Val and I are beer lovers, but I realized we haven’t really focused too much on our love of the brew. Maybe it’s because Val and I met at Penn State University that we love good beer, or maybe its because all our friends love good beer, or maybe its just because good beer is [...]
Black Hog BBQ Is it just me or are all BBQ restaurants closed on Sundays? Val and I travel a lot on weekends, and so Sundays we often find ourselves looking for a new restaurant to try on our way home – to make the trip an adventure unto itself. And our last two attemtps to visit [...]
Inside Jackie’s Located in downtown Silver Spring, Jackie’s Restaurant embodies the up-and-coming spirit of Silver Spring. Ever since I moved to Silver Spring in 2006, the city has been growing, constantly surprising and delighting me. Maybe the thing I like best is that its not predictable; Silver Spring is a organic city, full of changes, new, old, [...]
Adam and Val were kind enough to ask me to make a few posts on ‘Till It’s Done about brewing beer. My goal in these posts is to provide the average home cook with enough information to take the first steps into home brewing. I started home-brewing my own beer about a year ago and [...]
The Dining Room at 10 Arts Adam and I found ourselves within a half hour of Philadelphia one afternoon, so we decided to stop for lunch at 10 Arts. We just made the last lunch seating, with our table being only 1 of maybe 5 or so that were occupied. I always hate being in [...]