& Chinese Celery; Potato Shreds in Chili Oil Dressing; Hunan Braised Pork; Fried Pork & Green Chilies; Hunan Bacon with Garlic Stems, Hunan Smoked Duck; and Housemade Tofu. My favorite dishes were the Hunan Bacon with Garlic...

don’t have time to play). The first couple months they follow a “Catch & Release” program... keeping only the Trout & Salmon... which die off the soonest as the waters become murky. Then after that the focus on...

hot water over it. I’ve had a lot of drip coffee at a lot of places, but never one that smelled so obviously of fruit. Even my friend, who’s one of those people who would never be caught dead saying something like "I...

I think I’ve read that the metallic taste comes from the iodine in the sea water. Not sure why only some shrimp taste that way, but I’ve noticed it in frozen shrimp that I’ve cooked at home as well as shrimp...

. Our only misstep was The Praline Connection. My DH’s fried catfish was excellent. The greens were tasty. I had etouffee and was puzzled. The rice seemed to have been cooked in unsalted water and was consequently...

in water that was murky from the flour in the pasta. There was a smattering of melted cheese on top. And that was it. No seasoning. No creaminess. No gooeyness. How this even got out of the kitchen an onto a plate is beyond me....

was too insignificant to balance the murky taste. At this juncture there was a strong whiff of cigarette – the friendly waiter who replenished our water glasses confirmed that he had just gone for his cigarette break. Dessert...

Pian (Couple’s “Lung” Slices") Jellyfish Cucumber Salad Chicken and Ham Soup Shui Zhu Yu ("Water-cooked" Fish) Dry-fried Green Beans Xiaolong Bao Hunan Smoked Pork with Green Beans Beef in Chili Oil Onion Crepe Hong You...

Hilltop also often has skirt steaks (largely no-roll beef) for $2.99 too, sometimes they have it for less. I think that its important to be able to choose beef cuts and between steaks themselves. Sale meat can be murky waters...

of evaporation. When I tired it after a while, the brown liquid was no longer a spirit, just a murky, waterly liquid. The alcohol evaporated faster than the water in the whiskey. It was once good stuff. Alas.

Leeks 3 Large Russett Potatoes, peeled only if you want. 3 Stalks of Celery Enough Chicken Stock to Completely cover all of the above, or Water with about 4-5 Knorr Brand Vegetarian or Chicken Bouillon Cubes. (I personally think...

from, and even though it may seem nuts, I felt sorry for those poor fish frantically swimming through that murky water. (Hard for a New Yorker to fathom? Granted, I’m greatly influenced by the 15 yrs. spent in No. CA.)

thinner and form the ball with a couple of spoons before dropping it in boiling water. If you do it this way, it’s a looser dumpling. If you actually make the dough thicker and form a ball by hand, it can really be very...

Hi, I have been reading “Charlie Trotter Cooks at Home” and I am interested in how he describes how to make a broth more “clear.” I understand most of it: simmer, don’t boil, skim gently off the top....

A few months ago I went to the local Ranch 99 looking to buy a live fish. The tanks were more or less as you describe, packed so full of fish that the fish could not move, and the water was cloudy to murky. Now granted this was a...