So the last conference food event was the OCLC President’s luncheon, always on the Monday of ALA – they herd several hundred people into a dining room in one of the hotels. The speech is usually a bit of a repeat of some of the things we hear at the update breakfast on Sunday, but […]
Our last night in D.C., Sunday, after all those receptions, we had what I thought was the best dinner of the trip, at a place called Founding Farmers. The menu looked good, good food, not too pretentious. When the waiter gave us his spiel, we got a little worried – he seemed to have a […]
Last night we had dinner at the great tapas place, Jaleo – but I didn’t take a single picture. We had a largish group, 5 of us, so we got to sample ten tapas – we each ordered two: potatoes cooked in tomato sauce, with super garlicy aoli shrimp in garlic gazpacho x2 – so […]
Last night we had dinner at a place called PS7. The guys – Mark & his son Ethan – liked it a lot, but I thought it was the kind of menu where all the dishes had too many ingredients, and none of the food looked like what it started off as. Like the bread […]
I had a hot dog & fries for lunch, but I didn’t take a picture, at a place called the Billy Goat Grill & Tavern (named after the one in Chicago) – they didn’t have Chicago dogs with all the trimmings – the dog I got was plain, but nicely grilled – but they had […]
… And write – and here I am again a once a week blogger. There’re a lot of things I could blame it on, but I’d rather not. Last weekend I sent my foster daughter off to camp, so Saturday we went to Old Navy, and got her packed. I made some beef and peapods […]
Last night I did a benefit for Environment for America, called Gumbo for the Gulf. There were about 20 people. I used Susan Spicer’s recipe for duck & Andouille sausage gumbo – but I made it with chicken thighs and a local Andouille – this is Wisconsin, after all. I left the okra out, too. […]
The irony of it was that it was the “everything wrapped” brunch in honor of Christo & Jeanne Claude’s June 13th birthday. Sausage rolls – sausages wrapped in dough; asparagus in filo; mushrooms wrapped in parchment and baked; eggs & spinach rolled around cheese; and strawberry spiral pie – slices from a roll of biscuit […]
I just discovered Ruth Reichl’s Journal, by way of another blog (The Wednesday Chef; the newsletter that comes with my CSA box referred to it for a pasta with mustard greens & ricotta that I think I just might try). Anyways, Ruth recently wrote a short post about the Gulf oil spill, that’s really chilling […]