in a kitchen safety match to hurt you or affect the taste.) The blotting w/paper towel is not compulsory; it just cuts the fat calories and makes me feel a little better. But the tortillas love to stick to it, as you’ll see,...

My SO and I used to buy huge bags of onions and make French onion soup and eat it all week. It takes a while to carmelize the onions, but you can’t beat the price. My SO still calls it poor food when I make it all these...

I’ve been making enchiladas for many years, and have had great success – even converting some of my friends who thought they didn’t like Mexican food! Here’s what I do: In a sauce pot, saute a small minced...

of opposition. But hey, it’s Friday, and time for a little controversy. "Food always tastes better the next day" Why? "Because the flavors have time blend together" Not so, in my opinion. We perceive it’s better for...

I just bring my leftovers to work and feed it to the “animals” (my co-workers). “Gone is 60 Seconds” is the motto for any food item left for all in the break room.

, then the cheese... It was probably fake "cheese food" too! None of which my mom would go for! Now we do either toasted cheese (usually when just making it for one or both kids) with cheese toasted on open face bread OR grilled...

Sharon, I agree with you. The “prepared” foods industry has tried to convince us that cooking real food is just too difficult and time consuming for today’s adult to deal with. Making a cake from scratch in...

's (lard) Krunchers (esp. by Guy’s Foods) (plain, bbq, jalapeno) Lay’s Lime and Salt and Vinegar Maine Coast (made by Humpty Dumpty) Maui Chips (out of biz I think, replaced by frito lay) Nibble With Gibble’s Terra...

was new peanut oil) became rancid by the end of the frying process – which made me feel like I never wanted to smell fish again. I gathered up all of the food and brought it to my sister house where I avoided the kitchen...

A lot of people diss TJ’s (as is their right) for somehow not being all it’s cracked up to be (or all that it used to be). But since one opened a mile from my house a couple of years ago, it’s been my primary...

sauce with ginger and persimmons and god knows what else...but simple , fresh cranberry sauce made recently from fresh cranberries. Not only a large percentage of my extended family, but my own husband, known to have decent taste...

1) Casa Bianca – Eagle Rock 2) Petrillo’s – San Gabriel 3) Zelo’s – Arcadia As usual, the east side has the better food.

Here’s a recent thread in which two of the posters who had been to Katz’s thought Langer’s was better. A search from the home page will yeild literally hundreds of reviews for Langers. For what it’s worth,...

have one!), and he knows his food! I am not a lemming, as I hope most of our fellow bloggers aren’t. Can’t see what would drive someone to even consider trying them, given all the hysteria. I am guessing that you...

, and an almost missed, ReneG, joined the ribbing at Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap, general chowhound HQ for eating athon-Q (1172 E. 55th). ReneG added to the early food with some excellent jerk chicken from Tropic Island (1929 E....