🍞 DUTCH BABY: Seattle historian and columnist Knute Berger describes this deep-dish pancake as “a love child between a popover and an omelette.” Dutch babies became popular in the late 1800s thanks to a Seattleite named Victor Manca who served ‘em to hungry gold prospectors at his café for 90 cents a pop.

• Classic Dutch baby
• Cinnamon spiced Dutch baby with cranberry butter
• Savory Dutch baby

🍎 APPLES: They’re our state fruit, and for good reason: Washington State grows the most apples in the country. Farmers harvest about 2.1 million tons of apples each year and about one in six apples eaten in the U.S. is grown in the Evergreen State. If it’s true what they say about apples keeping the doctor away, we should be golden delicious.

• Apple pie
• Apple cider — or have it spiked
• Cornbread with apples and onions

🍴 ONIONS: Did you know we had a state vegetable? Neither did we. While they’re not as widely celebrated as their apple-y counterparts, the Walla Walla onion reps Washington in the veggie world. They’re only in season during the summer, but you might be able to get them specially shipped to you. In the meantime, you can make an ode to our state veg by cooking up, as Seattle Times food writer Bethany Jean Clement puts it, “another, inferior sweet onion.” Fun fact: Some people are such onion fans that they slap them on to their peanut butter sandwiches.

• French roasted onions
• Kale and caramelized onion stuffing
• Alsace onion tart

🐟 SEAFOOD. Fishing is in Seattle’s DNA. And as a port city, we’ve got some of the best seafood around — and a sweet spot to watch salmon as they make their way to spawn. Want to make sure you’re getting the sustainable stuff to help keep our ocean ecosystems healthy? Check your grocery’s offerings against the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch list, or download their handy app.

• Grilled salmon with lemon sauce
• Big clam pie — a.k.a. a pie full of our favorite vulgar-looking bivalve, the geoduck
• Seafood pho

Have a holiday recipe featuring local ingredients that you think we should try? Hit reply and let us know. » Evergrey director Mónica Guzmán wants to pick a recipe to try out and report back. 😋

‘This agreement does not roll back reforms.’ That’s what Mayor Jenny Durkan Police said after our city council gave the OK to a new labor contract with our police officers. But not everyone’s buying it. The contract gives officers more competitive wages, which folks seem happy about. But a group with some sway called the Community Police Commission thinks it gives officers a little too much wiggle room when it comes to discipline and layoffs. And that, they say, could walk back police reforms the city signed off on last year. 🚓 (Crosscut)

‘We have created a culture of intolerance.’ A couple weeks ago, a local named Christopher Rufo kicked off a campaign for Mike O’Brien’s seat on the Seattle City Council. Yesterday, he said he was out. His reason? Alleged harassment against his family, including what he called “vile racist attacks” against his wife and posts on his son’s school Facebook page. Christopher considers himself a centrist, and was getting some early traction before he pulled out of the race. “Since I announced my campaign, I’ve learned that our problem here in Seattle is much deeper than the city council’s policies,” he wrote. “We have created a culture of intolerance that is deeply destructive to the common good.” (MyBallard, The Stranger)

What’s Amazon’s expansion mean for our housing market? Well it’s not going to crash anytime soon, says Seattle Times real estate reporter Mike Rosenberg. Yes, Amazon’s going to hire a lot of people in the 4 million square feet of office space it’s planning to open up in Virginia and New York. But it’s already committed to opening 4 million square feet of new office space here in the next few years, and is hiring 8,200 open positions right now in Seattle. Plus, Mike points out, local Amazonians aren’t going to find much cheaper cost of living in those new HQ2 cities out east. 🏠 (The Seattle Times)

☝️ You a cooking klutz? No worries. Seattle restaurants are here for you. Here’s a list of 20 Seattle spots — plus four in the Eastside and beyond — where you can gobble up someone else’s culinary creations this Thanksgiving. Making our mouths water a week early: the pumpkin cheesecake with cashew and coconut at Tilth in Wallingford and the deep fried turkey included in the 5 Point Cafe’s $28 dinner. (Seattle Met)

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY

We’ll catch you tomorrow. — The Evergrey