better browning. The lid has little domes which increase the surface area and traps more steam keeping the food juicier.

I’m not absolutely certain, but I don’t think that there is such a thing as “Chinese ramen” in the sense that you could go to a Chinese restaurant and find a dish called ramen on the menu. Ramen (not the...

I love fries too! There is this tiny place called Primo Patio, by my work. It’s on Townsend @ 3rd Street. They serve Caribbean food, tapas, etc. Their fries are soooo good. Skins are still one, really fresh, not greasy and...

entertaining them are not (a) throwing food at others, (b) proving the theory of gravity by seeing how much food they can move from the table to the floor, © have your kids play on the floor in between tables, (d) try out...

As I mentioned on said Someday post, I tried Chilly Cow last night and was blown away. Ice cream is my favorite "food"...really. I had their Chilly Trax (like Moose Tracks or Cow Tracks— vanilla ice cream with peanut butter...

Thank you both SO MUCH, wyf4lyf and TonySop! Wy, you sound like an amazing cook, I’m not kidding. You also sound like you know me, because I do tend to add too much of this and that, resulting in losing the flavor of the...

stew meat. A Whole Foods butcher steered me away from “cheap” stew meat when I said I was making soup to recommend a hanger steak, which is what he said he liked to use. It made a huge difference in the end product...

I like to sear in the oven, too. You can sear in the same dutch oven you will use for braising, or in a roasting pan. High heat – I use 400. This also warms up the oven for the braising. Another advantage – and the...

thought I’d ask the same question closer to home (From NY, Florida has been home for just about thirty years!) I personally am still partial to Sabretts, which are the street food of New York City. Thankfully, they are...

A Foly Food Mill works beautifully for smooth mashed potatoes.

instead! Come, anytime, I am always here!" Three weeks later. I’d just spent four days suffering from mild food poisoning (there’s a cafe in the 4th I shall never revisit) and was eager for a belated birthday dinner of...

Food and Wine recently had a recipe for dulce de leche napoleans — layers of phyllo dough sandwiched together with dulche de leche and pastry cream. Would require some last minute assembly, but they were beautiful and...

I started out a tonkotsu fan mainly because of Menchanko-tei in NYC who I feel does a decent hakata style ramen with firm chewy noodles. The closest I could find to that subtle sweet white broth (msg or not) was Santa. However,...

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to do a split plate thing since we were a little full from all the great foods at the wineries. There was no extra charge for this and the server was very accomodating. Our Primi Piatti course was the Tortelloni de Zucca alla...