Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

Just about anything.....but stir-frys and soups are probably my favorites.

Black, please.

With pears, and a crisp white wine.

Lately I'm really enjoying chocolate with caramel and sea salt, although a good chocolate-covered pretzel is tasty too.

Straight up--hold the cream, hold the sugar.

I've either lived or worked in New Berlin for over 25 years, so I'm familiar with the history of the place. The space presently inhabited by the Charcoal Grill was originally a restaurant called Zarder's, run by the Zarder family. I think burgers were one of their specialties, but I don't know if they ever sold bison burgers. I kind of doubt it, it was an old-fashioned sort of family restaurant, but I can't say for sure.

After Zarder's closed, many years ago already, but before Charcoal Grill went in (maybe 10 years ago?), the place was sort of a natural/game meat specialty place, and that may be the bison burger Lacey's thinking of. I think they sold some pretty exotic stuff there, at least for New Berlin, and I don't think the place lasted long. I don't even remember what it was called.

I can imagine it's pretty easy to overcook a bison burger. This one didn't sound good at all!

Yea! I love them, not as much as soft corn tortillas, but I love the crunch and love the memory of the tacos you describe in your first paragraph!

What I really hate are flour tortillas, especially those huge floppy ones that can practically be used for a sun hat. I have been able to find some 6 inch store brand flour tacos with enough body that are ok just slightly warmed through. The only reason I even buy them is because my husband finds corn tortillas too flavorful or something (the guy wouldn't even eat Taco Bell food when I first met him 30 years ago, trust me, he's come a long way). But put too much sauce on a flour tortilla and you have what's basically mushy white bread.

Whole wheat angel hair pasta with my own pesto sauce.

Other than a couple of visits to a local Middle-Eastern restaurant and that supermarket hummus, I have none to speak of. I've made hummus myself but keep reading about "authentic" Israeli hummus, and it makes my mouth water!

I think McCafe would be a great segue for Americans to European coffee right here and now in the US! Apparently McDonald's here doesn't think so. I needed some coffee to get me through the afternoon at work the other day and decided to skip Starbucks for the McDonald's, since they've been claiming that their coffee is so much improved. Sure, that large cup of plain brewed coffee cost only a buck, but it smelled like canned green beans. It didn't taste quite that bad, but the extra buck I'd have paid for brewed coffee at the Starbucks right across the street from McDonald's would have been worth it.

I've been buying cauliflower and broccoli more often, and roasting them with carrots. But just last night I was thinking about some of my favorite summer vegetable dishes, and wonderful fresh stuff right from the garden. Ah, to eat a tomato off the vine!

I suppose it's different, but that doesn't mean it's right!

Back about 20 years ago, when I was young and impressionable, and my husband was out of town (no, it's not *that* sort of story!) I bought a bag of hazelnut flavored coffee, and set it up in the coffeepot one evening and set the timer, so I could wake up to the smell of hazelnut coffee. He would never drink it, so I thought it'd be a nice treat. Well, I woke up to the smell of sickly sweet fake hazelnut flavor and almost hurled. Incidentally, I was also not pregnant! I threw out the flavored stuff, cleaned out the pot, made a nice fresh pot of regular coffee, and have never looked back.

The first time I tried really good bacon, which had to have been Nueske's, since their main store in Wittenberg, WI is located on the way to my father-in-law's house in the UP.

It's very, very smoky, and if I store it in the fridge for more than a few hours I have to at least double wrap it or everything smells like bacon.