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Friday, July 24, 2009
The Soeseidelmantaerts: What’s in Your Fridge Friday?
PORTLAND, ORE. — Rachel and Russell Seidelman relocated to Portland two years ago from Kansas City, Mo., for the cool weather and laid-back biking culture (I couldn’t get them to “accidentally” stay in Austin when they stopped there on their cross-country journey to move out here).
I met Rachel when she was Rachel Soetaert in Spain, where we were both studying abroad from Mizzou. (When they got married a few years ago, Rachel and Russell joked that they were going to combine their vowel-filled last names into one: Soeseidelmantaert, thus the name of this post.) Turned out, her folks live in the same part of Missouri as mine, and our families have been intrinsically intertwined ever since.
Now she and Russell have made their home on the West coast, eating food grown in their own garden and from a CSA they just joined. They wear their hippie souls on their fridge shelves, with oat, hazelnut and almond milks next to reused tortilla bags full of lettuce and homemade pumpernickel bread. Don’t forget the freezer, which holds a dozen or so old tomato sauce jars full of blueberries Rachel picked last week on Sauvie Island.
What three things are always in your fridge? Bridgeport IPA, fresh fruit (particularly apples, “I mean Washington is next door,” says Rachel, a Missouri native.) Eggs.
What’s your favorite condiment? Tapatio
What’s your favorite late-night snack? Russell’s popcorn that he makes in his big stock pot, Rachel says, topped with melted butter.”There’s no kernels left in the bottom,” she says. “He makes the perfect popcorn. Perfectly salted and buttered, with butter melted in the toaster oven because we don’t have a microwave.” Served with grapefruit juice or apple juice.
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