and a homey ma po tofu, though i foolishly forgot to mention that i wanted it spicy, so it was a bit on the mild side. but very good comfort food, and the lack of spice was my own damn fault. sunday got down to james hook and co...

13-inch pan. Brownie Pudding Serves 6 From Robin Hood: Bake a Little Love—The Canadian Flour Cook Book, 1986 1 cup All-Purpose Flour (stir with a fork to aerate before measuring) 1/2 cup White Sugar 1/4 cup Cocoa Powder 1 tsp....

of participation. And certainly lots of people are cooking from the Casas books, so I just may be wrong. Would welcome thoughts on this. Also, in one of the COTM threads, Oakjoan raised the issue of rotating to another COTM...

be falling off the bone tender. Take meat off the bones, strain and separate juices from fat. Serve the meat with the pan juices.

and feel like Le Creuset, some from China, and I’m sure they’re cheaper and as good. Yeah, Le Creuset is pricy but when you think of how long they last, no problem, and how much pleasure, as Bob Lauriston above has...

Isn’t it still called “Bud's of San Francisco?” ;') To answer my own question, Bud’s in now owned by Dean Foods' Berkeley Farms Arm. http://www.deanfoods.com/brands/icecream.asp# Oddly eough, I last spotted...

. I assume I’d need to tap into a Portuguese, pan-Latin, or African one for vanilla? (Actually, I am clueless where vanilla comes from, but I sure doubt it’s China!)

a hound’s advice of very light appetizers and I think that was the correct choice. We split the main dishes with another couple – all of us were away from ‘home’ so made many favorites from our respective...

for the default Title and Short Description are confusing, right? Hopefully someone from the Design Team will Speak Up soon.

it opened. I don’t care about the other patrons...i care about my experience. Now, versus virtually all of the ‘new’ south end — again only from my experience — where the service can be a joke...

I go out to eat to taste food that I normally can’t make for myself at home. So in this situation, I classify it under “the restaurant is not even trying” category. I’m curious from the original poster...

Grande Epicerie in the Bon Marche (Metro Sevres-Babylone). Great bread (get there early), a tad expensive being the Bon Marche and all, but great selection of food from around the world and France. Brunch at “Le Loir dans...

. Earlier this year we tried it at China First on Clement. The first time it was perfect, the second time it was a little spongey on the bottom. Link: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/39710#189251

Butterfly is right on. A home-ordered meal with some thought involved can beat the pants off a 300 dollar dinner on the town any night. Little things count here: serve the pizza/thai/mezze on real plates (can you borrow china...

An article in the NYTimes last week piqued my interest in going to the local dollar store to examine their food department. Imagine my surprise to find four ounces of wild salmon for a dollar. It’s packed in NC but...