Polenta or mush made with finer corn meal can be cooked easily in the microwave, without the need to get the instant product. Mix the meal and water (or broth). I like to let it set for a while to wet the meal out, but that...

For the purposes of thickening gravy (lemon-garlic chicken pot pie), baking soda =/= corn starch.

, or Florida is horrible food, something that shouldn’t happen to dogs. What I call Taco Bell with a Liquor License. or Alpo-Mex. For the record, a good goat taco or chorizo or al pastor can make me swoon.

Plenty of well-regarded classic diners serve stuff straight outta the can (corned beef has, side veggies, etc). Then there’s the cheesesteak fetishists who insist that anything besides Cheez Wiz is an abomination. Chowish...

Food lover. I’ll always be the one sneaking a bite of casserole with cheese and corn flake toppimg — or a how about that pretzel/jello dessert? But I’m the first in line for some great caviar or cheese. I agree...

No, whole foods sells both organic and what they call “conventional” items. They sell only what they consider to be “whole foods”. There’s a list on their website of what ingredients they will not...

Well if that’s true, then Safeway must stock about 99 percent things you’d never buy. I happen to love the round organic tortilla chips — to me they have just the right balance of corn flavor and crisp texture. I...

Not sure if you’d call it first rate, but the Guelaguetza on Olympic has mezcal on hand, as opposed to the other one (6th? 8th?) which doesn’t have a liquor license.

anywhere is where to shop for what. woodmans was for staples – don’t even bother to look at the produce cause it sucks, thats what the farmer’s market is for. they also have cheap in house photo processing, and...

) and then a little flour since the liquor thins it out, so the final texture would be somewhere between the typical pumpkin pie and a cheesecake. The only thing is, we always use reduced fat milk for coffee/tea, and when...

(scallop/corn/truffle) in addition to two problem dishes. Why did he have three and others one? I wish Tre stepped up in the manner of Sara, and made them work so Coliccio could have defended him for leadership in the kitchen....

, ice cream with pie, cranberry sauce with turkey – as wll as hard liquor, which still mostly tastes like poison to me (a few brandies and rums excluded). The idea of a normally savory ingredient (olive oil or yellow...