Overdue Seattle Posts

Curried shrimp soup from Pike’s Place Grocery and Deli
Follow Pike’s Place all the way to the end, cross the street. I was told this soup was their specialty and usually is sold out early at lunchtime so I was lucky to have some. They practically scraped the bottom of the pot for me. It was worth it. Creamy, tasty, a little spicy, nice.

Smoke salmon pate piroshky from Piroshky/Piroshky
A little further up the street (still across the street from Pike’s place), I came across this little tiny hole-in-wall bakery. The display in the street window caught my attention, all these individually shaped pastries with different fillings or toppings. I wanted to try everyone of them but decided on the salmon since I was in Seattle. The ‘public’ area consisted of the area where about 5 people could stand in line in one door, to the register and out another door. As I stood in line, several people fell in place behind me and it spilled out onto the sidewalk. I’m guessing that is a popular occurrence at this place. I wish I could have bought more pastries to bring to my relatives!! But the salmon pate was really good and flavorful. The nice crispy outer pastry shell flaked in my mouth.

DeLaurenti’s Market, Pike’s Place
www.delaurenti.com
So, on my last day in Seattle before heading out to Kennewick, WA to see relatives, I decided to do a little day sightseeing. I spent a little more time at the Pike’s Market, buying some smoked and dried salmon to bring home and needed to get some brunch before I headed to the Underground Tour (pretty cool to do at least once, if you are ever in Seattle). I wanted something quick and mobile because I had to catch a bus (which I never found so ended up walking, thankfully it wasn’t as far as it had looked on the map) to the tour office.

So I walked into a very nice Italian market place that was brimming with all sorts of Italian meats, olives, oils, cheeses and more. I really wish I had a way to carry all this stuff with me but since I was taking a bus, walking, taking a tour, being picked up by a car service and then renting a car, I had to limit what I had to carry. But I did get myself a sandwich there. It was called a Parma Panini, with prosciutto, parmesan reggiano cheese, arugula and truffle oil. It was very nice, tasty and great bread. For me (unlike Roger who could live on sandwiches), the bread makes the sandwich for me. I wish I had time to just sit and enjoy it, but it was a great eat on the run sandwich too.