Posted in Reviews on Dec 30th, 2009
(Here’s a post from my Examiner.com site. Happy eating!)
Healthy soup with watercress. Photo by the author.
More recipes
Traditional and sweet potato latkes
Quinoa pilaf with butternut squash and gingered currants
Locavore beer bread
I started to hear the regrets even before the holiday dinners began:
“I’m going to eat so much at my in-laws!”
“My healthy streak is on hold.”
“Why [...]
Today, August 3, is your last chance to get a free mocha at McDonald’s. But you didn’t hear it from me. No, not from your favorite advocate of healthy, sustainable, and local foods! Not from the farmers market enthusiast!
Okay, can I help it if I was a little curious about this whole McCafe menu since [...]
Posted in D.C. insider information, Reviews, Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2009
Having traipsed through the tome The True History of Chocolate (Thames & Hudson), you’d think I would understand that chocolate is a complex subject. But all I smelled when I read the book was its plastic-coated cover, and all I heard was turning pages. It took a chocolate tasting class at ACKC to fill in the aromas, [...]
Posted in Belly laugh, Gardening, Reviews on Mar 3rd, 2009
In the past week, Operation High Nutrient Density Garden (OHNDG for short, I guess) went into the hardware collection phase.
Last Tuesday, one of my co-gardeners and I headed to an alley in Van Ness to collect about 100 free bricks. This was a Freecycle find, and therefore a you-haul kind of deal. She and I [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jan 22nd, 2009
Oh, mama. It’s Obamafoodorama.com(ma!). A blog about Obama and food seems inevitable, but that its stories unfurl with solid reporting and pleasant humor is a sweet dollop on the cake.
Recently, they’ve covered the color of the first lady’s inauguration outfit (the designer calls it “lemongrass”) and the first couple’s resemblance to a wedding cake topper at the [...]
Turns out what you see in the title is all there is to it when it comes to making hot buttered rum, a popular drink this time of year. Plus a little hot water or apple cider. I haven’t tried it yet, and admit I’m a little resistant (A sort of butter tea? Oil and water? It [...]
The last few weeks have been a little frazzled as I moved to another part of town. Getting to a very food-oriented area close to both farmers’ market and food co-op, ironically, has limited my cooking and blog posting. The jumble of cardboard boxes and a trip to see family promises another few days of [...]
If you live in D.C., you’ve likely wandered by it dozens of times. It’s the regal stone and brick building perched on the hill overlooking the intersection of Connecticut and Florida Avenues. The red neon sign simply says:
Restaurant
Lounge
From the outside, it’s hard to discern what it’s called or differentiate it from the myriad other Dupont [...]
Posted in Reviews, Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2008
When Cliff Luhn asked how my burger was and I said it was good, he smiled and nodded with approval. He wasn’t just pleased that I was enjoying my Vegetarians are People Too ‘Shroom Burger (two organic portobello mushroom caps oozing with cheese and battered with panko breadcrumbs) as a fellow diner. I could see [...]
Posted in Philosophizing, Reviews on Jul 3rd, 2008
Skimming recent issues of Elle, you can find plenty of interviews with iconic women doing their own iconoclastic thing. And reading along, you can see one defining experience usually pushed them out to uncharted waters. Mary Kate Olsen was surrounded by kooky show biz people from the age of nine months. After a series of [...]
