Flying Fish and Twenty-Five for $25
This month is another Twenty-Five for $25 deal, where 25 restuarants offer a 3-course meal for $25 Sunday through Thursday, all month except Thanksgiving. Some of them offer a 3-course lunch for...
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I was in Scottsdale last week for a meeting. I ended up going to the same restaurant two nights in a row with mostly different groups of people: Bloom, which serves what they call "New American...
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Still Powerless
We're into our third day of being without power, which is getting rather tiresome at this point, given the fact that we have electric heat. Right now we're at our friends' house in Poulsbo, enjoying...
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Passed two pickup trucks on the freeway in San Jose, California today. They both had a company logo on the back, "Crime Scene Cleaners." Underneath, it said "Homicides - Suicides - Accidental Deaths."...
View ArticleBainbridge Island Update
I haven't blogged for a while, and in the meantime there's been lots of action on the local food front...so I'll do a quick recap of what I've found.When I posted on BI BBQ in 2006, it was a...
View ArticleCascadia
We went to Cascadia last week. Cascadia is located on 1st Ave. in Belltown. Cascadia's physical space is lovely. It's open and airy, with large windows through which one can see slivers of Puget Sound....
View ArticleCrush
We went to Crush on Madison at 23rd in Seattle recently. The space is a remodeled old house, with an open kitchen and modernist furniture, decorated tastefully.We both had the tasting menu. Debbie had...
View ArticleWorld Water Week and the TAP Project
March 22nd is World Water Day, and for World Water Week (March 16-22) UNICEF has an initiative called the TAP Project. During that week, participating restaurants will solicit $1.00 for tap water,...
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Fun with Datalogging
It's pretty cool that for $40 you can get a USB fob (Lascar Easylog EL-USB-Lite) that will monitor temperature every 1/2 hour and let you upload and graph the data. I got a pop-up greenhouse, and...
View ArticleRise of the Machines
You can now get espresso drinks, aka McCafé, at the McDonalds on High School Road. That means that there is now drive-through espresso available on Bainbridge Island. It has that "custom brewed by an...
View Articletxori
txori on 2nd ave. in Belltown is a "San Sebastian-style" pintxos bar, where "pintxos" is the Basque more-or-less equivalent of "tapas," i.e. small plates, usually served at a casual bar. The space is...
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Pica on the Plaza Real
On the Plaza Real in Barcelona: Almonds and Boquerones (anchovies in vinegar)
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At the Museo de Jamon
A starter of Iberian Ham and Melon at the Museo de Jamon on the Plaza Mayor, Madrid.
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Olive Tree
Olive tree in Retiro Park, Madrid. This was on a path that spiraled up a smallish mound, planted with olive and cypress trees.
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Lunch in Barcelona
At a place in El Born near the Picasso museum: grilled scallops with Iberico ham, trout eggs, and asparagus, along with bacalao croquettes.
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Dinner
Turns out the tapas place at which I stopped for dinner is a small chain. The other two include the one I stopped at for lunch and another one just a block from the first one, so a very local chain....
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Warm Goat Cheese Salad in the Pyrenees
Wrapped in bacon with lardons, butter lettuce, pine nuts, apple, and mustard dressing.
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Perhaps the ugliest modernization ever undertaken
In Ax-les-Thermes, France. The 19th century bath house gets an "upgrade."
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Duck: It's What's for Dinner
Cooked rare and served with baby vegetables and a garlic cream. I had this at Le Chalet in Ax-les-Thermes. The amuse-bouche was a "creme brulee" of mushrooms with a parmesan crumble. For a first...
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Pintxos in Donostia
This place was in the old quarter of Donostia aka San Sebastian. Pintxos restaurants in the U.S. tend to be run by culinary school graduates, and can be over-thought, precious and expensive. Here,...
View ArticleCondé Nasty
I just got the new edition of the Gourmet cookbook. On the front cover there's a sticker that says "A subscription to Gourmet magazine is included with this book." Haha. If I wasn't so lazy I'd call...
View ArticleBI Food Blathering
Haven't blogged much. Lots has changed on Bainbridge Island...A couple of cafés closed: Mud Puddle, much lamented by my daughter because it was walking distance from school, and Trios, across from the...
View ArticleWashing Machine
Dead washing machine. Grr. A "reliable" Maytag. Bah. And the people who sold it to me (Schmidt's) are, um, washing their hands of it, won't even attempt to fix it. Humbug!
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