Easy As Pie – A la Mode Opens Retail Shop

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Guest post by Karen Rosenzweig For most small businesses, things start out fairly simple.  You create a great product, open a small neighborhood shop, and hope to build a strong customer base.  Then, if you are lucky, you might consider the transition to adding a web storefront to reach the masses, and sell your product [...]

Tailgating With the Chefs!

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Guest post by Karen Rosenzweig Now that Fall has officially arrived, it’s time for such great things as pumpkins, baking, comfort food, wine crush – and football! Yes, we are about a month into the pigskin season, and many of us enjoy our weekends with friends and cheering for the Seahawks, Huskies and Cougars – [...]

Rolling gnocchi, smoking fish and playing Scrabble

Guest post by Karen Rosenzweig (note: Karen is less than 10 recipes away from finishing her “Summer of Sustainable Seafood in Seattle” project – cooking and blogging 75 recipes between Memorial Day and Labor Day from Becky Selengut’s Good Fish cookbook! This post was previously published on Good Fish, Good Cook) It only took me [...]

Gourmondo Introduces a New Line of Bottled Salad Dressings

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If you love Seattle-based Gourmondo Catering as much as we do, you know that their philosophy of only using the freshest ingredients from local vendors and small organic farms is what makes their food stand out. We are consistently trying to recreate some of their “signature” items but with their new line of salad dressings [...]

Avocados: More Than Just Guacamole

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Growing up in the Puget Sound, I wasn’t exposed to avocados nor did I know that they could be anything else but serve as the main ingredient in guacamole. I was proven wrong at a dinner I recently attended with the California Avocado Commission (more on that later), which opened my eyes to the versatility [...]

Summertime and the Crabbing is Easy

Atta girl! Christie Johnson of KING 5 shows off her crab haul

Guest post by Lisa Samuleson One of the many great joys of living in the Northwest (even in a less than stellar summer such as this one) is the abundance of great food and access to amazing seafood. On a recent Sunday, I strolled into my local farmer’s market and picked up some incredible peaches, [...]

Small Batch Products Deliver Big Flavors

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I am completely and utterly enamored by artisan products, especially those that are developed with a strong passion for quality and purely created from the heart and soul.  People who follow their interests or create something just for sheer enjoyment often stumble upon a product that can emerge into much more than was ever imagined. [...]

Grocery Outlet is One-Stop Shop for Great Meal

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Guest post by Deba Wegner (part 3 of 3) Herb Brined Foster Farms Chicken w/Roasted Warm Tomatillo Salsa & Long Grain Rice Pilaf (This dish is made from ingredients regularly found at all Washington Grocery Outlet locations) Preparation Time: 10 minutes on one day, 20 minutes on the following day First day: If you have [...]

Bargain Market is a Family’s True Passion

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Guest post by Deba Wegner (part 2 of 3) It is midday, the store is busy, and I grab a cart and make my way down the aisles of Grocery Outlet. I am trying to get a feel for the store and see what the product mix is like. At a display of large brightly colored [...]

Resolute Foodie becomes Grocery Outlet Evangelist

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Guest post by Deba Wegner Part #1: What is Grocery Outlet, where are they and why should you care? Sweet Mexican yellow pear tomatoes, organic blue cheese, Cabot butter, Black Forest ham, Scharffenberger chocolate, marcona almonds, Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, Aquastar Tilapia Filets, Harris Ranch Beef, Aidell’s Sausage, Foster Farm chicken, Riedel Glassware, wine [...]