I won’t leave the house with oven or stove top on for any reason. I do have a suggestion, which I’ve used. I use a slow cooker for stock, a lot. It keep the temperature consistant and don’t hard boil helping me...

an all around good experience. Geg, I think that I may have actually noticed that Coup des Tartes is booked on the night I would need, good suggestion, though. Quinessence looks fantastic, as well, although it is a bit of a...

place, was within walking distance of our condo. I found it average/mediocre (we have better Hawaiian plate lunches in CA) and not particularly impressive. Unfortunately, since it was right next door, we ended up eating there...

Short answer: a combination of ginger and cinnamon. That’s the feedback I get from people who’ve never tasted it before. Those who eat it all the time come up with much more complex answers (probably because...

.) So, we stumbled upon Ping’s—and I remembered the name from a series of posts here. I hadn’t read the posts, and still haven’t, but, man, if anyone had anything good to say about this hell hole,...

I’m going to Vegas in April with a group of 17 and we’re looking for a place for dinner on Saturday night. I’ve read so much about LOS on this board, that I really want to go there, but I’m not sure if...

ressemble à un céléri mais qui a le goût des oignons jeunes, qu’on mange à la vinaigrette." ("A starter of the official vegetable of Wales, that light-green thing which looks like a celery but tastes like young onions,...

eating. I like the anise/ licorice flavor in general but for some reason have a very low tolerance for fennel. These mussels were on the whole medium sized and steamed perfectly. No rubberiness at all and the fennel was very...

Not at all. Most meals are just for two of us. I used mine almost every day when I was single too. It depends on the kind of cooking you do. I make almost everything we eat, all baked goods, all preserves, all soups, sauces etc....

Good point, Jersey City Mods – glad you brought it up!! Actually, I believe that “butty” is a term used across the British Midlands in general to refer to a sandwich. When I went there several years ago, I was...

and 6 tiny pieces of shrimp buried in a bed of lettuce. Dunno about you ... but I don’t think I can eat $3.25 of lettuce in a whole day ($7.50 restaurant cost)! Identical dishes ordered came to the table not even remotely...

being referred to as a paczki pusher. Someone wrote their mother put slips of paper in plain paczki making fortune paczki … give me the jelly, thanks. Well, given that I’m unlikely to eat a decent paczki in the Bay...

Hunds~we will be in town for a medical conference in early April. We have to join “the group” on some evenings for a meal. (We plan to hit Bin 941, Vij’s and Aurora Bistro on our own). What would be a good place...

We were supposed to go to a potluck kinda party tonight, and I decided (it being ridiculously chilly here in LA County just lately) that I’d make some good ol' sausage balls like I did back in Nashville. I had somehow...

components. The wood roasted vegetables, sopresatta and bits of cheese were lounging on the plate as the plate was liberally handed around. It all looked quite good. JK said it would be a perfect dish for people who weren’t too...