<p>Ah, I wasn’t talking geology, I was talking about how real estate people seem to like “Ridge.” Where I live (and I’m pretty sure where DMD lives), what passes for soil is big gravel piles where the glaciers died.</p>
<p>What’s up with the ridges? That’s pretty much the only land left to build on. Everything else has already been developed, zoned, rezoned and subdivided. On the positive side, it keeps engineers employed. I’m okay with names like “Whatever Ridge”. Naming clear-cut, asphalt-covered places “Groves”, “Meadows”, “Woods”, etc. is pure hypocrisy.</p>
<p>We used to live in a place called “… Ridge”. WashDad is right, the soil was 30% rocks by volume. How do I know the percentage? We sifted approximately top 5-7 inches or so of our backyard dirt before putting our landscape in, and then brought in extra topsoil. Of course, it was a small yard, so it was doable. The beautiful round rocks were used to make landscape features, like a pond and a fake creek.</p>
<p>(dragonmom, use the other slash, like this: /quote)</p>
<p>Glacial Till is prime farmland.
But that isn’t what you have after bulldozers scrape the top soil and compact the earth while building the developments.
[Drainage</a> in the Snoqualmie Valley](<a href=“Page not found | The Seattle Times”>Tilting At Windmills -- After Development Devastated His Dream, Bob Pepper Set Off On A One-Man Crusade To Save His Beloved Valley. | The Seattle Times)
[Rocks for Jocks](<a href=“Subduction -- the birth place of a volcanic mountain range”>http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/subduction.html</a>) 
[Cascade</a> Range Volcanoes Compared](<a href=“http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/VTrips/CascadesComp.HTM]Cascade”>http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/VTrips/CascadesComp.HTM)</p>
<p>BTW I’m not AA, my people came from Puerto Rico to NYC around the turn of the last century.</p>
<p>BTW I’m not AA, my people came from Puerto Rico to NYC around the turn of the last century.
Have you tried this?
Very friendly & yummy food
( & watch out for the drinks! :eek:, they are potent)</p>
<p>[Welcome</a> To La Isla](<a href=“http://www.laislaseattle.com/]Welcome”>http://www.laislaseattle.com/)</p>
<p>Yes. It was pretty good but not as good as my Dad’s homecooking. But since I never learned to make some of his dishes I’m SOL and this is the best around. I prefer my fried plantains to be very ripe so they are sweeter and softer. Their chicken and rice dish tasted very much like the real thing. I need to go there again for a fix.</p>
<p>My D really likes the plantains but they don’t taste like anything to me.
I can’t eat that much food, so I mostly just have the beans and rice & some bites of H’s fish. ( & a Caribbean Crush)</p>
<p>Boy I hope it gets warm enough soon so you can sit on the sidewalk.</p>
<p>[* This* is really good & they are putting in a deck out back](<a href=“http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/169241_rest16.html”>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/169241_rest16.html</a>)</p>
<p>Yes, they don’t taste like much because they don’t use the right ones. You need a good ripe one and then fry it in lard. (lard is a key to most authentic PR cooking as well as salt pork) Then it’s great.</p>
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<p>^^Sounds like Ukrainian cooking to me! Just use potatoes instead of plantains.</p>
<p>Spectacular fried plantains in Seattle? Marjorie in Bell Town. They also have, for dessert, the best bread pudding I have ever eaten in my life.</p>