Froggy Bottom in Foggy Bottom is pretty good for Pho. They have good beer too.

There are some nice coffee spots in Georgetown on Wisconsin Ave. Cafe Georgetown is a kooky little place with interesting coffee options, though it's pricey. There's a Turkish cafe next to the starbucks too.

​

Making friends... I'd say that's a bit tough. I was blessed with a network from grad school but in my experience it's been difficult to break out and make new friends here. I've heard it said that in DC a common phrase is "you want a friend, get a dog." I really hope next year proves that wrong.

For French and German, I know the German Embassy hosts events for German speakers. For French, try Meetup, they have plenty of language groups.

Hope this helps.

So mine is actually from a middle eastern/North African recipe. It’s tomatoes, onion, jalapeño, and garlic sautéed. I also put red bell pepper and chicken sausage (not traditional but it was good). Sautéed for like 5-10 minutes till the tomato gets juicy and then I added stewed tomato in a can and tomato paste. Normally you add two cans of tomato paste but I realized I only had one and the other can was tomato sauce which is why it’s runny. As I sautéed I added spices too like salt, pepper, cumin, cayenne pepper, stuff like that (I used a middle eastern soup blend called Hawaij). Once all that is done it’ll boil, lower to a simmer and add eggs on top and let simmer for like 30-45 minutes and you have a nice poached egg on top too. Came out really good, especially on such a cold day like yesterday.