Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 11:42am
We're Turning 5!!!

This February marks the completion of five years on the air with In The Kitchen with Tom and Thierry. Our lil' show is turning FIVE, and we want to celebrate with food & festivities!

5th Year Anniversary with Tom & Thierry

Where: Palace Ballroom

When: Saturday, February 7th 4 - 8pm

Doors open at 4pm

Competition begins on-air at 6pm

Who: YOU! (Admission is limited)

What: Tickets are $20. Please purchase tickets in advance here. Nibbles will be served and Columbia Crest will be poured. For details, click here.

So, how are we going to celebrate? With YOU, our listeners! And what better way to celebrate than with a cooking competition? We're not talkin' Tom and Thierry here, either - we're talkin' about all of you food lovers and gourmands.

It's simple. Send your favorite dish or recipe to amyp@tomdouglas.com . From the listener-submitted emails, we will choose five delicious-sounding dishes to judge. These five contestants will cook their dish and bring it to the festivities at Palace Ballroom to compete for top honor of BEST DISH at the anniversary party. Competition will include an on-air tasting with Tom and Thierry and a panel of guest judges. The BEST DISH winner will walk away with a gift cert for a fun-filled city adventure - Lunch at Rovers, late nibbles at Lola with an overnight stay at Hotel Andra and a weekend brunch at Dahlia Lounge. For details on entering the cooking-competition, read more here.

There will be music, a live radio broadcast of Tom & Thierry's show and games for all. Bring in 5 cans of food items for a complimentary spin on the Prize Wheel! Additional spins may be purchased for $10, with all food and proceeds being donated to Food Lifeline.

Five Years, Five Dishes

Come Celebrate

Saturday, January 3, 2009 @ 8:14am
2009....Here we Come

Happy New Year! We're entering another year of good food and conversation on IN THE KITCHEN with Tom & Thierry.

After all the holiday cheering we've done, tis' the season for relaxing and staying indoors. We hope this finds you behind the stove cookin'! Kick off the new year with Dede Wilson, Bon Appetit Magazine contributor. She'll be coming on to introduce us to the big wide world of PEANUT BUTTER DESSERTS. It's an ingredient most everyone has on hand, and one that should be used for more than pb&j. Did you know that peanuts contains resveratrol - a natural antimicrobial agent produced by the plant and thought to ward off potential pathogens? Really.

We're also hosting chef and cooking instructor Pranee Halvorsen of www.ilovethaicooking.com. She's coming in to demystify Thai soups and will share with us simple tips for introducing Thai cooking at home. Shake up your palate in the coming year!

As always, we continue to check in with wine guru Mike Teer, and we'll be combing the streets for What's Your Special - this week heading on a ferry and sailing over to Vashon Island to speak to the chef at the new farm-restaurant La Boucherie.

In the last hour, we're launching a new design series 'The Perfect Restaurant'. Join Tom and Thierry designing the perfect dining space and see what it takes to build a new joint from the bottom up.

Happy New Year!
Bonne Année

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 10:29am
Swing in the New Year!

3rd Annual Swing in the New Year

Palace Ballroom
8pm- 12:30am
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Ring in the New Year Tom Douglas style with an elegant dinner, swinging Yuletide music, and delicious bubbly for toasting! Celebrate New Year’s Eve at the Palace Ballroom with the award-winning Portage Bay Big Band, a 16-piece 1940’s style ensemble band with one of the largest brass sections in the city.

The Tom Douglas chef team will be cooking up an elegant
4-course dinner, plus passed appetizers, a specialty cocktail, a cheese board, and much more.

Here’s a sneak peak at just some of the delicious dishes from the feast:

Farotto (grain risotto) with Porcini Mushrooms and Parsley
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Romesco Shrimp with Parmesan Polenta, or
Grilled Beef Tenderloin with Duck-fried Yukon Gold Potatoes, or
Beet Ravioli with Roasted Shiitake Mushrooms
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Spiced chocolate cake with caramelized pears and pomegranate

Tickets are available here

Saturday, December 27, 2008 @ 3:17pm
Happy New Year!

Seattle has been snowed in, and we hope you've been home cookin' up a storm with family and friends. Thank you to all of you who braved the cold and snow to eat in our restaurants this season!!

Kicking off the show, we get you prepared for the biggest holiday of them all - New Years Eve! Grab your chef knife and a flute of champagne and listen in as we discuss simple homemade appetizers using…….potato chips! Thought they were just for ranch-dipping and mid-day snacking? Think again.

Joining us in the studio is teen cheesemaking sensation, Kelsey Kozak from Vashon Island. A culinary entrepreneur, Kelsey has a great story of how she's paying her way through the Culinary Institute of America - by raising her own cows and making cheese!

We've got wine pairings from Mike Teer, and we'll be combing the streets for What's Your Special - highlighting a local chef and the dishes that make them hungry.

Another year of delicious food is about to pass. Call us in the last hour and tell us what your favorite dish of the year was. Maybe you discovered a new food? Maybe you've perfected a technique.

Saturday, December 20, 2008 @ 10:50am
Holiday 101

Time sure does fly, doesn't it? It seems like only yesterday, we were scheming ways to use up all the tomatoes from the summer, and now we're mere days away from the Christmas Holiday season. Big food holiday!

