Seattle Ingredients

[vanillagorilla]

I'm in the final process of getting ingredients nailed down for my Christmas dinner. There are still two things I have not found.

First toulouse sausage. Is there a local source? I'm sure a good kielbasa would be ok, but I'd prefer the real deal or something similar.

Second Mache (Lamb's Lettuce). I can't recall if I've ever seen this locally. If no one knows where to get it, can you suggest a substitute?

[howard 1st]

as already noted, mache is generally found in the bagged salads and i have seen it at central market and qfc university village. toulouse sausage is a cooked sausage rather resembling knockwurst; uli does not make cooked or smoked sausages (yet...) delaurenti's has a garlic sausage that can fill the bill if you think kosher knockwurst - which are actually a good substitution - are too pedestrian

[terrier]

Uli's does not make a Toulouse sausage, but I can't recommend their kielbasa more highly. It has absolutely nothing in common with a supermarket kielbasa.

[Barry Foy]

I needed Toulouse sausage for a recipe last year (cassoulet--perhaps the same thing you need it for) and went to Uli's in search of it. What he had instead was a sausage under the name of another French city--I forget which--which he told me was basically the same sausage. It worked very well.

[mrnelso]

You may already have tried "Uli's Sausage" in the market - they make maybe twenty varieties and may be able to advise you.

[bluedog67]

Metropolitan Market usually carries Mache. It is with the bagged lettuce.

[nseattlefoodie]

the Mache - I'm not sure how local it is (i.e. grown around here) but I've picked it up at the Whole Foods off Roosevelt in Seattle for dinner parties.