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Macallan Kirkland 15 yr. Scotch
Jealous. Our Costcos don't sell liquor. I love Macallan-15
Uwajimaya in Renton - anyone been?
LOL...yes. A BECU instead of a Chase branch. Sorry...couldn't resist. Food-wise probably pretty much the same.
Your mom's weird cooking ... and other stories? (recipes encouraged)
smile. we used to have fried bologna sandwiches with ketchup when i was growing up. or tossed in with tomato sauce & noodles.
Taiwanese White Gourd Juice: Perfect Evocation of Cookies
Hmm...picture on the can looks more like an opo than a wintermelon...Interesting. Will have to look for a can and look closer on my next shopping trip.
Bitter melon ... Wow that is rough !
Yimster - I use the hairy melon ("dit gwa") in soups, but yes, have had it steamed/stuffed also.
Bitter melon ... Wow that is rough !
Sam: I'll bite - what's the difference between melon & gourd? The picture provided by Cheese Boy is what I've seen labeled "Indian bitter melon" in our stores. Thx for the education.
I personally don't eat this, but my parents used to make stuffed and steamed, with or without black bean sauce. More commonly now, Mom will make a tea of it, boiling chunks of it (with or without ginger slices which will mitigate the bitter flavor for novices) and drink the tea (helps her blood sugar). Also have seen Japanese tea bags of bitter melon with black bean.
And lastly was at a restaurant recently that diced it and mixed it in with vermicelli in a scrambled egg-type dish. It wasn't unbearably bitter like this, but I'd never seen vermicelli in eggs like that before.
Looking for carrot cake recipe with less sugar and more sweet carrots, pineapple etc
Just an FYI, I regularly decrease the amount of sugar in recipes without damage, but for your recipe at 1/2 cup, I'd probably leave it. I've also done the crushed pineapple, and I drain off some, but not all of the liquid to keep it moist.
Another thing I've done is to add grated zucchini, which also adds a lot of moisture.
Interesting Scotch Recommendations
i started out on j&b, then moved to chivas.....can't say i've had a jw red....i have had a jw blue, but don't remember it.....
Interesting Scotch Recommendations
as a lagavulin fan, you'll likely be disappointed with the dalmore...it's kind of chocolatey....the beauty of it is that it's one of the less expensive bottles with a satisfying taste that works out great for an "every day" versus an expensive "celebratory" type SM....
Interesting Scotch Recommendations
scargod: one of the usually open bottles in my stash is a dalmore cigar malt, but haven't seen any in the state of washington since before christmas. maybe because i turned a lot of my friends on to it. darn! thought they bought them up to make me a christmas gift of them!
Interesting Scotch Recommendations
i was just thinkin'....maybe i was drinkin' when i typed that....a talisker no doubt. although i do have an open bottle of macallan-15 sitting next to the talisker....
Interesting Scotch Recommendations
apologies, did not mean to infer talisker & lagavulin were alike. reference to talisker was purely anecdotal.....
Interesting Scotch Recommendations
had to laugh at "leapfrog"....love the nickname, didn't much care for the taste, but that was when i was first starting out that it wasn't handed to me. was given a bottle of lagavulin as a gift and have to admit i did better with the lagavulin than the "leapfrog".
was out with coworkers and friends just the other night...the single maltin' guys at the table did the "i'll have what she's having" a few times over.....it was a talisker night....
Oops, won't do that again
Or if you stash your store bought bread stuff in there, those plastic doohickeys (doohickies?) to keep the bag closed....nothing like melting one of those on the floor of the oven! (Heat 'em back up again and you can pry them off....)
Dinner near the Arctic Club hotel
Juno is right next door. http://www.junorestaurant.com/
And while not PNW food, Piroshki on 3rd, is there too....
Marinating before freezing
HaagenDazs: "water" it down as in thin the marinade with a liquid that wasn't intentionally added to start with, not literally as in H20 water, altering the marinade concentration. Which could be compensated for, with forethought, increasing the intensity of the marinade going into the freezer....
I personally wouldn't do it this way, but that's just me.
Marinating before freezing
i would think thawing it would water your marinade down, too?
Fresh calves liver; where can I buy it?
Not in the same league, but the only place I see calves liver has been West Seattle's Metropolitan Market....
loads of graham crackers - don't say cheesecake!
I also did not follow the links, but I've got a recipe called "Chocolate Eclair Cake" that uses graham crackers to layer between a whipped cream/pudding mixture, topped with a chocolate covering....it's been so long since I've made it, I suspect I embellished on it at different times, and with the addition of coconut, would guess it approximates Nanaimo bars....
Monsoon East
Today's review: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/restaurants/2008763518_cicero20.html?cmpid=2628
favorite potato chips
Oooh yeah....I like the salt and crunch of the Beer Chips....doesn't taste really beery, but has a really nice feel to it....
Also like the Kettle Spicy Thai as well as the Kettle Chipotle....
Alas, I've never seen the Terra General Tso's.....
Have just had the Food Should Taste Good jalapeno chips, too, altho these are tortilla, not tater chips.....
Monsoon East
I was there for lunch yesterday, roughly 1100-1130. Found easy parking on a side street right across the street....Harder to find right on Main Street...
Nice lunch by Swedish in Seattle?
Broadway is a short hop away from Swedish, nothing of interest there? I tried to find a link to current restaurants up there and came up empty, sorry....
Record Breaking Cold- What's The Best Food?
Thanks for the tip, I just checked the WSLCB site and they do carry Patron XO.....(we don't get Canton ginger liquer to try.....)...
Also scoped your website, very nice!
Record Breaking Cold- What's The Best Food?
viperlush: have you tried the godiva chocolate liquer in your hot cocoa? :-) and what flavor single malts, if you would be willing to divulge, please?
Crayfish King
Looks like they're getting closer - there are little bottles of presumably hot sauce lined up in the windows, along with a liquor license notice......
