...Or instead of just diced tomatoes, try the diced tomatoes/chiles. Store brand, like Ralphs, works just fine. You might want to drain off some of the liquid first, though (and save it to add to Bloody Mary mix!).

because we can flaunt a place with some finesse near us in Queens...like showing off an exotic bird or something. I don’t need the song and dance, just a pleasant well prepared Italian meal. BASTA!

for baking. Time came and I sent DH out to bring it in. He did looking very puzzled and asked if it had looked like that when I put it out there. Well no! Half the top crust had been neatly eaten off. I forgot the hole in the...

I’ve enjoyed reading thru all the replies here. Amazing the interest this topic generated! Here’s a book off my shelf that may interest some of you. The Great American Meatloaf Contest Book by Peter...

was understandably skeptical. Rose got me through it with minimal freaking out, and I went on to make a side business of making wedding cakes. A week is plenty of time to pull it off. You can start baking the layers even 4 or 5...

's time for one of my favorite Japanese noodle dishes, the cold ramen and veggies thing called Hayashi Chuka. I always used to get this at Sapporo on 49th St. just off of 7th Ave. when I worked in Midtown, but I have no idea...

&S Pork Store on 5th and 1st. and several good wine stores throughout the hood. This is just off the top of my head, I’m sure others will add more. Take a look at an old thread I started about this topic:...

it very well could have been an off day. The only reason we were there was because everywhere else we wanted to go was closed for the holiday. I would love to hear where you like to go for good area bbq, and why, because I...

. Seemed like it had been sitting around on a plate all night. Not a happy note to end on. The service was good, though, as was the ambience — love the giant red lampshades and the cool circular booth in the front of the...

it is right (only takes me a lifetime to get there..) "I have only held a couple of “regular” jobs in this industry; all the others were invented and I’ve loved (almost) every minute of my long career." Very cool!...

Expansion? Already? Cool! With a bigger place and the best Italian food in the county, they should only get more and more successful. They deserve it.

) wine??? Cost to the restaurant maybe $20 at most. In fact, I figured that the restaurant was probably now making money off my meal (I’m only including food/alcohol costs. not labor/rent etc..). Anyway, this really left a...

Add one more item that little jfoods enjoyed: Cartoon Pizzas Either make or buy some pizza dough Form the dough with toddler into mickey mouse, goofy, homer simpson shapes Decorate the tops to match the character Bake, cool and eat.

Well, I have loved Doug’s since I first wrote a review of it 10+ years ago and the hookers would stand outside picking up customers off the freeway. So I don’t think the issue is gentrification. They aren’t known...

on a potato and spinach base bound together with a herb-tinged green olive oil, as shown below. While it looked fantastic, the crusty prawns were too dry and cottony. They did have a nice sweet flavor, but the texture turned me...