Blog on a road trip

The blog authors have been enjoying the holidays, and we hope all of you have, too. In addition to cooking, we are planning a trip to the DC area to look for housing. Allen will be working with the National Institutes of Health, so we plan to find an apartment (with a functional kitchen) for our time there while keeping our home in western NC (see thumbnail photo) as our base.

During the upcoming trip, we will take advantage of as many ethnic restaurants in the Georgetown area as we can fit into our schedule. We will be sampling Lebanese food, tapas, Indian cuisine, Italian, and “fusion”. A complete list of the places we try, along with some photos (if the restaurant lighting is sufficient) will appear soon.

Please feel free to sample some of the many recipes on the site until we get back into the kitchen and start pointing you to specific things to try. A great example of something we love that has once again undergone a change is the Mediterranean Stew (which we just made for the first time in ages). In addition to leaving out the beef, we substituted some terrific chicken Italian sausage that we found at our local Fresh Market for the usual Italian sausage and added an extra can of chickpeas. The end result was wonderful and these changes will now be permanent in our kitchen.

Happy 2010 to each of you!