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your favorite cheese
“great artisanally-produced domestic blue”: Let us know if you remember, Leslie! Also I wish having cheese rather than or before/after dessert would really catch on in US. I’d rather do without s/thing sweet...
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August 2007 - Grocery outlet
Course Ground) $1.49 - Alaska Smokehouse Natural alder-smoked salmon 4 oz $3.49 (not refrigerated) - The coolest wide egg noodles from Italy. Forgot the name didn' get the price - Dutch Colony cooked canned ham $3.99 There were these...
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HELP! Looking for restaurants in the Palo Alto area
by the quality->price tradeoff. I am not used to spending $80 for burgers for two. Oasis burgers are standard and the beer selection is poor – you have to like that atmosphere (similar to Dutch Goose). When I’m in a...
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Pastrami? Reuben? Patty Melt? What is in a name?
will surely split open... 15: Fresh pickles – half-sours – are mandatory. Not dill, sweet gherkins, breadn’butter, or any other fully pickled cucumber. Full sours (no dill) are ok to have available, but the...
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Authentic-What Does It Mean To You?
do expect to get the real deal. For example, I have dined on sweet and sour chicken in Hong Kong. There, the sauce is as much sour as sweet, the chicken is not rolled up into little balls, but are flat pieces with a light, crispy...
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ideas for a (new) very tight food budget
Soups and stews (perfect for the upcoming cold weather) are filling, cheap and nutritious. You can cook cheap cuts of meat in a dutch oven or crock pot. Depending on where you live, please take advantage of produce stands and...
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How to be a fledgling chowhound at school
your fingers up as some of the others do, either. —a 50 cent flat rubber jar opener A set of pyrex: 8x8", 9x13" will take you through everything from brownies or gingerbread to bread or rice pudding on the sweet side. They...
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'Foreign' food that's better in the US
I have never had CFS in Vancouver..... but things like Grilled Salmon over Salad Greens, Sweet Potato Fries, Burgers, Sandwiches, Thin Crust Pizza etc., at random Downtown Traps were better than their equivalents in Seattle (for...
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the fine art of cooking for your SO, every day
I will also warm up a cast iron dutch oven take it off the heat and put SO’s dinner in it. Stays warm, and he knows to look under the lid if I’m at the library or something.
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New stove advice please! Electric or gas or both or....?
My $0.02: Have always preferred gas over electric or ceramic/induction top stoves. Worried about damaging the induction tops with heavy utensils (ie dutch oven). A friend has a shiny new induction top and hates it. The burners...
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Ralphs Ices coming to Austin St. in Forest Hills
of the twentieth century. He may have done some terrible things but my experience growing up in the city was far better thanks to him. And yes, I remember 4 and 20 Pies. I loved their dutch apple though I wasn’t crazy about...
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Do you hide your stash from company?
I would hide the Old Dutch or Kettle potato chips from my food stash, unless they were very good friends coming over. :)
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Bacon Fat - do you use it? How?
with thin crust!) The dressing is tart, and there was no garlic (that I can remember), just shallots with a just a tad of sweetness to take the edge off the vinegar. It is delicous on the softer lettuces,butter, red leaf and baby...
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Restaurant Girl Howler of the Week
ROFLMAO! Oh, does this play on BBC-A? Priceless! This line had me snorting: "I once ate a Flayed Swordfish And Guava Millefeuille that reminded me, in one sweet mouthful, of a Sea Interlude by Britten, a painting by Turner and one...
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is it rude?
hosted event (that is, where the host supplies all of the food and beverages as hospitality and the guests need only bring a modicum of sociability and gratitude). (In restaurant dining, the differnece would be between going...
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