Some vegetarians spend Thanksgiving far away from home at a vegan potluck. Some vegetarians were raised by hippies, and their grain-fed, free-range turkey is only a tiny feature lost in a sea of vegetables. But some of us, year after year, brainstorm our own entrees so we're not stuck subsisting entirely on mashed potatoes, pie and ten bottles of wine because every holiday or gathering is basically planned entirely around what animal everyone will be consuming. Here are some of my ways around that; some are more successful than others. more ›

While most of you were sleeping in after a late night of NW hip-hop at Fred on Saturday, we rolled out of bed, pulled on some trousers, and headed to Pie Life, part of City Arts Fest's Culture Club. more ›

What do we love this week? Cheese, pie, and advise from our moms. Also, staying dry while Occupying Seattle. more ›

Don't forget to enter your best snapshots of sweet treats as a part of the Cake vs. Pie photography contest. Winning photos will be featured on our site. Find out more info here. more ›

Reasons you must go to Blues for Food Fest include a homemade pie auction, tons of local music and food from Where Ya At Matt. Oh, it's also for charity. more ›

Perhaps you've already heard of her? My Drunk Kitchen, the YouTube sensation featuring a girl who really enjoys cooking and drinking. Not quite as dangerous as drinking and driving (our friendly reminder, take a cab- please and thank you) however the combination always yields complications. more ›

6-10-11 by Sarah Johnston from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

Since pie seems to be on the rise as Seattle's newest sweet-tooth trend, we decided to find out a little more about the contenders for local pie supremacy. Suzi visited High Five Pie in the So Sous Me series a couple weeks ago, that leaves Pie, a diminutive space in the heart of Fremont that dishes out individually sized pies in sweet and savory flavors. The owners, Renee Steen and Jess Whitsitt, were happy to sit down with us and talk shop. more ›

Pie in Fremont: The newest kid on the pie block, recently praised by the controversial Sheehan, this small shop serves both sweet and savory pies. To celebrate Pi Day, Pie will be open for exactly 3.14 hours (12 p.m.-3:14 p.m.), during which all hand pies will be, you guessed it, $3.14. Mini Minis will be sold three for $3.14. Way to pay homage to the number 3.14 in a multitude of ways. more ›

In the current era of chef worship, no one should expect the executive chef to be at the restaurant expediting service every night. With a restaurant's limited capacity and razor-thin profit margins, chefs need multiple sources of revenue. So who exactly is feeding us while our celebrities are out competing on Iron Chef? Seattlest answers this question through a series of interviews with our city's sous chefs and chef de cuisines. We continue our series with an early morning visit to High 5 Pie on Capitol Hill, where bakery manager Cat Wilcox whips up sweet and savory goodies that remind us of our childhoods. more ›

As we mentioned earlier in the month, High 5 Pie, the baked goods shop from Fuel Coffee's Dani Cone, is celebrating the opening of its new Capitol Hill bakery and cafe this evening. If big pies, tiny pies in mason jars or generally delicious baked goods are your sort of thing, stop by tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. more ›

If Mobile Chowdown 3 doesn't leave you sufficiently sated, you can top yourself off the next day with some discount pies courtesy of Pie Day -- er, Pi Day, 3/14. Get 14% of your purchase of three High 5 Pies at any Fuel Coffee location. It's all in honor of our favorite circumference-related constant, which we'd eat if it weren't an abstract concept. more ›

We read over at Phinnywood that Greenwood's Lemon Meringue Boutique is going out of business, and will have a "grand closing" sale. We had no idea it existed, which is lucky because we would have gone there demanding boutique lemon meringue pie, only to be confronted by racks of women’s, maternity, and children’s clothing. It doesn't get much bait-and-switchier than that. Now with High 5 Pie, on the other hand, a division of the Fuel Coffee empire, you get exactly what you expect. (Pie, we mean, not a high five.) And while apple, berry, and cherry are advertised right now, their "seasonal" pie flavors may include "peaches, lemon, blueberries, cloves, salted chocolates, raspberries, and lavender." See that? Lemon! One fake pie door closes, another opens. more ›

Hearst's special investigative team reveals today that the Boy Scouts aren't the angels of righteousness and environmental integrity everyone thought. No, instead they are foreign hucksters. Oh, wait. We're mistaken. The honey-launderers were the foreign hucksters. The Boy Scouts of America are profiteering tree-haters, as it were. The charge is that over the past twenty years, various BSA councils in the Northwest have irresponsibly and potentially illegally logged their land in order to turn their assets into cash to fund the organization's programs. Our biggest takeaway from the story is that apparently, foresting laws are unsettlingly easy to bypass. You gotta wonder, though: which secretly dirty all-American institution is the P-I going to go after next? The sins of pie? Football, maybe? more ›

We know that Seattlest Katelyn usually handles your daily blog roundup, but she had to dart out for an emergency meeting of the Black Socialist Unicorns Justice League, leaving us in charge for today only. You won't mind if all your local news is about folk music and cute puppies, right? West Seattle blog cares about puppies as much as we do, so don't judge. CHS is calling for a CD swap, which we think is bound to turn up some old timey banjo music somewhere. Okay, that's all the puppies and folk music we could wrangle out of this. Meanwhile, MyBallard has Elvis, Slog has pie, and B-Town Blog is impressed with Obama's speaking skills. It's all connected in some dreamy way, we're sure. Speaking of dreamy, we wish the Unicorns a good meeting, and Seattlest Katelyn a speedy return. more ›

It seems that before Thanksgiving is even over, we are encouraged to panic over the fate of our leftovers. This seems strange, as we’ve always found it remarkably easy to get rid of leftovers by refusing exit to any guest without a plateful. Barring that, there’s always turkey curry salad. Still, there are a couple of Thanksgiving purchases that cannot so easily be passed off or reused; among them is pumpkin purée. more ›

Take a little break this afternoon at 2:40 p.m. and turn on KUOW to hear Seattlest Rachael Coyle. She'll be on their Sound Focus program, chatting with Susan Lerner about tips for making a good pie crust. If you're in the pie-making school that buys the pre-made, frozen crusts, you may be able to appreciate what a delicate quest making one from scratch would be. Tune in this afternoon, though, and get a new lease on life...then go make us a pie! more ›