several days later. The contents: two complete Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), the military’s standard field rations these days. There was an “international” MRE (“Chicken in Thai Style Sauce”) and a...

I like Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream and dessert book: http://www.amazon.com/Jerrys-Homemade-Cream-Dessert-Book/dp/0894803123/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-1860157-8975231?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182189776&sr=8-1 There are a lot of...

-packaged things fried or grilled to some level of edibility. My son had one of their dogs, and declared it “okay”. However, our experience was totally tainted by truly lousy service. Orders were completely screwed up...

Check the STARS Desserts book (by Emily Luchetti) or the Chex Panisse cookbook for cake, curd or mousse recipes. A Lindsay Shere cookbook might have recipes, too; and you can probably sub them in lemon recipes, possibly reducing...

places (didn’t get to do a true Chowhound trip eating at out of the way places due to the time constraints of the trip). Went first to Melia Caribe Tropical in Punta Cana. Beautiful resort – lush fantastic landscaping...

(needed to get other groceries home). Got stuck in traffic. By the time we got home, the smell — and grease soaking through the bags of fries — had turned me off completely. Haven’t been able to work up the...

there for the sunset which was beautiful. After dark the landscape lighting is dramatic. The staff was extremely efficient, personable and attentive. The only problem was the food. When we talked to our friends who are...

You absolutely cannot learn to forage for mushrooms safely using a book, no matter how good. Find an expert who’s willing to teach you, and learn one mushroom at a time. Pictures don’t convey the many subtle...

Cooking Light is a nice magazine, but you can get the recipes simply by purcahsing their bound yearly annual recipe book. My biggest gripe about Cooking Light is that the portion sizes on a lot of their recipes are sometimes...

There’s a recipe in David Downie’s “Cooking the Roman Way”. I’ve never tried it, because I’m yeastaphobic. If you don’t have access to the book, I could print it for you.

. Add shelves from the mid-section, with 2x4s as the bottom, raised over an open mesh bed (I don’t know about actually using stones yet). Using a frame of 2x4s. The roof would be hinged so it can open, possibly completely to...

. Regarding Room for Dessert, I checked yesterday at Barnes & Noble. They’re completely out of it and can’t get any more. Amazon.com has only 12 copies, and the lowest priced is $27 +shipping. In the way-too-much-time...

Heidi Swanson’s book - I had completely forgotten about that one. Thanks for the related thread! I searched for low-fat, but not much came up.

The Jam Lady Cookbook has some great, different recipes, and lots of suggestions for making smaller batches. Also check out The Complete Book of Small Batch Preserving. With only two in our household I’m not interested in...

of the product. There was an interesting book about a sushi school in California, don’t remember the name of the book, that addresses this subject (as well as gender). On the other hand, some of the best Italian and French...