MC Horoscope
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To Whom Are You Drinking Right Now?
MC Horoscope replied to starfish's topic in Beer, Wine, and Cocktails
Who to? Mike Flanagan of the Orioles. Sad story. He meant a lot to baseball in this area for a long time. -
Visible hairline cracks in my work building in Largo, where there weren't cracks before, but nothing flew off the shelves or walls and no windows appear to be broken, as far as I know. Everybody sent to the Beltway commute at the same time, a la the ice storm last winter. I made it to Colesville in an hour, which is not bad.
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Don't forget La Canela as an option at the opposite end of Gibbs St!
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See Post #87 from March 2010.
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Went in May and enjoyed the sweetbreads piccata. My wife had savory crepes, three ways. Looks like the dinner menu may have changed since then. Love this place!
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Lafayette LA wins "Best Small Town for Food" competition by Rand-McNally http://www.theind.com/news/8709-lafayette-wins-best-small-town-for-food
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Had the ceviche here last night and the lamb shank! The lamb was falling-off-the-bone tender, and the ceviche was mahi mahi with a spicy sort of potato salad, a sort of sweet potato that must be native to Peru, and toasted corn -- nice mix of textures and flavors. We need to put this place on our rotation! The menu is bigger than I remember.
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Shrimp and egg gumbo. Used some dried shrimp from Chauvin, LA that I got when I was on vacation. Calls for a really dark roux.
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Seafood in the Buff in Wheaton is not bad. We usually go to a party that gets them there a bit later in the season (Labor Day), so I don't know if they are small right now.
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To Whom Are You Drinking Right Now?
MC Horoscope replied to starfish's topic in Beer, Wine, and Cocktails
To my sister and brother-in-law for graciously hosting us all week on our home tour through Southwest Louisiana! -
Thanks Joe! I remember that NY Times story very well. To me it set a standard for reporting on my old part of the world. Lots of people and places have come and gone since this story came out, but lots remains the same too. It's true that you can find great food in unusual places. Plate lunch hole-in-the-wall awaits us today, or poor boys at the gas station!
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Thanks for the tip about Johnson's! We have tried it and NuNu's on this trip (now in Maurice as well as Milton) and liked them both! Johnson's was much mushier and hotter. NuNu's was packed a bit tighter. Gotta try Johnson's for their barbecue, etc. Those are nice people!
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Well, here we are in the Lafayette area for vacation again! The first two places we went for gumbo (seafood gumbo at Soops in Maurice and Don's downtown Lafayette) both served it with rice on the side. I have the pictures to prove it and will post later. At Soops it came with a scoop of potato salad on the side, and at Don's they had to ask me if I wanted some. It's going to be that way at most of the places we go to. Sister had a shrimp and okra gumbo with no roux in it at Soops, the same kind that Hebert's Specialty Meats store next door in Maurice will sell. I should have posted last year when I tried 12 gumbos in 8 days! But I won't have any problem meeting or surpassing that rate this year, I am sure! Will be happy to report, and I am pretty sure my rankings this year will be close to last year's! Crawfish season is ending later than usual here, so while boiled crawfish are scarce, the restaurants are serving lots of crawfish dishes and the grocery stores are still selling packs of tails.
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I love one of their Wednesday specials, Kofta Curry, which has meatballs and hard boiled egg in a spicy sauce. I was skeptical but this really won me over! I thought the meatballs might be densely packed and tough but they were really light and moist! What a sauce! I scooped it all up with the tandoori bread that came as a side. Why do I bother eating at so many bland places when there's a flavorful one like this nearby? Potatoes and sweet peas over rice really stretched it. The use of hardboiled egg reminded me of the country style shrimp and egg stews and gumbos I had in Louisiana growing up, dishes you never see in restaurants, except maybe in small towns like Maurice.
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Love this recipe! We've used the sauce a couple of times on chicken and want to try it on eggplant next!
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Thanks! That goes double for me. Anybody tried the Pork and Clam Stew yet?
