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What is your most useful/best beloved non-mechanical device in your kitchen?
of mirepoix off the counters and floors, I’d figured I’d give this a shot. So far, it’s awesome. Last night I chopped a bunch of chocolate for hot chocolate, and used the scraper to get it to the scale, and then...
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Cooking skills and talent
see some inferior ingredient go in. I bite my tongue and try not to say something so as not to upset her. I want to tell her its the passion but I don’t because I know I will then be regulated to cooking all meals in the...
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Iceberg Lettuce
On those lazy nights when I make taco salad, nothings better that iceburg for the lettuce. I like the crunch. I don’t eat it at other times, but love it with the spicy taco mixes.
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Favourite low cost meal
) canned, peeled and chopped (save juice) 1/2 tsp. salt Blend the ginger and garlic with 4 tbsp. warm water, or enough to make a paste. Cook the sausages by simmering them in water for 5-10 minutes. Remove from the water, pierce all...
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Batali got the boot (from FN)
I met him at the bar at Blue Ribbon one night a few years ago and I thought he was warm and fun and down to earth. Also love his food.
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2008 MN State Fair
love them until they are not warm anymore. A small cone is more than enough for two people. We threw away a few. Corn Fritters- the honey butter is the good part. I remember them being better last year. Fried Green Tomatoes- we got
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BEST seafood with a view .... NOT FANCY PLS.
Excellent recommendation for the price, but make sure you get their earlier than 12:30 – 1 ish, especially if the weather is warm, since they tend to run out of the fish earlier than their other stuff. the fries are most...
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My Eats in SF (pretty long)
so that may make me rest easier at night. For my own selfish reasons of course. Right next door was The famous Fatted Calf stand. Though weirdly they had no signage, it was one of the more simple and small stands off to the more...
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Valentine's Reports
We went out Saturday night to celebrate (Moroccan) but I figured I’d make a nice dinner for the day itself. We started with some Spanish extra-dry cava as an aperitif. Dinner was butterflied leg of lamb (from Trader...
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Mr Taster's getting married! Help me with my Chinese banquet.
Harbor has dancing room, but the food eh, and yes – I found it was quite tight. However, it dOes have a bar...you’d find the guys there for most of the night. haha. Best wishes, and report back. Congratulations again!
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Jeez, is everyone still recovering from the Westernathon?
in a restaurant full of regulars, and at least one of the older waitresses regarded us with obvious suspicion, by the end they really seemed to have warmed up to us, and we left a tip that was downright princely percentage-wise...
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What's "the" food where you're from?
When I lived in Minnesota, I was served a plate of what was ostensibly tater tots on a bed of warmed up Alpo. The natives were shocked that I had never seen, tried, nor heard of their favorite comfort food: Minnesota hotdish.
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Forgotten foods.
i actually love and miss so-called “friendship tea” made with orange tang, ice tea mix, and a few other various and sundry ingredients. my mom would make it warm for my friends and i to play tea party with.
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Future of American (Micro)brew
it’s designed to be a lighter style for the warm summer months. But otherwise in the Fall and Winter alot of drinkers want a bold, substantial style. That said, I do have a few friends who shy away from heavier microbrews....
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The greatest pie of my life: Toni Marie's (plus gen'l bakery thoughts)
Perhaps I exaggerate. But can you afford to take that chance and go on believing that transcendence eludes the pie category when I, yes I, say I have tasted it this very night? Let me back up. There are some foods that seem to...
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