I’ve made a lot of breakfasts with savory waffles, so this time I tried something new: using chopped-up plant-based tomato waffles like hashbrowns and frying an egg in them. Specifically, I used swapples, made by a local DC startup that makes amazing healthy frozen waffles, but you could try this with other thick, Belgian-style waffles,…
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New York-Inspired Bagel with Smoked Salmon
Moving to the East Coast has taught me something important: the only place to truly get a good bagel around here is in New York City. Also, that Washington, D.C. is a bagel desert.* So, I find myself longing for deli-style bagel sandwiches frequently, and after a recent girls trip that included a stop at…
English Muffin Breakfast Sandwiches
This is one of the first meals I made in the new apartment I moved into this month – the beginning of my foray into electric stove cooking. I was delighted to find that frying eggs on an electric stove isn’t so hard (poaching is a whole other story) and that creating this fast food-inspired…
Eggs + Fast-Casual Ethiopian Food – Interview with Gorsha Owner Hiyaw Gebreyohannes
One of DC’s newest food businesses at Union Market (a local restaurant incubator) is Gorsha, a fast-casual Ethiopian food eatery that I stumbled upon recently. I’ve only been introduced to Ethiopian cuisine relatively recently, since moving to DC three years ago, and I love it, but when eaten in the traditional way (with shared platters)…
Savory, Veggie Waffles: Meet the Startup Changing the Breakfast Game
Note – this post originally appeared on meaghanwebster.com in 2016. After mutual Instagram-stalking seemingly brought us together by fate, I recently had the pleasure of meeting Rebecca Peress from SWAP, a D.C. startup that makes AMAZING savory waffles, called swapples. swapples swap the junk out of frozen waffles (like chemicals and articifial coloring) for vegetables, flavorful spices, and heart…
