Hello Miss American Pie
(Note to self: Never wear heels into DC unless you pack a pair of comfy flats. All you fashion bloggers with your perfectly mixed-and-matched outfits with to-diiiie sky heels, SPJ, Stacy London (You are my fashion icon and I adore you but, but and but) y’all can just…*blows raspberries*. Three hours of walking through the cobblestone streets of our Nation’s capitol in four-inchers and a epsom-salt soak have squashed any idea of repeating such a notion. Or maybe I should invest in several sets of those Dr. Scholl’s gel inserts)
April 9, 2011
It’s cherry blossom season in DC and as the blossoms reach their peak, DC celebrates the end of the pretty pink blooms with several events around the city, such as a street fair in Chinatown. While packs of tourists flock to the tidal basin to catch the last of the cherry blossoms, me and a couple of girls from work went to see an honor ceremony involving the military honor guards. And after (A rather painful) hour walk to the basin involving several detours and pictures and searching for a cherry blossom tree (Serves me right for wearing those four inchers. Even if they made my outfit super adorbs)…we made it to the Jefferson Memorial…just as soon as the honor guards left to go to the buses. We stayed at the memorial for a wee bit, disappointed that we missed the ceremony (I was mostly trying to ignore my aching toes. And after four years of basic and trick drill, I was good yet slightly disappointed).
One of the perks of living close to the city
We then decided to catch the metro to Eastern Market for coffee and crepes, and along the way I discovered some fabulous food finds.
Om nom nom noooom
Aside from cupcakes, one of the more recent foodie crazes is the gourmet food truck. Unlike the slightly skeevy…ier food trucks that serve the usual questionable tacos, hot dogs, and reheated old pizzas, there has recent surge in food trucks that serve fresh, savory, and oh so delicious dishes. And they’re quite fun to track on twitter for their current locations. And I had the good fortune of coming across three food trucks, Tasty Kabob, Red Hook Lobster Pound , and most exciting of all, Dangerously Delicious Pies (I practically skipped when I saw the Pie and crossbones. And it made my day when they said it made their day to see me skip so enthusiastically to their food truck).
I managed to convince my friends to split the lobster roll with me from Red Hook Lobster Pound (I learned that Red Hook won the Washingtonian’s Award for best food truck in DC so I had to give it a taste). I’m not a lobster fan, but for fresh lobster, I thought the roll was pretty good. The roll was hot and fresh, and for my very first lobster roll, I thought it was pretty good. I’m not sure I’d pay $15 for another roll, unless I split it with someone. But I would try find the truck again to try their lobster bisque, shrimp roll and their Maine Root beer. Mostly the Maine Root.
Red Hook Lobster Pound - ❀❀.❀
I love pie. And I mean, I LOVE PIE. Floating hearts and all. The flaky crust, the warm filling, and to top it off with whipped cream or ice cream. Perfection. And really, nothing and I do mean nothing, makes me happier than making pie. Rolling out the dough, preparing the filling, notching the crust…I went through a pie period in college. Big pies. Mini-pielettes. One of my favorite TV series, Pushing Daises, is a murder-mystery-dramady with one of the main characters is known as a pie baker. I might just bake a pie after I finish this post. While it broke my heart that I couldn’t have the chocolate chess pie, (And I do regret not getting the coconut chess pie), I opted getting the triple berry pie. The berries were fresh and I admire Dangerously Delicious priding themselves on using fresh and natural ingredients in their pies. I liked the crust the best, it wasn’t too dry and crumbly, but soft and had the right amount of flakiness. The only downside (Which is a downside to most food trucks) is the pie (While on the generous side on serving size) was a little on the pricy side. While Dangerously Delicious’ main store is a bit out of reach near Union Station on Capitol Hill, I’d follow their tweets and hunt down their black (And soon to be red!) trucks and day
Dangerously Delicious Pies- ❀❀❀
Next we continued down to Eastern Market, but first we stopped by Peregrine Coffee for coffee. Although I wasn’t too impressed by my first visit, I did admire the detail in my latte (But it would’ve been neat if the baristas did different designs for each of our drinks).
Replenished with coffee, we reached Eastern Market (And after meandering around the stalls) we stopped by the crepe stand, Crepes at the Market, and going against my better judgment, I decided on a mix between a sweet and savory crepe, filled with blackberries, raspberries and brie.
It’s hard to say no to the fluffy
While this combo would be tasty on a cracker or bread, I wasn’t so keen on it in my crepe (And I continue to stand by my belief that crepes should be sweet and sweet alone, see Gogi. Gogi.). But the serving was huge, I did enjoy watching Mr. Mitch of Mitch’s Crepes at the Market make my crepe, and I thought the price for my crepe was affordable.
Mr. Mitch doing what he does best
So I’ll probably come back to this stand to try one of Mr. Mitch’s dessert crepes (Especially once I’m off my chocolate Lenten fast).
Crepes at the Market ❀❀❀❀
