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FatBaztard

  • Location: The Great Midwest
  • Last bite on earth: Steak with green peppercorn sauce.

What can I do with dried mushrooms?

Throw a few in with celery pieces when cooking rice, make lettuce wraps

AHT Giveaway: Case of Pat LaFrieda Burgers

Charcoal grill by the pool, with the tree frogs so loud we have to shout to be heard.

Fiddleheads? Hen in the Woods in IL?

The only wild mushrooms that can be sold in Illinois are morels, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health

Dinner for 2 with a bottle of wine may become illegal...

"...let's saddle the responsible social drinker with about $10k in alcohol classes, legal fees, and public humiliation."
-Doesn't happen. The responsible social drinker does not drive drunk. That's the irresponsible drinker, social or otherwise. The real question is not whether someone might feel inconvenienced in making choices about their habits, but whether the lower BAC is a real safety threshold. The likelihood of a driver causing a crash increases as the driver's BAC increases, starting about .04

AHT Giveaway: Case of Pat LaFrieda Burgers

Dense, compacted meat and a lack of Heinz ketchup.

Cereal Eats: If You Could Bring Back One Discontinued Cereal...

I don't want to bring back any cereal, I just want to bring back the names. Super Sugar Smacks, Sugar Pops, that kind of thing.

Penting, Panas, Perlu dan Seruu

"wah-wah there are important, Heat, Need and Seruu in Batam today. That is a blogger who spends his time at home, like Job posting updates, follow SEO Contest 2013. The bloggers have confused doing mo again, looking for work not accepted-have in your company.
But the blogger is not to forget the food aka Food, therefore he so fat at home"

Indonesian, in case you were wondering.

asperagus

Subliminal advertising...or what?

You asked two questions:
1: "Hey, can I have one of your 'sweet ballz'?" No.
2: "Does that make it innocent and hip or something?" Or something. The something in this case is a colorable claim at cuteness as opposed to vulgarity.
Also, I fully support your exposure of the manufacturer's innuendo, even though this whole post barely qualifies for half of the website theme (eats, but certainly not "Serious").

SD- Mount Rushmore

The Purple Pie Place, is good for, strangely enough, pie. Desparados in Hill City had good quality food that was prepared well. My thoughts on Wall Drug were not as pleasant.

Yogurt Straining

Yet another case for an edit button, or not drinking prior to posting.

In any case, the link works.

Yogurt Straining

Perhaps one of link, strong, em will do the trick.

Fried Fish ideas

I seem to recall that The Fresh Fish got in one little fight and they moved him to Bel Aire. You could try that, although the idea may be dated at this point. There is a boatload of fish stick recipes at Gorton's website. [Hopefully, I slipped something useful in there with my normal comments...]

Spicy Vegan Refried Beans

Thanks much for the pressure cooker directions!

Burger blend?

Thank you for sharing.

EW! I HATE that!!

Mr. Nick, you enlightened me because I thought raisins were grape vine scrotums. Never would eat the little buggers. Damaenon, I know EXACTLY what you mean.

What Gross Food Stuff Did You Do as a Kid?

Who hasn't consumed a "suicide" a.k.a. "graveyard"; the mixture of every obtainable flavor of soda and/or Kool Aid? It went well with fried bologna sandwiches. Garlic in Rice Krispy Treats, however, is very bad.

Most underrated and overrated ingredients

Zinnia1, that is exactly why I stopped eating vegetarians.

growing veggies without a garden

If you have some "outdoor space" but no dirt, like a parking space or an accessible flat roof, you can grow almost anything in a straw bale, so long as you keep it watered. Try searching "straw bale garden".

Food Processor Suggestions Requested

My Cuisinart (Prep 7) has a 2" column. It works well.

Would you do it?

"Wok" should I do?

You should Google "electric wok", that's wok you should do.

Food Ignorance Frustration

I suspect there is more than one way to make pho, or fuh, or phum, although I will concede some things should not be called pho. Are the "sparse vegetables" things like asparagus and iceberg lettuce? A pho restaurant serving bad pho would be annoying, but a cafeteria? They are trying and unless it is just bad food, maybe make a suggestion or two. If you want to get upset about food being "wrong", look at Kenji's series about mac and cheese, none of which came out of a blue Kraft box. That's wrong.

Bad Food Anger

There is a lot of passion and long-lasting emotion here; and a lot of long-term damage that can be done in a sitting. "The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.”

Cook the Book: 'Vegetable Literacy' by Deborah Madison

Steamed asparagus coated in lemon juice and butter...

Hotel Cooking Suggestions

I am looking for suggestions for cooking in a hotel room, with limited pans, no pantry, and a small range and microwave. A slow cooker is also available. Dinners with limited ingredient lists would be best, since I do not want to buy $50 in pantry items to cook a $10 meal. Thanks!

Alternative Uses for Kitchen Items

Not being much of a baker, I realized my main use for a rolling pin is smashing things. This is handy, since I don't have a meat tenderizer and a claw hammer is overkill. What are your alternative use items?

Looking for Ethnic in Naperville

I am in search of a decidedly ethnic dinner in Naperville on Monday night. Dives do not bother me. Excitement is good. I don't care what ethnicity, and I am adding to the challenge by eating in Naperville or a contiguous community. This is like playing it where it lies (a golf idiom seems appropriate for the 'burbs). Thanks!

Looking for fabulous Chex (Mix)

I am a big fan of prepackaged Chex mix, especially the rye chips, but like a true addict I need to up the ante a bit. I am looking for that like a virgin, first-time Chex feeling, with a little more umami and salt, perhaps. And I still want my rye chips. Are there any Chexperts who can help? (And if any of your are short, German Chex therapists, that's a bonus I would appreciate for the sheer credibility of it all.)

What DOES work: the search function! (yay!)

When I read that one of the changes to SE was in the search function, I was seized by cautious optimism. Not true; I thought nothing beats the evil giant, Google. I have tested it with just a couple of topics so far against site-specific Google searches and I can tell you the SE search rocks! Good job:)

Ultra-sensitive roll over ads and the brink of insanity

When I buy salmon, I check to be sure it's not Norwegian. When I look over my shoulder, I can glimpse the brink of my insanity (it's pretty far away by now). I am all for ads, which pay Kenji's salary and Hambone's vet bills, but I have come to hate the roll-over ads on SE. How about ads that load when the cursor hovers for a few seconds, so my fat-fingered trackpad enthusiasm does not drive me to drink? Anyone else?

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