rods (after cutting out holes on one side of the wood for them to enter and exit). Notice 4 ft poles — they completely closed off the 3 ft. doorway! They worked like a cattleguard, or what Canadians call a Texas Gate. Every...

I thought I’d died and gone to heaven when they started carrying the Mochi ice cream. I have a question for you. How do you keep them from getting freezer burned after you have opened the package? I always have problems...

My one experience with Doug’s gave me terrible heart burn in the middle of the night and I asked for mild sauce. Greatly overrated.

-frozen shell than a pizza made from hand-made dough and cooked in a wood-burning oven. Most people will pick the hand-made pizza dough as the “gourmet” one but it doesn’t mean people who like Little...

lanky 6 foot from to a gaunt 112 lbs. Recuperation led to a lot of creative ways to kill boredom. Cooking shows offered a break from M.A.S.H. re-runs. The kitchen offered me a place to burn some cabin crazy creative energy, and...

're at it, get some better ventilation for wood-burning ovens (which I love the smell of,and the taste of the food cooked in them, but they can be very leaky, I guess). It’s hardly diff. to me than cig. smoking at the next...

the wood-burning oven, pick up a warm, fresh six-pack, half-half (meaning 3 poppy 3 sesame), a little tub of Astro brand cream cheese, and we’d head to Mount Royal, just a few blocks away, and eat in the beautiful park and...

I think #4 is boong-uh-bbahng? I think it means “goldfish bread” when it’s translated from Korean. I’ve burned my tongue a countless number of times because I couldn’t wait for the red bean filling...

BEER CAN CHICKEN Pop open a 12-oz domestic beer (Schlitz, Rheingold, Pabst) and make a coupla additional holes in the top of the can. Soak the wood chips for your grill in 6 ounces of the beer for about an hour (use additional...

wine that tastes as sweet and as artificial as cherry cola and is so high in alcohol that it burns going down. I hope people like her and (NYTimes critic) Eric Asimov keep speaking out against this awful stuff. Maybe they can...

is the Wood-ear funghus, something that is said to have a blood thinning property. Actually the first time I found this Huei Mian in Flushing was in the back of the other mall, further up from the Golden Mall. I’m now unsure...

vaporized. Luckily, she wasn’t at all seriously burned - but was not at all thrilled to find herself standing there, in front of 20 seventh-graders agog, in her bra and nothing much more than smoking embers where her hair...

with it when we are in their neck of the woods. When they visit us in NYC, we’ve come up w/ another arrangement to even out the tab – I send them a check at the end of the trip to make up the difference for splitting...

on a kick that cucumbers were the problem and would scream (literally) if he ate cukes. The veg garden was at the back of our property, with woods beyond that. So Grandpa planted corn in the next to last row, and the cukes behind...

wants a day-old sandwich?), so you either end throwing away some (there goes 10-25%cost) or eating it all and then working your ass off trying to burn those extra calories (there goes your time!). Speaking of saving time, many...