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Just Add Water - Instant Foods
depending on how you feel about soyfoods....there are plenty of “just add hot water” versions of vegetarian chili out there that are passable, same goes for black bean soups (depending on where you are, i think...
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What to buy at Trader Joe's
(garlic and black bean probably my favorite)
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Chicago Breakfast
/ eggs benedict-type dish, with a truffle-sauce; very, very good, as well. lula is dedicated to using organic, local ingredients; and, not only that, they use such interesting combinations. definitely worth the wait on the...
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Hotdawgs! Hotdawgs! Hotdawgs!
-14 minutes, then turn them and do 'em another 10 minutes or so, just until they start to get black in spots with some char. Dress 'em with mustard, relish and chopped onions. Use impeccably fresh buns, toasted if you like. I would...
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Trader Joe's
dollars' worth of impulse purchases and walk out wondering how the hell you filled your cart when all you wanted was a loaf of asiago/black pepper artisan bread. And those of you already hooked on TJ’s, don’t EVEN tell...
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What is your most useful/best beloved non-mechanical device in your kitchen?
-name white plastic strainer purchased at the supermarket, LC cookware purchased over many years, ancient Bodum press style glass tea pot which I use every AM to make my breakfast tea, black rubberized bar tray that is used...
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What foods are a MUST for Thanksgiving?
cranberry sauce, nothing else Shrimp tail for an appetizer, with my grama’s old fashioned relish tray with black olives from the can, mini gerkins, bread and butter pickes and dill spears. For desert, chocolate cream pie made...
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Top Chef: The "Scandal" ...reactions?
a chocolate truffle with a chicken liver in it (the judges said the liver was not detectable...apparently they wanted it to be detectable?) and Marcel made a potato and chocolate... cannoli? canneloni? I’m not sure, but it...
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Summerlicious 2007
with the regular menu? I’m considering all of the following restaurants since they all have very good reputations, but how do they fare for the Licious meals? Centro Mildred Pierce Hemispheres Truffles Ultra Zucca Tratoria As you...
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Coming to LA/Pasadena (mainly Pasadena), could use some recs
sorry, but i have to object to crocodile cafe on lake – sadly, not for food reasons. one sunday afternoon i was seated outside with some friends & we were the only table consisting of non-white patrons (two asians & one...
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Restaurant
Yangming
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Contrarian views on "popular" restaurants?
. Jimmy’s Steer House in Arlington. Bistro 712 in Norwood. Peking Tom’s in the Financial District. Black Cow in Newburyport. Kowloon in Saugus. Morton’s in the Back Bay. Plaza III in Faneuil Hall. Equator, Red Fez,...
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Thoughts on the evolution of "Peasant Food?"
ingredients (not talking truffles!), you are probably looking at one that originated with peasants. I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if the receipes were updated over time to make them “fancier”.
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Dining Around Honolulu
`I. Here, the dishes departed. I had the Bubu Arare Crusted Arctic Char (with dried scallop truffle sauce) and my wife had the Arctic Char, but with a shrimp sauce – really a nice, and appreciated touch! With these two dishes, we...
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What's the real Zingerman's (in Ann Arbor) like?
(including in Chicago): Black mole paste ($16 for a small jar, the jar would probably only make enough mole for 6-8 servings, if that) Fallot mustard Niman’s “Salametti Napoletani”, excellent tiny salamis that are...
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