There’s a neighborhood immediately adjacent to mine called. Happy Valley too. My younger son did his last three years at happy Valley elementary when his original elementary school closed.
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Your gnocchi are beautiful. Is it a particularly time-consuming process? I’m interested in giving a try, but I never have before.
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@mariacarmen @ChristinaM @linguafood and whomever else buys these Trader Joe’s squiggly noodles. I’ve been wondering for a while, since you all are likely to do a new sauce or heavily modify their sauce, why do you buy them at all? The package I believe is just under five dollars and you could buy a pound of pasta of any shape for five dollars and still make your own sauce.
Wow, snow! If it’s gonna be cold, I would take snow over rain any day. Here. In the very north PNW we have months on the end of rainy days where the temp is between 35 and 40. It’s really not very nice.
Same weather yesterday here too. Adult son was on deck to make dinner for the three of us, and he tried to make a copycat recipe of the marinated pork sandwich from the old Paseo/new Un bien. It was tasty enough, but definitely did not resemble the original. Copycat recipes are so tricky sometimes. @MunchkinRedux have you tried that sandwich? Seattle small chain.
Yeah, I bought them once and kind of concluded the same thing. By my local Chinese market has assorted squiggly noodles sold without sauce.
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I agree. November is my least favorite month since the days get shorter and shorter and it rains. Snow isn’t unheard of at this time of year but it usually rains a lot and all those lovely fall leaves fall to the ground in a big soggy mass. Snow is actually nicer and we’ll be getting it soon enough.
i happen to like the texture of those noodles, and i do use the sauce packets that come with them, i just add my own flavorings/spice to them. And i usually get two meals out of each packet.
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Snow? EEEEEP!! Rain over snow for me. No shovelling, no clearing the roof, no sneaky ice under a dusting of snow to make your feet shoot out from under you on a walk. Cold rain can be miserable, but slush is worse.
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I picked them up on @mariacarmen’s recommendation. They were nice and are a fun shape, but I’m about set with pasta shapes of various sizes and fun levels, so I’m unlikely to get them again.
I also didn’t care much for the sauce they came with.
Yesterday’s Cuban pulled pork with oiled brown Jasmine rice, black beans, and plantains. This is my DH’s plate as I’m not feeling hungry today - maybe later.
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I live in an apartment so I don’t have to worry about shovelling 
And you can’t beat the view of the snow covered trees from my 11th floor apartment.
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I hope we get more snow this winter than last year 
Yeah, Ima probably eat my words, because we def have to shovel.
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Are these squiggly TJ noodles like Taiwanese sliced noodles ?
I have not tried it. I worked in Fremont in the 80’s and early '90’s (before Paseo’s time). Such a great neighborhood. Haven’t been there in a while. I hope not much has changed there in The Center of the Universe.
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Looks right to me
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I wonder how hard it might be to find the same shape without the sauce…
One of these trips to Seattle, I hope you give UnBien a try. It’s apparently a number of the former employees from Paseo after Paseo closed down, and it has maybe three locations at this point, including Ballard and Queen Anne. Their sandwiches are absolutely scrumptious.
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Dinner was angel hair tossed with arugula and pistachio pesto I found in the freezer. Some extra Parmesan over the top.
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Me too. We didn’t get much snow last winter nor much rain over the summer so it wasn’t a good year to be a farmer. The people that live in the rural areas around Ottawa use well water so a lot of people’s wells dried up.
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