substituted this and this.

meats,could add some onions and peppers to it,since you can’t use lettuce and tomatoes.Add some sort of barley salad,and some fruit. Or do a rice or barley salad and coleslaw.Use cabbage,carrots,bean spourts,etc with a lime...

for them (and me) and a meat dish for the boys (and me). I get compliments from everyone, about just about everything. (In fact, I just started culinary school – better later than never, I say!) I use my creativity in both...

I totally agree with Bob. Another great thing to make is a strata. It’s a baked concoction with eggs and bread – some have cheese, meat or veggies (some examples: spinach and cheese; cheddar, vegetable and sausage)....

, and then totally botching the meal – chewy meat, lumpy potatoes, overcooked vegies. Thank heaven for polite guests! Magnapro – you got very lucky there was not more damage to your deck!!!

and DB cream with pastrami..nutty cream flavor marries perfectly to the peppery meat...especially with the tart flavors of a pickle..on the side.

was gonnah serve it to me too, no matter what I wanted...He asked if I was allergic to anything; I said "No, but I don’t eat meat, haven’t eaten it for 27 years"...That didn’t seem to matter..I brought it up 3...

will be thrilled to participate in this! Short of opening on a Sunday! If you have any doubts, order a one lb. ‘chunk’...take it home, wait a day...slice (probably you don’t have a meat slicer, but don’t...

. Also, reviews last week seemed to be more negative, but one man’s meat…etc. I can’t attach 2 links to 1 post, so if you want the criticism try http://www.chowhound.com/midwest/boards/chicago/messages/12476.html...

, they mutilate the recipe and substitute garlic salt for real garlic, etc. I cringe when I think of my name being attached to some 1/2-assed dish somewhere. At least when I make the dish, I know can control the outcome!

. I also like the flavor of horseradish sauce made with just horseradish and mayonaise and horseradish by itself is great with some meats. Paulette

last-minute ingredients down here. I don’t know of any Chinese meat shops/butchers down here, but I’ll admit that I haven’t really been looking. The car’s navigation system cannot handle all the freeway...

been a phone call (local) or a yell-down-the-hall away when I needed advice. But long-distance calls every time I had a question weren’t in the budget. “Joy” was much more than a cookbook for me in those...

The rye bread they use is just dismal. Shameful really, to slop the good meat on that commercial cotton. I just dont understand.

Here’s what we do to make box macaroni and cheese into a super-tasty product: You know where they call for 1/4 cup margarine and 1/4 cup milk? We just substitute 1/2 cup sour cream. Extra-yummy! And it still has that neon...