… but not fried. Yesterday was the 16th annual Food for Thought Festival, and I volunteered at the the main tent, the Thought Tent, for the Chef Showdown. It’s a kind of iron chef thing, with three local chefs trying to come up with the best dish using farmers’ market ingredients, in 25 minutes. I […]
We got back from Canada on Monday night at about 7:30. It took me until 11:30 to get unpacked and get the furniture De-cat-haired and the countertops De-cat-footprinted. On Tuesday I had hella catch up day at work – the usual, cleaning up email, etc. but I had to get slides ready so I could […]
On Monday, Mark took us girls (me and our exchange student) out for dinner for valentine’s day. It was the first Monday our local & organic Italian place was open – after years of being closed on Monday nights. It was my first day back at work with my broken toe. I gimped to the […]
Today for breakfast I made a “Taste of Madison” breakfast strata – hot, spicey, cheese bread, and two flavors of cheese from the farmers’ market, basil and sweet onion from my CSA box, Usinger’s bacon (actually purchased at Costco, but made in Milwaukee.) We ate it with hot sauce and fruit.
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 […]