I take a lot of food photos with my phone, but I never realized how many until tonight. I needed to clear space on my memory card and discovered I had 5 months of food photos stored. So I’m finally putting them on the blog where they belong.
The top photo was taken at Uwajimaya, my [...]
Archive for the ‘Savory’ Category
When Ellen is away, penne is in play
Posted in Savory, Sweet, Thursday night dinners, tagged carrot salad, pear and ginger crisp, Penne with cheese and ham, stuffed mushrooms on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I will eat just about anything and have few food hang-ups. So I find people’s food dislikes and “food rules” fascinating. For example, my friend Ellen, the fabulous host of the Thursday “Girl’s Night” dinners, doesn’t like any kind of short pasta. To Ellen, pasta means noodles, and noodles only. To each her own, but [...]
“But it’s breakfast for supper. Your favorite, Paulie.”
Posted in Savory, So right, Sweet, Thursday night dinners, tagged Breakfast for dinner, Juno, Paulie Bleeker on August 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I didn’t need to watch Juno to know that having breakfast for dinner kicks butt.
My Thursday night dinner crew shares the sentiment, and in June, we had a potato and leek frittata, waffles, bacon, sausage, fruit salad and mimosas in honor of our friend Jill’s birthday.
Oh Mioposto
Posted in Reviews, Savory, tagged Mioposto, Mount Baker, Pizza, Seattle on August 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The best pizza I’ve ever had came from a shop in the Venice train station. It was a slice of margherita pizza with basil, fresh tomatoes and mozzarella cheese and a thin but perfectly crisp crust.
That was six years ago, and as I recently told my friend Mary, who was with me on [...]
Figs, pigs and lions
Posted in Alcohol, Savory, Sweet, Thursday night dinners, tagged Salumi, sopressata, mole salami, mollinari hot salami, finnochiona salami, Metropolitan Market, Figs, Carrots with black olives and garlic, Ted Kennedy, White Lion cocktail, Lion of the Senate, Trader Joe's vanilla wafers, NILLA wafers, Pudding on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Tara and her husband H. recently purchased their first home, and they graciously hosted this past Thursday’s Girl’s Night dinner at their new digs.
We started the night with some cheese, figs and meat treats from Salumi. I bought them at the Metropolitan Market in West Seattle, which has a robust selection of [...]
Olive 8 ALMOST makes you forget you’re eating hotel food
Posted in Reviews, Savory, tagged Alaskan cod, Braised beef short rib, Hotel food, Hyatt at Olive 8, Leek and ricotta croquettes, Seattle on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If there is a part of hell reserved for food lovers, I’m sure that it is a hotel ballroom where the damned must eat endless supplies of rubbery chicken breasts, dried-out beef, gummy pasta and mushy vegetables.
So I was pleasantly surprised to enjoy the dinner at my friends’ wedding reception at the Hyatt at [...]
Oh yes, it’s ladies night
Posted in Savory, Sweet, Thursday night dinners, tagged meatballs, smoked salmon, Project Runway, appetizers, garam masala deviled eggs, ham tartines, cheese plate, marshmallow fluff, Jamaican chicken bites, roasted veggies, Tom Douglas, chocolate and peanut butter brownie, Project Runway All Stars, Santino Rice, Project Runway Season 6, Ladies Night on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So the Thursday morning after the Top Chef Masters finale, I was a little bummed because Hubert Keller lost, but I wasn’t down for too long because I had dinner at my friend Ellen’s house to look forward to. As I wrote a few months ago, every Thursday Ellen hosts a “Girls Night” at her [...]
Too hot to handle!
Posted in Savory, tagged Chili, chipotle, how to fix, too spicy recipe on May 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wow–has it really been over a month since I last posted?! The ironic thing is that I think I’ve been posting less because I’ve been cooking more.
I’ve spent most of this morning trying to fix some way too spicy chili that I made last night. I was trying a new recipe, and I didn’t [...]
There are no danishes in Denmark
Posted in Savory, Sweet, Travel, tagged brown gravy, Cadbury, carmelized sugar potatoes, Cheerios, Copenhagen, Cornish pasty, Craclin' pork, cupcake, Denmark, England, Europe, fish and chips, food photos, Harrods, jacket potatoes, Kroeneburger, Kronborg Castle, Lola's, Rick Steves, smorrebord, spotted dick, sugar pretzel on April 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am WAAAYYY behind in my blogging so this week I’m having my friend and dependable eating buddy, Lynn, guest-blog about her food experiences during a recent trip to Europe.
And now Lynn in the role of Rick Steves…
I took a 10-day trip in March 2009, hitting several cities in England and then Copenhagen, Denmark. [...]
Hot dish
Posted in Alcohol, Food TV, Savory, So right, So wrong, tagged Carla, Ciclon, Diet Coke, Hardee's, Hosea, Molly Wizenberg, Orangette, Padma Lakshmi, Rebekah Denn, rum, Seattle P-I, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef, Top Chef reunion show on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been out of commission the last few weeks with a nasty sinus infection so that’s why it’s been all quiet on the blog front. Here are some random bits of food news that I’ve been thinking about while I’ve been getting plenty of rest and drinking lots of fluids.
I possess what may be the [...]
