Adventures in Shaw

Considering my love of food and cooking, I am fairly discriminating about where I buy groceries. Although I get most of my produce from my CSA, I still have a need for various other provisions. Unfortunately, I live in Shaw, which really only has one grocery store: Giant. To say this [...]

I am relatively new to this blogging thing, but even more so to food photography. Before yesterday, I didn’t even have a digital camera. I went to Penn Camera and explained I wanted to be able to get quality shots of food to be published on my blog. I also pointed out [...]

I am quite the fan of the Pina Colada, so imagine my pleasure when I found out about the Cookthink: Root Source Challenge ingredient for this week: pineapple. Just as a little background, the Root Source Challenge names a new ingredient each week and participants must devise a recipe based on it. [...]

In the interest of full disclosure, I will first state I am a staunch supporter of Barack Obama. I truly believe him to be the salve needed for the wounds inflicted on this country by the Bush administration. He has both the charisma and the intellect to make a difference, a combination I [...]

Over the last few months, I have really upped my running routine and truly come to enjoy my runs. With those thoughts in mind, I started looking for a 5k to participate in within the DC metro area. Imagine my pleasant surprise to find a 5k that supports colon cancer research. As [...]