My Mom's Kimchee

I'm not even kidding!  It's not that she is my mom...her kimchee is the best ever!

Seattle is changing their laws, and permits will be available to produce and sell some pickled and baked goods from home kitchens.  

Watch out!

The above her is traditional summer kimchee and below is the cucumber kimchee.

My amazing mom...

The New Sitka & Spruce

Hello Friends!
It's been a long time...my excuse is my day job has taken a lot of my day time and beyond.  
  
There also just has been a lot of activities, traveling, spending time with my good friends, family, and helping my dear friend Hamed and Pascale with their upcoming restaurant.

I've done a lot of food...but just haven't spared the time to connect here.  It's a wonderful reminder when your friends ask about it and then you realize that more folks are paying attention than you thought.  Even a co worker friend from Paris said he followed...that's amazing!

I thought I start with a special treat I had this morning.  An unplanned brunch out to Sitka and Spruce.  What a treat! I went there for dinner last month because my sis has been raving about it and how true it was.  The Melrose building is gorgeous and they have built a great place of food there.  The building houses a flower/gift shop, cheese shop, butcher shop, wine bar, and more lovely places of food related goodies.  Next door to the Melrose building is a fish store ( 1 door down ).  It reminds me of neighborhoods in NYC or old days where you had to go to the multiple specialized places to get all your groceries.  

The heart of building is of course Sitka & Spruce.  I loved the place when it was in Eastlake neighborhood, but clearly it's blossomed to it's full personality at this new location.  The first time I went for dinner (where I was too embarrassed to take picture because we were at the communal table where the chef/owner (my crush the last 3 years) was at the head and I was too nervous.  

This time for brunch, I had no shame and here are the food. All plates were served to share.

Sweet Buttermilk Scones with Housemade Butter and Jam

Pacific Farmstead Cheese with Cherries and Honey

Housemade Yogurt with Warm Dates, Strawberries, Pomegranate Molasses, and Flowers




Salmon lox with Slivered Turnip, Orange Peel, and Honey

Ful Medames with a Six Minute Egg

Emmer Crepes with Rhubarb, Nonna Capra, Hazelnut

The only complaint I have was that there was no potato item on the menu.  It's not breakfast without spuds.  When I asked about it, they had a point...it's not in season right now.  They may get purple potato in a few weeks.  How can you get upset about that? It makes sense.  Most of their ingredients are from Washington...total localvore.