Two potentially cool coffee places have recently opened: Taste is centrally located downtown on Howard, where they offer DOMA coffee, baked goods, and sandwiches. Definitely worth a stop-in for your morning or afternoon coffee, particularly if you work at a local media outlet and usually go to Starbucks.
Meanwhile, up on Grand, PRESS has quietly opened its doors. Again, DOMA coffee is served, in addition to beer and wine. More interesting are their opening hours: 5:30am-2am, seven days a week. Awesome!
One of my worst meals over the past few years took place in Coeur d’Alene, at Bardenay. So I was a bit surprised to see a user review informing me that I am “just used to blah-spokane food.” Oh snap, and possibly I am, but really… Take a trip to the White House Grill in Post Falls (“non-blah-Post Falls?”), and at least you’ll experience some flavor. I suppose it takes all kinds.
As you probably already knew, this wonder of a web site received some well deserved media attention last week. Hey, we deserve it, we’re awesome!
Now my quesadilla recipe in the article wasn’t quite my recipe as such. I could go on a tirade here about about the Spokesman soiling my good name, but seeing that, A) making quesadillas hardly requires a culinary degree, and B) my “recipe” pretty much was “just taste your way through it,” I probably would have less than a good case. But! For your benefit, here is the original world famous Washington Quesadilla “recipe.”
Tortillas (two for one quesadilla in this case, unless you want to use the fold-over method.)
Ground lamb sausage. (I got mine from the Moscow Co-op.) Or any other type of sausage. Links would work fine too.
Salsa—the De Leon tomatillo recipe in the article would work well
Grated Cougar Gold sharp cheddar.
A Honeycrisp apple. Thinly sliced.
(Whatever else you’d like in there—I imagine some corn and black beans would work just fine, even as a substitute for the meat.)
Cook the sausage about half-way in the pan, then add salsa to taste. Let the meat simmer until it has absorbed the salsa flavors. At the very end, put the cheese in with the meat and mix it all together. Put the meat/cheese mixture on the tortilla, and top with the apple slices. Top it with the second tortilla, and cook it on medium/high on a Griddler (or George Foreman or broil it or whatever) until it’s done. Serve with salsa, sour-cream, and apple slices.
Then again, nobody really needs a recipe for a simple quesadilla, do they?
At this point I should mention there is “best blogger” field where you’re more than welcome to put the good ol’ Spokane Food Blog if you so wish! One of the editors came up with a very nice name for me last year (Lisping Batman—must be a term of endearment!) so I feel our chances to win it are looking great!
Calling all high-school band geeks and future heart-attack sufferers: the fine restaurant we all know and love as Denny’s is giving away free Grand Slams until 2pm. No kidding. Looking like quite the “success” too if the morning news was anything to go by.
I don’t know if it’s specified anywhere if you’re limited to only one Grand Slam per person. If it’s not specified, I would definitely suggest demanding three or four. I’m pretty sure Denny’s have doggy-bag options.
