Hungrygrrl

Damn it’s been a while. Amazing what a wedding takes out of you. It took us two weeks just to recover.

Don’t get me wrong, it was perfect, really perfect. I had so much fun I couldn’t stop smiling. People even played croquet and bocce ball and at one point my whole family (all 30+) tried to pack into the photobooth.

But now I am back in my normal life, and Cobe started whining about how we have no good balsamic (I have ruined that boy) and I realized I’ve never told you about Big John’s.

I discovered Big John’s a few years ago and it has become my go to place for good olive oil and balsamic. Back in Philly I just had to go down the street for a big bottle of Frantoia, but here it’s a little harder to find. When I walked in and found the shelves full of olive oil, I knew I had struck gold.

But there’s more. They also have a huge selection of cheeses and olives, bulk herbs and spices and all sorts of imported things that are hard to find, like guava paste and piquillo peppers. They even carry turkish and lebanese imports, like akvar, a paste made from roasted peppers that is out of this world, and pomegrante molasses. All for half what you’d pay anywhere else.

There is a catch though–you have to buy a minimum of a pound of cheese or olives. The olive board has more than 20 options and the cheese counter stretches the length of the store, so maybe it’s not so hard. They’ll let you taste it first too, and they know their cheeses.

Of course the real catch is that I can never walk out of this place without spending at least $30, if not more. But so worth it.

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Big John’s PFI
http://www.bigjohnspfiseattle.com/
1001 6th Avenue South (by Safeco, see the small sign on your left hand side)
206-682-2022

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