your own bread, buns, pastries, pasta, dumplings, and granola. Flour, eggs, milk, yeast are still pretty inexpensive. Stocking up when specials are on. My pantry is packed with good olive oil that I found half-price. Look for meat...

good sushi there. The tuna tastes like it was rinsed in dirty dishwater before they serve it to you. 2. Sushi Tango: I must be the only person on the board who really dislikes this place. Mushy fish, not good at all. 3. Ichiban:...

agree with your thoughts on freezing. I freeze the whole loaf. You can cut a couple slices off the frozen loaf with a good bread knife and put the rest right back in the freezer. It thaws out quickly or you can pop it right in...

distance too, so I especially like going there! As for Zensei, I think it’s uneven...the rice isn’t very good and I had something with supposedly “fresh” crab that had no flavor at all—definitely...

Ha! Perhaps you’re right—maybe I should drink and bake. I’m thinking I might put the frosting in a pastry bag and pipe it on...I don’t think there’s any way I can smooth it with a spatula. And, yeah,...

Wow. Just... wow. Now, I can’t blame these poor Southerners and Midwesterners too much. “Bagels” to them often mean the frozen Lender’s kind, which are not bagels so much as dense, breadlike gravity sinks....

egg salad. Hard to beat for the pastries. Mike & Anne’s was OK, but I have a feeling it’s not as good as I want it to be. Smitty’s is OK for the burger and the chips at the bar. Magnolia isn’t real food by...

and a drop of lime S/.24 that was very good. For our main we shared the lamb shank that was the special of the day S/.50. It was very, very good. For dessert we shared a crisp filo pastry basket filled with warm sautéed fruit...

regarding KK, and how much most chowhounds find their pastry to be truly bad. I include the link below. Link: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/120617#657455

, Joan and Mike. They sampled a few leftover bites of catfish, but for some reason unknown to me, did not order anything for themselves. We did follow Joan’s lead to try Nicky’s, who had a sign advertising frozen...

. The jambalaya tasted a bit like a reheated frozen dinner. Everything else was just bad. The live music was the only redeeming aspect of our meal there. Irvine: Aji Grill Address: Park Place in Irvine Comments: The food was just...

. vanilla 2 tsp. grated orange rind 1 1/4 cups coarsely chopped fresh or frozen cranberries 1 cup chopped walnuts 12 oz pkg (2 cups) white chocolate or vanilla chips 1 Tbsp. shortening Directions: 1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees....

It should be noted that the Gelatos at OTTO are not made by Batali. They are the products of Meredith Kurtzman, his very talented pastry chef. http://www.ottopizzeria.com/menu_gelato.html

tipica siciliana ripiena di ricotta di bufala scoglie cioccolato canditi con affianco di moscato di Noto: deep-fried half-moon pastries dusted with sugar and filled with ricotta, chocolate, candied fruit, all accompanied by a...

, The Babbo Cookbook. Julia is OK, as long as it’s one of her own, earlier books. I also wouldn’t mind doing a pastry book, like Lenotre, Payard, or Roux Brothers, but I know that many people are not as keen....