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I think they use instagram or twitter instead. I prefer the forum format because you can have sustained and in-depth conversations on a topic and it's easy to look back at older conversations. Instagram and Twitter, everything gets buried quickly and I don't find either of them easy to sort through.
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There was a shout-out to donrockwell.com in today's online chat. https://live.washingtonpost.com/ask-tom-0710.html
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Agreed!
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Toigo has yellow & white peaches, yellow & white nectarines, apricots and yellow plums this week. Field grown tomatoes everywhere @ $3/lb -- very happy to see a lot of stands selling the pink tomatoes this year, which are my favorites. Squashes & eggplants around $2.50/lb. Corn, white or bicolor, but not the Mirai variety, @ .75 ear or 3/$2. Valentine's is sellign fresh, never frozen chickens. And all the usual suspects.- 90 replies
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I have friends who live in Old Town and dine out frequently, lovers of Italian cuisine. They pass up Hank's Pasta Bar. They say at best it's middling cuisine. The cocktails can be pretty good, but the food is nothing memorable.
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Don't know if this is still true or not, but it used to be that Silverado had the highest profit margin of any of them -- probably due to lower rents & smaller size for said wholly unattractive strip mall location.
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For Italian, A La Lucia, on Madison and? N. Royal, I think. A bit worn around the edges, but the food is consistently good, and the service warm and relaxed. And if you have room for dessert, excellent pistachio gelato. Also, parking is a bit easier up at that end of town. And Bastille for French, I think a little pricier. On the west side of Old Town, Oronoco or Princess and.....Fayette?
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Made the corn cookies from Christina Tosi's Milkbar, on the strength of the recommendation of a Facebook friend. My bookclub loved them. https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/corn-cookies-2106482
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Cafe 44 in Canal Center. They serve Starbucks coffee, and they do have iced.
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Toigo is pretty much the last of the strawberry sellers, now $6/pint or 2/$10. Smith Valley's hens still aren't producing, so no eggs there. Valentine's has fresh, never frozen chicken this week. Lots of hothouse tomatoes available now. Most everybody has regular green beans, a few have yellow and flat roma beans. Beets are big and beautiful all over the market, lots of garlic scapes, lots of young onions, lots of squash. Also saw a couple of stands with okra.
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There are still strawberries at the market, but fading fast. Toigo has a bunch but priced @ $8/quart. Other farmers have limited supplies but @ $6/qt. Blueberries are coming in but still pricey, $4 or $5 / pint. Beans are showing up, mostly $4/lb, flat beans, green beans. Sugar snaps are $4/pint. One stand had fava beans at $6/qt (about 10-12 beans). there's still some asparagus out there but fewer farmers. Smith Valley is out of eggs this week; new flock that hasn't acclimated, but they should have eggs again next week.
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I've done similar -- dates stuffed with goat cheese, given a little squirt of siracha along the edges, then rolled in chopped pistachios & fresh chopped herbs. Never any left over.
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I would go for one of the more savory options, and I think some great dip(s) would be wonderful with bread and/or veggies. Easy to nosh, easy to transport. If you feel that's insufficient, maybe the bundt as well.
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It definitely was majority teens and young adults early-ish on a Saturday evening, but maybe 1/4 of the clientele was middle aged.
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Finally tried out The Block on Saturday night with a friend. Although we looked at other purveyors, we ended up ordering everything from Balo. Started with dan-dan noodles (excellent -- although we got a 3/4 heat and had to take a break as the heat kept building as we got farther into the bowl) and pork belly tacos (excellent chew and sauce, good balance of pickled carrots to meat ratio) and by that point the noise level and K-Pop was grating our nerves, so got cumin lamb tacos and a pork banh mi to go. The lamb tacos were good to very good but not as good as the pork belly ones, and the pork banh mi was just okay -- too much meat vs. the amount of veggies, and the bread was pretty meh, not much crunch and had been hollowed out to the point there was hardly any bread left. Stuffed to the gills, I still had most of my half of the sandwich left for the next day's lunch with a smidgen of the dan dan noodles still left over. Around $50 for everything ( a couple of sodas were in the mix as well). Overall, enjoyed the food very much and want to try some of the other offerings / vendors -- especially some of the ice creams -- but will probably be getting most things to go as the noise & music is a bit too much for me.
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Peas are in! English and sugar snaps. There's one fellow selling guinea fowl eggs $6/dz set up a booth or two away from Toigo
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Buck's Fishing & Camping springs to mind for some reason. Maybe not out-of-the-ordinary enough?
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Vola's Dockside. She can get some plain broiled fish and a salad.
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The produce vendors are all back at Falls Church. Asparagus and strawberries and radishes and lettuces galore! Lots of bedding plants as well.
