Friday, June 20, 2014

Know What’s in Your Food at the Grill Restaurant Sand Point Seattle

Before you order food from the grill restaurant Sand Point Seattle, it is important that you know some of its ingredients, especially if you are on a specific diet. You may be trying to cut out eating some specific types of food, or you are totally not allowed to eat them because of an allergy. It is best that you know what is in your food before it is placed on your table. Below are some of the dishes that you can order from a menu and the ingredients that make them delicious as a whole.

Dungenes Crab and Prawns Dish is a seafood starter that is made up of special Dungenes crab and prawns. It is seasoned or paired with Nano’s a bit spicy avocado salsa verde and lime. If you are allergic to crabs and prawns, you may not want to order this dish from the menu.


Another seafood starter is made with Taylor Shellfish and Totten Inlet Mussels. The dish is cooked in white wine with herbs, shallots, garlic and butter. For people with hyperthyroidism, they are usually recommended to avoid seafoods and anything with iodine or iodized salt. If you have this, you may want to choose another type of dish that is healthier for you to consume.

There is a grilled burger that most people will surely love. The best of its kind are made with 100% grass fed beef. Burgers with this type of patties are healthier compared to others. The grill burgers also have lettuce, tomato, mayo, bacon, cheese and pickles. The restaurant would mostly make their own bun. So if you have special requests for your burger, you should tell the restaurant about it when you order.

A Grilled Ribeye Steak is also a great dish that you can choose to order. Restaurants that serve this kind of food, usually make use of natural beef. That means that the beef has no added hormone, antibiotics or other synthetic substances. The Steak is topped with special steak sauce and usually has Fries on the side. You may want to ask specifically about the ingredients of the sauce to make sure that it doesn’t have any ingredients that may cause you to have allergic reactions.

Pastas like Spaghetti Carbonara are one of the most common dishes that people order from restaurants, especially in the Sand Point Seattle region. This dish commonly has, of course, pasta, bacon, onions, garlic, egg and Parmesan cheese.  You can choose to add more cheese or just put a bit of it to taste.
If you are looking for a sandwich, Reubens are the most common types you’ll see in Sand Point Seattle. It has corned beef, cheese (usually gruyere), sauerkraut and special dressing. Most restaurants make their own rye bread to use for this dish.

Those were only very few of the many types of food that you can order around the Seattle area. The next time you want to eat out in a grill restaurant Sand Point Seattle has, make sure that the food you order do not contain ingredients that may cause you to have allergies. It sure does pay to know what is in your food.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The Sad Story of queerSpawn


The Sad Story of queerSpawn

queerSpawn Is a Monochromatic Slice of High-School Desperation

by Brendan Kiley



Feelings, or at least talking about them in the English language, is a relatively new phenomenon. The Oxford English Dictionary and other etymological sources date "to feel" in the sense of "to touch" back several millennia. But "to feel" in the sense of "to have an emotion" crops up only a few times around the 1400s and then really takes off in the 1800s, when the Romantics get down to the business of suffering, exalting, swooning, writing, painting, committing suicide, and introducing a whole new vocabulary for rhapsodies and neuroses.


The Kid, an unnamed and willow-thin high-school boy who gets bullied for having two moms in Mallery Avidon's play queerSpawn (having its West Coast premiere at Eclectic Theater), is one of those characters who suffers from feeling too much. He's not gay, but it doesn't matter: His tormenters spray-paint "fag" on his locker, tape him into cardboard boxes, and taunt him in the classroom—"faggot faggot bo baggot, banana fanana fo faggot, fe fi mo maggot, faggot"—so relentlessly, even the nerds won't sit with him at lunch.


The Kid (played by Jordan Henderson with youthful weariness, like a child exhausted by his own emotions) doesn't want to tell his moms, so he resorts to cartoonish imaginary companions. There's the "African kid" (Markeith Wiley), who does a stereotypical "African" dance, high-stepping one leg and then another, his arms and head bobbing from side to side, while he talks about poverty and malaria, then complains to his creator that "you could at least think of less ridiculous things for me to say." There's Fred Phelps (Chris Trover), who brutally encourages The Kid to end his suffering and kill himself. And there's Dan Savage (Trover again), who wears blue jeans and a rainbow-colored T-shirt and nods sagely as The Kid grouses that the It Gets Better project doesn't speak to his generation: "Most of you are rich," The Kid says. "And the world was different... There were jobs. And college didn't cost a bazillion dollars. So this whole 'survive-high-school-go-to-college-somewhere-better-and-it'll-all-be-okay' plan doesn't look like it's gonna work out."


