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Lunch suggestions in downtown?
I work across the street from you - not a TON of great options but there are some good ones..
Sound soups is just outside your building, on marion between 2nd and 3rd. Probably eat there about once a week at least, great soups.
Cafe Zum Zum is cheap and filling - oh and mad oven BBQ in the same area isn't bad either, good pulled pork sammys.
If you walk down cherry st towards pioneer square, you've got bakemans (cheap turkey sandwich), falafel place, Coco Banana (a good little smoothie shop and salad bar) and a pretty good italian resto.
Also recently went to Purple and was impressed by the food - would be a good place for business lunch.
(and of course, there is pike place - but that is a walk a bit)
BTW - if you call first thing in the morning to Salumi with your order you can bypass the line at lunch. Cold sandwiches only.
Places to pick wild blackberries in Seattle?
I always look for vacant lots which in the NW are usually overrun with brambles. There is a place next door thats empty and going to be turned into condos - I get my blackberries there.
Peaches now in Seattle area
oh yes - the Kress peaches were very surprising!
Rama farms showed up today at the farmers market selling boxes of peaches - they looked pretty good, but 4.00 a pound and I was out of cash.
where to buy lard? [sea]
I bought mine from wooley pigs (leaf lard that is) about 5 bucks for a big old chunk. Rendering is not hard - cut off any meat, chop into chunks and render in a pot on the stovetop until it's liquid and cracklins. make sure you stir frequently and keep flame low so it doesn't burn.
let it cool a bit, then run through a strainer and pour the liquid into a pan heavily lined with plastic wrap. pop the pan in the fridge, take it out once it's become solid and you can easily cut it up into easy to use sticks. wrap them up in more plastic wrap and it freezes well.
some people like to eat the leftover cracklin bits - I tried them and wasn't a fan.
moving to UK - whats organics situation?
thanks for the reply - availability for this stuff varies so much in different parts of the US that I vouch you need not be a backwards country to not have access.
moving to UK - whats organics situation?
Hi folks,
It looks like there is a good chance I am moving from Seattle to Cambridge in the next few months. Here in Seattle we are lucky to have very good farmers markets and other sources of local, organic veg and meat, raw milk, etc.
I'm sure that pretty much anything can be got in London, but if I'm taking that trip its not to pick up milk =)
If anyone knows what the situation on the organic/local food and raw milk front is in Cambridge, or UK in general, id be much obliged.
Thanks in advance!
(SEA) kare raisu/chicken curry cutlet
Any decent offerings in downtown Seattle, preferably withing walking distance for lunch?
the annual frustrating search for a good peach
They really, really are "Holy Crap" and "OMG" peaches - because that's what you say when you eat them!
Sosio's produce in Pike Place sells them. (so lucky to work up the street!)
In central coast california, Buttonwood farms in Santa Ynez is a winery and peach farm, and thier peaches and plums are quite good. (sadly I've never had a really great wine from there)
HELP: Beard Papa's in Seattle? What and where?
Yeah, was at uwajimaya the other day and there is a big "Coming Soon" sign up for beard papas.
Seattle - good place to buy wine and champagne for event?
I really like mt st michelle (local winery too) - they do a good reisling and I think we got a red from there as well that went over very well (and like 6 bucks a bottle after the bulk discount!)
Seattle - good place to buy wine and champagne for event?
Seconding (thirding?) Pete's. Recently used them for my wedding and they were fabulous - no fuss, no worry (yeah, just come by and pick some stuff out, take it then or maybe the next day if you ordered anything special) - Prices can't be beat. They also have a good deli for a sandwich while running around around with pre-wedding madness =)
ABC reveals secrets of Iron chef America (potential spoilers)
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=5444825&page=1
I knew most of the stuff they reveal, but didn't know about the secret ingredient thing.
Alton Brown likens the american version to a sporting event, while the original iron chef is more like a "Godzilla movie" in terms of its theatrics compared to the American version. He describes an episode of IC: Japan where a guy nails a live eels head to a board and skins the thing alive. Wow, and you say you like the American version better?!
Wierd ingredients, secret ingredients, unknown ingredients?
Tea masala in baked goods - its the stuff you buy in indian grocery stores when you want to make chai the proper way (with the little red box of black tea pellets and milk)
a bit added to brownies, chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies in with the other spices gives it that 'something.'
Also - dutch cocoa powder to chili deepens flavor.
Bastardized foods that you love
Have to mention my personal favorite comfort food, Chicken Tikka Masala. Definately not authentic indian food (does it qualify as authentic british food, though, at this point?)
further bastardized by the fact that we usually only make the CTM sauce without any actual chicken tikka , and use it on...everything we can get our hands on =)
CTM burger..CTM microwave risotto..mmm
Bastardized foods that you love
Me three on these tacos! only we used the yellow hard taco shell from the store.
