Posted in Food + Eating on Mar 31st, 2010
We’re playing around with some focaccia recipes and after our tasting, we just couldn’t eat it all. So we decided to give it away for FREE with your purchase of soup today. Garlic and Rosemary and Sea Salt, dang… … Served while supplies last
Posted in Food + Eating, Seasonal on Mar 29th, 2010
Let’s get real – sometimes it’s hard to keep it local up in the Pacific Northwest. Sometimes you just get tired of finding substitutes for lemon juice in the back-end of your recipes. To be sure, if you’re into living locavore in the PNW, you’ve got to love a good challenge. A lot of what [...]
Posted in Sandwich Shops on Mar 24th, 2010
Today is our birthday. Homegrown turns one year-old today. From the get go, we had a lot of obstacles to overcome. We were told we were too young, too inexperienced. That organic/local food is too expensive for quick-service. That Homegrown might not catch on, that this was a huge risk to take. All we can [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Planet Earth, Sustainability on Mar 18th, 2010
Riled up by the story on Grist this morning about Bluefin Tuna being over-fished into extinction, the Sandwich Lab Blog would like to extend our call to action to our readers and fellow sandwich lovers – stop eating this fish. “A proposal to ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna prized in sushi has been [...]
Posted in Food + Eating on Mar 17th, 2010
In celebration of everyone’s favorite drinking holiday, we bring you a sandwich from deep within the sandwich lab. We have been waiting to unveil this corned beef masterpiece for at least three days now. . . So without further ado we bring you a St. Patty’s day sandwich with roots that run as deep as [...]
Posted in Food + Eating on Mar 16th, 2010
Since we launched the spring menu, fitted with a fixed selection of our house sandwiches and a rotating seasonal menu showcasing ingredients from the PNW, we have also started serving a daily special. Daily specials, if you’re not obsessed with sandwiches, are an integral part of the sandwich shop experience. Falling in line with the [...]
Posted in Videos on Mar 12th, 2010
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Posted in Food + Eating on Mar 12th, 2010
Today’s sandwich special makes us think we’re on the Sapranos, or maybe table-side at a New Jersey-Italian family’s festa dei sette pesci (feast of the seven fishes). We call it the “Bobby Baccalieri”. We know it’s not bacala (salt cod) but we couldn’t resist paying homage to this portly gangster, who clearly enjoys himself some [...]
Posted in Food + Eating on Mar 10th, 2010
Our Muffaletta sammie debuted as Today’s Special, packed with beecher’s flagship, gruyere, Zoe’s salami, ham and pastrami, and topped with a great spicy pickled green olive salad made with capers, cauliflower, carrots and onions. A light spread of Dijon, a dollop of our sage aioli and a run through the toaster really hit it home. [...]
Posted in Food + Eating, Seasonal on Mar 9th, 2010
Whether or not Seattle followed its nearly 70 degree Saturday with a snowy Monday, the daffodils have popped up, the cherry trees are blooming, and our friends at Charlie’s Produce (or Chuck Duce as we like to say) have begun to stock local spring vegetables like swiss chard, scallions, peas, kolrabi + fennel. We have [...]