- yummy adventures with kids
“I have worms!” Lollo proclaimed loudly to his teacher who looked at me quizzically. He means we own worms. We’re proud owners of a spanking new working worm bin from Texas Worm Ranch.
Finally after an unsuccessful bout of vermicomposting last year, I decided to take a class from Heather Rinaldi, head worm rancher of Texas Worm Ranch and one of the founders of Dallas Eco-Op. Boy, did I learn a lot from the two hour workshop.
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Before we had kids, Beefcake and I would think nothing of eating at all hours of the night. A souvlaki perhaps after a night of clubbing or a midnight bowl of pho. But after the kids were born, we had midnight feeds of another kind which makes DaLat attractive if you’re still breastfeeding an infant. DaLat, the new Vietnamese joint on Fitzhugh is in it’s soft opening stages and opened nightly from 10pm to 2am.
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Chicken Scratch at dusk
It’s 6.30pm on a Saturday night when we spontaneously decided to head down to Chicken Scratch in Oak Cliff. We called to ask if we needed to book a table but the voice on the phone said almost prophetically, “There’s no reservations but there’s tables right now but who knows… there might be a line out the door in 15 minutes time”.
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“Mama can we please keep him?” Lollo looks up at me and implored. He’s scooped up a worm off the pavement after a big rain. That was the beginning of our composting adventure which began last spring. We often talk about food on IttyBittyFoodies but not what to do with food scraps.
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“This tastes delightfully strange,” comments Beefcake as he bites into the fried chicken “Hotlanta” taco from Good 2 Go Taco. The well seasoned waffle-battered chicken breast crunched and gave way to devilishly succulent meat. Warm sweet potatoes in honey butter lay underneath and the whole concoction is wrapped in a warm springy taco.
The busy Casa Linda taco shop shares a space with Cultivar Coffee run by passionate tattooed baristas with cool, thick black rimmed glasses.
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