West Seattle Coffee House and Treats Round Up

We still don’t have a usable kitchen, that explains it, okay? Bakery Nouveau: The Best Treats, uncontested. They totally need to fix the interior though, it’s just wrong. Sugar Rush: Okay, it’s cozy in there and the coffee is good, but the treats we tried left us totally nonplussed. Capers: This is an oddball place, …


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Mail Fraud at Our New Home

We do love our ex-neighbors, but we don’t tend to send them Martha Stewart mags as gifts. We’re on the record as being against superbikes, so it’s unlikely that we’ll be reading Cycle World. We’re against the wedding industrial complex, so Bride Magazine isn’t usually in the house. Husband, god love him, isn’t a supermodel …


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Lost in Transit

So you think you wanna be an expat, eh? There’s a good conversation about the bloom coming off the rose of expat life over at Lost in Transit. Folks who haven’t been expats may gain insight, folks who have may have something to offer. And I have a new post there about our move. [tags]Lost …


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A Message From Our Patron Saint, St. Ukulele

Yo, hot stuff. You’re not going to the Portland Ukulele Festival or the No. Cal Ukulele Festival or the San Diego Ukulele Festival or the New York Uke Fest in the same old uke gear that everyone else is wearing, are you? Duh, of course not. You’re going in a Uke Angel T-Shirt from Nerd’s …


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More West Seattle New-to-Us

Cafe Rozella. Okay, not exactly our hood, but we had to run to White Center anyway. They have rather nice tea at Rozella, the coffee is good, and it’s next to a tool rental shop. Fun-kay. We like fun-kay. Lincoln Park. In this morning’s warm rain, we wandered our very walkable new ‘hood. There’s a …


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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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