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cheap and labor-intensive food-- do you do it?
& don’t you love all the old-timey “reciept” books that tell you to use “flour the weight of a goose's egg” or "must leavings from a barrel of ale" or “the rendered fat from the snouts of three...
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Wedding RSVP's choosing (or changing) your meal option? [moved from General Chowhounding Topics]
Me, I did it buffet style with options for meat, fish and veggie eaters. We had fabulous sausages, a great paoched salmon, grilled veggies, green salad, and whiskey and maple roasted sweet potatoes, with a good selection of...
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Married a Meat and Potatoes Man....Help!
hee. And remember that our dear old French fry is a Belgian wonder. So he just may like that foreign cuisine and not know it! ;-)
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What are Chowhounds having for dinner tonight?
, and I am going to order a little extra of everything(Yu noddles Indonesian style, bbq pork fried rice, egg rolls, mandarin ribs, & a beef dish) to bring home. So I guess leftover Chinese food for dinner.
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TRADER JOE'S and Whole Foods- BEST PRODUCTS
chocolate (3 varieties huge value, low price) most cheeses-dirt cheap & good but you MUST check for exp date! (got a Grana Padano Parm tonight @$8.99lb.) They have great vanilla extract (Madigascar or TJ bourbon style) TJ Mayo,...
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WNR list
mystery meat more times than I can count. If you find yourself in the same situation, let me recommend the macaroni & cheese and a Chimay Ale.
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Burgers in London?
Micheal – I guess the same parochial attitude that you suggest would apply to my British friends in New York who seek out good fish and chips, and a warm pint of ale. Didn’t realize that instead of trekking around the...
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Favorite chowcentric lines from favorite books
). A first date at about age 14 — he takes his date to his dad’s restaurant (which uses "New World foods cooked New Mexico style"). She tries, but she can’t handle the liver in the soup or much of anything else....
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So Many Critics...Do any of them have any training?
I understand where you’re coming from as regards “correct” preparation, but that’s a very specifically French prejudice. There’s more than one way to make good fries. I’ve enjoyed dry and...
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Best hoods for food shopping in London
Roll-Ups to Kikkoman soy sauce (which, at least when I lived there, was not generally available in the UK). There’s also a Jewish-style deli on the same street called Harry Morgan’s, when you get the urge for some New...
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what was the last great thing you made?
numbers of recipes, and this one certainly provides that with recipes from all over India. I do tend to adjust the spicing, but I do that with all my Indian cookbooks. Just to clarify, the Persian style koresht I made didn’t...
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Showing up empty-handed to dinner
basket, note cards." The list is pushing the ‘danger’ zone of the clash of personal style/tastes. No one ever has given me a candle that I liked. As for cheap wine, in worst-case you can always cook with it. There was...
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Portion Size at Finer Restaurants
: Le Cafe Eau D’City Menu TIFFANY SALAD an elegant play of one glorious curly endive leaf against one of Belgian endive artfully brought to their glistening best with spritzed Badoit Red
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Minnesota State Fair foods?
curds (shared), honey ice cream (shared) and corn. (And then I fast for two weeks.) 2) I have too many old favorites to make room for anything new . . . the last new thing I tried was the Fudge Puppy, ages ago: a Belgian waffle...
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let's share a cooking "trick"
I add just a dash of sugar to some of my cooked vegetables- green beans(cooked southern style),corn, peas. If I leave it out , I can tell the difference. The veggies are just missing “something” without the sugar.
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