little ms foodie

Really?? how so? I've had fantastic service- professional, warm, attentive. My husband has an alergy we always alert restaurants to and Union goes out of the way asking questions to make sure things are good.

Loved our time in Newport! What a charming town! We were staying at the Castlehill Inn so we ate a very nice dinner there one night and had a great lobster meal at Scales and Shells (or is it Shells and Scales??) the next. Had a huge selection of fried goodies at Flo's and some not very inspired lunch items at Rhode Island Quohog. Thanks for the recommendations!

Nishla, thank you for the ES recommendation, we went after dinner last night and had a fabulous time with Tom (he says hi!!) really great drinks and what a list- Jackson gave us a menu. perfect recommendation- I owe you next time you are in Seattle!

ann thanks!! a friend of mine was talking about confit "quick style" and I had a major craving too! tonight- night before vacation, so officially vacation now!- we started with a Floridita Cocktail (followed by a few other cocktails....) then we made Jamaican Jerk Chicken, fried plantains and cuban salad (iceberg-pinapple-avacodo-red onion) (speaking of vacations, you are more than welcome to check out our new blog Luggage Tag- link in my signature)

I like The Splendid Table on APR

The other night we had duck confit with israeli cous cous and fresh peas last night was falafel

Nishla thank you! and to all - sorry for the misspell on Newbury!! Not sure if we'll do cocktails at lunch as we have to drive up to Andover after but maybe we'll have a chance to stop in before or after dinner!

we've been wanting to check this out, thanks for the write up!

I've had nice cocktails at Cafe Juanita in Kirkland, but not sure on Bellevue

nice report back faine, thank you! We will be in Boston for 1 night, 1 day only- dinner is at No. 9 Park but are looking for a lunch spot on Friday. We are staying at the W waterfront and will be checking out the new modern art museum as well as doing a bit of shopping on Newberry. Any great casual lunch suggestions that are easy to get to from any of these locations? we'll be leaving town around 4pm...... Summer Shack doesn't sound like it is near where we will be??

we've been before but took out of town friends on saturday- fantastic! We had about a 30 min wait at 8:30. Took our drinks upstairs and hung out on the couch. Dinner was fabulous including fried polenta with a bagna cauldo sauce (sp), homemade mozzerela with pecan butter on baguette, gorgeous asparagus soup with tuna confit on top, gnocchi ala romano, another pasta I can't remember and a HUGE pork chop! could manage another bite so we had to forgo the zeppole this time........

excellent! duley noted- thank you!!

YUM!! rocky those look awesome! much better looking than the ones I made last weekend!!

We'll be in Newport next week for a few days, staying at Castle Hill Inn and plan to have one dinner there. Where else should we eat- not necissarily high end- just good and local! What to seek out in Newport? lobster? clams? Thanks!!

KIM: yes very easy! we used duck eggs cause that is what we had so ours are a big yellow-er in color. I also drizzled some olive oil on top, I've made another similar version baked in a gorgonzola cream sauce. I just love them as a side! I think you should make them soon so we can compare!!!

Beechers is made here in seattle, we love it too!!! rwsweet that whole meal looks awesome, I would love if someone made that for me! very nicely done!! Klary as I was looking at your post dayne looked over and said YUM! so maybe beige is the new green? we had veal chops purchased from our farmers market- oven roasted with rosemary, garlic, evoo- pan deglazed with vermouth fo a sauce. also green salad and gnocchi parisian I gotta say it was all tasty!!

Kim those key lime shooters are adorable!!!!

I'm guessing that is in the cellar of Trotters!

thanks abra, sorry about the coconut thing- I did think it was in there! I am definately making that soup- yummy!

This looks/sounds amazing. Is it a coconut milk base (like a tom kha gai), or something else entirely? ← If abra is around I'm sure she'll jump in but I do remember her saying it was coconut based I believe

some fellow food enthusiasts got together for our quarterly French cook together but this time we decided to include French colonies. Printempts Deux: Abra made banana jalenpeno fritters with a red pepper dipping sauce LEdlund made duck liver pate and her Mr. made a fabulous cocktail also called Printemp! Then we sat- 14 at the table - and started the meal! I made roasted shallot custard for the amuse bouche Seagal made a fabulous poisson cru with home fried taro and other chips (sorry I can't remember the 2 other types but they were awesome!) Abra was back up with a soup of lemongrass and ginger which was soooo good, she also sauteed some shrimp in garlic for a garnish. she also brought us tastes of a jackfruit soup she had first thought of serving- this is served room temp and was VERY spicy!!! TallDrinkOfWater and I did the salad course, the French Laos Fushion Salad out of HSSS malarky made the wonderful chicken from Wolfert's SW France- this is in the style of the Bearn Eden made a to die for lamb dish which I can't remember the name of! All these dishes had their own wine pairings!! Cheese course next put together by Allyson and then came dessert................ Bill made salt carmel ice cream which we sucked down without taking a picture! and then Sparrowsfall made a creamy carmely dessert too- help, can't remember the name but again it was dish lickable!

What?? no shot of the legs in the kilt?? ha! great blog, thank you so much!!

sooooo jealous!! and I'm loving reading along abra!

we love weekend breakfasts! last weekend we had buttermilk pancakes and homemade sausage patties yesterday was french toast and today was a gorgeous omelette with pistou.....

I want that! and that!!