sweetpotater's Profile
Tater Salad: How Do You Take It?
I go heavy on the sweet pickle relish. I can't help myself. I made a recipe from the New York Times once that had ketchup in it. I was skeptical but it was great.
Visiting my daughter and need advice
If you are at that Homewod Suites, you can walk to Johnny Rockets and Gameworks. Both chains, not particularly good or interesting, but teenage boys would probably like it.
Grocery Store Soup - Who Has the Best?
I tend to prefer Met Market's soups—there are always four or so I like—to the Got Soup guy. His are pretty expensive and he and I seem to have incompatible palates; I just never really like his stuff though I can tell he uses quality ingredients.
Falafel?
They have it at Max's Kosher in Wheaton, Md., and at the Maoz chain. Also this other place in DC, not far from Amsterdam, though they put the stuff on from the other side.
Visiting Seattle Over Memorial Day Weekend Need Restaurant/Coffee/Alcohol Suggestions
Can't help you there. I don't drink coffee.
Visiting Seattle Over Memorial Day Weekend Need Restaurant/Coffee/Alcohol Suggestions
All near you: Aloha Ramen in Greenwood—cheap, cheap. I like the cocktails at Copper Gate, a quirky Scandinavian bar in Ballard. (They also have food.) Go to Walrus and Carpenter in Ballard RIGHT WHEN THEY OPEN for happy hour oysters and innovative crudo dishes (great bread too); or go to Frank's in the U District for oysters and a glass of champagne.
Visiting my daughter and need advice
You can get good oysters much less than that at happy hour.
Blackbottom question
Damn. I left it out on the counter overnight. Cannolis would have been perfect.
Blackbottom question
I'm making blackbottoms from a recipe that has left me with a surplus of the dollop-on-top stuff—a mix of cream cheese, mini chocolate chips, sugar, Nutella, and egg. Any suggestions about what to do with this, besides eating it all from a spoon? I have a little over a cup of it, and am leaving town in six days.
Falafel?
Of these recommendations, which have the nearly-salad-bar-sized variety of pickly, garlicky, and saucy accoutrements that I miss so much from Amsterdam Falafel and real kosher places back in DC?
Summer Sipping - alcohol & otherwise
I like to make a cocktail from cucumber, lime, mint, simple syrup and a splash of seltzer. I just blend the lime juice, mint, cucumber, syrup; fancy people might make use of a strainer.
Pizza week
Jay, the crab pizza at Matthew's in Fells Point is the ultimate Baltimore experience—it's phenomenal. We also liked BOP, Zella's, and Iggie's (though we left 2.5 years ago). I couldn't stand Joe Squared, which gets hyped, at all.
Dieting during work travel
Unfortunately, when I travel for work, I have literally no time to exercise and barely any to sleep either. Which is why watching what I eat on the road is particularly important.
SEA Here we come
I've had mixed results on crabs from the market, and two weeks ago hit the jackpot at Jack's Fish Spot.
Dieting during work travel
The hotels are a mixed bag, depending on the size of the town we're in. But I can always call and see in advance what's available to me.
Dieting during work travel
I travel a lot for work and am doing Weight Watchers. It's really hard, especially since I often wind up in tiny towns where restaurants serve seven side dishes, all potatoes. And I like to have a glass of wine with my colleagues at the end of a long day in a conference room.
Unfortunately on my trips (which can be every week for 10 weeks), lunch and often breakfast is just presented to us. Often it's the sandwich-chips-apple trifecta I never eat in real life—I don't eat the bread from the sandwiches, and give away the chips, then am hungry. Sometimes we are served an elaborate meal from culinary students who want to impress us.
Dried fruit and nuts, my fomer crutch, have so many points. I do bring as much fresh fruit from home as is practical. I bring a boiled egg for each day and just eat the white. (They keep.) I don't like energy bars or most other processed foods. I hate artifical sweeteners.
Any suggestions of things I can make and bring for snacks and meal supplements to last through three-day trips? It all has to pass TSA, so no gooey stuff.
