We have one of our absolute
favorite foodies in our kitchen.
Linda Miller Nicholson is
known for her beautiful pasta
Instagram account, salty Seattle.
It's full of beautifully
colorful pasta creations,
and we've had her on the show
several times over the last few
years because we love her so much.
But now there's a new reason to celebrate
because people can now buy her creations.
Linda joins me now to tell
us all about her crochet.
I'm not saying it right,
so I love that you brought that up because
the very first point I want to make,
look at this little pronunciation.
Key. Ohh, look. Crow key.
Crow key. It's right there.
Yes. Right on the box.
Because I I worry that. Yes.
Yeah. We've got some of it, Rocky.
And here's the deal. It's
already one of Oprah's favorite things.
It's been a wild ride.
It's been so exciting, actually. Crazy.
It's it's been crazy in a good way.
Yes. But how did she find you?
How did she pick you?
Well, she she's reached out
a few times over the years.
Do you have a product?
And so this year I had made.
The crowd key several times
for friends and family.
And the first time I served
it to Bentley danger,
my sweet little 14 year old shout out.
He was like eyes rolled back in his head.
He was like, mom,
that has to be the first recipe in book two.
I was like, you know what?
How about that just becomes
the anchor product.
I love it.
Yeah, so it's Yoki and they're
shaped like little croissants.
I wanted to cook some for you today.
Can we do that?
Yes. OK.
Is that if I ever said no
to you about anything?
I'm gonna drop the pasta and then
I also have sauce to go with it.
I thought it would be kind of
fun for people to have sort
of like a complete easy meal.
Yes.
So while the pasta look,
it goes in the water.
So phenomenally beautiful.
We're getting steamy up in here, aren't we?
Ohh yes.
Then this is our sage brown butter sauce,
which is my little bird told
me it was your favorite.
That's the one we decided to jar first.
I am so excited.
So yeah, you can just,
you can you can actually do the
whole thing in the same pot.
Once the once the crookie are done boiling,
you can actually just do the whole one pot,
pull it out, put the sauce in.
But I figured for our ease today,
let's go ahead and just put
the sauce in the pan while we
wait for these to boil.
I'm already trying the sauce,
it's not even heated up and it's delicious.
Ohh,
my gosh this is so good. Ohh.
We've got a hot pan over there.
We got a hot pan.
Gonna code down on the heat with that.
But yeah so the croaky was just like
universally reviews of those are so
pretty and they're so delicious and I
mean they're croissant shaped yochi,
what is not to love.
You might remember that iconic product.
Remember the cronut? The cronut, yes, yes.
So when I was trying to figure
out what on Earth to call them,
it's like batting around lots and lots
of ideas and I thought, well, croakies.
Pretty good because they are
basically croissant shaped Yorkies.
So that's genius. Yes.
Yeah, it's, it's.
I thought it was kind of fun.
And we do have 4 Seattleites.
We have a local pickup option
where people can come and get them.
Or if you are feeling like
gifting around the country,
we ship them directly to people on
dry ice so that they go straight
from my hands to your dinner tables.
Ohh,
that's
OK. That is a fun fancy gift because
then you can give somebody something.
They're not gonna be able to get anywhere.
And it's local. Yep.
And it's beautiful. Well, and I
like the idea people are always looking for.
OK, what's a iconic Seattle gift to
give to people who don't live here?
This is kind of a fun thing
because it ships directly to them.
I also like that it's a
food gift for the holidays,
but not something that you have to eat,
right? You go straight into your
freezer and last for a year.
People can take them out whenever they want.
OK? It's not like, you know,
here is the 8 thousandth Christmas cookie.
Yes, I am here for that.
You know what else I like about this
too is that sometimes when I have
people over, I have no energy to cook.
Like, I just. I don't have it's.
I'm zapped. This is something that
you can put in and it'll wow your
guests. Exactly. It's so pretty.
And it's zero. It's 3 minutes.
You've got your reason.
You've got your pasta.
Don't they look awesome when
they come to the top? Like
I'm looking for my camera.
Like I'm not on TV right now.
I wanna take a picture
of it. So, OK, you know the
you know the the poop emoji?
Yeah. I know that one.
When Bentley was trying to figure out,
when my son was trying to figure
out what the name was gonna be,
he was like, they kind of look like
beautiful little Unicorn poop in mouth.
They OK? I love you, Bentley,
but they do not they look like.
The cookie. They don't look like crooky. Yes.
So we're gonna go straight into little sauce.
Gotta love kids, right?
They say the darndest things.
It was sort of, yeah, no, that was vetoed.
That was like,
universally vetoed by a very wise
and esteemed adult panel of people.
No, but these bring out the kid in
all of us because they're so cute.
We're getting.
Do you notice we're getting like,
our experience?
We are
definitely getting a facial today here.
Why don't you give those?
OK, there's a little stir.
So it's literally just a
brown butter and sage sauce.
It's got lots of yummy,
yummy Parmigiano Reggiano
in it to make it delicious.
Ohh Croaky croaky on the run.
And I mean that's like what we just did here.
That's how long it takes to do at home.
So you're welcome.
Dinner.
Dinner is there.
Yeah, I have
a question. So what other sauces
are you thinking of making?
Well, one of my favorite for this
time of year is an apple bacon.
Sauce that's so good of only with.
Yeah, I know, it's kind of crazy,
but also with cheddar cheese.
Can I? Yeah, let's play some,
let's plate some of them with
and you honestly don't have to
do anything to the top of them.
The flavour and the sauce
is like totally there,
but just for the sake of kind of like
if you wanna be a little extra fancy,
throw some sage leaves on top.
I'm so crazy. And then I like to do,
because it already is so cheesy.
I do just a little smattering of this is
a smoky salt that is yummy, yummy, yummy.
Yeah. Work, my lady. Yes.
There we go. Here we try this.
Take a bite. Hmm. We're gonna salt.
Hmm. Ohh, I could.
I love them.
There's gonna be once a month I'm gonna
be sitting down with a whole bowl of
this when I really need two of it.
Yeah, bowl of it by myself.
Actually started. You want more?
I just want. OK. I'm here.
I'm straight out of town.
I'm going straight out of.
I just want to say, you know,
Linda,
you've been
a friend of our show for a long time and
it just we we think the world of you.
And we're just so thrilled.
Thank you. This is happening. Cheers.
Cheers. Cheers to proceed this so much.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank
you. Yeah, absolutely.
We love you. Alright.
Linda is also sticking around
because she's gonna be my teammate
in a very competitive round of
password at the end of the show.
Be sure to stick around to
see that you're gonna be fine.
We're going to
we're gonna have so much.
Because we're gonna have two glasses
of champagne before that happens.
Just two. Alright, we are all.