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Rocca last night
didn’t know that fresh marjoram looks like dill. As with many dishes tonight, some listed ingredients are nowhere in evidence: I can’t find any of the advertised hot peppers or mint. Rigatoni in a pot is bad: quite...
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Miami - visiting, more importantly, eating for first time.
Joe’s can be done for lunch and may be less of a wait for a table. Indeed, that may be a good lunch choice as you won’t be so stuffed from stone crabs that you won’t be ready for a good dinner (though you...
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Zuni Dinner Blowout (with photos!)
shines. Pork chop: a two-inch thick pork chop cooked until just pink in the middle, with a side of polenta and collards. The collards, cooked with a red pepper or two in the liquor, had a little spicy kick to it that we enjoyed....
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Tasting Menu Crawl Putting on The Ritz
courses and desserts. Looking at the dishes on the three course menu, not much appealed to me. It seemed fussy, there were pork bellies and yuzu involved. Warning bells were going off. There were a few dishes that did catch my...
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Laboratorio Four+ Hour Blowout 12 Course Dinner...
I’ll wait for others to post comments (the meal and company was more than memorable), but here was the menu: Potato Basket stuffed with Fonduta, (homemade) Pancetta and Egg Yolk Cream Foie Gras Custard with Roasted Figs and...
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What is the most useless thing in your kitchen you won't get rid of?
chilis (it called for 28 oz. crushed tomatoes and a bottle (12 oz?) of chile sauce, neither of which I had) about 1/4 c of worcestershire about 2 T cider vinegar several generous shakes of Tabasco sauce sea salt & pepper til it...
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Can I really save money by joining Costco?
We are also a household of two and I still buy produce there. A 16 oz box of mixed salad greens is the same price as an 8 oz box at Publix, romaine hearts come 6 to a bag at the same price as two or three. I can buy a bag of 6...
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First Time in Austin - What not to miss?
I also agree that Castle Hill is fantastic. I hate to overstep another recommendation but I am totally unimpressed with Maudies. I think El Chile is worth a visit (get the orange-pepper margarita- can’t remember the name)...
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creativity and poverty
we came up with consisted of leftover frozen shrimp, a can of drained pineapple chunks, sliced onion, minced hot peppers, ginger powder, and spicy KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce all server over slightly overdone white rice.(I grew up...
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A good rotisserie chicken take-out?
gotten their individual meals – for less than $5 you get 1/4 yummy white meat chicken, a side, and great foccacia bread. I highly recommend the pollo diavola which has red pepper flakes in the skin. For sides I recommend...
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How many of us Chowhounds are fat? [Moved from General Topics]
, and am obsessed w/ farmer’s markets. I def. know when I feel full, and my strong aversion to feeling overly stuffed keeps me in check. When I’ve had exceedingly rich or large meals, I don’t have the desire to...
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Visiting LA Chowhound Needs A Few Good Recs
with no lid for a heaping scoop. No fancy sit down area other than a couple of picnic tables, but the nearly constant line out the door tells you something. I prefer my Italian beef plain and extra juicy, but some like it drier...
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Top Chef- right now
at the last minute. Quail eggs and bow tie pasta. Surprised they didn’t have salt and pepper. I could have sworn Cassey, on her first taste, said ‘fish eggs’ and Padama said ‘fish paste’ and said...
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New England Road Trip - Be Our Guide?
. Chorico is the spicy version of linguica, the same pork w/garlic, paprika, and oregano but with some red pepper. The shellfish allergy is disasterous. The quahog (hardshell clam) dominates the cuisine of Rhode Island and Cape...
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As Requested....From a Waiter's Perspective...
. With most chain operations beneath a certain level, the mantra “no surprises” seems to hold. If I want my burger thick and rare and stuffed with roasted peppers and gorgonzola cheese on a pada, McDonalds isn’t...
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