Innkeepers Share Their Best Recipes
Do you wish you could make yummy morning meals like the ones at your favorite bed and breakfast?
“A Taste of Washington State,” a new cookbook from The Washington State Bed & Breakfast Guild, features 250 recipes from more than 80 inns across the state, including three in Spokane.
The Marianna Stoltz House shares its Fresh Raspberry Curd, Mandarin Strawberry Topping, Lemon Poppy Seed Bread and Stoltz House Waffles, while The Fotheringham House contributes an Egg Bake and Water Whip No-Fail Pie Crust and Waverly Place weighs in with Swedish Pancakes With Huckleberry Sauce.
The book costs $14.95. You can get a copy at any of the three B&Bs mentioned above or at the Hastings store at 1704 W. Wellesley, or call 1-800-457-3230 for mail orders.
Just desserts
Then again, maybe your goal has always been to have your culinary creations featured at a fancy Seattle restaurant. And if you’re good with the sugary stuff, maybe you can.
The top recipe in the Da Vinci Gourmet Dessert Recipe Contest will be added to the menu at Palisade, a plush waterfront Seattle eatery, during August. The winner also will receive a bottle of each of Da Vinci’s 59 flavored syrups, and dinner for two at Palisade with accommodations at the Hotel Monaco Seattle (with a limo ride between them).
Recipes must be original and use one or more of Da Vinci’s syrups (available at various supermarkets). Entry deadline is June 30; mail to Da Vinci Gourmet Dessert Recipe Contest, c/o RPR, 1411 Fourth Ave., Suite 610, Seattle, WA 98101, fax to (206) 682-7062 or e-mail to jeffal@accessone.com. Six finalists will participate in a tasting at Palisade on July 15.
For more information, call 1-800-640-6779 or visit www.davincigourmet.com.
Helping hand
Any sort of cooking can be a challenge for people with disabilities, but there’s a new Web site that might make things a little easier.
The “Accessible Kitchens” section of www.infinitec.org includes information on kitchen utensils and gadgets designed for the disabled, remodeling ideas, guidelines for hiring a contractor and funding options.
Tea for Texas?
This just in: Kool-Aid, the kid-pleasing punch invented in the tiny town of Hendley, Neb., has been named the state’s official beverage by Gov. E. Benjamin Nelson.
So which commonplace Seattle liquid do you suppose will become the Washington drink of choice: coffee, beer or water?