If you’re anywhere in the mid-Atlantic region, you’ve probably had a week much like mine.  Waking up to White Mountains outside your window, chuckling at the newspaper’s latest bad pun (“This is S’now Joke”-ha!), and then thinking, well now what? My go-to activity has been browsing my cookbooks, casting aside the “30-minute meals”  ones, and [...]

So you’re browsing the January farmers’ market and longingly recalling those weekends in late August when the juicy peaches, plump tomatoes, and sweet corn were available in abundance.  Now, it’s a more rugged picture, with bundled shoppers huddled around the cheese and bread stands quickly purchasing staples before their hands get frostbitten.  Waiting in line [...]

If you will be traveling soon to Chicago, or thinking about going to Chicago, or are going to be anywhere within an 8 hour radius of Chicago, I strongly encourage a visit to Great Lake, a pizzeria in the Andersonville neighborhood.  On my first visit to Chicago last month, my valiant boyfriend navigated us on [...]

If you’re like me, you have an annual tradition of analyzing your bank account during the last week of December and wondering who stole your identity and a chunk of your checking account, only to realized as you scroll down the charges that once again, you overspent on holiday gifts.  Don’t get me wrong, I [...]

Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, I say the same thing. “Why do we only make this meal once a year?” I understand that once a year is what makes it a Holiday that we all look forward to, but this food is insanely good! It seem like turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, [...]

How do you know it’s officially Fall? Is it the changing leaves, the brisk breeze, the renewed appreciation for heavy food and hoppy beers? At Cafe L’Enfant’s amazing Tuesday happy hour (1/2 price Belgians!) last week as I blissfully enjoyed an LSAT class-free week night with some dear friends, we ordered a couple rounds and [...]

Last weekend, we went out to the garden, ripped up what was left of our summer bounty, and started planting for fall. You might have noticed that my summer blog entries often relied on farmers’ market produce rather than beautiful home grown produce from our garden. Well, that’s because we had quite a comical growing [...]

Excerpts from a sad correspondence from earlier this week: Dear Teaism, I was very disappointed today when I went to the Dupont Circle Teaism for lunch, only to find that my favorite dish which I’d been daydreaming about all morning has been removed from your menu! The Tempeh Curry was really a standout item, with [...]

(Photo from princeofpetworth.com) Last weekend, I led a class at the Girard Street Garden on preserving and using summer produce. The garden is run by an amazing DC organization called City Blossoms, who build community urban gardens in DC and Baltimore and then use them to teach gardening and cooking to kids as well as [...]

My mom and I took our annual trip to Rehoboth last weekend. We’ve been going for at least a long weekend during the summer since as long back as I can remember, and by this point we are self-certified beach food aficionados. During the car ride there, we usually plan out the meals for the [...]