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Filipino Food: Educate me, please
My experience with Filipino food is from a lot of potlucks, catered buffets, and a few restaurants. Not trying to insult anyone, but I find the food not that interesting compared to spicier Thai, subtle Chinese, or Korean with...
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'Foreign' food that's better in the US
I get my pho phix at a bunch of nondescript places that cater to mostly Vietnamese (which is typical of pho establishments). I have eaten pho in at the same kinds of places in a few US cities (mostly Southern Cal and Bay Area )....
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What did you grow up eating? typical meal? (moved from Manhattan)
My mom is a fabulous cook..she’s used to be a desert caterer, but funny enough, none of us were real desert people. Everyone would look forward (and still do!) to my parents dinner parties.. We had a staple of regular meals...
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Point Richmond Restaurants & Spectacular Shoreline Picnic Area
of Pecorino Romano cheese. It was a perfect balance of textures and flavors. Mizuna is a Japanese green that has a taste similar to a mild mustard green. It reminded me of the type of sandwich that Desiree serves. It came with...
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Please post one NEW chowish find
like radish, boiled bean sprouts, peanuts, etc). It’s lighter and sweeter.
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Tex-Mex Essentials
love Tex-Mex after living in Texas for years. The two cuisines are distinct and they are not the same, even though there’s much overlap. When I lived in Mexico City, I never saw tacos, enchiladas or burritos outside of...
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So...What did You Cook for Sunday Dinner?
I made a chopped salad with corn scraped off the cob (leftover from fresh picked and boiled on friday) black beans, red onion, radish, cuke, 3 colors of peppers seasoned with spanish olive oil, lime juice, cumin and white...
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Top Chef-Kids
or salad beets! you can eat them raw, like radishes!
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let's share a cooking "trick"
An old caterer's trick my grandmother gave me is to put a little good mayo into scrambled eggs. Makes them creamy/glossy-looking instead of dried out, and they will stay that way on the steam table. (~ a scant tsp. per egg. ) Some...
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call for Thanksgiving debriefing: the good, the bad & the ugly. Please share your greatest successes and also any duds to learn by
The food was excellent. Mr B’s dad had the Thanksgiving meal catered. Tender smoked pork baby back ribs, smoked beef brisket that was moist and succulent, ham (that I didn’t touch) and potato salad. Not a vegetable in...
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chowhound formative influences?
, which always seemed on the verge of breaking. She said when it went, she would too. Sadly, the blade held out longer than she did. My mother was trained as a chemist and later became a cooking teacher and caterer, and she...
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