Dine Out for Eastern Market on Monday
The outpouring of support for Eastern Market continues. On Monday, May 21, several restaurants on Capitol Hill will participate in Dining Out for Eastern Market, a “Dining Out for Life” style charity event where the restaurants will donate a portion of their proceeds to the Capitol Hill Community Foundation’s Eastern Market fund, which has raised $238,000 so far to assist the South Hall merchants while a temporary market is built.
There are several restaurants participating in the event, but not all Hill eateries; you should check the list before you make reservations. The list will be updated throughout the weekend, so check back often. We’ll see you at the market this weekend!
Much Closer than Yountville
Carol, a local Maryland girl, has a thing for Thomas Keller, the chef at Yountville, CA’s French Laundry. She yearns for him and his delicious food creations. She wants to poach him in butter, like so much lobster. Well maybe not, but she is certainly following his lead to make all the recipes in the French Laundry Cookbook, a book Carol describes as “shiny,” which is all we really look for when we’re buying things, let’s be honest. So, Carol gives us French Laundry at Home, her bloggy adventure in trying out the recipes from the famous eatery.
Not only do the recipes look delicious (Spotted Skate Wing with braised Red Cabbage and Mustard Sauce; Perail de Brebis with Frisee aux Lardons), but it’s clear that Carol is both a proficient chef and a great writer. She’s also hilariously self-deprecating, calling herself out for being lazy for not making everything from scratch, like brioche, or being not that great at fancy techniques like slicing super thin for carpaccios. Her blog is definitely worth a visit, especially if you’re looking for haikus like the following from the post Blinipalooza:
More than Britney loves
Heroin, crack and Xanax
J’adore ma confit
So, for more poetry, pee jokes, and soon-to-be-dead Canadian lobsters named Celine, give French Laundry at Home a good look.
Photo of Eastern Market from Hoffmann.
