The beginning of her huge garden!
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Valley Creekside Farm
We stopped off at Valley Creekside Farm where my mom's friend, Cecilia Colglazier, runs a farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Here she has a huge garden where she plants Heirloom tomatoes, lettuces, squashes, etc. She supplies these fresh vegetables and fruits to local restaurants in Washington DC. She also has Araucana chickens which produce delicious blue eggs.
The beginning of her huge garden!
A very old cemetery on her propriety. Most of the tombstones date back to the early 1800's.
Black star hens which produce jumbo brown eggs. These are not the Araucana chickens as those ladies were to shy to let me take there photo!
Andi helping feed the chickens.
The beginning of her huge garden!
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Stoli
So our friend Anna took us to a Russian restaurant today called Stoli. While we were there, I thought this might be a good time to start taking photo's of food and figuring out how to start using this blog!
I had Siberian Pelmeni. They were little house made dumplings filled with ground beef and turkey and topped with sour cream. Quite good!
Andi had Golubtsi-cabbage stuffed with beef and rice in a tomato based broth which Anna told me is very traditional in Russia.
Anna got Vareniki which our Ukrainian style homemade potato dumplings with onion, mushroom and sour cream. These were amazing!! They reminded me of Mrs. T's pierogi's that you can buy in the supermarket and that my mom used to feed to me as a kid. I could have eaten 10 plates of these!
Last but not least we had Fruit Crepes. The fruit was a mixture of black currents, strawberries, and apple all which had been cooked down in red wine. This gave the fruit a tart like flavor that went well with the chocolate sauce and ice cream which was sweet. Anna told us that the Chef has studied with many French chefs and most of his dishes have French touches. All in all, a good lunch. Thanks Anna! We will miss you!!
I had Siberian Pelmeni. They were little house made dumplings filled with ground beef and turkey and topped with sour cream. Quite good!
Andi had Golubtsi-cabbage stuffed with beef and rice in a tomato based broth which Anna told me is very traditional in Russia.
Anna got Vareniki which our Ukrainian style homemade potato dumplings with onion, mushroom and sour cream. These were amazing!! They reminded me of Mrs. T's pierogi's that you can buy in the supermarket and that my mom used to feed to me as a kid. I could have eaten 10 plates of these!
Last but not least we had Fruit Crepes. The fruit was a mixture of black currents, strawberries, and apple all which had been cooked down in red wine. This gave the fruit a tart like flavor that went well with the chocolate sauce and ice cream which was sweet. Anna told us that the Chef has studied with many French chefs and most of his dishes have French touches. All in all, a good lunch. Thanks Anna! We will miss you!!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
My First Post
Well, here it is folks-my blog. I'll be messing around with it and figuring out how to use it the next couple of weeks as Andi and I make our way across country. We leave for China in about a month so it should get more interesting! :p Stay tuned!!
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