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The Meat and Chocolate Trend

I'm making chocolate-covered bacon tonight!!! Thank you! I don't know why I didn't think of making this myself before!

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

I've only tried one brand so far, and didn't like them that much, they had a weird off/sweet flavor, but I think I'll keep trying brands till I find one I like. I normally love sausage.

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'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

bacon and eggs
grilled cheese
ramen noodles with the broth and TONS of cheddar grated in, some white pepper and then stirred around till it's one big gooey delicious mess
doritos dipped in queso salsa
cheddar smokey sausages dipped in smokey cheddar dip lol
french toast grilled cheese with bacon
most simple things with cheese and bacon

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The Meat and Chocolate Trend

I'm making chocolate-covered bacon tonight!!! Thank you! I don't know why I didn't think of making this myself before!

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

I've only tried one brand so far, and didn't like them that much, they had a weird off/sweet flavor, but I think I'll keep trying brands till I find one I like. I normally love sausage.

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'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

bacon and eggs
grilled cheese
ramen noodles with the broth and TONS of cheddar grated in, some white pepper and then stirred around till it's one big gooey delicious mess
doritos dipped in queso salsa
cheddar smokey sausages dipped in smokey cheddar dip lol
french toast grilled cheese with bacon
most simple things with cheese and bacon

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Cooking with Blood

I had blood pudding in Sweden once and liked it.

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What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?

I just made my own version based off of Claypot's version, and it turned out really well!!

1/2 cup Kikkoman soy sauce
1 1/2 cup vegetable broth
2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp white pepper
1/2 tsp garlic salt
2 tbps (rounded) flour

I just heated up the broth and soy sauce, added everything except for the flour, and then slowly added the flour bit by bit while whisking quickly and kept whisking till it thickened. Even my (picky) husband liked it!!! Now I'm gonna put it on my veggie and seafood stir-fry :D

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What is Chinese Brown Sauce Made Of?

I'm so trying this tonight!! Thank you all you guys!

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Chefs & Customers Who Linger After Hours

argh, hit the submit button by accident.

to continue: After my last repetition of "no, we're CLOSED" accompanied by a pointed stare, I just couldn't resist taking a big bite of my sandwich and going "mmmmm" just to rub it in. His jaw dropped, and he stammered for a bit and then managed to say "you b***h!" before walking off. I know it was really mean, but at the time after having put up with so many of those clients, it was just too easy and damn did it feel good to do that for once!! loll.

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Chefs & Customers Who Linger After Hours

I remember one time I was working at a chain sandwich counter at the college I was attending, and we would get customers who would wander over and stare at the menu on the wall (completely ignoring the fact that the the meat counter was empty, the vegetable counter was closed and cleaned, everything put away and I'm sweeping the floor) and then order something, and look all dissapointed and try to wheedle a sandwhich out of me when I told them we were closed.

I was in the habit of stashing a sandwich for myself under the counter just before closing and was sitting on my milk crate thoroughly enjoying my sandwich after closing time when a customer appeared, and as usual asked if we were open, and I told him no, to which the usual reply of wheedling and whining came, this time about him having mean teachers that kept him late in class, etc. After my last repetition of "no, we're

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Serious Cheese: Grilled Cheese, Georgian Style

SqueezeBottle, what's the name and location of that restaurant?

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 69: Eating With Devils and Angels

What she said! Or just take it home for yourself and eat it later (as in not within the next 3 hours after you get home)

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Poutines Deathmatch: La Banquise vs. Patati Patata

In good Quebecois, it's "A tentôt!" The french spoken here in Quebec is very different from the french spoken in France. But great post! I have yet to go to either of these places although I live here, I know, heresy! Lol.

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Critic Turned Cook Makes/Doesn't Break Mayo

Lol as an avid reader of www.notalwaysright.com you can guess what camp I'm in :P The chef knows best, with an exception for my love of cheese, in which case I might ask for extra.

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Shopping Like a Private Chef with Boston's Kenny Jervis

Wow, I have to find myself a shop where I can get myself a slice of that Jamon Iberico de Bellota!

