as the 1890s but they had a popularity problem: Most people considered them an obscure curiosity. As the old folks say necessity is the mother of invention or in modern terms all it took was the right marketing campaign. And Russ Nichol a date farmer found the perfect one in 1928 and built a roadside shack where he made milkshakes and malts mixed with his surplus dates. It didn’t take long for it to become one of the iconic symbols of Palm Springs.
Sorry if this sounds bad news as you imagine your new breakfast fix but the Palm Springs Date Shake long predates California as a bastion of healthy eating. The date shake features two scoops of vanilla ice cream a splash of milk and “no frills” blended dates a Jane Stern description that may also be my new favorite word. But you knew I’d find a few right? In my research I discovered that the Monkey Flip is also popular at these shake shacks — this one with banana peanut butter and chocolate syrup. Why choose when you can have both? my husband suggested and he’s never wrong.
One year ago: Salty chocolate chip cookies Two years ago: Lamb meatballs with lemon and feta Three years ago: Spring vegetable pot stickers Four years ago: Cinnamon French toast Five years ago: Sour cream cornbread with Aleppo Six years ago: Lime yogurt cake with blackberry sauce Seven years ago: Cinnamon rolls Eight years ago: Almond cake with strawberry rhubarb compote and cauliflower salad with kidney beans and feta Nine years ago: Confetti salad with black beans and margarita cookies
