Show: Farmers Market Supper Airing Wednesday, September 15th at 4 p.m. EST

Join Lauren and Chef Oliver Friendly as they prepare a simple summer meal with locally grown produce and humanely raised meat from DC-area farmers markets. While commercial organic markets provide a great service, the food at the Farmers Markets is fresher and better for you. Learn how to make: Homemade Bacon Wrapped Shrimp with Minted Sweet Peas and Tomato Vinaigrette, Paprika Dusted Pork Chops with Roasted Corn, Shallot, Tomato, and Mint Salsa, and Vanilla Ice Cream with Fresh Fruit and Mint Syrup. 

Capital Cooking with Lauren DeSantis airs on Colours TV Network every Wednesday at 4 p.m. EST. Find all of the schedule at: http://colourstv.org/category/capital-cooking/. CoLours offers multi-cultural and multi-ethnic programming highlighting educational and cultural issues of African, Asian, Latin, and Native Americans. For further information visit their website at www.colourstv.org. 

Watch Capital Cooking on the Dish Network channels 9396 and 9407. CoLours is currently available on cable from the following carriers: Time Warner, Comcast, Insight, NCTC and Cox.
Watch each episode and learn from the pros how to make delectable food right in your home. Lauren makes recipes fun and easy to prepare for anyone with any level of cooking.

Have You Made Your Reservations for Free Dessert Day?

 In celebration of the premiere of Top Chef Just Desserts, Wednesday, September 15th is Free Dessert Day!

Make a reservation at participating restaurants and you will get a free dessert for every two diners at your table. Each diner must order one entree to qualify for this offer.

Some participating restaurants in the DC area are:

• Cedar Restaurant 
• Equinox
• The Melting Pot (Arlington and DC locations)
• Social
• Tuscana West
• Againn
• 2941

For the full list of restaurants, click here. While most restaurants are offering a dessert off their regular menu, some restaurants are making desserts for the occasion. For example, One Lounge will be offering an Old-Fashioned Bourbon Apple Pie with Phyllo Dough. Also, I suggest making your reservation for dinner as most restaurants are only offering the deal for dinner guests only.

Back from Bermuda: Rum Swizzle

So after I had a couple Dark and Stormy cocktails, I moved on to Bermuda's national drink, the Rum Swizzle.  Even the name is fun, right?  We had the first Swizzle at the Ocean Club on our anniversary night and had another at the Pickled Onion and then our final one at the famous Swizzle Inn.  The Swizzle Inn is Bermuda's oldest pub established in 1932.  They promise that you can "swizzle in" and you'll be sure to "swagger out."  We got stuck out on the motorbikes in a big rain storm and did just that. We also got a taste of the extremely large BBQ nachos.

Back to the cocktails...not all Swizzles taste the same so have some fun with it.

Recipe for 1 pitcher of Rum Swizzle

3 shots Gosling's Black Seal Rum
3 shots of Gold Rum or White Rum
1 shot Triple Sec
1 shot Simple Syrup
3 shots  Orange Juice
3 shots Pineapple Juice
Juice of 2 Lemons
4 dashes of Bitters
Splash of Grenadine
Ice


Mix liquids into a  pitcher filled with ice.  Stir.  Strain into cocktail glasses and get your swizzle on!  Send the summer out in style!! 

Food News Friday

NBC Washington announced the arrival of Pinkberry in the DC area. Although the location is unknown, it can be guaranteed the DC transplant population will rejoice. Just what DC needs, another chain. I'll direct you to Tim Carman's thoughts on Pinkberry over at Young & Hungry. Enjoy!

Y&H announced Snap, a creperie, opened a second location in Adams Morgan on 18th St. in the former CD/Game Exchange. You can also find Snap in Georgetown.

Prince of Petworth reports Old Mario's Pizza on Georgia Ave. NW (3519 Georgia Ave. NW) is becoming a West Indian take out place known as The Lion's Den. Look for an opening next week.

PoP also reported a new French restaurant is coming to Connecticut Ave. NW. Terasol is located across the street from Politics and Prose in the former Dahn Yoga space (5010 Connecticut Ave. NW). 

Georgetown is celebrating Fashion Night Out tonight from 6-11 PM. Click here to see dining specials from Georgetown restaurants. 

In Top Chef DC news, Kelly was told to pack her knives and go. Meh. I'm still upset about Tiffany.