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@ wimpy - I agree. I had Texas Pete's in little packets accompanying some BBQ in NC and it was goooood. So sad I can't find it in the Chicago area.

Other than that, I like me some Tapatio. So much that a large bottle of it made its way into my suitcase for a long term assignment I had in India. Bring my own hot sauce to southern India? Hells yea.

This is great.

@ Asparagus: I asked him and he basically said they're tired of all of them.

@CJ McD: He said he's hoping to maybe get some flatbread and perhaps some goat, but to daubermaus1's point, he's pretty much restricted to things that can be shipped to him.

I actually sent him a link to this thread, so the gears are churning... Thanks much, all!

Thanks for all the ideas everyone! Tonight I made an orzo salad with chopped arugula & basil topped with feta, cranberries, cherry tomatoes and toasted pumpkin seeds. Not too shabby.

Next, I'm going to try the watermelon salad. Sounds super refreshing!

Two weeks into culinary school, I entered a mystery basket competition requiring me to put a dish together in an hour and a half. The ingredients ended up being 2 ducks (whole), a savoy cabbage, pine-nuts, salsify, shallots, and a spaghetti squash. Managed to debone the duck and sear the breast off pretty well, but everything else was a mess: soupy "slaw" of cabbage & squash, undercooked salsify finagled into some sort of "carpaccio" interpretation, pine-nuts scattered askew and burnt duck fat fries. It was a mess.

But I had a blast.