)) and it was huge; we ate too much. On top of all the meat was a big round of the cheese called “quesillo”, a baked white cheese with oregano. We remembered to tell them not to overly salt the food; it was good. The meal cost...

about everything available in the house is a nutritious choice. He may get pb&j in his lunch box, but it’s on whole-grain bread with no salt/no sugar peanut butter!

with a cookbook author on "The Splendid Table" about Japanese home cooking, and I read an account of eating in Japan in Jeffery Steingarten’s “The Man Who Ate Everything” and I’m feeling very, very...

- I think it’s just OK, and that there are much better Mexcian places in San Diego. Similarly, I’m not a huge fan of Filippi’s Italian food – it’s pretty much red-sauce, red-checkered table-cloth...

://thomas-w-lv.tripod.com/las_vegas_2006/Caesars_2.jpg http://thomas-w-lv.tripod.com/las_vegas_2006/Caesars10.jpg Apart from the very comfortable beds (two pretty big queens, into one of which both of us fit quite nicely), there...

, zuchinni, yellow squash, onions, japanese eggplant, bell pepper and fennel bulb. As each vegetable is prepared it goes inot a large bowl. I drizzle it with olive oil and add chopped tarragon or basil, minced garlic and salt and...

I think every man should have a grill. I’m a woman and wouldn’t want to live without one ever again. All meats taste great off the grill, and fresh veggies too. All you need is a little olive oil, salt, pepper and...

My two experiments this year were to prepare the turkey as if it were a Zuni Cafe roast chicken, by salting and rubbing with herbs two days in advance, and making agrodolce butternut squash, based on a recipe for pumpkin...

around the house (one each for my bedside table, my office and the study, which is also where the exercise bike is, plus a free-floating extra) and left it at that. That extra $30 or so a month is nice to have around too.

go to die. I can’t tell whether it’s the coating (flour with salt and pepper?), the meaty wings (Perdue?), the technique (high-heat deep frying? in the same oil as the egg rolls?), but the wings come out with...

of salt, lots of sauteed bean sprouts and veggies in there and the noodles were excellent, not under or overcooked. The chicken was good although I wish there was a little bit more white meat (personal preference). The prices are...

; and full-flavored dried shrimp. Bonus points for tiny salt-cured crabs. 2. Presence of ``odd foods.'' If a restaurateur takes the trouble to find venison, boar, fresh frog, green peppercorns still on the branch, tiny eggplants,...

They make it to order? Wow, I had no idea. Does anyone know if they do this from scratch (ie, my wife doesn’t eat pork, can they make it sans bacon or salt pork or any other such ingredient?). I’ve eaten it and loved...

closer than, say, Taqueria la Oaxaquena or a variety of taquerias. Cuenca’s is an Ecuadorian bakery that didn’t leave me too impressed, but I know nothing about Ecuadorian goods, so take that with a grain of salt. Elston,...

for the time being. if we had our own board it would be different— then they would probably definitely be clutter and need to go. most of the other MSP posters have been at this little round table longer than me so i do...