WEIGHT WATCHER FOODIES - WHAT ARE YOU COOKING? PART 6
I'm starting a new thread on dieting during work travel. I hate it.
OMG- Roasted Cauliflower
I cut it up small, a little olive oil spray and salt, 300 oven slow till it's brown and awesome. I eat a whole head at once.
Help! I need cookie/bar recipes with a large yield!
Google Man-Catcher Brownies. Easy, the recipe makes a ton, rich so you can cut small, and astonishingly popular.
Suggestions for girls' day out on May 5?
Just had three girlfriends visit last weekend. Day 1: Sampler at Pike Place Chowder, samples from the market, crabs at home. Day 2: Lunch at Green Leaf after $27 massages in the ID, bubble tea at Ambrosia, tour of central library, walk up to Victrola Coffee & oysters at Taylor Shellfish, happy hour sushi at Momiji, then karaoke at the Rock Box. Day 3: We were going to do Fremont/Ballard crawl, but brunched at home, Olympic Sculpture Park, dinner at Staple & Fancy. Every step (and bite) of the itinerary was wonderful; I recommend any of it.
restaurant near the marriott courtyard lake union
Bisato, about a mile from the hotel. I left hungry but I didn't want to spend much money that night. It's sleek, cool little plates.
Seattle Eats with Kids
On a nice day we gather food at the Pike Place Market and eat it at the little park at the north end. Via Tribunali is silghtly more kid-friendly, mainly because we never have to wait, but Delancey is better pizza. It's not in a convenient location, though. Anything in the International District is great with kids—Green Leaf, Pho Bac, Ambrosia for bubble tea. Blue C Sushi is fun for the conveyor belt, but the food quality is better in the ID.
How did I do with my dinner plans? (and a couple other questions.)
Just came from Staple and Fancy, which is great but I only recommend it for four or more people, where you can do family-style and get a great deal. Instead I'd do Walrus & Carpenter and sit at the bar.
Dungeness crabs, and...
Artichoke sounds perfect. Plus, my husband hates artichoke, and he won't be there.
I'm sure I'll make dessert ahead of time, though we will have plenty of ice cream throughout the weekend, if this is anything like our past girls weekends.
Five Hooks Fish Grill—don't bother
Upper Queen Anne could use some more decent casual restaurants—but this ain't it. It wasn't crowded on Friday night at 6:30ish, and there were no more than three tables per server, but the service took forever—getting menus, getting someone to take our order, getting our food, getting the check, getting the credit card slip back. I mean, forever.
Decent food might have mitigated the service. We ordered a basket of fried clams, scallops and shrimp; seared rare tuna; and kids' fish and chips. The clams were unchewable. The scallops tasted like nothing. The shrimp were fine, and the cocktail sauce was really good. The tuna was bland and the accompanying rice was gummy. The fries were fine, and my kid liked the fried cod (clearly not battered in house, which is okay for a 3-year-old).
I have stopped saying "fine" when asked how food is, if it's not. I figure that if I ran a restaurant, I would want to know. When this waitress asked, I told her we couldn't chew the clams (to explain the expectorated remnants in the basket; I didn't say anything about the uneaten tuna and scallops), and she took that off the bill.
Everyone who worked there was friendly, at least.
Is there *anything* chowworthy and kid-friendly on the top of the hill?
Wanted: Banana Cream Pie!
I can vouch for this. Everything we ate there was delicious, the pie too.
Dungeness crabs, and...
I was guessing. But they are expensive. Which is why each person is getting a half and I need to make something else too :)
We will probably be grazing at the market in the afternoon, so it doesn't have to be a huge meal.
Dungeness crabs, and...
Some girlfriends are coming to visit me in Seattle, and they want to eat dungeness crabs. We'll fix them at home, but that doesn't make a meal (at least not at $30 a crab). What else, that I can either make ahead or takes minimal prep? I'm used to Maryland crabs, which we throw on the table with some corn on the cob and beer.
