dracisk
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I've been without a dishwasher since February or so (long story), and I've adapted fairly well, though I feel like I'm constantly washing dishes. Although I REALLY want my dishwasher back (particularly before the cookfests of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years), I think I'd rather live without the dishwasher than the microwave.
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Funny, I just had a conversation with a friend today in which we agreed that we can't live without a microwave. And I don't even make popcorn (referenced several times above). I use mine for heating milk for lattes, heating soup, and melting cheese and occasionally butter. My husband uses it to reheat coffee and to heat up burritos. Oh, and we both use it to reheat leftovers. (We usually cook a large batch of food and eat the leftovers for several days.) Just for the leftovers I feel like I can't live without the microwave. I could heat milk for lattes on the stove, but then I'd have to wash a pan every time -- no thanks. Our microwave recently bit the dust, and we survived about a day before we ran out and bought another one.
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Jeni’s Ice Cream Coming to 14th Street just south of U Street. --- Jeni's Thread in the Shopping and Cooking Forum [Pool Boy]- 59 replies
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I shouldn't be surprised since Silver Spring has similar issues.
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I don't know my Springfield geography at all, but I was surprised to find out that Afghan Bistro and The Swiss Bakery (in the Ravenswood Shopping Center), while both in Springfield, were 15 minutes apart from each other and involved driving on highways.
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I just wanted to thank everyone who posts about Springfield restaurants, which I guess has been happening mostly in individual restaurant threads as opposed to here. I live in Silver Spring and don't make it out to the opposite side of the Beltway very often, but I had an appointment in Springfield yesterday that I used as an excuse to have lunch at Afghan Bistro, which I never, ever, ever would have known about if not for this website. Delicious! Then, after my appointment, I learned of an accident on the Beltway and spied The Swiss Bakery from my car, so rather than sit in traffic I popped in for a cherry strudel and an iced Swiss mocha (and still ended up sitting in traffic -- unfortunately Swiss pastries can't solve everything). Also delicious! I'm so happy I got to try these two places, but I just remembered the Yemeni place (Marib) as well. I may need to find another excuse to drive halfway around the Beltway sometime soon.
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I stumbled across this comment from @Joe H in the The Bridge thread: "Coming full circle the Bavarian Chef is an amazingly good old school German chalet on route 29 near Madison. It is impossible that a German restaurant in Madison, VA could be this good but it is. And it's survived for 40 years." Based on this I think we'll check it out! Joe's comment is from 2014, though, so if anyone has any more up to date info I'd still appreciate it.
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I just bought that $6.99 Prosecco on a lark, but I haven't tried it yet.
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I also pay my credit card bills off every month and keep close tabs on my transactions. In fact, I track most of my spending in mint.com, where the transactions from my linked credit cards appear automatically. I have to manually enter cash transactions, which is a deterrent to using cash. I generally tip in cash (though not usually at restaurants) -- this is how most of my cash gets spent.
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That construction is unfortunate. I was there a few weeks ago on a Friday night. It was a bit early (about 6:30pm), but it wasn't very busy. We really enjoyed the pizza and the chicken parm sub.
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I had a $10 gift card to Sweetgreen, and I owed them a dollar for my salad bowl, which I paid for with a credit card. (I thought I'd be able to pay for part of my friend's lunch as well -- haha!) In this case I had no choice since they don't take cash, but I'd do the same in most places that accept credit cards. It's more significant that I'd pay for something in cash these days than that I'd use a credit card to pay a very small amount.
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I fell for this stuff initially, but it's starting to lose its luster for me now. At first my Costco only sold the vanilla flavor, and I didn't bother, but then they started selling the birthday cake flavor (whatever that is), so I gave it a shot. I thought it was pretty good at first, and I COULD EAT THE WHOLE PINT. I have to admit that that was a huge part of the allure, like the article posits. I've now come to the conclusion that it's pretty meh. I think the icy texture is what turns me off the most. I've only tried the birthday cake flavor and might be up for trying another flavor out of curiosity, but I'm not as excited about it as I once was. Unfortunately I'm not that person who can buy a pint of high quality (and extremely fattening) ice cream, eat a reasonable amount, and put it back in the freezer, which will probably mean that I'll just go back to not buying ice cream for the house. I'll have to get my ice cream fixes/treats when I'm out and about. Thankfully (or maybe not) we live near some good ice cream shops (Moorenko's, Tropical Ice Cream, Yummy in My Tummy), so that'll be pretty easy to do.
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I'm very interested in those Parmesan whisps, but I'm pretty sure I can't be trusted to have them in the house. I like the Salem Baking Meyer lemon cookies, which I think they always have. They were on sale in the last couple of months. They sometimes also have Biscoff cookies, which I love even though they remind me of flying on Delta. I haven't noticed Golden Island jerky, but I expect to be in the DC Costco tomorrow and will keep an eye out.
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Balagger, the Ethiopian place that went into the Jackie's space, appears to be open. They also have an outpost in Skyline. The owners of Balagger also opened a coffee shop called Ground where Sidebar used to be.
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I thought his reference to "political meddling" there had to do with the bloviating that some members of Congress do without ever accomplishing or even attempting any change. Right before that paragraph he said, "If lawmakers do not like the laws they’ve passed and we are charged to enforce—then they should have the courage and skill to change the laws." Can't really argue with that. Regardless, I doubt I agree with General Kelly on many policy issues -- especially immigration-related ones -- but he seemed competent and sane, and I felt like DHS made out pretty well in the initial round of cabinet appointees. (Yes, the bar is that low.) As a DHS employee I'm terrified to see who comes next!
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Ha, yes, my friend was the instigator for this adventure. I'm not sure I would have bothered without her prodding.
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I would love to take that challenge. There was already a Raaga thread. I was pretty sure I'd posted there before (and I had).
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Gotta say, I hate the name, but I enjoyed the ice cream here over the weekend after some blueberry picking at Larriland Farm. They're located behind and a couple of doors down from Tersiguel's in Old Town Ellicott City. It's just a walk-up window with a bunch of outdoor seating (bonus for me but maybe not for everyone: lots of dogs!), which was perfect for this beautiful summer day sliding into evening. They share the window with River House Pizza, which is a wood-fired pizza place. (We didn't try the pizza, which was sold out for the day.) I didn't realize when we were there that they don't make their own ice cream. They serve Taharka Brothers ice cream, which I had never heard of but is made in Baltimore and seems to be very well regarded. I certainly enjoyed it. I had a scoop of the black cherry chunk and a scoop of the pistachio in a bowl. The scoops were quite generous, and the flavors were quite bold. The pistachio was a light greenish beige color, not a garish green. My daughter wanted pink ice cream, so we got her watermelon sorbet, which was amazingly refreshing and delicious. I wouldn't usually order sorbet when ice cream is an option, but that watermelon sorbet was something else. My only complaint was that the service was a bit slow. The line to order moved pretty quickly, but it took awhile for our ice cream to come out. Despite that, I'd certainly return!
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I'm happy to see that Raaga love. An old lunch standby when I worked at Skyline.
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He's from Miami (Hialeah), so it makes sense that the crowd would be particularly interested in his success!
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Gio Gonzales with a no hitter in the bottom of the 8th against Miami. Bryce Harper just made a great catch battling the lights to keep it going. ... and it's done in the bottom of the ninth. Oh, well.
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I didn't know that, either! That makes me like him even more.
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That doesn't strike me as tacky. I think it's worth asking.
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I feel the same way. I also haven't watched local news in ages, but I still watched it when I first moved to the area in 1998, and I always liked Jim Vance. Total DC institution. I totally agree with this.
