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Excellent series! And while I'm not scared of talking though my wine preferences or having a difficult conversation, Patrick just makes it seem all the more approachable.

Thanks again!

I like to dip popcorn in it...which is only made even more weird by the fact that I eat popcorn with chopsticks. Yes, chopsitcks. I brought them with me last night when I went to see The Muppets - thankfully (for both me and my husband) it wasn't an overly crowded theater and I don't think anyone saw!

Kenji - you can rest easy knowing he was extremely loved at every minute and he knew it. (and the picture of him on the boat is priceless!).

Thinking of you and your wife.

Erin, I always knew there was a reason I liked you! I am a very firm believer that anything is better the next day with an egg on it and chili has become one of my new favorites for that.

As someone who was born in Punxsutawney, PA - my mother and I make dozens of groundhog cookies to celebrate the annual holiday. They also allow you to make 'shadow sundaes' where you stick the cookie into a bowl of ice cream and give him a shadow with chocolate syrup! Also excellent dunked in coffee...

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Chili....mmmmm! Football, chili (with farm canned tomatoes) and home-made beer!

Has anyone had any luck finding one? I just went to The Kitchen Outlet website and they were sold out...

I know this has been mentioned before, but as a frequent business traveler and someone who is highly allergic to peanuts and all nuts, please be considerate of your fellow travelers who may have severe allergies. I realize that they are a great source of protein and travel well, but if you choose to bring peanuts/nuts along on your trip, eat them in the terminal and not on the plane.

Despite someone's previous inaccurate post, I can have an allergic reaction from the smell and touch of the nut. I politely and respectfully make my nearby passengers aware of my allergy if they start to eat them on-board and have only had one woman mock my request. (She even went so far as to ask if she could eat them over the aisle and then when I offered her the bag of pretzels I had brought on for myself since she complained of hunger, she mockingly told me she was 'allergic to pretzels'.)

Thanks for your understanding!

No need to worry about my allergy! I don't need to worry about cross-contamination or someone not reading the labels of ingredients if I am making it myself. Did I mention the drinks are cheaper at home too?

Um, am I the only one out there that can't live without my dishwasher?! Those dishes are definitely not washing themselves...

I loved bacon before it was trendy, while it was trendy, and now while other things are more trendy! Its recession proof and like a great black dress, it never goes out of style.

Finding out my boyfriend and I have the same love for tacos. Its our go-to birthday meal too (even if our birthdays are only 2 days apart). There's no such thing as too many tacos!

Skirt steak in a yummy steak taco.