My mom, who’s a very good gift giver…sends Robin and I creative and high quality care packages 2 times per year. Once on St. Nick’s day (Dec 6th), in honor of a tradition we established as youngsters living in Germany, the other time on Valentine’s Day, because it was a family tradition to her when she was young. This year, on these two occasions my mother sent us gifts that were quite interesting, so I thought it’d be fun to share them. She termed them the “The Mystery Gift“. They are an item that we have to guess what they are used for after we open it. The pictures of them are below. Can you guess what they are? The only hint is that they are both used in the kitchen.
Mystery Item #1
The first item may be more recognizable to many of you. This second item took us substantially longer to figure out what it what used for. We searched up and down the web, and eventually we came across the answer.
Mystery Item #2
After a few weeks I’ll post the answer below here in white, and you can simply highlight over it to find out what these kitchen tools are used for. Robin and I always think we know of every kitchen gadget out there, but these 2 items will certainly come in handy. Good luck.
Answers Below (just highlight over them with your cursor, click on link if you want more detail):
Mystery Item #1: Gnocchi Board
Mystery Item #2: Turkey Lacer
In Seattle there has been a lot of hype about pizza places the last several years, and Portland also has absolutely excellent options in Apizza Scholls and Ken’s Artisan Pizza. While we feel that many of these offerings are quite delicious, they all seem to lack something. It seems that no one place in the Northwest has the pizza that has it all but this isn’t to say, that there should be a place that can make a “perfect pizza”. Some pizza joints have excellent crust, some creative toppings, or really tasty sauce. And then, there is the debate about the different types of crust: thick, thin, pan, chewy, crunchy, slightly burned, or flaky. In Capitol Hill, we tend to like Via Tribunali, especially for their delicious calzonne, which comes slightly charred on top, bubbled up, and packed full with goodies. We really enjoy the salads a Tutta Bella, although we feel that the pizza doesn’t have the quite the same quality it had before they decided to franchise the place throughout Seattle.
A newer place, which has generated considerable buzz in the food world of Seattle is Delancey, over in Ballard [Rebekah Denn’s post here]. Delancey is fantastic! It really lives up to the hype, but it is in my view a “gourmet pizza place.” What do I mean, by this…read on. The toppings and the crust at Delancey are arguably the very best the city has to offer. However, there seems to be some debate in this regard. Some people in the Seattle blogosphere feel that Flying Squirrel Pizza in the Seward Park neighborhood can compete with Delancey for the best pizza in Seattle so we decided it was time to see what this Flying Squirrel pie was all about.
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