Mandrinquats

A combination of kumquats and mandarin oranges. Really, really tart and sweet at the same time. 

How could you not at least try them with a name like that?

Johnson Berry Farms

Johnson Berry Farms jam is the best jam ever. Put it on toast, pancakes, in your oatmeal, lick it off your fingers, find anyway you can to put it in your mouth, it's delicious. It's also local and organic, so the Portlandia character in you will be proud. I recommend the golden raspberry and the marion berry. I wouldn't make special trips to Pike Place for much but for this stuff I will.

Molly Moon's

Last weekend (I know. I've got to post these things faster if I want to be a real life blogger) my mom, my sister, and I had a yard sale. We didn't make too much money, but we got rid of some stuff and got to sit outside all day while the Pacific Northwest summer tried it's hardest to assert itself. After it was done, we decided we deserved a treat for our efforts. So we went to get the best ice cream in Seattle at Molly Moon's in Wallingford. Even in the winter the line for this place is usually out the door. All their ice cream is handmade and so are the waffle cones (I imagine heaven smells like baking waffle cones). Scout mint is my favorite flavor. It's made with crushed up bits of actual Thin Mints. So good.