April 2021 archive

Rewrite

Sometimes the best-laid menu plans go awry. This afternoon I was busy repotting plants and taking the Grim Reaper (my little scythe) to some overgrown plants off the lower deck. Julian wisely asked, “Are you going to have time to make the bun bo Hue tonight? Why don’t you do the orecchiette and I’ll do …

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Downtown Jaunt

Julian wanted to get out of the house today. “How about we go downtown, get piroshkys, and eat them in the park?” There was a long line outside Piroshky Piroshky, so we went with plan B. The Seatown is a small iteration of local restaurateur Tom Douglas’s empire, now mostly shuttered due to the pandemic. …

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Southpaw in the Kitchen

As with many tasks, cooking can be problematic for those of us who are left-handed. Can openers, liquid measuring cups, kitchen shears, and instant-read thermometers are built for right-handed people. There used to be a store in Pike Place Market that carried items for left-handed folks, but it disappeared 10-15 years ago. Probably the rent …

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The Appliance Shuffle

In the six years since we bought Casa Sammamish, we’ve replaced the microwave/ventilation fan, range, refrigerator, rice cooker, espresso machine, sink, garbage disposal, gas grill, and coffee grinder. This means our dishwasher has a large target on it.

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