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Home Gardens - Tips, Tricks, Methods, and the Bounty
MC Horoscope replied to ScotteeM's topic in Farms and Farmers' Markets
Chives bolted a couple of weeks ago. Green onions bolted last week. Surprised that the lettuce hasn't yet. First couple of basil plants got too much early rain (remember when we had rain?), but they're rebounding and taking well to the dryness. Parsley is going gangbusters. Rosemary, sage, thyme, oregano are all doing ok with the heat and dry weather. Tomatoes and bell peppers (green and red) are all in flower now. It's hard to know how much to water them. Don't want them to scorch, but it can't be good if they're both hot and wet either. Eggplants been in flower for a week. Wish I had room for vining, creeping things like zucchini and squash, melon. Might try planting some in the shade of my tomato plants once those get some height. Anyone had success with that method? I read about it in a recent WashPost column. -
Siriwan Thai, Cloverly Shopping Center
MC Horoscope replied to MC Horoscope's topic in Washington DC Restaurants and Dining
The curry puff here is much more moist and flavorful lately than the ones we experience at the Wheaton Thai places. Siriwan's specials are often shrimp dishes, and their shrimp cake on the regular menu is my frequent appetizer. -
Daniel, did you get the Rhode Island (clear) or creamy clam chowder? We went late this afternoon and I had a cup of the clear chowder, which I liked but my wife thought was a bit salty. I like the clear chowder, and it had more herbs in it than the one we get in Libertytown at Liberty Road Seafood and Steak, which had been my favorite in the area until Freddy's. Concur on the fried clam bellies! This might not be so good in the carry out version. Fresh and hot, though, they were pretty good. We had to add salt and pepper. The frying flour could be a little more seasoned for our taste, but maybe we are off. Asked the bartender about the Portugese steak and it sounds like a winner. He said we should try the pork and clam stew. The sausage is made in-house. He said it's a hearty stew. I would like to try these dishes, though of course the main attractions will be the clams and lobster.
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Touché! I think Buck's takes the cake.
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Shake Shack is always described as a "roadside joint." I don't know. Does Madison Square Park in NY pop into your mind when you hear the term "roadside"? Strange marketing gimmick. Might as well call it a drive-in.
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Not much buzz about this place lately. It continues to be very satisfying! Last Friday I had the nehari (beef stew) special and a chat samosa. And that came with mixed vegetables. You get a lot for your money here, and the smell when you get it in your car for take out is intoxicating! The last two times we have been there, it's mostly Pakistani customers. Don't know where they are coming from. There must have been 10 people working in that kitchen. I saw one guy stirring something in a huge container with an instrument the size of a boat paddle. What could that have been? Reminded me of people making jambalaya for big cookouts in Louisiana. This place is not going away!
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I was not aware of the degree to which current intellectual property laws and trade agreements hinder the development of seed and favor industrial farming. Thanks for calling attention to these articles. Excerpts from the Future of Food conference Vandana Shiva, director of Navdanya, a network of seed keepers and organic producers in India: “In 1984 we had the Bhopal disaster, we had extremism in India in Punjab …. and I was forced to ask myself the question: ‘Why is agriculture like war?’ I found out it is like war--industrial farming is like war because it came from war. I was thrown into discussions around patenting, genetic engineering, way back in 1987, and the attempt of industry to create an international architecture which became the World Trade Organization with two treaties that affect farming directly and are a big block to the transition we are collectively trying to make. The first is the intellectual property treaty that allows corporations to own seed and life on earth as if it’s their creation. The second is the agriculture agreement which takes $400 billion of subsidies in the rich OECD countries, creates an unlevel playing field for industrial farms and just puts small, honest, hard-working farmers at a disadvantage worldwide to such an extent that the combination of monopoly on seed and inputs and these subsidies are squeezing farmers out. I started to save seeds, promote ecological agriculture. We’ve set up 55 community seed banks with the basic recognition that seed is not an invention, therefore not property of any company. It’s the common property and the commons of all people and we save seed as a commons. We’ve trained 500,000 farmers [in India] in ecological farming techniques. We’re helping the government of Bhutan becoming: to become a 100-percent organic nation.”
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Had sauteed softshell crabs here last night. Still a bit small, but so delicious! Looking forward to softshell season! Doesn't Sietsema like the gumbo here? They call it filé gumbo on the menu instead of seafood gumbo, which is odd for a Louisianian like me since the seafood is the attraction and the filé is the cheapest ingredient! Quite spicy! Like our waiter said when we mopped up every last drop with bread, "Looks like that gumbo didn't stand a chance!"
