COLUMN: Seattle restaurants offer their wares to customers

While not a Seattle resident, I do read the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, specifically the Wednesday and Friday editions and I always enjoy reading what food columnist Rebekah Denn comes up with. This week she came up with an article called good things come in small packages (note lower-case spelling) touching on local chefs who create product that customers can either take home or order online. This is good for Seattle expatriates who may want a taste of home.

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(P.S. I want to try the Bacon Jam made by Skillet Street Food, if you want to cut directly to the chase, jam right here.)

Curry Ketchup

I had never heard of this until I went to Oktoberfest last week in Leavenworth, Washington. I grew up eating food with a good share of ketchup, and my mom raised me on some of the best Hawaiian-style curry, but a combination of the two? I never placed ketchup on my bowl of curry, but there it was in a cheese store with wines, crackers, and a sample of this curry ketchup. I tried it with a pretzel and I was surprised that I liked it. I bought a bottle ($5.99) and looked forward to having some when I got home. However, lunch was calling so I had a bratwurst and some french fries, and decided to use the Curry Ketchup on the fries. Ono.

When I did get home, I had it with a number of other foods: sandwiches, sausage biscuit, even corned beef hash and in every instance it was great. I'm sure it would be great on/with some grilled chicken.

I haven't discovered how something like curry ketchup became a German specialty, but there are a number of brands from Germany, including one made by Heinz. There is one company in the U.S. that makes them, called Barbkoa, available through Allyson's Kitchen.


I will have to try that next.

Up next: Kecap Manis.