Rhubarb season is back, and I went to Pike Place Market this afternoon for the makings of a [crumble](https://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/04/23/be-a-rube/) and a batch of [compote](http://phatduck.blogspot.com/2006/05/softer-side-of-rhubarb.html). I also stopped at Delaurenti for one of their chocolate chip cookies, which I learned about in a recent issue of Seattle Magazine and which I am forced to admit are better than mine.
On my way out, I passed by Left Bank Books and heard a very familiar lyric float by. “Like a rock / Like a planet / Like a fucking atom bomb…” One of my favorite songs (Bad Religion’s “[Generator](http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=271935582&id=271935554&s=143441)”), performed live in two-part harmony by two women, one of whom was playing an accordion.
This was a hundred times cooler than anything I expected to see at Pike Place Market on a Saturday afternoon, and I gave accordingly.
Ah yes, I remember taste-testing those cookies. YUM. Have you made the Jacques Torres NY Times chocolate chip cookie recipe? I use the El Rey giant chips and they are out of this world.
Aren’t their cookies from Macrina?
ts, I know they bake the dough at Delaurenti but the dough might come from Macrina.
I’ve made the Torres cookies and found them to be basically indistinguishable from the Cook’s Illustrated recipe I usually use. Which is not a bad thing! I totally agree about aging the dough (which I’ve always done) and sprinkling with sea salt (thanks, David Leite!).
But seriously, the Delaurenti cookies are better, and someone needs to figure out why.
Have you asked the DeLaurenti folks for their recipe?
And have the singing gals replaced the everlastingly annoying dulcimer people?
I haven’t. I did make the recipe from the new Cook’s Illustrated, where you brown the butter, and it is good, possibly better than their previous, definitive one.
I recently came across an old blog of yours when I was searching for a scallion pancake recipie to go along with a chinese inspired meal I am preparing. I noticed that you said something about driving to Vancouver to your favorite Chinese food place up there. I was hopeing you were in Seattle (as it turns out you are), because my wife and I are stranded in Las Vegas for the next year or so, its horrifically hot and I miss home and especially the food. After clicking on your new link it appears that you and I do agree why Seattle is so great and to hear you speak of Delaurenti’s makes me really want to get back there. Your comment about bad religion has solidified your website as a permenant addition to my goodle favorites bar in order for me to keep up on food happenings etc in Sea-town. You are right in between foodnetwork.com and Deschutes Brewery.
-wash me clean and I will run until I reach the shore!
As a side note if you could foreward along a place to find a good scallion pancake recipe (or have one yourself)that would be wonderful.
Sol, give this a try:
Pancakes, the Chinese way
and thanks for the comment! Do you ever get to Lotus of Siam?
I actually have been to Lotus once. It was blogged about and raved about by many celebrities and foodies. I don’t want to offend anyone’s taste because my palate is far from refined, but Lotus of Siam ranked just average compared to even my local Thai place just a few blocks from my house in Vegas (Pin Kaow Thai). Let alone my favorite places like Jai Thai, Tawon Thai, or Sabai Sabai (RIP spicy Greenlake Thai food). I took my brother who has actually been to Thailand (and is a chef in Seattle) and his thoughts were the same. I guess I had high hopes for Lotus, especially as I sat waiting for my food and staring at all the celebrity chefs on the wall applauding the little old Thai lady who owns the place. Have you been? Maybe I ordered the wrong thing. They were really nice there though and it seemed to be family run. Thanks for your pancake article!
No, I haven’t been to Lotus. I’ve heard widely divergent opinions on it, so I’m just going to build a big complicated stereotype in my head.