Just tidbits about money and finance.
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Wow. What can I say? Where else can you go and get self-service wines ranging from a dry white to a f*cking Chateau d’Yquem Sauterne? You’re buying the Yquem for $18 an ounce, but HOLY CRAP is that affordable compared to the $200 bottle price!
Ok, so I didn’t actually try the Sauterne. I wasn’t in [...]
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I had a great time at dinner. Mercer Kitchen was delicious. As mentioned in the comments, this dinner was sponsored by Intuit’s TurboTax. (Not particularly a product I enjoy, but I do love my Quicken, which is an Intuit product.) I had the butternut squash soup for appetizer and the seared scallop with pea green [...]
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I’ve been meaning to rave about Heidi’s Pies for a while. Boyfriend and I ate there for brunch and picked up some pies for dinner, boysenberry, chocolate cream and apple. All of them were amazing. Freshly baked with interesting specials like strawberry and German chocolate.
It’s on El Camino Real north of the Hillsdale Caltrain station. [...]
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My birthday dinner was delayed because my boyfriend was ill. We finally got to go Cafe Atlantico last Saturday night. It is Jose Andres’ restaurant that houses ‘Minibar‘, but Minibar is a separate restaurant and features molecular gastronomy. It’s also $120 a seat and they serve a lot of food I can’t eat. So Minibar [...]
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One of my friends runs a side operation raising angora goats for mohair fleece. She participates annual in a craft fair and some other local artisan marketplaces. Because she’s got the inside scoop, our little crowd took a country excursion on Saturday to some places she recommended.
We stopped at her particular fair which is an [...]
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Saturday we were sloths. We went shopping for a new blanket, candy thermometer, and groceries. Lunch was a miserable time at La Creperie at Pentagon City. Damage was something like $30 including tip. Don’t eat there. The crepe I had was terrible. Too thick and too rubbery and the filling was [...]
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Sticky Rice is a new H Street restaurant here in DC. It has its origins in Richmond, VA at the original location. It seems to have a huge following with kids who went to college around Richmond.
Sticky Rice is the second closest sushi shop near boyfriend’s house and down the street from Joe Englert’s hip [...]
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All I can say is that I love Anthony Bourdain. What’s not to like about a guy who puts duck, sausage, bacon and beans all into one dish? Or serves duck confit with foie gras sausage and another blood sausage? AND STILL puts rabbit on the menu?
Now that I’ve grossed out my vegan and vegetarian [...]
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As SingleMa has posted, we had a wine tasting dinner at Fleming’s with Debt Hater. It was wonderful to meet Debt Hater in person. She was rocking some red heels on top of being really tall already! We also got to meet, Nina, her car.
Dinner was great. A little more of the breakdown when it [...]
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And no, I didn’t write them. *sticks tongue out*
Aside: I am not so grouchy anymore today. Halloween was slightly more than I wished to spend, but still coming to about $38.00 including appetizer, dinner, beers, safe metro and bus rides, and then someone else buying some more cider and a shot. The conversation ended [...]
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