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I know Robin personally, not as well as I know her mother, for whom this must be painful to watch. (It's painful for me.) All reality shows are about casting and editing. Robin was cast as the bothersome old lady, and lately edited as the woman you love to hate. This whole drama would play differently if the actors were all in their forties and enjoyed similar levels of maturity.
How to Make Perfect Croissants, from Foodbeam
Or...you could try Trader Joe's Mini Croissants in the frozen food section. Williams-Sonoma will send you theirs on dry ice. Both are excellent, but TJ's are much cheaper. Last September I spent a good part of two weeks in Paris searching for the best of everything. For croissants I give the nod to Au Levain du Marais at 26 rue Beaumarche in the 11th.
Best Lunch in Paris?: Escargot from L'Escargot Montorgueil
Had lunch here alone last September. A wonderful place, great atmosphere, courteous wait staff, delicious food. They created a green salad for me on the spot and served it on a large black slate square. A work of art. The escargots were superb.
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Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
Whatever soup, best to rub your chest with goose grease, lay a towel over it, and slurp away.
Watch It with Us: 'Top Chef Las Vegas,' Ep. 8
I know Robin personally, not as well as I know her mother, for whom this must be painful to watch. (It's painful for me.) All reality shows are about casting and editing. Robin was cast as the bothersome old lady, and lately edited as the woman you love to hate. This whole drama would play differently if the actors were all in their forties and enjoyed similar levels of maturity.
How to Make Perfect Croissants, from Foodbeam
Or...you could try Trader Joe's Mini Croissants in the frozen food section. Williams-Sonoma will send you theirs on dry ice. Both are excellent, but TJ's are much cheaper. Last September I spent a good part of two weeks in Paris searching for the best of everything. For croissants I give the nod to Au Levain du Marais at 26 rue Beaumarche in the 11th.
Best Lunch in Paris?: Escargot from L'Escargot Montorgueil
Had lunch here alone last September. A wonderful place, great atmosphere, courteous wait staff, delicious food. They created a green salad for me on the spot and served it on a large black slate square. A work of art. The escargots were superb.
Dish of the Year: The Burger
Back in Hard Scrabble, PA, in the 50's it was not uncommon for taverns to have a small grill behind the bar for the sole purpose of serving up a hamburger with your beer. A slice of raw onion was the only extra.
Dinner Tonight: Bubble and Squeak
Or you could add egg noodles or bow ties and cottage cheese to the cabbage and onion mixture, which in my Polish 'hood they called broken pierogies or lazy pierogies.
Dear AHT: The Nugget Diner in Reno, Nevada
Well, I held back on Peg's Glorified Ham and Eggs, which might be the best breakfast joint in America, because you don't have to share everything.
Pike Place Market in Seattle
I actually have a place IN the market. My apartment overlooks the north end, where, by the way, you could have gone to Etta's for killer crab cakes. On the run, you could have picked up some of Beecher's mac 'n cheese, my major vice these days. Or picked up one of a wide selection of sausages made just north of the flying fish display. Or walk up the hill to First and Virginia (my corner) and have lunch at Le Pichet, as close to Paris as you can get in Seattle.
Clay Chicken
I'm pretty sure the chicken is split and flattened, weighed down by the cover, but that's about it. Couldn't find it on Romertopf.
Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
I hope you don't still have the chest cold but another great suggestion would be Beef and Barley Soup.
Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
Thanks to all for the great suggestions. I have stock going in the slow cooker and will be trying out the different soups for breakfast and lunch for the next week. That should clear out my dang chest and stop me from whining!
Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
"If I'm making sopa while I'm sick, I stand over the pot and inhale the vapors. I think it works better than Vicks. Smells better, too."
@betteirene-
I do that too. But only over my bowl.... cuz...you know. ;o)
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"... is Sopa de Lima the same as chicken tortilla soup? Similar? I love soups but am a very lazy cook. However, I cannot find many soups I like. In the middle of a cold now and need help! ..."
@nycgrl71-
My version is basic chicken soup (chicken, carrots, celery, onion) and to that I add the hot sauce or pepper flakes, lime juice to taste, chopped cilantro and crush a couple of tortilla chips into it. Probably not authentic. I just kind of wing it, but it tastes really good and makes me feel better too.
Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
A nice hot bowl of pho would help loosen that chest congestion.
Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
I made cilantro chicken soup tonight (included onions, corn, salsa, a bit of sour cream, garlic and s&p to chicken broth and topped with crushed tortillas chips).
It's no secret that I am a huge fan of kimchi. If you like spicy, I highly recommend you make kimchi chigae (soup). It's delicious and full of garlic and spice and really cleans out the sinuses.
Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
@dhorst: firstly--feel better soon!
I like anything you can throw a lot of garlic into (and sometimes grate a raw clove into the bowl for good measure). This is a veggie-heavy pasta e fagioli that always satisfies: http://themanhattanfoodproject.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/032409-dinner-on-eating-more-vegetables/
Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
@dhorst-poor you!! You're still sick!? I knew this was your post before I even opened it...
I love a good tomato soup..rich and chunky....
Hot and sour soup hits the spot as well as Tom ka gai...the Thai chicken soup is super yummy when I"m not feeling well..
@BananaMonkey and PoorOldMama had great ideas too!
Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
@CJ McD - is Sopa de Lima the same as chicken tortilla soup? Similar? I love soups but am a very lazy cook. However, I cannot find many soups I like. In the middle of a cold now and need help! This is a great thread, thanks.
Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
@erinlovestoeat: Tom yum is different from "hot and sour" soup, even though tom yum is hot and sour.
Hot and sour soup has corn starch to thicken, jews ear (or however you call the black fungus in your neck of the woods), chicken, mushrooms, etc.
Tom yum is very fragrant, I think lemon grass, galangal, and fish sauce is used. From what I've always had, it's not as viscous as hot and sour soup. I usually eat it with prawns and/or scallops, but I do know it can come with other stuff.
Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
@erinlovestoeat: I thought they were "the same" but I looked into it and Tom yum is characterized by its distinct hot and sour flavors, with fragrant herbs generously used. The basic broth is made of stock and fresh ingredients such as lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, lime juice, fish sauce and crushed chili peppers.
From what I know of a traditional hot and sour of China the profile is very different from this....probably because its another country :)
""Hot and sour soup" is a Chinese soup claimed variously by Mandarin and Sichuan cuisines as a regional dish. The Chinese hot and sour soup is usually meat-based, and often contains ingredients such as day lily buds, wood ear fungus, bamboo shoots, and tofu, in a broth that is flavored with pork blood. It is typically made hot (spicy) by red peppers or white pepper, and sour by vinegar."
BUT the Tom Yum appears to be the hot and sour of Thaï :D
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Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
Pho is great...I love it when I'm healthy, hot, cold, have a head cold, chest cold, upset tummy. It always clears my congestion issues year round, and the fresh veggies always lighten things up.
Tired of the chest cold and looking for Souper ideas. Yours?
Ginger, here, too. Sick or not, I always put a good-sized knob of it in the pot of chicken rice soup, and then garnish it with green onions.
CJ McD--If I'm making sopa while I'm sick, I stand over the pot and inhale the vapors. I think it works better than Vicks. Smells better, too.
Watch It with Us: 'Top Chef Las Vegas,' Ep. 8
I'm also getting annoyed by the increasing emphasis on drama (which I too suspect is largely created by editing) over food- with this few contestants, we should see what everyone has prepared.
Watch It with Us: 'Top Chef Las Vegas,' Ep. 8
My two cents...I have not been as into the show this year because it seems to have taken such a nasty soap opera-ish turn...this started last year with the Josea/Leah thing. I can't stand for people to be down right mean and hurtful, whether the person deserves it or not. I can't imagine being Robyn and watching this now to hear the contestants talking about her behind her back. What horrible rotten people. She is still there and there's no one to blame for that but the judges. Anyway that being said, the only contestant I am rooting for is Kevin, he's the most consistent so far and he looks like Yukon Cornelius. LOL.
Watch It with Us: 'Top Chef Las Vegas,' Ep. 8
@Chew: Mike V needs to chill about this whole "I'm the best chef in this season" attitude. It was almost like Stefan last year, except Stefan was winning challenge after challenge. Mike V even looks down on his own brother!
I really feel the top 2 would be Kevin and Brian. But who knows! I never thought Josea had any chance of winning last season!
Watch It with Us: 'Top Chef Las Vegas,' Ep. 8
I was pretty turned off by Eli and Mike V's immaturity in this episode too. I was still mad at Eli for aiding in Ashley's elimination last week but he certainly didn't help this week. It seems like the only level headed guys in the group are Kevin and Bryan.
Anyway, immaturity aside, I agree that the top 4 contestants of the whole season were the top 4 this week. Even though I don't eat pork, all of their dishes looked and sounded good. Though did anyone think Bryan's dish looked exactly like his steak dish from the camping episode?
Overall, I hope Kevin, Jen or Bryan win. Mike V needs to chill out about why he is better than his brother.
How to Make Perfect Croissants, from Foodbeam
Wow I'll have to try those trader Joe's croissants as I'll be trying to recreate this amazing croissant-banana bread pudding I had last night!
How to Make Perfect Croissants, from Foodbeam
I must say Trader Joe's Mini Croissants are perfection!
How to Make Perfect Croissants, from Foodbeam
@sffoodie: That's so sad. :(
How to Make Perfect Croissants, from Foodbeam
Junior high, home-ec class: The first day was an introduction, in which the teacher said that in the next class we would be making croissants. I went home and excitedly told my parents that I would be learning how to make croissants in home-ec class. They were understandably surprised and impressed by the ambitiousness of this first foray into cooking for junior high students! I entered class the next day. Groups were established. We were ready. Then each group received... a can of Pillsbury crescent rolls. :(
Dish of the Year: The Burger
Burgers are always gonna be a fav.
Dinner Tonight: Bubble and Squeak
Everytime we drive down to Siesta Key, FL for part of the summer vacation, we always have to go to this Breakfast and lunch place that is owned by a British couple. Cafe Continental on Ocean Blvd.
They have been making their own version of Bubble & Squeak forever it seems. They make it with potatoes and peas, no cabbage. I asked them one time why no cabbage and they said that their customers never liked the cabbage flavor so they changed it to peas and it has been on their menu ever since. It is a wonderful variation and I love to have it with eggs and bangers every time I go there. Mmm...
This recipe looks good and I will try it soon. I have half a head of cabbage sitting in my refrigerator. Thanks for the inspiration.
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Whatever soup, best to rub your chest with goose grease, lay a towel over it, and slurp away.