I am finally back in DC after back-to-back trips to Boston (work) and Austin
(play). The play part involved attending
the 2008 Austin City Limits
Music Festival with my whole family.
The festival was full of a lot of dust, a lot of heat, and a lot of
people, but also a lot of amazing music.
I'm hoping to return next year.
While in town, I ate at several of my very favorite restaurants from
college, including the site of mine and my fiancé's first date, Mother's
Café. Mother's is a vegetarian
Today, one of my colleagues dropped by my desk to share a selection from her personal cookbook collection, Tin Fish Gourmet by Barbara-jo McIntosh. The more I flip through it, the lower her odds of ever getting it back become. As the description reads, "These mouthwatering recipes feature all your favorite canned seafoods; from salmon, tuna, and clams, to sardines, anchovies, and caviar.
As a bit of a detox from Restaurant Week, Lloyd and I ate a
very vegetabley dinner last night - big bowls of green
minestrone soup. I might have been
jumping the gun a bit on hot soup season, but it was fresh-tasting and filling. With all my talk about seafood, I didn't want
it to go unsaid that a colorful variety of veggies are the cornerstone of a
healthful diet. As it so works out,
veggies and seafood go hand in hand and it's never hard to find recipes