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Can she do BBQ? There's Epic Smokehouse in Crystal City and Mixon's BBQ in Old Town
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Visiting a friend this weekend up on the top of the Beltway and we went for a stroll through the Wheaton Botanical Garden and followed that up with dinner at Ruan Thai. Wish I had thought to check out DR for what to order, as our selections ranged from OMG! to meh. The OMG! was the crispy duck with a spicy sweet & sour tamarind (?) glaze. Perfectly crispy, with a smoky undertone from the wok char, a good lingering heat that wasn't overbearing, and that wonderful final note sourness. I think we would have been happy ordering 3-4 plates of this and nothing else. The only knock on the duck dish would be I wish the kitchen had been more precise in chopping it evenly. Some of the pieces were a bit difficult to wrestle with because of size and shape. Didn't stop me, though! Also got the chicken larb which was a good, straightforward preparation, and ordered an eggplant appetizer with chicken that turned out to be basically more larb but with eggplant in it. It was more interesting than the straight chicken larb, so at least we learned something with the side-by-side comparison. Very good was the panang curry: strong, balanced rich sauce and tender meat. Decidedly meh was a rice noodle/watercress/pork dish in a broth. It just didn't come together, the pork was small slices and dried out and flavorless (honestly couldn't tell if it was chicken or pork), the watercress was the best part of the plate but tough and cut too long (hard to chew through and I stopped eating it because it seemed like it could be a choking hazard), and the broth was not spicy and had no depth of flavor. The service was a bit slow and not terribly attentive when we first arrived but improved as the meal went on, I think because more servers arrived for the dinner shift (we arrived fairly early). So, definitely worth going back to for more of that wonderful duck and to explore the dishes flagged as good earlier in this topic.
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Definitely that was part of the coaching errors combined with player errors -- both in trying to move the puck up the boards, getting pinched down and then turned over. Yes, both teams were gassed, but the Canes team overall is one of the youngest in the league and the Caps are middle-aged, and young legs are young legs. A weird little factor that helped the Canes last night was the ice got worse as the game went on. The 'Canes arena has really lousy ice and has had it most of the season, so their players are very accustomed to playing on it. It's part of the reason we did so badly in PNC Arena, since the Caps are known for play making through passing and puck handling (as opposed to shoot it at the net with a scrum there and jam it in). The Ovi to Wilson goal illustrates that style beautifully. If we can't pass well, that pretty much negates Backstrom and Kuznetnov. That's just part of the puck luck.
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A sad day for Caps fans. Tough loss last night in a double OT in a game that saw the Caps start strong and slowly lose their mojo. From my POV, the loss is almost equally spread between coaching errors (esp. power play), injuries, player errors, bad officiating and bad puck luck. One or two can be overcome if the other components are solid, but not when they all are present. Hats off to Ovechkin, he played lights-out hockey all series long. curious to see what the off season will bring.
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A gorgeous game by the Caps last night in a pounding, all-in, 200-foot effort all game long for a 6-0 shutout. The goal above shows just how in much pain the 'Canes are in at this point, with Dougie Hamilton makes the decision to not touch the puck as he sees Ovechkin coming up behind him. As Laughlin said after the game "it was a business decision" to leave the puck. Fabulous penalty killing, and it looks like rookie Jonas Siegenthaler is a wonderful fit beside John Carlson, settling the D pairings into 3 solid L-R pairs. Scoring last night was Backstrom, Backstrom, Connolly, Wilson, Dowd and Ovechkin. Ovi's goal was on the power play, and was in the back of the net 1 second after an offensive zone puck drop on the far side of the ice from his office. A lot of stats in this game, but star among them, Braden Holtby becomes the top playoff shutout goalie for the Caps, with 7 in his career, besting Olie Kolzig. Nic Dowd scores the first ever playoff penalty goal by the Caps.
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The hit on Oshie was dirty (late, off the puck, cross-checked in the back in the numbers into the boards, should have been a 5-minute major. Hope that Dept. of Player Safety reviews and gives Fogele a game suspension. I know playoff hockey they don't call so many penalties, but the refs are letting this series get out of control. It could be a turning point for the Caps in terms of determination. Remember when Backstrom had his finger broken in the Cup run last year and was out several games, or when Kuzy had his shoulder separated, or when Wilson got the multi-game suspension, the guys rallied and brought the series back. As far as lines go, Hagelin's style is probably the closest match to Oshie's, but he doesn't have that same hand-eye coordination that Osh uses in front of the net to deflect shots in. However, no one was establishing a net front presence last night, so that becomes a moot point. Kuzy really needs to show up in this series though. He was looking better last night, but it's not enough yet. Calling up Siegenthaler is helping the D, he was steady and smart. And I know that Reirden doesn't seem to have chemistry with DSP but maybe it's time to call him back from Hershey for a 4th line grinder that comes up big in clutch situations. ETA: Devante Smith-Pelly has been called up from Hershey
