Happy New Year! It’s the last day of 2009, and I’m still back in Olympia, WA visiting my family. My New Year’s Eve is going to be rather boring. But I’ve been having fun poring over all the seed catalogs that have arrived here this month (I’m afraid my mailbox back in DC will be [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Dreaming About Next Year’s Garden
Posted in Gardening, tagged garden plans, seeds on December 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Upside of Winter: Hank’s Oyster Bar Happy Hour
Posted in Food, tagged DC, oysters on December 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
As someone who enjoys both gardening and eating seasonal food, I find that winter gets to be a drag pretty quickly (not to mention a serious drain on the number of topics I can blog about). But one bright spot of the winter is the oyster happy hour at Hank’s Oyster Bar. From 5:30-6:30pm they [...]
Save the Date: Potluck Happy Hour
Posted in Food, tagged DC food blogger happy hour on December 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The DC Food Blogger Happy Hour will be back with a vengeance after the holidays. But the format will be a little different – it’s a potluck! Bring some booze, or something nibbly. Bring your unwanted fruitcake (or, really, don’t). Join co-hosts Capital Cooking, Gradually Greener, ModernDomestic, The Arugula Files, Capital Spice, DininginDC, WeLoveDC, and [...]
Investing in Tulips
Posted in Gardening, tagged michael pollan, tulips on December 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tulips certainly have an interesting history as items of investment. If you’ve never read about the 16th century Dutch phenomenon known as tulip mania, I highly recommend the tulip chapter in Michael Pollan’s Botany of Desire. Or read the Wikipedia entry for a shorter version. But even if you’re not forming an irrational speculative bubble, [...]
Smells Like A Green Christmas
Posted in sustainability, tagged Christmas, Dupont Circle farmer's market, sustainability on December 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I love the smell of fir trees. My family doesn’t really bother with a Christmas tree anymore, which I’m totally fine with. But I always loved the way a Christmas tree could fill a whole room with its wonderful, natural, fresh green smell. I’m not going to wade into the debate over the most environmentally [...]
The Handsome Truffle Hunter
Posted in foraging, tagged dogs, foraging, photos, puppies, truffles on December 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m off on business to Minnesota for a couple of days. It’s going to be a high of 9 degrees there on Thursday. OMG. I don’t know how people survive there. In the meantime, here’s a nice picture of the chocolate lab my mom has trained to hunt for truffles back in the temperate Northwest. [...]
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