Reminders: Drink Your Fill of Food Blogger Happy Hours

Don’t forget, in one week it’s the sequel to the very successful DC Food Blogger Happy Hour.  This time it’ll be at CommonWealth Gastropub in Columbia Heights, October 7, 6pm. Happy hour specials until 7pm! But if you simply can’t wait that long to get your drink on with DC’s finest food bloggers, TONIGHT is the [...]

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Locavore Inspiration: Todd Gray

This past weekend I was invited to a little expo put on by Cadillac. For whatever reason, Cadillac decided they would celebrate their new crossover by inviting Chef Todd Gray of Equinox to do a cooking demo. Equinox happens to be my favorite fancy restaurant in DC, so I was thrilled to attend. Equinox has [...]

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BLT Salad

I love BLT sandwiches, but it’s not exactly the healthiest thing one can make for dinner. So I like to make a BLT salad, which cuts down on the carbs and greatly increases the leafy greens. And oddly enough, that adjusted ratio is perfect for what’s coming out of my garden right now. I’ve got [...]

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Weekend Photos: So Long, Summer

As we bid adieu to summer, I thought I’d post some of my favorite photos that for whatever reason didn’t make their way into a blog post these past several months.  Not much of a theme, I admit.  Just good summer memories.

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Fast Plants

At the beginning of the month I threw a lot of seeds into my empty beds, and a great many of them sprouted. But I’ve been truly amazed by the arugula. In the space of only three weeks, I have been able to harvest baby arugula. It’s an extremely peppery variety (I use the Even’ [...]

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Recipe Fail: Chocolate Forbidden Rice Pudding

I mostly like to post my recipe successes on this blog, as I’ve done this week with my series on using up excess vegetables.  It’s fun to share my innovations that turn out to be good and tasty.  But I suppose it might be just as useful to post my failures, so nobody will repeat [...]

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