This one is dedicated to my cousin Rudy. She ordered the roasted chicken salad at Founding Farmers recently, and I was absolutely inspired by its sweet, tangy and peppery flavors. I decided to recreate it on a whim after stumbling across a similar recipe in Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food magazine. Instead of using dried blueberries [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Restaurants’
September 10, 2009
WASSAP I’M FAMOUSSSSSSS beeeaaaatttchhh!
WHOO! For the first time in my adult life, I was interviewed for a newspaper, the Northwest Current, a Washington weekly. WOWOWOW! Here’s a screenshot: The article, “DC dining scene gets added flavor with celebrity chefs, local talent” discusses the local food in the Northwest area. Download it here and read it yourself: http://www.currentnewspapers.com/admin/uploadfiles/Community%20Guide%202009%201.pdf
July 26, 2009
I Keep Thinking That If I Go to Le Pain Quotidien the Service Will Get Better, But It Doesn’t
So, instead of going to the Le Pain Quotidien in Georgetown like I always do, I decided to round up my lady friends and head to the remarkably convenient Dupont Circle LPQ (convenient, because only an idiot wouldn’t be able to find it — it’s right in front of the bus stop and metro, and [...]
May 9, 2009
Try To Recreate The Diner’s Banana-Pecan Sauce
I absolutely NEEDED to know what was in The Diner’s banana-pecan French toast sauce, so I begged my waiter to ask the cook what he puts in, and this is what he told me: bananas, maple syrup, pecans, brown sugar boiled together in a saucepan. That’s all he said. I think the secret might be [...]
April 21, 2009
Czech, Please: Five Days Of Boiled Dumplings In Prague
The restaurants in Prague sure know how to lure the tourists in — offer “traditional” Czech food, and they’ll surely come. The only problem is that Czech food isn’t spectacular to begin with; the food is pretty much medieval (meaning, the food lacks any kind of sophistication and hasn’t evolved in the past 300 years). [...]
