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ScorchedPalate

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  1. Cool thread! Here's my cookbook wishlist: - The Gourmet Cookbook - Bouchon - Bistro Cooking at Home (Gordon Hamersley) - Lost Recipes (Marion Cunnngham) - Putting Food By (Janet C. Greene) - Best of the Best 2004: The Best Recipes From the 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year and not really cookbooks, but... - The Tummy Trilogy (Calvin Trillin) - Best Food Writing 2004 - the new edition of The Food Lover's Guide to Seattle - Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet - Women Who Eat: A New Generation on the Glory of Food - Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany ~Anita
  2. How about juice? still bottled water? Seriously, though, what are the odds that all members of a party would feel that way? And that so many like-minded folks just happened to show up during November? ~A
  3. I think it runs the gamut from exactly the experience you describe, to as good as the usual fare (a la Union). My biggest complaint is that the staff at some places often takes the lowest-common-denominator approach, treating everyone like dorks because, of course, the dorks come out in force for deals like this. When we went to Union as a group last year, I was mentioned to someone that I loved deals like this because it left me more cash to explore the wine list. Hans (the maitre d') overheard me and said "I wish everyone thought like you!" And then he went on to tell me about how a solid 25% of people who come in for the $25 deal order no drinks at all, just tap water. (And they have plenty of non-alcoholic options, if that was the issue.) ~A
  4. Apparently we weren't the only ones to dine with Tony: My Dinner with Tony
  5. OMG, Lauren you have to make that photo of you and AB your avatar ~A
  6. He claimed he had some sort of "pizza clusterf*ck with a bunch of chefs" that he had to attend, not sounding very happy about it. ~A
  7. Nope, we haven't tried the AGOG. Maybe we'll have to come and pick one up. <sigh> I really do miss nights in front of the TiVo with a Pagliacci pie... (M/B)ad Pizza: our real estate agent gave us a $50 gift certificate when we moved in here, knowing how bummed we were about being outside the Pagliacci delivery zone. Our first night here, we used the certificate to buy a pie and a salad. Even though we'd told the person who took our order that we'd be using a huge gift certificate for a relatively small order, they didn't send the driver with a blank certificate to give us as change. So she had to take our certificate, go all the way back to Madison Park, pick up the filled-in replacement, and bring it back up the hill. Obviously, someone is *not* thinking ahead down there. The food was so terrible, and the process of using the gift certificate so utterly annoying, that I donated the leftover certificate to a raffle. Bad doesn't even begin to cover it. Let us know who to send our plea to at PagsHQ. Circling the lake is an admirable goal, but you guys could snap up some cheap property on the edge of the CD and make a mint off of madrona, madison park, and madison valley: We have no good delivery pizza here at ALL. ~Anita
  8. Cam and I love Pagliacci's -- we used to live right around the corner from the one on 85th and the pies would be blazing hot when they arrived. We went into mourning when we moved to Madison Valley and realized we were just a few blocks outside their delivery zone for the Cap Hill location. We haven't had delivery pizza since. (OK, once... the time we discovered Mad Pizza is gnarly-bad.) Fai Jai: Can we lobby your corporate HQ for a Madrona/Madison/Central location? We're going into South Philly and Pagliaccio Salad withdrawls. ~Anita
  9. Oh those sound divine! Is one enough or should you order two? Thanks for the tip. ← You're quite welcome. I'd order at least 2.. they're mexican-sized, not gringo-style. I think my last trek there I had 1, maybe 2, plus a chile relleno. ~A
  10. From the Cooks and Books website: Is it just me, or is it ironic that the word "oath" creeps into a mention of someone who famously swears like a sailor? :) ~A
  11. Was at Cafe Lago last night, and the waitress mentioned that they'll have a special $25 offer in Novmeber: a pizza and a selected bottle of wine. Add a couple salads and you've got dinner for two. ~Anita
  12. I apologize if I inadvertantly offended anyone; I meant to highlight that my specific White Girl cultural biases were on display by using quotes around 'normal'; sorry if that was too subtle... ~Anita
  13. When we were there for a sitdown lunch earlier this summer, Armandino served us braised pork cheeks. When we asked, he told us where to find them... but damned if I can remember what he said. I'm thinking that the ID was probably the target zone: Armandino likes to shop close to the store. He's never recommended anything to me further away than PFI or Delaurenti. I've found many odd 'pig parts' at Uwajimaya, especially the Eastside location. yesterday they had skin-on pork bellies (I bought a couple of pounds for homemade bacon!) plus things I hadn't seen since I lived in L.A. (pork uterus, anyone?), all wrapped in stryofoam and cellophane and ready to carry out, just like they were 'normal' cuts like chops or stew meat. ~A
  14. If we're opening this up to the whole thin-crust wood-fired genre, don't miss Cafe Lago.
  15. I propose: The quality of your cocktail decreases exponentially the farther you are seated from the bar. ~Anita
  16. Noooooo! The slices at Piecora's are terrible. You have to get a whole pie (which they will happily divide among two sets of toppings) to get the real deal. ~Anita
  17. Hmm, maybe they've taken a page from the Lark customer-service manual.
  18. I'd call Central Market and/or University Seafood & Poultry.
  19. We had a lovely time at the Seghesio dinner tonight. The food was fab and the wine pairings were great. Tom D. was there off and on throughout the night (he explained early on that he had many thousands over at the Paramount to feed). Forgive my riffing and lack of vintages here here, as I didn't take a menu: (someone else who was there can come in and tell me I got all the items in the wrong sections!) First: rabbit agnolotti with fennel and braised pear, brown butter sauce -arneis (piemontese white varietal) Second: braised pork shoulder with mild greens and roasted cipollini onions - sangiovese Third: smokey slices of beef with trofie pasta - barbera Fourth: braised lamb necks, rapini, polenta - Old Vines Zinfandel - Sonoma Zinfandel dessert: molasses and fig ice cream with fig molasses and fresh green figs (Tom brought us over a bit of Macallan scotch to try with it :) ) Yum. They fully redeemed themselves.
  20. They also sell them in the freezer at Central Market (across from the sausage end of the meat counter, over toward the asian section) along with chicken, turkey, and pork bones, and all kinds of other offal stuff.
  21. Didn't Fine Cooking or Cooks' Illustrated review them a few months back and say "gross!" to the lot of 'em? ~A
  22. The Seattle entries are really, really odd, too. None of the local eG faves are on the list. Of the two that are there, one is cavernous and unremarkable, and the second is, to the best of my knowledge, notable only as a venue for weddings and banquets. A quick re-scan of the list also turns up Mr. Chau's-- a totally grotty chain of fast-food places in the SF Bay Area... best known for their annoying radio jingle: "Mister Chau's... Mister Chau's... CHOW DOWN at Mister Chau-au-au's!" Run away! Also: PF Changs?? Panda Express?? Ew.
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