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Fogo de Chão - Now taking Reservations!!!
No joke? I’m surprised they are ready to open already — their website shows a Winter 2005 opening for Beverly Hills. Never been to Fogo de Chão, but I've heart great things and can’t wait to try it out. Link:...
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recipes using brown rice that taste good?
I begrudgingly use brown rice occasionally for it’s health purposes, but I mostly agree with Adam that I’d rather take the glucose and lose the fiber and enjoy my rice. That being said, there are a few recipes we've...
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Typical Sicilian ????
As soon as you mentioned wild fennel, another vegetable came to mind which is extremely Sicilian. The cardone. You can possibly google for some recipes. I've never cooked with it. Link: http
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Foolproof bean/lentil recipes you love to make again and again
hey, Lola...don’t think I've ever seen black beans and red wine together...might give this a try soon for something totally different and love the hippie connection, too!
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Sprucing Up Boring Ol' Cereal - What To Do...
When we run out of vanilla almond mylk we've been known to have chocolate almond mylk on our cereal.
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How to cut up a mango?
just peel the outside, then slice off the flesh. The Ataulfos are especially easy, the fruit is just about fiberless and the pit is small. Some varieties have a lot of fiber. One of my friends who lived in Jamaica told me she...
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Storage for Silpats
not shown any wear or degradation from being stored rolled; before I use them I let them lay flat for an hour or two to remove the curl from being rolled up. However I read somewhere, can’t recall where, that storing them...
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Clean Takeout Chinese on LI?
are cleaning snap peas at a table and dropping them on the floor, spitting, etc. and then throwing the food back in the pile. another place, we found steel wool fiber in the food. Anyone have any ideas? We will travel...
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Healthy snacks for kids
popsicles. They like my “real” popcorn so much that they've lost the taste for microwave popcorn (although Newman’s and Whole Foods make healthier versions of microwave popcorn), so I’m teaching them to...
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Where is the most buckwheaty soba?
the dried soba that you can buy in stores (Pearl River, and elsewhere) okay, but judging by the ingredient list and low-amount of fiber per serving, it seems to have less buckwheat than i’d like... Any thoughts on...
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What is your favorite spaghetti sauce ina jar?
Turco’s used to sell a jarred vodka sauce that had chopped proscuitto in it that was amazing. Better than most restaurant sauces. The closest thing I've found, which isn’t really that close, but in a pinch is ok, is...
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Carnegie Pastrami at Costco - Lousy
that the Costco in jfood’s neck of the woods has. On rye with pickles, old white cheddar, slivered red onion and spicy mustard. Grilled panino style is so excellent. Hope jfood gets a good pastrami on rye soon. DT
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Eating Low Carb
I've heard from different sources such as so-called health/science journals and friends' friends' doctors (all unverified) about various things. 1. "Taro may not be low-carb, but the fiber binds to the carbs and doesn’t...
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Fish fry in Twin Cities?
I take it driving to Lake Michigan is out? The Village Inn in North Hudson, WI has a good one. This is classic Wisconsin fish fry (minus the fact they don’t have perch) in that the french fries are insipid, the roll awful...
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New Trader Joe's items
the pouch and fry. Carefully remove the hash from the pouch in one piece and fry on high heat in a cast iron pan. It will make a nice brown crust for your poached eggs. OMG, sooooooooo good! Best hash I've had in YEARS.
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