When people ask me if I’m a vegetarian, I sometimes say yes just to make things easy (Michelle will never let me off the hook for this.) I don’t eat much meat, and when I do I want to know where and how the animal spent its life. Saying I’m vegetarian to prospective hosts guarantees [...]

Delusional from DC heat fever? Inspired by our brand new SC Justice? Whatever the reason, I took the plunge a few weeks ago and signed up to take the LSAT. While the logic games are really charming, the prep class is putting a serious damper on my Eatniks participation. I haven’t been making many gourmet [...]

The summer after I graduated from college, I spent 6 weeks in Lithuania attempting to learn the amazingly complex language, visiting family, and exploring the Lithuanian cuisine, some of which settled in my stomach much more comfortably than others. For example, I never warmed up to the sour cream and bacon sauce that was often [...]

Just one of the important life skills and lasting memories I’ll take away from working on the farm in Costa Rica (lesson #2: don’t put fingers in dark boots) was learning about female anatomy… cow anatomy, that is. Ronald spent a couple mornings gesticulating and explaining enthusiastically about how to milk his precious vacas. It [...]

With bug bites and farmer tans (literally), we triumphantly returned from Costa Rica last Saturday. After trudging through loads of laundry and catching up on some sleep, I’m looking very forward to writing what I hope to be a couple posts about our culinary adventures! First things first. After all, it was an organic chocolate [...]

Run, don’t walk– strawberry season is in full swing! You might even say on its last legs, as farmers’ market signs warn of the dreaded last week and grocery stores, that’s right, put their strawberries on SALE. I almost grabbed 10 boxes and bolted last weekend when I saw organic strawberries for $2.99 at the [...]

I frequently construct dinner in my head on the metro-ride home from work– when I’m starving, it usually includes a quick-cooking grain, beans, and whatever veggies are lounging around the bottom shelf of the fridge. The combinations are endless, including pasta, chickpeas, and kale, couscous, mushrooms, and black beans, and of course anything with my [...]

Just 45 minutes shy of June, and it feels like summer is about to make its big entrance.  The rain over the past few days made our pea plants very happy… they are taller than me!  And perhaps more importantly, are fruitful!  Our friend Sara was visiting from NYC– I brought her to the garden [...]

So once upon a time there was this rooster, Roscoe, who used to patrol downtown Takoma and bring joy to all the residents (I like to envision him doling out lollipops and prancing alot).  This was before my time here, but I know about Roscoe because he is immortalized in cast iron in the middle [...]