Comfort foods

[JackFavell]

We have been making fish more lately too. Don't think of it as a luxury - it's good for you and you deserve it!

I usually go to the market to see what is on sale - though I love Salmon best (notice I accidentally capitalized it), we usually have cod, halibut or tilapia, but my other favorites are sole and catfish. Andrew loves tuna steaks, so we get those when they are not too pricey, and Alice likes it all, shrimp, tuna, salmon, crabmeat and lobster - she even eats clams and calamari. She's so adventurous with fish, whereas with anything else it's a struggle. So I've been going with it.

Lately we get the California rolls and sushi (sashimi?) at the store, they are fresh and have fish, avocado, (yum) cucumbers, carrots, and sticky rice, sometimes sesame seeds. I love them.

[charliechaplinfan]

I could definetly eat more fish but it's twice the price of meat which means it needs justifying.

I do like home economics, they don't really teach that anymore but it's so important to eat well and balance the books at the end of the month.

[Rita Hayworth]

JackFarvell,

I love Salmon too. I have it at least 3-4 times a month ... I like it grilled with a touch of lemon on top with rice pilaf, steamed vegetables, and I always have sourdough rolls with Salmon. Fish is good for you ... Being in the Pacific Northwest - I pretty much have the luxury of having it anytime I want. I love Salmon too. A combo of Steak and Salmon is hard to beat.

[klondike]

KM, ever go down to Pike Place and watch them throw the fish around?
A lot of Seattlites act like it's just a silly show for tourists, but when we lived on Vashon, I'd always make time to prowl the Market when ever I came over through Fauntleroy, and while my kids would play on the big brass pig, I'd watch the "flying fish".
Good days; I miss 'em!

[Rita Hayworth]

KM, ever go down to Pike Place and watch them throw the fish around?
A lot of Seattlites act like it's just a silly show for tourists, but when we lived on Vashon, I'd always make time to prowl the Market when ever I came over through Fauntleroy, and while my kids would play on the big brass pig, I'd watch the "flying fish".
Good days; I miss 'em!

Yes, I occasionally go to Pike Place on a Monthly Basis - and they still throw the fish around ... I meet several friends there for breakfast on Friday Morning on a monthly basis. I take the Metro Bus there because parking is a major hassle around there. Many tourists loved the flying fish show and I sometimes stop and watch it. One time about five years ago - I got hit by a six pound salmon on the back of my head because I wasn't paying any attention and forgot that was in that area in the picture shown here. Anyway, I did not get hurt at all ... they felt bad about it and gave me a pound of salmon to take home for my enjoyment. It's still busy and still maintained its charm all these years.

Original Starbucks Store


I always stop at this store for Coffee after I meet my friends for breakfast ... they are all tea drinkers and I just have water with them ... after departing ... i go to the original Starbucks ... for my daily COFFEE fix.

It's still running ...

[charliechaplinfan]

I've watched a DVD whilst in work about the Seattle fish market, all about the passion about selling fish, I think the lesson they're trying to make us learn is to be as passionate about banking. Is it possible. Whem we tried chucking the money around we got some really strange looks.

[JackFavell]

Ha ha! Alison, that's priceless! My bank manager would have gone bonkers if we had picked up straps of money and flung it!

[charliechaplinfan]

I did struggle to see why the fish guys were all so happy, early mornings, fish smell all the time. Are all US fishmongers so cheery? It sure hasn't reached here.

[JackFavell]

The fishmongers here on the east coast are just like all yankees in Connecticut.... undemonstrative and taciturn till you get to know them. . After 10 years or so they will greet you with some enthusiasm.

[charliechaplinfan]

Ha, I like that. Yet people who do make you welcome encourage people to come back to them, especially in the little shops.

I'm having a love affair with peanut butter at the moment, usually one of my husband's treats. I'm loving anchioves too but only tolerating the bananas I'm making myself eat, bananas are particularly good with chocolate melted either in the oven or the microwave but it's not that good for the wasitline

[JackFavell]

I'm the opposite- I love bananas, can take or leave peanut butter (my husband's favorite - it must be a guy thing), and I think anchovy paste is the greatest invention ever... I add it to pasta dishes for extra flavor.

[klondike]

The fishmongers here on the east coast are just like all yankees in Connecticut.... undemonstrative and taciturn till you get to know them. . After 10 years or so they will greet you with some enthusiasm.

You Nutmeggers must be a tad more social due to your border with New York . . . in Vermont, natives need to see your name on a mailbox for at least 25 years before you're thought deserving of a nod & the 2-finger wave in passing.
One local lady who "moved up" from New Jersey over a decade ago, opined, recently, at the Miss Bellows Falls Diner that after having two kids in the Green Mountain State, and paying taxes to school them here, it was high time to treat her like a "real Vermonter".
The flannel-clad septagenarian seated at the counter behind her turned around and responded:
"My old barncat, one Summer, had a litter in the woodstove - but that didn't make her a biscuit."

[movieman1957]

"Anchovy Paste." I already didn't feel well and that just set me back about four hours. Gladly, "The Bride" has never added anything like that to her pasta dishes.

I do like bananas but while there is still a bit of green on them. Peanut Butter is good but I'd rather have crunchy than creamy and then always with jelly on a sandwich. I don't have to have it though.

[JackFavell]

The funny thing is, Klonny, I edited my post from 25 years to ten before I posted it, because I didn't want people telling me I was exaggerating.

As for bananas, I like em a bit green too, Chris.....chunky peanut butter too, and I won't mention the A word again.

[charliechaplinfan]

Chris you're just like my husband, he can barely look at the jar in the fridge. Must be chunky peanut buttter too.