On the show this week, listen in as we de-mystify three traditional Christmas foods; Goose, Prime Rib and Genoise. Chef Christina Orchid from Orcas Island chats cookin' goose at home - how to do it, saving that yummy fat and more! Then, we'll take advantage of Thierry's French culture and host a baking Genoise walk through - the delicious sponge cake used in traditional Bouche de Noel. Later, we're joined by Chef Chet Gerl, of Matt's in the Market for a Prime Rib 101. Ain't nothin' worse than overcooked beef on Christmas Day. Chet comes in to the studio and walks us through a fool-proof kitchen plan.

As always, we have on Mike Teer of Pike & Western Wine Shop to pair wine with our Recipe of the Week, and local restaurant, Spur Gastropub with Chef Dana Tough with What's Your Special?

Happy Holidays!

Thursday, December 18, 2008 @ 10:05am
Holiday Dim Sum

This is the time of year for family dinners, friendship lunches and office socials. While I'd like to see you at all of our restaurants I know you must need a little variety in your life.

When I'm hosting a party, and I've already taken friends, family or co-workers through Pike Place Market, I usually end up in Chinatown, or considering the last 30 years of immigration, the International District. All the holiday swag we buy is made in China anyway, so we might as well enjoy the cooking from the same region.

1st Stop - Dim Sum. It has been said that there is no "great" dim sum in Seattle. When I asked former PI food writer, Hsiao-Ching Chou where she goes, she immediately dismissed Seattle and voted enthusiastically for Sun Sui Wah in Vancouver, B.C. (fyi-the Pink Pearl is my favorite dim sum hang out in B.C.). I'm not so harsh. While I agree we don't have a great Dim Sum house on the order of Yank Sing, in San Francisco or Luk Yu, in Hong Kong, we do, however, have some worthwhile bites in Chinatown. Here are some of my favorites.

Saturday, December 13, 2008 @ 4:16pm
On this Weeks Show....

WOW! What a great listener response we had last week! Thank you for all your emails and notes about the show....and keep it up. We're always happy to hear from our home cooks & gourmands.

On this weeks show, we have a very special chef-guest, Eric Ripert from La Bernardin. You may notice his name from his spot last year as guest judge on Top Chef. Eric just published a great restaurant book - ON THE LINE - Inside the World of Le Bernardin. Listen in as he gives us some fancy tips and tricks from his own kitchens.

Also, based on a great lil' article we picked up in this week's New York Times Dining Section, Thierry and Tom teach us how best to cook lobster at home. It is the fancy-food-time-of-year, so why not splurge a little and go big?

We'll be speaking with Mike Teer of Pike & Western Wine Shop, as usual - this week he pairs wine with a great lil' holiday appetizer from Eric Ripert. And over in West Seattle, we talk to new chef and owner Jason Rice from his new kitchen at The Bohemian.

Wrapping up the show is Seattle's very own Gluten-Free Girl, Shauna James Ahern. New mom and bonafide, foodies, Shauna is on to address holiday baking for those that are either allergic or averse to gluten. With an estimated 1 out of 100 Americans having celiac disease, this is one not to miss.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008 @ 2:02pm
Welcome...

Welcome to our new & improved site for our weekly food radio program, In The Kitchen with Tom and Thierry. We've been hosting the show every Saturday for just about five years now and are always amazed and appreciative of your culinary conundrums and questions, so keep 'em coming! Feel free to email us here.

On this week's show, we have on culinary guru James Peterson - author of several books and the new edition of a kitchen-staple SAUCES - Classical and Contemporary Sauce-Making, his 1991 James Beard Award-winning book. This book has recently been re-released and we're looking forward to having James back on the show. His quirky enthusiasm for all things food is infectious and we're bound to learn a new trick of the trade.

Also on this week, check out a new 'gourmet ghetto' with Ed Murietta, a local food writer based south of the Emerald City.

We'll wrap up the last hour of the show with returning culinary instructor and local chef, Lynne Vea. Lynne has been teaching classes for years, and comes in to the studio this weekend to wax poetic about one of her favorite meals - tamales. She'll walk us through how to make them at home and share in this annual Christmas tradition observed in the Latino culture.

As we do every week, we'll be pairing wines with Michael Teer from Pike & Western Wine Shop in the northern tip of the Pike Place Market, and talking to a Seattle chef from his kitchen on a busy Saturday night - this week with Philip Milhawski of Nells in Greenlake.

Tom Douglas, along with his wife and business partner, Jackie Cross, owns five of Seattle's most exciting restaurants: Dahlia Lounge, Etta's, Palace Kitchen, Lola, and Serious Pie. With almost 30 years in the biz, Tom helped put Seattle on the culinary map by cooking global cuisine with regional and seasonal ingredients.

Thierry Rautureau, The Chef In The Hat!!! is the chef/owner of Rover's Restaurant in Seattle, Washington. Rover's is internationally recognized as one of the premier dining destinations in the Pacific Northwest. For 21 years, Rover's has offered cuisine that Rautureau describes as Northwest Contemporary with a French accent.