Today is the start of Alexandria’s Restaurant week. Granted the DC restaurant week is not over till Sunday so you can still take advantage of that. Click here for the participating restaurants. However, from January 15-24 you can dine on $35 Prix Fix menu, a $35 dinner for two or $3.50 for a sweet treat. [...]
Archive for January, 2010
January 15th, 2010
Alexandria Restaurant Week
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Tags: alexandria, alexandria restaurant week, reservations, Restaurant Week 
No Comments »January 14th, 2010
Recreating Dream Bars #3
So I love the Dream Bars from PotBelly’s. I have been working hard to recreate them. In order to get everything right, I went to PotBelly’s and purchased a bunch of dream bars. Come to find out, I wasn’t too far off, but I wasn’t right either. When I tasted the Dream Bars, I noticed [...]
Posted in Baking, Cookies, Recipes Tags: Chocolate Chips, cookie bar, dream bars, oatmeal, potbelly 9 Comments »January 13th, 2010
The Alibi
Unlike most people, I love Wednesdays. Not because the week is halfway over, but because I get to drink. Then I get to write a post about it. The posts on Wednesday’s can be funny and even a bit racy. Today I hope not to disappoint. Today’s cocktail is the Alibi. What is the Alibi, [...]
January 12th, 2010
Ultimate Bacon
While bacon is the ultimate food, not all bacon is created equal. Granted all bacon is good, but some bacon is just a tad bit better. Today I turned the ordinary bacon in to extraordinary bacon. How do you do this? With a bit of brown sugar, Pure Grade A Michigan Maple Syrup and some [...]
Posted in Bacon, Recipes Tags: bacon, baked bacon, brown sugar maple bacon, maple brown sugar bacon, oven bacon, ultimate bacon 4 Comments »January 11th, 2010
Epic Failure – Roasted Garlic Aioli
Every once in a while I have a recipe that just does not work. When this happens, I label it an epic failure. Today it wasn’t the recipe but the ingredients that ruined my meal. I was coming up with a nice Roasted Garlic Aioli for a Bacon Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich that I making [...]
January 10th, 2010
Recreating the Dream Bars #2
Yesterday I posted the recipe for my first attempt at dream bars. It was extremely tasty, but not the dream bars that I was looking for. Today is my second shot. I wanted to make the crust chewier and more moist. I wanted the top to be chewy but not cookie like. So I changed [...]
Posted in Baking, Cookies, Recipes Tags: bars, chocolate, coconut, cookie bars, Cookies, dream bars, gooey, pecan 1 Comment »January 9th, 2010
Recreating Dream Bars #1
I love Potbelly’s Sandwich Works. They toast the subs, they are extremely cheap and they have Sheila’s Dream Bars. I purchase one of these puppies each and every time I enter Potbelly’s. So the other day I had a thought, why purchase a sub to get a Dream Bar when I could make them at [...]
Posted in Baking, Cookies, Recipes Tags: bars, chocolate, coconut, cookie bars, Cookies, dream bars, gooey, pecan No Comments »January 8th, 2010
Time is ticking for Restaurant Week
You still have time. Restaurant Week starts Monday!!! DC Winter Restaurant Week is upon us. Here is the gist of it. Restaurant Week consists of the best DC area restaurants offering a 3 course prix fixe meal for $20.10 for lunch and $30.10 for dinner. Restaurant week is from January 11-17, 2010. So making a [...]
Posted in Things to do in DC Tags: dc, prix fixe, reservations, Restaurant Week, restaurant week dc, restaurants No Comments »January 7th, 2010
Veal Pasta
This months issue of Food and Wine has a some great pasta recipes in it. One that sparked my interest was Orecchiette with Veal Capers and White Wine. Orecchiette is the pasta that looks like little ears. Unfortunately no store around me has this type of pasta. Further, I am not the biggest fan of [...]
January 6th, 2010
Mushroom and Spinach Ravioli
After a long weekend of being in Airports I wanted a nice and hearty meal. So I searched around and came across a nice and easy Ravioli recipe from Giada. The recipe does not require you to make pasta and it includes some of my favorite ingredients such as; mushroom, spinach and marscarpone cheese. Top [...]
January 5th, 2010
Airport Schmareports
So today is my first day back after the New Year. I was supposed to land in DC yesterday early enough to whip up a nice meal for a post for today. However, Delta had other plans. I went to Las Vegas for New Years. It was amazing, they closed the strip, there were tons [...]
January 3rd, 2010
Ultimate Grilled Cheese
Yesterday I made homemade Tomato Soup. Nothing pairs better with Tomato Soup than a grilled cheese. I wanted to create the ultimate grilled cheese. To do that I had to take a trip to the supermarket. I wanted a nice thick crust so I started with a Rustic Wheat Bread. Hand sliced to perfection. Then [...]
Posted in cheese, Recipes, Sandwiches Tags: Cast Iron, cheese, gruyere, manchego, mozzarella, ultimate grilled cheese 5 Comments »January 2nd, 2010
Tomato Soup
I was craving tomato soup the other day. So I scoured the internet to find a suitable soup for dinner. After looking around I settled on a soup that was based on canned tomatoes. I know, but it is winter here and the fresh tomatoes, well they suck. This soup roasts the tomatoes to give [...]
Posted in Recipes, Soups Tags: basil, canned tomatoes, homemade, recipe, roasted tomatoes, tomato soup 1 Comment »
