DCVegEats

Trader Joe's, which has a habit of eliminating popular offerings, did exactly that with my new favorite snack pick.  I had barely discovered the Corn, Pea, Bean, Quinoa Crisps -- healthy, flavorful and low calorie -- when they went bye-bye.  And so I embarked on a strange journey to find a replacement.  Enter three contenders:  1) Mozaics Popped Veggie Chips, 2) Snacklins Crisps, 3) Off the Eaten Path Veggie Crisps.  The Mozaic and Off the Eaten Path came closest to the ingredients in my original guilty pleasure.  Mozaics have the advantage of having only 80 calories per bag and the sea salt flarvor wasn't bad.  But ... the low calorie count is, in part, a result of a fairly small serving.  And their other flavors, BBQ and Salsa, were overseasoned and odd tasting.  Enter Off the Eaten path.  They are delicious, with a larger serving size than Mozaic.  The larger size, however, plus added sugar (absent in the other options), make this treat a whopping 160 per bag.  So, that was

Billed as the best Afghan food in the DC area I'm glad to say the hype matched the quality of the food.  Getting in, however, was a bit of a challenge.  Arriving at 5pm, just as they opened, on a Wednesday night the hostess seemed confused that we didn't have reservations.  She flustered about a bit and then called over a supervisor who insisted on "giving us" a reservation as if we had done it online.  The gentleman couldn't get my name right after three tries and then insisted on taking my phone number ... at which point I was a tad unkind.  Eventually, we were seated in the downstairs room.  They apologized for this, something I didn't understand until an hour and a half later, when the place was full and the noise levels so high that conversation was impossible.  All of this unpleasantness was rectified by simply fabulous food and an outstanding server. Between the three of us we ordered:  Aushak (veggie dumplings), Nask (yellow lentil soup), the Beet and