At 6 p.m. on Friday, March 4, the Jefferson Community Center will be celebrating Dr. Seuss‘s birthday with games and activities, a birthday cake, and actual green eggs and ham! Bring your appetite. The community center is located at 3801 Beacon Avenue South. Cost is $2 per person.
Category Archives: Food and Drink
Beer and wine opening night celebration at The Station
Happy Thanksgiving from the Beacon Hill Blog!
Here’s a BHB holiday tradition of our own: a great pumpkin pie recipe from my grandma’s recipe collection. I’ve used this recipe many times and it is very good. If you forgot to get evaporated milk, this recipe will save the day for you—it doesn’t use it, and you won’t miss it.
Pumpkin Pie
Start with 1 recipe pie crust. Set the uncooked shell aside.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Put 2 cups pumpkin (or one small can) into mixing bowl.
add:
2 eggs beaten slightly (Egg Beaters work just fine if you want it to be lower-fat)
add:
1/2 c. granulated sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ginger
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
then add:
1 c. scalded milk (skim milk works fine if you wish to use it, and so does soy milk)
Mix all together. Pour into pie shell. Bake at 450 degrees for 12-15 minutes, turn the heat down to 350, bake 45 minutes. It’s done when you can stick a knife in the middle and it comes out clean.
Makes 1 pie. For two pies, use a large can of pumpkin and double everything else exactly.
Enjoy!
Sweet Treats returns to the Hill tonight
Tasha’s Bistro Café closing for business on Sunday
On Sunday, the door will close on Tasha's Bistro Café. Photo by Wendi.
Hampered by current economic conditions, Tasha’s is closing after just over three months in business. From a post in our forums:
It is with great sadness that Tasha’s Bistro Cafe will be closing our doors after breakfast on Sunday, November 7th. We have enjoyed meeting each and every customer over the past several months. Your support has been great, however it is apparent that with the economy, we are unable to sustain our type of restaurant in Beacon Hill without an investor or interested restaurant owner.
More from Tasha in the original post.
Street Treats: the beginning of a food revolution on the Hill?
We rolled into Beacon Hill this last Friday after a grueling 13 hour drive through eastern Washington heat, and went immediately in search of the Street Treats truck which was parked this last Friday right across from the light rail station. We had to try more than one thing, so we had a homemade ice cream sandwich with double chocolate cookies and mixed berry ice cream and an equally amazing full-flavored espresso ice cream made with Stumptown coffee—both of which were amazing.
It’s hard not to notice the large increase in pedestrians near the light rail station in the last year, and since development has stalled, portable food vendors are in a perfect position to take advantage of this foot traffic. It pains me to see fences around gravel lots in areas that could so easily accommodate and attract more food trucks. How awesome would it be to have a revolving variety of food vendors in our neighborhood on any given night? There is no reason that neighborhood restaurants and businesses couldn’t capitalize on a regular mini food festival. More locals could develop small businesses and we all could use a multi-ethnic gathering area.
In the meantime, Street Treats desserts are not only delicious but they are served in an eco-friendly manner. Their truck uses biodiesel and serving materials are all biodegradable and compostable, so skip dinner and watch for the Street Treats truck parked near the light rail station on Friday nights between 6:00-8:00 pm.
Joel Lee maintains the Beacon Hill Public Art website and has posted previously on this blog about street food.
Yes, the Beacon Pub is moving
We recently talked to Kris Coty and Laurie Lusko, who run the pub, and they confirmed that they are moving the business to Hillman City, where it will reopen as the nautical-themed “Orcas Landing.” (Lusko’s Hillman City goal is “to make Columbia City jealous,” she told Seattle Met.) They expect the last day in business on Beacon Avenue to be in October or November. Basically, they say, they lost their lease because the landlord situation changed recently with the death of the building’s owner, and the current landlord is not interested in having a pub in that space.
Tasha’s Bistro Café opens Friday; Street Treats to return weekly
Also on Friday night, the Street Treats dessert van will be back. Owner Diane Skwiercz writes, “I want to let you know that Street Treats is going to be up on Beacon Hill every Friday night starting this Friday July 2nd, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. We will either be in the Washington Federal Savings bank parking lot or where we were last Friday (the corner of 16th and Lander — Ed.).” Follow their tweets here.
UPDATED: Street Treats serving dessert at Beacon and Lander right now
The Street Treats mobile dessert van is parked at Beacon and Lander, serving up ice cream for build-your-own-cookie-sandwiches, cookies, beverages, and more! Their menu is here.
In other street food news, Kamala Saxton of Marination Mobile sent us this info:
“Marination is now OPEN SUNDAYS in Columbia City – 11am – 2pm (Parking lot next to Bank of America). Mention Beacon Hill Blog and get a free can of pop. This Sunday only. Beep Beep Southside!”
(Thanks to Joel Lee for the tip on Sweet Treats — sorry we didn’t get this online sooner!)
Would a Beacon Hill farmers’ market be one too many?
Others seem to disagree, however, including Zachary Lyons of the Seattle Farmers Market Association, which will operate six markets this year including the new one in Georgetown, which will combine the farmers’ market with an antiques and crafts market. “To suggest we’ve somehow reached a saturation point is, to me, just absurd,” says Lyons.
There are 18 neighborhood markets in Seattle this year, but still none on Beacon Hill. Our nearest markets are in Columbia City, and now, Georgetown. And while it’s not a “neighborhood farmers’ market,” we have MacPherson’s — and they are open every day.
Should Beacon Hill have a farmers’ market? Do you think the Seattle area is oversaturated with farmers’ markets?