Chow I am not a Foodie, I am not a Foodie, I am not a Foodie…
posted by July 4 at 8:08 AM
on…but everyone I hang out with seems to be. And they’re affecting me.
On Sunday I was in the kitchen (unheard of) helping (unbelievable) make tamales from a friend’s secret recipe.
And early this morning, I was up reading food blogs.
I came across this July 4th recipe for Thomas Jefferson’s Ice Cream.
It calls for 1 vanilla bean. Yum. Although, where do you get a vanilla bean? (Told you I don’t know anything about food.) Do they sell individual vanilla beans? … At the QFC?
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You should be able to get them at Whole Foods or maybe the fancy-ish QFC in U-Village. I buy them mail order from Penzey Spices (though that doesn't help you today).
I think most QFC's have them. They are pricey but delicious.
Enjoy the salmonella. I would say more but your spam filter won't let me.
You REALLY don't cook much, do ya?
Madison Market should have stock... Trader Joe's around the corner should be the cheapest place in the city, I would think. Broadway Market... I also think City Market would have a vanilla bean.
boo to the professionalization of everything. cooking doesn't make you a foodie, i have it on good authority that nearly every living person over the age 5 has cooked or assisted in cooking at least once. and that nearly every person who's ever eaten has thoroughly enjoyed it at least once. don't let anyone convince you that enjoying food or enjoying preparing food is something they invented and comes with a diagnosis.
now i have to go stir my jam.
trader joe's sucks. They have shit and its for the suburban types that wont go anywhere without a parking lot. QFC on broadway, either one should be fine. Unless you like the hippy store?
I'm enjoying a vanilla-flavored protein shake and probably gonna eat a small-size yogurt (unflavored) later. I know, I know--but it's the Fourth, and I figured I'd live a little.
Peet's coffee in Fremont sells little jars of vanilla beans. I remember that they were the only place that you could rely on having them - more reliable than Whole Foods, PCC, Larry's (RIP) or Metropolitan Market. However I think Central Market in Shoreline had them too, and now that I think about it Sur La Table always has stuff like that on hand.
@8,
Thanks. Peet's it is. I'm gonna be over in Fremont in just a few hours.
Josh, for some reason I got a funny feeling about that so I called Peet's and they said that they DON'T carry them anymore. Arrgh!
Try Sur La Table in the market. If they don't have it I'll eat your ice cream maker.
... josh.. don't say foodie.. gastronome or gourmand maybe. cook or chef probably. chowhound if your're feeling colloquial. but not foodie.. foodie is up there with guesstimate. you don't say guesstimate do you ?
i didn't think do...
josh -
if you are going to be in fremont, Markettime between 43rd & 44th will have them in their bulk section.
i live down the street, so could you bring me a pack of smoke and some coffee as well? thanks.
Go to Madison Market for bulk vanilla beans. QFC has them in jars but they are EXPENSIVE! If you become a gastrofoodie or gourhound or whatever, Madison Market will save you a ton of money with their great bulk section.
Greenwood Market on 85th and 3rd has plenty of vanilla beans.
Josh, the best vanilla beans in Seattle can be found at the City Market. Good luck on your quest.
Market Spice in the Pike Place Market has the best beans, but you can get good ones in bulk sections all over town.
Actually, the best vanilla beans can be found buried deep in Dan's anus.
They are from Madagascar!!!
#6 QFC is overpriced with all their goods and the people there are AT LEAST as snobby as Trader Joes. Don't encourage them. At least Trader Joes has those delicious unique quick pizzas. mmm... it's almost like I'm eating one right now...
Now, should last minute logistical changes in the kitchen cause the dessert served to be Fry's Ice Cream Soup, serve in 4 oz dixie cups. Using reserved bean husk, garnish with julianed 3-4cm cut.
Additional garnishes: whip cream from the ambrosia, berries from fruit plate.
Expert garnishes: certain soft cheeses.
And you know not to use the whole bean, right? You scrape out the seeds inside the pod with a knife and uses those. The pod can be used to flavor sugar.
They've always been pricey (they come from an orchid), but there's a shortage this year - so now, they're ridiculous. A friend just paid $25 for three. BUT there's nothing like vanilla bean.
Bauhaus, you beat me to it. Buy two Josh, and put one in your sugar jar. Coffee goes boom!
re: Kevin Jones @ 12: If anyone's in Boston, can you bring me a quart of Brigham's Chocolate Chip ice cream?
Um, #3, this recipe doesn't actually pose a salmonella risk... the eggs are heated enough with the cream. :|
#20: They sell them for about $1/each at Madison Market. I'm not a vanilla beanionado but they seem good quality to me.
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