three best bites: let me rename your restaurant

It was a big dining out week around here, which means I was not responsible for cooking or baking a single one of my favorites. In fact, I did very little in the kitchen, period, over the past seven days.

But that’s about to change in a big way, in large part because my back patio garden is on the verge of popping. The cherry tomato plant is covered in yellow blossoms and even some tiny, pea-sized fruit. The full-sized tomato plant is showing off its first blooms, too, and the snap pea vine is climbing taller than I am and only a few days away from its first harvest. Oh, and the fig tree — which wasn’t likely to bear any fruit this year, according to everything I read — has five green baby figs already.

All of that’s beside the point, though, and mostly just a justification for sharing the photo below. Let’s get to the point and talk about a few fantastic restaurant bites.

fig bébés

peanut dalgona iced latte: If you follow Grazing on Instagram, you may have noticed a succession of photos of milky, foam-topped lattes this spring. From January through April, I taught a class each week at Georgetown, which meant a 5 p.m. pilgrimage every Wednesday to Yellow, a Levantine cafe on Wisconsin Avenue. A peanut dalgona iced latte with coconut cold foam was my pre-class treat, and as extra-extra as that order makes me sound, I don’t even care. It’s too good. It tastes like a coconut cream pie slathered in peanut butter and reduced to liquid form. I guess it kind of tastes like coffee, too — maybe, sort of. Anyways, I happened to be in Georgetown on Friday and grabbed one, and now I’m deep in research about the best way to make coconut cold foam at home.