Fish Wednesday: Tuesday Multitasking Edition

Thank heavens for the arrival of summer-like days to the Pacific Northwest! Nothing says summer in Seattle like a plate of grilled fish. It’s not summer, not yet, and longer term residents know that this is just a short honeymoon until we return to the frigid conditions of Spring. But does that keep us from …


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Fish Wednesday: Sunday Dinner Edition

Slowly, slowly, things are returning to normal(ish) around the Nerd’s Eye View HQ. Over the last two days we’ve unpacked the kitchen, glory be, and now we have things like plates and saucepans and utensils. The electric range is a trial, I keep burning food in the old enamel pans, hello housewarming gift friends, how …


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Gefilte Fish Wednesday: Guest Blogger Edition

Gefilte Fish WednesdayNote: Lisa invited us to Seder of course, but we’ve been too overwhelmed with the fuss of the move to tackle a trip to the East side on top of everything. She teases us mercilessly about our East side fears and we let her because she’s a fabulous cook. Since she couldn’t feed us her Passover feast, she offered to feed the blog instead. Here’s NEV’s first guest blogger, Lisa Jaffe Hubbell, on a Passover staple, gefilte fish.

by Lisa Jaffe Hubbell

There is a gene whose presence makes one’s nose wrinkle in disgust at the mere mention of gefilte fish. It’s a new mutation – probably dating back to the advent of bottled gefilte fish. I’m here to tell you that gefilte fish doesn’t have to be bad. Indeed, I’d challenge any fish lover to try my gefilte fish and not think it’s dandy.


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Fish Wednesday, Invite Us to Dinner Edition

Wow, our kitchen is total chaos. Well, not so much chaos as mostly packed and not very easy to work in. Where is the pepper mill, the balsamic vinegar, the whisk? Who can say? Somewhere, there’s a box that says, maybe, “kitchen utensils” or possibly just “kitchen.” No matter, we are nothing if not resourceful …


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Fish Thursday: Shrimp and Spinach Risotto Edition

It’s been chaos around the Nerd’s Eye View HQ lately. I was down with the plague that everyone in Seattle seems to be contracting and oh, yeah, I bought a house. For a while there, it felt like I would never be off the phone again. Mortgage brokers, escrow, long calls to the foreign office …


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