There’s a recipe in The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes for a fresh ham roast with salsa verde that is just terrific on its own, but we used shredded leftovers for tacos. If...

restaurants, like The Daily Grill, many diners want to get something from a professional chef that they cannot do themselves at home. Plus, "health food" is still a rather new concept (40 Jack laLanne years as compared to 100s of...

considerations. I found a recipe in “Taste of Home”. I don’t recall the issue date, but it was titled “Raisin Oatmeal Mix” and is credited to Robert Caummisar of Grayson, Kentucky. 6 cups...

I don’t think I can recall ever getting lemon in iced water, always in iced tea but never in water. Rachael Ray always orders lemon with her iced water on her $40 a Day show, always makes me roll my eyes.

I have never ordered online for tea so far. I did like the Nantou Oolong from In Pursuit of Tea when I picked up a small package at Whole Foods in NYC a while ago. Because of your post I went to their site for the first time....

(see rant section), but first the chow. China Village was formerly know to me as “WHICH restaurant is that on Solano that has that great Chinese Food?” The one time I DID remember, I couldn’t remember what was...

, chocolate ice cream etc.. Then I started thinking.. maybe it’s because I haven’t really had GREAT chocolate yet in my life. I recall that I felt similarly ambivalent about shabu-shabu, steak and fish tacos until I...

Romanmk is right. The way I always think of it and tell people who ask for tips is “leave the pan on the burner.” Don’t shake it much, don’t toss everything around all the time, just let the food cook. You...

? Otherwise, my vote would have to go straight to Santarpio’s, out of sheer ignorance, and that will never do! BTW, where’s Ernesto’s? Don’t recall seeing that place mentioned on this board.

rinse to remove food solids. I wish the cycle were faster — and I do often use the Energy Saver mode for drying. I love our Viking range — dual fuel, self-cleaning, convection oven, mini- and maxi-broiler options....

Around Christmastime, I posted a plea on this board regarding making baskets of local foods ... some good ideas came out of it. See link below. I will definitely say that one of the huge hits of my Christmas giving was Hangar One...

, I have added all the votes for Casas together. PENELOPE CASAS (Food and Wine of Spain, Tapas, Delicioso and La Cocina di Mama) 14 votes. CRESCENT CITY by Spicer, 5 votes RIVER CAFE BOOKS, by Rogers and Grey, 4 votes BATALI, 1 vote...

't recall any off hand. Schaller & Weber Franks are made in N.Y. (Long Island, I think) and sold in their store in Manhatten. A high quality German style frank, this one is similar to the one sold at the Union Pork Store. Another...

I’m researching recipes for food from around the world shaped in balls — meatballs, matzoh balls, cheese balls, rum balls, tartufo, etc... So whip out your balls, so to speak, and let me know what you got!

food in a way that nearly eclipses the fineness. I wish they’d figure out a system. All our lunch options, when they arrived, and when they re-arrived heated, were excellent, an especially good quiche loirane....