Seattle Kitchen

Our tasting panel takes on cheese, we discuss the NY Times article called "5 Easy Meals for the Distracted Cook", a dinner party featuring fennel used in every course, Producer Tina took a trip to the Hot Stove Society to learn how to make a pie plus our Tasty Trivia Food Quiz!

We have a great show this week featuring our dinner party with Pistachio in every course, Tom caught up with chef J. Kenji Lpez-Alt about his new book "Food Lab" - you might have heard that interview last week this week we're chatting about pans what to buy and which to use, Don and July Phelps of Hard Row to Hoe Winery in Lake Chelan joined us and gave us the update on how the wines and wine industry over there are faring, Taste of Tulalip is coming up we'll find out what fun they have in store this year, Marilyn McKenna wife of Rob McKenna (our former Attorney General) drops by to chat about her new book "Eat Like It Matters: How I Lost 120 Pounds and Found My Inner Badass (And How You Can Too!)" plus our Tasty Trivia Food Quiz!!

This week on Seattle Kitchen - Our tasting panel takes down Orange Juice, Tina Nole and blogger /wine expert Jameson Fink went on a cidery adventure we'll find out where they went and what they learned there, a dinner party using Pomegranate in every course!, author of The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, drops by to chat plus our Food For Thought Tasty Trivia.

Our tasting panel takes down peanut butter, we take a look at food in the future with Eater Magazine, it's mushroom season and we're having a dinner party using them in EVERY Course! (yes, even the cocktail and dessert), Agree or Disagree: Do you need to peel your vegetables?, Rachel Belle takes a trip to Theo Chocolate plus our Tasty Trivia Food Quiz!

Tina sat down with Leanne Brown and learned about her new book Good and Cheap she claims you can eat good seasonal foods and still not break the bank, we're having a dinner party and every course will include Pumpkin from the appetizer to the dessert!, Food in the News, our tasting panel takes on popcorn plus our Tasty Trivia Challenge

This week on the show Katie and Tina take a look into food and spa treatments, our tasting panel takes on chocolate,Tina heads down to Olympia to learn about its past and future, Ordinary to Extraordinary plus our Tasty Food Trivia.

This week on the show Tina and Thierry give us a lesson in wine, for our Dinner Party the crew has to use plums in every single dish including the cocktail, Tom and Thierry "Fooducate" us with questions about different topics including fast food and what everyone would bring to their last summer picnic, questions from listeners, cooking techniques every home cook should know plus our Tasty Trivia Food Challenge!

A couple of articles recently came out about creating a great menu Tom and Thierry discuss how they come up with the menus for their own restaurants, Ordinary to Extraordinary, We host a dinner party using green beans in every dish including the cocktail, plus our Tasty Trivia Food Quiz!

We head into the French Kitchen with Susan Loomis, our tasting panel gets to the bottom of the best tasting butter on the grocery store shelves, we'll take a look into your fridge and see if we can make a meal out it, we have an update on no-tipping and $15 min. wage and how it's affecting restaurants, plus our Tasty Trivia!

It's a saucy kind of show this week - We'll get a lesson on using specialty vinegars in your cooking, a lesson on marinades, our tasting panel digs into vanilla ice cream, Plus our DINNER PARTY our ingredient Is Peaches who is our historic or celebrity guest at the table this time around? And our Tasty Trivia

Today on the show an update on what's happening at Seattle's Pike Place Market there's only 1 time a year where they close the market down for a private party we'll tell you how you can get involved in that!, Tina took a lesson in wine glasses with the owner of Reidel glasses and learned a bit about how the shape of a glass affects your sense of taste, Our tasting panel is at it again this week we'll take a look at mustards and find out which is the tastiest, Our Dinner Party Game uses Basil in every dish plus our Tasty Trivia!

Cooking up a proper hot dog isn't rocket science, but it's not a fool-proof endeavor, either. We'll dive into how NOT to screw up a hot dog, Paul Allen (Vulcan) has rolled out a new program for restaurants to be more responsible when it comes to serving fish; we'll find out what that's all about, our new tasting panel will take a look at different yogurt brands and see what's the tastiest one you can get of the grocery store shelves, plus Ordinary to Extraordinary and our Tasty Trivia Food Quiz!

Katie O gets a lesson in tea from author Jeff Koehler, our friend Amy Pennington joins us with tips on how to manage your culinary garden, we play our brand new game called "Dinner Party" where we have to use one item for every dish including the cocktail; this week it's Watermelon!, a taste test in BBQ Sauce, Katie & Tina hit the road to Gig Harbor and we'll find out all about the new farmers market in that area, PLUS our food quiz!

We have some new tasty ideas to beat the heat, Katie & Tina continue their journey to Gig Harbor with a visit to Tides Tavern. Also, it's grilling season and it's only the beginning of July, but it's been hot around here for 2 months and we suspect you might be very sick of hamburgers and hotdogs or maybe the friends you keep having over are SO HOW ABOUT GRILLING PIZZA!? PLUS our new dinner party game AND our Food for Thought Tasty Trivia Challenge!

It's 4th of July weekend so we have some great outdoor eating ideas for you, We have a new segment we're calling "Is it worth it" and today we've picked out a few different olive oils and we'll let you know which one gives you the most bang for your buck, a lesson in seafood and cocktails, some foodie tips to beat the heat and of course our fabulous Food for Thought Tasty Trivia!