Seattle's Best Sandwiches
I would add a new one: Mr Lu's Seafood in U-Districts Blackend Salmon Sandwich. lots of perfect spicy fish with grilled onions.
wedding favor ideas? special to washington or seattle.
Would paper bags full of ranier cherries be too hard? They are delicious though.
Kid Party - Any Suggestions For Snacks?
Lots of good ideas at www.familyfun.com - including the cutest cupcakes ive ever seen
Is there an ingredient you are sort of afraid to cook (with)?
If you guys ever make it to seattle, they sell them at the U-district Farmers market and Im sure lots of other places (or you can dig for them yourself, a process that anthony bourdain akins to 'fisting shamu')
Thems big suckers. They don't freak me out (my raw meat thing doesnt really apply to seafood as much) but I still have to work up the courage to buy one.
Is there an ingredient you are sort of afraid to cook (with)?
Agree on lobster..
actually, I get freaked out handling any raw meat. I mean, I do it, but I get all freaked out about it and try to get the fiancee to deal with it instead.
I'm the one who is pulling the giblets out of the chicken with eyes closed going "oh god, oh god.."
I don't kill spiders either.
Bon Appetit Cover - August 08
So, I'm the only one who thought it looked kind of sloppy and gross?
the first thing I thought was "wow, that big blob of hot fudge is gonna slide off any second now"
I don't know, I'm really not a fan of the new bon appetit food covers. It seems that they've got this wierd backlash against the eating healthy movement by putting the most maxxed out junk food on their covers.
Fabulous food for an in-city honeymoon
wait what, there's a restaurant at gasworks?! I run there every day and never knew.
Fabulous food for an in-city honeymoon
Hey folks,
I'm getting married in a few weeks (holy crap!) and since we can't really afford the time or money it would take to have a proper honeymoon trip right after the wedding, we decided to book a couple nights at a nice hotel in downtown and have a mini honeymoon weekend in the city.
Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions on some really fabulous places we can go for dinner that would be outside of our norm.
Keep in mind that I work downtown and we live in Wallingford, so the usual mid-price offerings that would be good for out of towners are kind of done. (I go to pike place pretty much every day, for example, so places like Matt's, Steelhead, wild ginger, etc are out).
I don't often stay in the city for dinner so I know there are quite a few places out there we have never been, but I'm pretty conversant on anywhere around here thats open for lunch. Oh, and we have a car.
We're staying at the hotel 1000 for a point of location reference (which is awesome and I can walk to work on Monday).
Thanks in advance!
HELP: Beard Papa's in Seattle? What and where?
I wonder if we can expect beard papas eventually at all ricen'roll locations...
hmm, cream puffs half a block from my office....on second thought, I hope that doesnt happen, too dangerous!
Boston Chowhound hits Seattle for a few days
no one ever mentions Ocean Palace =/ way better than jade IMHO.
Fun with Lard
its really not as daunting as it seems actually =p
I'm lucky to have one of the finest small-scale pork producers around as a regular at the saturday farmers market. Growing up we always used Crisco, but it never sat right with me and after reading Real Food by Nina Planck I never will again =p
Sadly, lard from the supermarket is partially hydrogenated as well and so unless you're really lucky to have a mexican market near you (I don't), rendering your own from a producer you know really the only option. Plus I believe manteca has a different flavor than the leaf lard, and I was thinking primarily of pie crust when I got all obsessed with the idea.
Then my fiancee informed me that making a bunch of pie would probably be unhelpful to fitting in to a wedding dress next month =/
as is, I will probably perfect my pie crust and freeze them, but making tamales sounds like fun =)
Fun with Lard
Sooo on a whim this weekend I bought a nice big hunk of leaf lard from the Wooly Pig stand in the farmers market, and thought it would be a fun experiment to render down some lard for use in...well, there lies the problem.
I now have a freezer full of neat little sticks of lard, and a fridge full of cracklins. Unfortunately, I really didn't think too far past that. Anyone have good ideas for a bunch of lard? Other than making pie crust (although im sure I will make a few, I don't really need that much pie in my life)
I know its often used in mexican food, but it looks like most recipes on the internet ive come across have been gringo-ized and don't call for it.
bad comes to worse, I can save it for thanksgiving..
Best Workin'Persons Lunch in Downtown Seattle
Sadly, walking 5 blocks there and back to pike place isn't always possible on lunch break.
Humbao and piroshkies are an exception, as they can be eaten on the walk home.
Best Workin'Persons Lunch in Downtown Seattle
Yeah, I went there once, and I don't think id go again, especially when I can probably make better at home. I do pick up just a thing of rice once in a while when I've brough tikka masala sauce leftovers from home and I want to make a CTM risotto in the work microwave.
(btw, if you've never tried that, its awesome)
