Happy first day of Baltimore Restaurant Week! If you’re like me, you’ve spent some time looking through menus on the Restaurant Week website, strategically planning where you will eat between August 13 and 22. (Our strategy: make reservations at the restaurants that normally aren’t in our budget.) After all, Restaurant Week has long been one [...]
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The Food Field Trip You Should Take This Month
Posted in Baltimore, Fun Food Bites, tagged bennett orchards, farmers markets, ocean city maryland, pick your own, picking fruit, picking peaches, trees fruit on August 11, 2010 | 10 Comments »
When I was in high school and working on my uncle’s farm during the summers, we would start many mornings by picking yellow squash. The proper way to pick this vegetable is to gently twist it free so you don’t break the scratchy vine. But I, too impatient for the twist, often snapped it loose [...]
Fried Green Tomatoes
Posted in Baltimore, Ingredients, Recipes, tagged fried green tomatoes, ocean city maryland, the shark restaurant on August 10, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Isn’t this a lovely picture of fried green tomatoes? I would love to take credit for putting this dish together, but I can’t. This creation actually comes from my favorite Ocean City restaurant, The Shark. During the summer months, fried green tomatoes are one of The Shark’s special appetizers. They bread their tomatoes, all locally [...]
Artscape! (in pictures)
Posted in Baltimore, tagged Art Cars, Artscape, Baltimore arts on July 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This is my first full summer in Baltimore, and so far I love all the weekend festivals. (OK, I haven’t made it to many festivals…but I love the idea of them.) This past weekend was the self-proclaimed “America’s Largest Free Arts Festival”: Artscape, a three-day event of music, visual art, theater, food, and more. Here’s [...]
The Best Donuts Ever
Posted in Baltimore, Travel, tagged donuts, doughnuts, fractured prune, maryland, ocean city on July 5, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Other than sauteing, breading, and baking zucchini, yellow squash, and flying saucer squash, I didn’t do much cooking this weekend because I was in Ocean City, Maryland. I did, however, eat my first donuts of the year. To me, summer in Ocean City will always mean donuts. But not just any donuts. These are the best donuts [...]
Food News Friday: Recipes and Decorating Ideas from Baltimore Bloggers
Posted in Baltimore, Food News, tagged baltimore food blogs on May 7, 2010 | 7 Comments »
It’s official – I am now one week in (and one week down) in the Blogathon! Congratulations to the other 100+ Blogathoners who have also been feverishly posting every day this week. There’s a dedicated, varied group of bloggers participating in the 2010 Blogathon – it’s a good group to be a part of! Since it’s Mother’s [...]
Interview Wednesday: Writing Recipes with Rachel Rappaport of Coconut & Lime
Posted in Baltimore, Interviews, Recipes, Writing, tagged coconut & lime blog, how to write recipes, rachel rappaport on May 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
To kick off Interview Wednesday, I talked to Baltimorean Rachel Rappaport, who has been writing 100% original recipes on her blog Coconut & Lime since 2004. Six years is like decades in the food blogging world, but Rachel’s dedication has been worth it: Coconut and Lime is on Delish.com’s list of top 50 food blogs and is a Saveur.com “Site We Love.” In August [...]
Food News, March 12, 2010: Raw Chocolate Class, Cleveland’s New Farm Stand
Posted in Baltimore, Food News, tagged Cleveland, farm stands, malls, raw chocolate on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In this week’s Food News, a raw chocolate class in Maryland on March 27th and Cleveland’s new food project in the Galleria mall: Raw Chocolate: You’ve seen how dark chocolate has taken over our candy choices – in last night’s The Mentalist, Simon Baker’s character, Patrick Jane, said he liked “what we’re doing with chocolate [...]
Bull Roasts: A Maryland Tradition
Posted in Baltimore, tagged bull roast, maryland history on March 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I grew up hearing about bull roasts. To my younger self, it seemed like my parents were always going to one. But I didn’t know that bull roasts are a distinctively Maryland event until I had to explain them to Kenny, a native New Yorker. It took a while. Marylanders (or my family at least) pronounce [...]
