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    best coffee/espresso

    in Coffee & Tea

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    Graffeo - are you all talking about the sweetest little place in North Beach, San Francisco? The best way to get it is to go to the store itself - a pilgrimage. I hadn't been for around 15 years, and when I stumbled in again, it was every bit as good as I remembered!

    Homegrown tomatoes

    in Food Traditions & Culture

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    Here's what I'll have growing this year (tomato stuff - the rest is in the kitchen garden thread):

    Principe Borghese (Territorial Seeds), sauce/drying - grew this years ago and recall liking them

    Tiger Like (T.S) - heirloom, small striped, great flavor and prolific, short plant - prize winner at taste-off 2000

    Costoluto Genovese (T.S.) - heirloom, great flavor, hard to peel as the skin is ruffled - another prize winner 2000

    Jubilee (Solly's Choice) - yellow (end of old seeds)

    Oregon Spring (Ed Hume and Seeds West) - because I have them and they are reliable

    Red and Yellow Pear (Renee's Garden) - terrible growing conditions last year, yet they still produced

    Camp Joy (Shephard's Seeds) - cherry, clusters - they were great last year

    Isis Candy - start, yellow cherry, new to me

    Yellow Brandywine - start, heirloom, no production last year

    Master Caruso - start, I know nothing about it

    Tomatillo - Toma Verde (Renee's Garden) - easy and prolific

    In case anyone doesn't know, Shephard's Seeds was sold to a big distributor (White Flower Farms?) and Renee Shephard started back up as Renee's Garden. At least that is my understanding. The fun thing about Renee's Garden is they mix in a couple of color coded varieties in a packet (tomatoes, squash, etc), so you can get more variation in a single year.

    Kitchen gardens

    in Kitchen Consumer

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    Blue Heron and all,

    I'll post my tomatoes on the tomato thread, here's the beans and eggplant info:

    Pole beans - zebra, helda and musica (romano's), and painted lady (runner) - all Territorial Seed and new to me this year.

    Bush - black coco (T.S., new) and saved seed of cannellini and dragon tongue.

    I like 'em all. My saved scarlet runners stopped germinating. I used to plant purple podded and yellow wax, easier to see at dusk for harvesting and fun for looks. Unfortunately, purple podded turn green when cooked.

    Eggplant - short tom (T.S.), long purple (Lilly Miller), italian white (Seeds of Change), and turkish orange (Seeds of Change). The orange are inedible, but I understand if I pick them earlier they might be better.

    I grow all these from seeds, some years I get no eggplants, so there is alot of luck involved. I'm not terribly precise in my growing strategies.

    Forgot to mention, I also have a bay tree, currently flushed with new leaves.

    Kitchen gardens

    in Kitchen Consumer

    Posted

    Uh oh, don't get me started! In the lovely Pacific NW, we have some seasonal challenges, but my small (300 sf?) vegetable garden is planted with peas - shell, snap, and snow (and sweet) - planted late February, potatoes (various colors), onions (also various), mixed salad greens (includes arugula), mixed chinese greens (mustards and choi), black kale, rainbow chard (hmm, a theme?), beets, and spinach. Setting fruit currently is a great strawberry patch, as well as a small fig tree. I have a ton of lovage (what am I to do with it?), angelica which I am allowing to flower for the first time - awesome, many varieties of lavendar, thymes, mints, coriander, oregano, parsley, sage, rosemary, lemon balm, raspberries, blueberries, sorrel, feverfew, and a few leeks. Ready to plant are starts of tomatoes (embarrassing quantity - 10 varieties?), corn, peppers, eggplants, cauliflower, cukes, basil, lemon grass, a stevia plant, lemon verbena, and a tarragon. Somehow, I'll find room for carrots (maybe not - they have been infested the past few years), winter and summer squash, and a few more things I must be forgetting (oh yeah, I put in some beans (at least 6 types) but bet I'll need to reseed in about a month - too cold this spring). Picked my first artichoke this season. I give away a lot of produce each summer - and find eating out a challenge. Who needs a fine tomato/basil salad for $ when I can't keep up with the fresh picked garden produce? Best seeds for around here - Territorial Seeds. Great variety too.

    Lunch at Salumi

    in Pacific Northwest & Alaska: Dining

    Posted

    Some friends put their name on the list for dinner a couple of years ago - never got a date. Not sure how that really works.

    If you want hot food (including meatball sandwiches - something to dream about), call and check on the serving times. In the afternoon, they close down the hot stuff and while cold sandwiches are good, they don't always cure the craving.

    Always a good idea to call and check if they are open - they take alot of holi (and holy) days off.

    Ramen

    in Pacific Northwest & Alaska: Dining

    Posted

    Found myself on Capitol Hill last night, looking for a quick supper. Tried Ezo. It was cheap - combo of shoyu ramen, gyoza, fried rice, and dessert (mango pudding) for $6.95, but not very exciting. Is it sacreligious to include ramen reviews from places like Saito's and other Japanese Restaurants, or even Noodle Ranch? It has been too long since I've indulged to recall details, but I'd prefer to enjoy the slurping of noodles and tasty bits over just feeling fed.

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