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Would You Eat Stinging Nettle?

My mom used to send me out to our backyard to pick the young leaves to make delicious soup with it. If you pick the leaves at the base near the stem you don't get stung.

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 64: The Road Not Taken, The Food Not Eaten

Wow, I can't beleive you got your boss a speeding ticket... for food! lolll. That's a Serious Eater!

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What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?

-Cooked ramen noodles with an equal amount of grated light cheddar on top, with seaweed crumbled in

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'Foie You' Sandwich from Picnic Caterers in New Jersey

Lolll! I love this :P I'd get some myself if I was in the area. Those animal rights groups go too far sometimes.

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Snapshots from Italy: The Mother Of All Carrots

Wow! I never knew these existed. I have to find some now!

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Snapshots from Italy: Chasing Pizza Bianca in Rome

Let the foodies get exited about their food! You get exited about cars, women, sports, well we have food! Lol :P

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Served: Social Butterfly Duty

I'd NEVER be able to be a waitress. I have a hard time being pleasant over the phone at my calling center job. Definitely at least partly introverted.

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Hometown Favorites: The Emotional Side of Chocolate

I worked at La Maison du Chocolat in Rawdon, Quebec on weekends during my high-school years, and they're the best chocolates I've had so far. I remember I had friends from school that worked there as well, and the lady who ran the place was so nice, it was a small family place and I loved it. She paid us less than minimum wage, but let us eat as much chocolate as we wanted :D The others would joke about how I'd put the place out of business with all the chocolate I ate! loll. My favourite was always dark chocolate. She even made her own ice cream, and had a cappuccino machine too. That's where I got my username :P I remember the first time I tasted her chocolate, I thought it was the most amazing chocolate ever, although the circumstances weren't that great, a friend of my parents had bought them for me and my sister when we went to visit my mom in the hospital once. It was a simple dark chocolate candy cane and I asked where she had bought it. That was years earlier though, who would have guessed I'd be lucky enough to end up working there one day!

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Snapshots from Asia: Tropical Fruit Feast, Red-Fleshed Dragon Fruit

I've tried the white-fleshed ones from the grocery store before and liked them, even though it wasn't very sweet. I liked the mild flavor. We had it along with other fruits in a dark chocolate fondue :D

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The Meat and Chocolate Trend

i just recently found a hilarious blog that tried this trend out--mistakenly with dark chocolate. big no no

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The Meat and Chocolate Trend

i feel like such a wet blanket but I am tired beyond tired of the trendy "bacon" everything trend, Just as i feel you don't cover good caramel with other things, I don't think you cover bacon with other things. I'm sick of "Bacontinis" (YUCK! bacon beverages sound disgusting, but then, i'm not a martini drinker nor am I a cocktail type - it's yet another trend)
Why can't we just eat food. Bacon is great - if you like it. Plain ol' bacon. And mole? yeah theres a bit of chocolate in it, as are there nuts and seeds. We've made chicken mole and like it but we respect the traditional recipes.
Can we just go back to making food because we like it, not because it's the latest thing?
curmudge, curmudge...

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The Meat and Chocolate Trend

I did a bacon ice cream a week ago and it came out very well. I think the caramelization on the bacon was about the thickness of a tootsie pop, though, so that might have been why it got such good reviews.

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The Meat and Chocolate Trend

Bacon, chocolate -- two of my favourite things!
I think men will especially love it.
Will be testing it out very soon.

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Berlin 'Grillwalkers' Sell Sausages Cooked on Wearable Grills

I guess they found a way to make it safe, but my first thought was the same thing that mandarin and Adam had.

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Berlin 'Grillwalkers' Sell Sausages Cooked on Wearable Grills

As tasty as the food may be, IMO, the risks outweigh the benefits of this contraption.

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Berlin 'Grillwalkers' Sell Sausages Cooked on Wearable Grills

Can you imagine how trashed your back would be after a day of wearing that thing?

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Berlin 'Grillwalkers' Sell Sausages Cooked on Wearable Grills

I have to know...is he wearing the umbrella too? Reminds me of (Sen.) Al Franken's SNL take on the portable video setup network types wore at the presidental conventions years ago....

