ramblings of a Seattle travel, food and photography hound
The buzz has been good. Our friends who raved about The Reggie at Pine State Biscuits in Portland gave a thumbs-up to The Zach, as the biscuit topped with fried chicken, gravy, bacon and fried egg is called at Serious Biscuit. The creations are similar at both Northwest diners, the only difference being the inclusion of cheese... Continue Reading →
My wife's cousin's husband, Jim Brandt, has been into photography for many years, as I have. The difference is that his art is more serious than mine. I don't typically carry around a tripod, which any real photographer, amateur and professional, should use to get the sharpest images. My son-in-law's father, who is also an... Continue Reading →
Today, Sustainable Ballard, in its tenth year of operation, is an all-day (11am-6pm) festival in the Ballard Commons Park extolling the virtues of living sustainably and responsibly in a world ever more consumptive and wasteful. As you can imagine, the booths (canopies, actually) promote everything from energy efficiency, solar power, alternative medicine, local farming, sustainable... Continue Reading →
It was on many homes as we walked through West Seattle, the banner proudly hung from roofs and windows. No doubt this is true all over the region. The Seattle Seahawks' 12th Man flag. Pete Carroll has managed to assemble a young, scrappy, talented team that fans are hoping will take them all the way... Continue Reading →
No sooner did I think that habañero and Scotch bonnet peppers were the hottest chiles in the world than the ghost pepper wrested that title away. At a Scoville scale between 300,000 and 1,000,000 units, it is armed and dangerous. Then in 2012, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper was declared the absolute ruler at a... Continue Reading →
While enjoying margaritas and chips & salsa at Carlos 1800 Mexican Grill in Winthrop, we noticed what looked like pine needles sitting in containers of soapy water. Surely the restaurant wasn't using them for botanical decoration, was it? Our waiter informed us that it was their way of safely controlling the wasp population that had... Continue Reading →
Let me get straight that this blog is definitely not in the business of promoting cars or featuring commercials. With that said, I came across this remarkable Subaru commercial that demonstrates a new safety technology called Eye Sight, sort of a collision-avoidance system. But the thing that struck me about this ad, aside from being... Continue Reading →
A sure sign of mid-spring around our house is not only the blossoming rhododendrons, camellias and pink dogwood, but the appearance of the robin. At this time of year, they seem to be everywhere, flitting about overhead, hopping around on the ground and feeding on grub, and chirping loudly when you get near. This is the... Continue Reading →
My wife was the first to notice this product at the Bellevue Uwajimaya—sriracha popcorn. Whoa! My favorite movie snack combined with my favorite hot sauce? Could I resist? One guess. Here was another innovative snack that intruded into my life after stumbling upon furikake potato chips. If you're a chilihead (or more properly, chilehead) and even if... Continue Reading →
Time has no meaning when you're in flight. When traveling in any direction other than along a longitudinal line, the clock shifts earlier or later. What does it mean, as a friend wondered, when my flight departed Auckland before midnight on the 28th and arrived in Honolulu on the same calendar date, but early in... Continue Reading →
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