The play, with its small whirlwind of one-dimensional characters, doesn't come to any conclusions, offer any answers, or contain any surprises. (In his review of queerSpawn for the New York Times last year, critic Charles Isherwood says this stasis "may be a mild dramatic drawback"—in this production, at least, it's a fundamental and serious one.) The Kid winds up in the hospital a couple of times, and his central tormenter (a sneering jock played by Robert Lovett) pays him a courtesy visit because his ward has cable TV, which offers a brief glimmer of hope for their future. But at its heart, queerSpawn is a one-act slice of monochromatic desperation. The Kid is smart but stuck in his homophobic hometown—and stuck in his head. Avidon has written her central character into a labyrinth of bad feelings and left him there so we can feel bad for him, too. He's like Goethe's Young Werther, one of those Romantic characters of the late 18th century who felt acutely and circled the drain of his own misery. (The book was banned in several countries because of the suicides it provoked among young men.) All we can do is look, sigh, and move on. recommended


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Monday, June 9, 2014

Mouth Watering Desserts from a Grill and Bar in Sand Point Seattle

After you have eaten a full meal in a restaurant, you would want to munch on some sweets for dessert, right? You have to feed your need for sugar or else you’ll go home feeling  empty or incomplete. You can’t blame anybody if you don’t satisfy your taste buds just because you didn’t get any dessert. If you feel anything like that, then you should get some for yourself the next time you would dine out. To give you an idea, here are some mouth watering desserts that you can order from a grill and bar in Sand Point Seattle.

Just by reading the rest of the article, you will not forget to get some dessert every time you dine out. Also, it would be easy then for you to check on the menu and choose what you want to spoil your sweet tooth with.

If your sweet tooth is asking for some cakes, you can choose from a Chocolate Souffle Cake and a Chevre Cheesecake. You can request for a gluten free chocolate cake if you need it. It is commonly made with Bourbon Sabayon and salted espresso caramel.  As for the Chevre cheesecake, it has strawberry rhubarb compote and a gingersnap crust. These will surely satisfy your cravings in every bite. If you want to skip cakes as of the moment, you can always order some Pear Hazelnut Napolean with poached pears, puff pastry and bitter orange syrup.

You can skip the pastries and order some cold desserts instead. There will be Ice creams and sorbets that you can choose from. For the ice cream, you can choose to order different flavors, including malted vanilla, dark chocolate, banana cream pie, or espresso ice cream. You may also find Strawberry sorbet or Pina Colada sorbet from the menu.

Of course, your desserts won’t all be solids. You can pair your sweets with some of the best dessert wines in the region. If you don’t know, which type of dessert wine is the best to order, you may get a good suggestion from the restaurant itself. If you want, you can just finish off with some healthier drinks, such as fruit juices or your choice of shakes or smoothies.

You don’t have to worry about consuming sugar when you dine out. Remember that it is okay to eat anything at all, as long as you take them in moderation. Discipline is the key here. Sugar isn’t the only thing that makes you fat. There are other factors that do, but you wouldn’t want to have it, for sure, and you know what they are.

So the next time you go to a Grill and bar in Sand Point Seattle, you will know what dessert to order. If you can’t decide which dessert to have, let the restaurant surprise you. They might just give you the best dessert for the night and be privileged to be offered one. Enjoy your dining experience with some desserts after the main course. Just take anything in moderation and never feel guilty after eating.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Seattle International Film Festival


Seattle International Film Festival

Thursday, May 15 - Sunday, June 8, Various Locations


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This year, SIFF turns 40! Recognized as one of the top film festivals in North America, the Seattle International Film Festival is the largest, most highly attended film festival in the US. The 25-day festival is renowned for its wide-ranging and eclectic programming, presenting more than 250 feature-length and 150 short films from more than 70 countries each year.


More info and tickets HERE


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