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Top Chef - best cut ever (obviously a spoiler...)
boring,why not do chicken. It appears they were making food for drunks? How could any of the customers tell if the food was good or not. I had a cuban sandwich at the diner near my sister’s place in Piermont.It was pretty...
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Help!: Planning a Once-in-a-Lifetime Trip
the tortilla to order. The chicken taco is pretty amazing as well.
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"Ooh! You Made Bruschetta!"
and they mispronounce Bruschetta, too! like Bru-shetta instead of Bru-sKetta! I’m with you! Makes me nuts! Bruschetta is toasted bread. The topping is the topping, not the bruschetta! I often top mine the Tuscan way with...
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The Great Bay Leaf Hoax
, with onions, bayleaf and rice sauteed in butter or olive oil to start (or go whole hog with the full panoply of whole garam masala spices) the bay leaf scent will be evident in your rice cooked this way.
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TC 3 Episode 5 - Dame Chocolate (Spoiler Alert!)
.I think even Diane Kennedy has a recipe for it in one of her books. i might have done a stew with meatballs,hominy,chicken and other ingredients,like a posole. there are different forms of course of latin cooking.You have...
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Questions re New Yorker's first chow-conscious trip to SF
that they add more or less of any ingredient – quite nice. There’s fried chicken with sticky rice plus fried vegetables. Lots of steam table savory items, soup, various desserts – good mango & sticky rice....not...
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Our love affair with all things Tartine-- and the rest of our trip to San Francisco (a long report!)...
sauce—unbelievable (A+). The minced chicken in the lettuce cups was not a favorite for us, perhaps just a matter of taste, but we found them overly sweet and nutty (B-). The shrimp dumplings were great, not particularly exciting,...
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Pig and Whistle
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Your one cooking tip ?
Use pasta cooking water to season and thicken sauces. Lean red meat is as healthy as chicken breast, and there are actually tasty cuts to choose from (I know that’s not a tip, but I just learned this recently and it made me...
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Two Weeks in Berkeley (trip report, long)
knocked over a glass! The food is still excellent — we ended up eating here three times with various permutations of relatives, ordering different dishes each time, and everything was good. (This is my number one spot in the...
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Toronto - San Francisco = ?
and steamed bread if you want some cold weather comfort food.- depends whether you want a light or heavy meal. Skip the butter and salt tea though :) I’ve had the masala thosai at Rashna only once, but it was very good. You...
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Is Trader Joe really that amazing??
's fit the bill perfectly and are a cut above anything I can find elsewhere, like the frozen chicken lime patties, the TJ’s cheesesteak pizza, and the garlic naan.
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Culinary Wasteland That Is New Jersey
? kinda like death valley..... (hope to go to bistro44 tomorrow bgut). most of the cooking i have had is lazy and uninspired, sometimes inedible, most times forgettable. in nola, good gumbo was like a bowl of soul, here chicken...
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Chopsticks or forks, what's the big deal?
of sauce, anyway, unless I’m eating in an Indian-Chinese place like Tangra Masala. Also, it’s easier to eat a whole fish with fork and spoon, I like to eat every bit except for the bones.
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Where's the good Indian food??
inside would come with the fried veggies on top. They had a window where you could watch them making the food to order. Once while I was dining I saw them make something like 50 of the conventionally shaped chicken kebab for a...
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