Our low opinion of Richmond -- based on a rainy trip and a snowy visit -- turned 180 degrees this week.
We started with the Design Sponge
city guide for Richmond (they have many other great guides) and got ourselves to a great vegan lunch spot, some superb art galleries and a few cool shops.
I could see us living in Richmond.
Among our adventures I probably most enjoyed
Page Bond Gallery (some favorites: images 1 and 9). A close second was our lunch at
Ipanema.
Like Cleveland and Pittsburgh and Detroit, the city has its share of industrial might and blight, which I like, and its specialty shops are special.
Labels: Richmond, travel, veggies, Virginia
"It's juicy, is that good?" he asked.
"I think that means it's tasty," she answered.
We cooked our first turkey today.
"And it was swell," Katie says.
We picked up our nearly 12-pound bird for free at Martin's grocery after saving up the necessary bonus points. It cooked in less than four hours and was shared and beloved by the holiday crew at the news office.
Katie headed up the homemade cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and dressing successes. I'm taking most of the turkey credit. And our secret gravy ingredient is now out of the bag: sage. We only argued twice during the day: once about onion content and once about the flimsy wood spatula and little fork that I tried to use to lift the mighty beast from its pan. I also stepped on a turkey blood ice cube (actually a chunk, but cube is funnier). And Katie basted our wall.
Tony decorated the pie.
For all the bird basting we did, we still made out with an herb surplus.
In the past month we've also taken on some other cooking endeavors.
Pan-roasted mahi mahi + baked apples (from a local farmer)Apricot-glazed chicken with dried plums and sage + Tony style baked 'tatoes + lemon and soy asparagusFusili with tomatoes and basilTuna with cilantro/lime/jalapeno mojo sauce + Snow peas with lemon, garlic and pine nuts + Tony-style baked 'tatoesIf you've gotten this far, you may want to check out the seemingly defunct Sadbearkitchen
blog.
Labels: chicken, cooking, fusili, mahi mahi, mojo, Thanksgiving, tuna, turkey, veggies