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What’s Your Favorite Weird Snack Combo?

I used to go to the LA Reader office on Friday mornings to collect my mail, then I'd stop in the chain drugstore nearby to pick up a piece of beef jerky, and a package of vanilla creme sandwich cookies, which I'd eat while driving to my day job. Not together, just back-to-back. Can't remember if I ate the jerky or the cookies first, nor why I thought those would make a good breakfast.

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Poutines Deathmatch: La Banquise vs. Patati Patata

Hum! Tough choice!

Although patati patata adds wine and chicken stock to their gravy, my favourite remains the classic poutine from La Banquise. Check out this video to see how the chef makes the poutine.


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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

Oh man, Chinese sausage is sooooo good...and there's a place that sells them right down the road...hmmm. XD

Best part is, you can eat them for any meal of the day, and they're still fantastic.

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

My chinese grandma makes a wonderful hash with it. She chops it up, mixes it with ground pork, water chestnuts and soy sauce and steams it.

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

I love chinese sausage! Only trouble is I can't seem to find it anywhere around here.

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

Cut up, fried crispy and put in fried rice. Add a fried egg on top and you're golden.

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

I love them. They're always in the house. It's something we have to restock on the moment we are out of them (or we don't let ourselves ever run out of them)

They make a comforting and highly unhealthy, but mostly comforting quick meal.

With breakfast mantou though, I think I prefer fish or pork floss. Just rip the mantou into bite sized pieces and press the torn side down into the floss to pick up a generous, fuzzy layer and eat! Yum...it's got the same kind of sweet/savory flavor profile as lap cheong though.

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

I'm glad to hear so many people love Chinese sausage! :) Thanks for the great dish suggestions. Just chiming in because...er, I don't really have anything useful to say. I don't know anything about the different brands of sausage; when I see em at the Chinese markets they're just hanging there. Un..branded.

As for mantou, I would think any Chinese bakery has em. I wouldn't know where to get them aside from Chinese bakeries/supermarkets.

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

what are the good brands to get? I love them in sticky rice but never know which to purchase when on my own.

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

ps. my friend's mother, who is Cantonese, uses the name of these sausages (lap cherng) to refer to people in spandex leggings. I can't help but laugh each time I see someone squeezed into leggings now.

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

Me!! My new fave is a steamed bun that has small pieces of Chinese sausage & green onion mixed in.

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

easiest dinner ever: rice cooker with chinese sausage (always in my freezer) and bok choy in the steamer basket above rice with dashi and shiitake. the oil seeps down and flavors everything, like people do with chorizo.

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

Love the stuff. My Filipino grandmother used to make fried rice with it all the time. I can't see or smell Chinese sausage without thinking of her.

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

yes! i absolutely love chinese lap cheong (sp? my cantonese is awful). my parents make mantao and then steam these on the side. sometimes my dad will nestle them into a pot of rice before he cooks it so the savory flavors of the sausage mix with the rice.

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My Favorite Breakfast Meat: Chinese Sausage

awesome! I'm wondering why I haven't seen chinese sausage in the dishes of the point & pick steam tray places I visit anymore. Was there a price hike?

Been wanting to buy them from the meat markets. Are they already cooked? ...the ones hanging.

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Cooking with Blood

In Tuscany there's a salami called Biroldo made in the Garfagnana area, blood is used but also bits of meat taken from the pig's head, read on and I'm sure you'll change your mind on blood related food items:
http://www.turismo.intoscana.it/intoscana2/export/TurismoRTen/sito-TurismoRTen/Contenuti/Prodotti-tipici/Formaggi-e-salumi/visualizza_asset.html_1034509507.html

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Location: Montreal, Canada

About: A fellow foodie with roots in Swedish and French Canadian cooking. I love to cook and try new unusual foods, either of my own creation or of other cultures. I'm intolerant to spicy food.

Favorite foods: Bacon, cheese, poutine, noodles and cheese, bbq, ethnic food, too many to name honestly! Would I be a foodie otherwise? :P

Last bite on earth: Noodles and cheese