steak, fried green tomatoes, peach cobbler, etc. or a Texan about Texas barbeque (never mind the question about KC vs. Texas vs. Carolina)? In a word, yes. If I knew the person I’d take the recommendation as a very strong...

Agreed. I almost hurled at her mentioning Beer-Margari-tini! and fondue with cheese whiz....

Even $1 Taco Tuesdays w/$1 beers?

igrove: now cheese is something I can get behind on VD! But I’d like a little sliced fruit with it..and some good greens! Cay

recipes that were particularly lusty. Vietnamese coffee.Toasted almond and candied cherry. Green tea w/ kinako (roasted soybean) powder. Gianduja gelato. Lemon-buttermilk sherbet. Everything sounded pretty amazing, actually....

tray (carrot and celery sticks, radishes, cucumber spears and black and green olives). There were at least two main courses. Frequently, my grandmother would call every member of the family individually (her two married children,...

dinner dates, salads @ home (sometimes just a bag of popcorn), or even one beer. Not very chowish @ home, but was definitely chowish when I went out.

for the fresh greens when you can get them. I try to use meat for flavoring only (hard with my meat-loving Hub). Look for recipes where your meat element is almost like an herb – flavor, but not the main course. Eggs are...

Farmer’s Markets – primarily the Green City Market on Wednesday, occasionally the Division St. Market on Saturday. Shannon

of the usual touristy stuff (i.e. green curry / penang curry / pineapple fried rice—but 100x better then anything u’ll get in the states) ... best place i like is Patara for touristy thai. there’s no good...

flavored, so ask for a taste. The pork with nopales (cactus paddle) is a favorite. Purchase by the pound or as part of a platter with fabulously rico beans. Excellent carnitas and tamales. Tortillas are made on-site. Purchase the...

on a potato and spinach base bound together with a herb-tinged green olive oil, as shown below. While it looked fantastic, the crusty prawns were too dry and cottony. They did have a nice sweet flavor, but the texture turned me...

Now that’s interesting.. I am going to make the bread today, but have a sourdough test in mind this week. Heck it’s only a couple cups of flour. I am going to bake mine in the Big Green Egg. .

than it sounds. If I say this Chardonnay is “appley,” QUICK: what color is the apple? You may have (e.g.) pictured green, and I may have been thinking red;; and if we get more specific, you may have been thinking...

mine, and made worse by utterly half-assed service. (Kicked off by our waitress pouring BFP’s beer so abruptly that it foamed up out of the glass and all over the table, after which she half-heartedly tried to wipe up the...