Okay friends, gather ’round for another fantastic installment of me giving away FREE GOODIES to all my fabulous readers!
This time around we’re celebrating the recent launch of Fonte’s “The Vault”. You may have seen my recent post about my 27 coffee cupping I did recently.
What you see is what you get! So for the list of goodies being given away to one lucky winner, plus instructions on how to enter, click through!
Tags: coffee beans, Fonte Coffee, Giveaway, specialty roast
I know it’s been a while since I posted a food pic for Food Frame Friday, and in my never-ending quest to be consistent (read: total fail thus far), I wanted to get back on it. What you see below is a dish that I made for my new column at Seattle Weekly’s Voracious Food division, Three-Way.
Cream Cheese stuffed lychee with exotic fruits and basil oil
The column, which runs every Tuesday online here: http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/voracious/three-way/, focuses on preparing one ingredient three different ways:
“When your fridge starts to moan and groan from the monotony of the same lame ingredients, it’s time for a culinary three-way. Turning a tired stovetop into a weekday workhorse, Voracious columnist Siiri Sampson brings a fresh, seasonal, or obscure ingredient to life with three treatments: decadent, healthy, and quick-fix.”
Tags: cream cheese stuffing, exotic fruit, Lychee, Seattle Weekly, Voracious
Being a Seattle native, I probably take the coffee (and it’s inherently perceived greatness) for granted. I’ve been around a billion coffee shops basically my whole life. It’s a part of every day for me, and I really just like everything about coffee – the way it warms you (or cools you over ice on a hot day), the way it wakes you up, and the way it just makes you feel good, like an old friend.
Here is Seattle, there are really three camps of coffee: low brow fast food or quick serve coffee you get on the go, major chain mass market shops that focus on consistency and broad availability, and then the specialty shops. Each have their place in my life, and I’m not the kind of person (or food fiend) that snubs my nose up at any one genre of coffee. I am, however, the kind of person that will spit the steaming hot mouthful of crap water back into the cup, or on the ground, if it tastes like a dog took a bath in a tub full of wet cardboard. Just because it’s coffee, doesn’t mean I’m going to drink it.
(click through to read the rest of my amazing revelation about specialty coffee!)
Tags: Beans, Cafe Fonte, Central American coffee, Cup of Excellence, Fonte Coffee, Grind, Nicaragua, steap
Honestly, rain Seattle, just RAIN. I don’t even care. When you get strawberries like this, who CARES?! Rain, snow, whatever. I’m happy as a clam with seasonal fruit. And you know what, naysayers? Without this rain, we wouldn’t be getting all this great food, so suck it and enjoy the fruits of the rain’s labor (no pun intended).
Today marks a couple great things: (1) My mom’s birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!), (2) Gilt City Seattle officially launched today (http://www.giltcity.com/seattle). I sent my mom flowers and chocolates, so that takes care of item #1. Now for item #2, I wanted to celebrate by sharing some of MY favorite things in Seattle with you, my 5 ever-faithful readers! 
If you don’t know much about Gilt City Seattle, you can click that name to find out more, and we highly suggest you do. I for one, am stoked that Seattle’s finally getting Gilted (is that PC?!)
I figured the best way to celebrate and welcome Gilt to the Emerald city would be by giving them (and you) the City Scoop on Seattle from my perspective. Being a native Seattleite DOES have it’s perks – one being I know where some old, hidden treasures are. So read on for three of my favorite things: Doughnuts, Asians and Ice Cream – wait, WHAT?!
Tags: Doughnuts, Food Network, Gilt, Lychee, Seattle Food Finds, Seattle Food Geek
FREE ICE CREAM & MUSIC
Did that get your attention? I hope so, because this weekend you can drive to Maltby, just 30-40 minutes North of Seattle and insert your face into a truckload of free ice cream, hot dogs and more with the Snoqualmie Ice Creamery.
Snoqualmie Ice Cream Announces First Annual Ice Cream-O-Rama
June 25th, 11:00am – 4:00pm
FREE ICE CREAM – LIVE MUSIC – ICE CREAMERY TOURS
Here’s the skinny (which I won’t be after I eat all the ice cream), they are NOT paying me to say this, in fact, I’m getting nothing whatsoever. I have loved this company for the past 5 years, after I first discovered their honey lavender (now French Lavender) in a little stand behind a cheese counter and next to a Chinese tchotke stand in the Pike Place market. It. CHANGED. MY. LIFE. True story.
Tags: French Lavender, Maltby, Snoqualmie Ice Creamery and Cafe
Please god let summer be just around the corner, AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I almost can’t take the grey anymore. To help Mother Nature get in the mood, I thought it’d be fun to do a giveaway for the first week of June!
So, what’s the loot? It’s a SIGNED copy of the fabulously composed “Sips & Apps” book that’s just busting at the seams with great ideas for the summer!
Copyright Kathy Casey 2009
Kathy is just wonderful, warm and fun to be around, and of course it doesn’t hurt that she’s a killer cook that never fails to impress me with the great treats (liquid or otherwise) she offers up.
Want to enter to win? Click through to the full post for details!
The amazing CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) that I get my home delivery organic produce from, New Roots Organics, always lists some great recipes to help eat up all the yummy fruits and veggies they bring their clients.
This week the recipe is “Warm New Potato Salad with Grainy Mustard”, and you can guess we’re getting a batch of new potatoes in our bin this week?!
source: NewRootsOrganics.com
I’m excited to give this recipe a try! Head over to New Roots Organics website to see all the other recipes they have up (and no, I’m not getting paid, or anything for free from them, I’m just excited, darn it!!!!) (click through for the recipe, and don’t forget you can always sub out for any other potato or root veggie in a pinch!)
Tags: CSA, dijon, new potatoes, New Roots Organics, potato salad, salad, thyme
Um, how do I say this? This is either brilliant (if it works), or completely stupid (if I get it home and it’s broken).
This website has about as much credibility as an abandoned lemonade stand…but I did see the commerical on TV last night, which is what made me look it up online…..click through for more skepticism…..
There’s an AWESOME fro yo joint in Renton (near Seattle) and I know they have other locations (at least one I think in the Bellevue area?). Who cares, what matters is this:
Mixed Berry NONFAT fro yo with white chocolate chips and brownie chunks? YES
Well, hello there, precious coconut flavored mochi bits!
Mango fro yo, fresh mango chunks and baby mochi bites. I DIE!
I’m at this rad cheese event and you get to see my live notes about cheese and same, wine and spirits pairings.
Tags: Barrie Lynn, Cheese Rules, mezcal, parmesan, rum, sake, single malt scotch, Small Screen, The Cheese Impresario
Siiri Sampson is a Seattle, WA Food Fiend, Home Cook and Culinary Enthusiast.
