weekly musings

so the trailer is being worked on and the chassis is being rebuilt and extra supp

orts are being put into place...So with that in mind, I'd like to introduce skillet nation to Justin Geel and Parker Eberhard, the two dudes who are driving this whole process.  And are doing all the work and design...they are really good at what they do, and we are so lucky t

o have them making this all happen...

hopefully one of many they collaborate on...

They will be rebuilding the chassis this w

eek and installing the flooring and new walls...after that electrical and plumbing will go in...

additionally we were at the star chefs gala where we had won the "Best new concept" award ...was a good time and we felt good about what and how we represented skillet...

more later.....  

also want to send a skillet shout out to columbia city....loved seeing all of you this week...we felt the CC love...

more later...

skillet pics

so...someone  (laura??..:)..facilitated a flickr pic pool..

pretty cool...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/skilletstreetfood-seattle/pool/page3/

Bacon Jam update

will have bacon jam available for sale and ship out on wednesday

thanks!

skillet weekly update

hey all..

Need a SOLU spot asap......will probably be back at alpha cine this week, as 13 coins kitchen manager called the police and SDOT on us last week, who had much better things to do and we all ended up having a good convo, ...that is crap...on a whole host of levels...however, not a problem, we'll figure it out... however needs to be a private parking spot...

Kitchen;

so the kitchen is coming along...had a walkthrough with the HD, "off the record" so they could give us tips...

we are shooting for an april 20th potential opening date...so stay tuned as it most likely will change, but hoping it won't.... the tentative hours for the walk up window will be M-F 7:30-3, and on event days at safeco and qwest. breakfast at the trailer will coincide with this date as well

This weeks menu is going to include banana cream pie, beef, fennel, roasted onion sugo with soft polenta, watermelon fresca, 3 bean chili, the burg/poo, ...should be pretty tasty...the sugo is going to be pretty rockin as we used hangar steak as the "beef" in the equation...love that cut, so much great fat going on in it....

also columbia city this saturday is looking promising...will know more on monday..

fremont...on sundays has been SLOW...so we wil give it a few more weeks and probably look elsewhere...

our condolence's to gabe and the culinary communion crew..CC closed it's doors last week...however, they are still going to rock it with their Lunch Counter on Beacon Hill...so go and support them..they gots some good stuff going on up there...

anyhoo...thats all for now...

more later

jh

kitchen update...

so...the kitchen is coming along...in a state of disarray...but we are hopefully about 3 weeks out...

this has led me to comment a bit on our menu/creativity lately over the past couple of months..Most of you are probably not aware that we have been bouncing around from commissary kitchen to commissary kitchen trying to patch together this business called

 skillet...it has been a challenge...

what this kitchen represents is a home for us...a place we can be more creative and really do what we are passionate about..which is cook...

we hope to have this and the walk up window open in the coming weeks, and also hope to have an "open house" for skillet nation to stop by and say hey and have a bite..

I guess,  I feel it is important to say...you haven't see the best of us yet...and we are all so excited to really show y'all what we can do and make seattle the hub of the best street food in the country..

so stay tuned to my ramblings ...and I will keep you posted...

the sign for the space goes up tomorrow morn...and hopefully the HD walk through next week...and then, we'll start slinging maple braised pork belly...bacon jam....thai cured confit of duck...and some great spring desserts...      

oh...and this is our new trailer that we are working on getting going by may 1st...stay tuned on that as well...

jh

bacon jam update

we probably won't have bacon jam for sale and shipping till thursday of this week...

thanks..

columbia city on saturdays

so I think we are going to shoot for columbia city on saturdays...

i think the parking lot next to the bank of america on rainier is where we would like to set up...

but am not sure if there will be any issues with it...

so will do a driveby tomorrow...

will keep you posted as it is possible we could be up and running this saturday...

thanks !

jh

saturday locations?????

any suggestions for queen anne or cap hill saturday locations?...

we want to start that up in the next couple of weeks...

skillet rule #2

so if the dish is vegetarian...we will put (veg) in parentheses 

thx...

cool pics

so someone started a skillet flickr "pool" of pics...

pretty cool...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/skilletstreetfood-seattle/pool/page3/

bacon jam update

we do have bacon jam available for pick up and purchase this week at the trailer...

thanks !

the first of many skillet rules

from time to time it is a good idea to share some skillet rules...

one issue that has been bugging me is comments about how people receive their food......

so here is the first of probably many skillet rules...

1.when ordering, you might receive your food before or after someone who was in line behind you or in front of you...the reason is that perhaps you ordered the burger and they ordered soup/salad...the burger takes approx 8 minutes to cook and the salad is quick...and when things are crazy, we like to get tickets done..With that being said, we won't move down the "line" more than 2-3 tickets...but don't freak if someone gets their food before you....we know you are there and will get you your food...

thanks for listening...  :)

the week

good week....a bit bumpy...the hood went down today, and we had to shut down early

let me tell you that when that hood goes down in the trailer, it is like being in a sauna where you are grilling burgers and there is no ventilation...it is fucked up...  hopefully will be fixed monday...

had an event at town hall this eve...talk of the town...

next weeks menu will probably be something along the lines of burger, moroccan sloppy joes, watermelon jalapeno fresca, rhubarb bread pudding...etc...

anyways...more later...

pancetta...peas....sage?

got some great pancetta from gabe up at the swinery on beacon hill...and we are going to take a step towards spring...

going to do pappardelle, with pancetta, sage, grana padano, and organic peas...one of my personal favorite pastas ....

enjoy...

jh

bacon jam update

hey y'all...

we have bacon jam available for pick up and for sale tomorrow in cap hill...

hasta lasagna!

JH

sunday update

evening y'all...

so for the week some news...

-unfortunately we have to raise our burger price to $9...our grass fed beef took a jump this year in comparison to kobe. So we need to reflect that in our price...

-construction is starting on our walk up window downtown..exciting stuff...plumbing/electrical, and some painting this week...

-street food market is becoming a reality...if you think you have the chops to do a killer street food booth at the market in 2009...send me an email at eat@skilletstreetfood.com

...thanks!

-looks like it will be a rainy week...so we'll have the pop up ready for ya...

more later....