Archive for September, 2007

Savory stack

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Who’s hawking waffles in today’s paper? Me. Breakfast for Dinner Serve with a mug of hard cider. Did you know they drink cider from mugs in Brittany? Probably they use some kind of antique, hand-thrown number, but a university-logo coffee mug strikes me as adequately nostalgic. Also in today’s Seattle Times, in the very same section, […]

Waffle art

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

I was eating this waffle the other night and I thought the trail of syrup and smudge of blueberry sauce looked kind of artistic, so I took a picture.

Get shirty

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

The Roots and Grubs T-shirt Emporium This is a great day for civilization in general and Roots and Grubs readers in particular. The shirts are here! Two designs are available, and you can get each in a huge variety of styles and colors, including baby and child sizes. You can even get organic cotton. The “faces” logo was […]

Those crazy chefs

Monday, September 10th, 2007

This week on Serious Eats: Cooking with kids: A food-related board game Iris wants to be the cupcake chef every time. I like the stir-fried noodle chef, although the sliced scallions look more than a little like eyeballs. Every time I pull the soy sauce tile, Iris, who has been known to steal tofu from […]

On the Hill: Shinka Tea

Monday, September 10th, 2007

I’m at Shinka Tea, a new tea shop on Olive Way that opened last week. They specialize in flavored and sweetened teas but were happy to make me a cup of genmaicha for $2. More teas are on the way, the owner told me. Bubble tea is also available, and I promised Iris she could […]