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http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1489771.html
This was in our sunday paper yesterday and the website has a slide show of some ink on our local chefs. Some are pretty clever!
Cook the Book: ''Wichcraft'
A thanksgiving extravaganza...Roast turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce on bread that is then dipped in egg and fried monte cristo-style!
Leftover BBQ
Use it as the pork in a cuban sandwich. Add ham, mustard, swiss and pickles; press and grill. Deelish!
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Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
Wow, what's the point of being a member of this community if you can't ask a question like that and not get nasty responses? If I ask for a Midtown NYC restaurant suggestion, should no one answer because they might be pimping a certain eatery???
Foodie Body Art
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1489771.html
This was in our sunday paper yesterday and the website has a slide show of some ink on our local chefs. Some are pretty clever!
Cook the Book: ''Wichcraft'
A thanksgiving extravaganza...Roast turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce on bread that is then dipped in egg and fried monte cristo-style!
Leftover BBQ
Use it as the pork in a cuban sandwich. Add ham, mustard, swiss and pickles; press and grill. Deelish!
Farmer's Markets
I live in NC and our State Farmers Market is open year round. I have been going all winter to get sweet potatoes, greens and cabbages. I am anxiously awaiting strawberries, green peas and butter beans in the next couple of weeks!
Did I Make the Right Decision?
I second the Bar Keeper's Friend. This stuff will keep your AC looking like new! And kudos on the svelte biceps you are about to build up...the copper core is heavy!
Cook the Book: 'Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating'
I cut out meat and eat very little fish and mostly whole fruits and veggies.
Cook the Book: 'On the Line'
Grilled with a little bit of seasoning!
NY Thruway Favorite Spot?
I second the nod to New Paltz, especially The Bakery and Main Street Bistro.
Falafel Help
Falafel is really really simple. Don't fret. I love to eat them in a pita with lettuce, tomato, dill pickle slices, banana peppers and a lemon-tahini dressing.
'Top Chef' Season 5, Episode 10: 'Monkey Ass Filled with Fried Banana'
I think Fabio dodged a bullet, but I was happy that they kept him around. Eye candy aside, who else can pull off saying, "I'm 30 years old and sleeping in the bunky bed!" I heart you, "Fabrice"...you and your sick mama.
That being said, he's a goner next week, followed by Carla and the lovebirds, leading to a Jamie/Stefan showdown. Jamie's got real chops and I agree with Scott Conant's assesment. But it's going to be Stefan for the win!
In Videos: Dog Resists Eating Cupcakes, Looks Insane
My husband and I watched this Friday night and laughed so hard, we almost fell out of bed! The Soup rules!!!
Cook the Book: 'The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook'
Falafel and Mujadrah!!! Yummy love on a plate!
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'American Cheeses'
Humboldt Fog!!!!!!!!!!!
Quick - Whadya Have For Lunch Today?
Homemade 12 bean and vegetable soup and a garden salad from my work cafeteria.
Top Chef Calendar Giveaway: What's Your Favorite Sugar-free Dessert?
Strawberries with a balsamic reduction. Yummmmmmm
Need some help registering for my wedding.
Wustoff paring, chef and bread knife
Le Creuset dutch oven
Microplane grater
Good wooden spoons
Sturdy but pretty serving bowls
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!
Pioneer Woman's Sweet Potatoes!
Hunting for Blaze Balsamic Glaze
William Sonoma carries some sort of balsamic glaze, but I'm not sure what the brand name it. It might be worth a shot!
Good Blenders?
I also recommend the Breville Ikon. It does everything you need a blender to do and then some. It is super easy to clean and nice to look at if you care about counter-appeal!
thoughts on Hungry Girl?
I could go either way...sometimes I feel that it's a bit condescending to people who don't always choose foods based on their nutritional value. But as with anything else, if you don't like it, you don't have to read it! I appreciate some of her tips and check the site every now and then.
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
Oh...just realized you already named it. Good luck!
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
How about naming your blog: "Phamtastic cooking"
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
The Electric Strawberry!
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
Thank you all for your suggestions! I decided using the synonym of famished and came up with (Ravenous Couple: Cooking up Life) to include my sig other as she will be posting too...I just made my first post on Com Tam Suon Bi Cha (Vietnamese Broken Rice with Pork Chops). Don't want to be accused of flagrantly pimping my blog, but for those interested in this classic Vietnamese dish, the link to the blog is in my profile.
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
My goodness, what an insensitive, nasty and totally unnessessary way to be ushered into the "topics" area of SE or SE in general. Glad you stuck around! As you can see, not everyone is so anal. (oops, that might get ME censured!) As to your blog name question/request, how about "Pho Phusion"? "Phee, Phi, Pho, Pham"? That last one might be a bit hard to remember but phun nonetheless. Hmm..."Pho Phun"? Anyway, good luck and hope to hear from you again.
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
I love the idea "Phamished", simple, easy to remember, to the point, not at all boring. BTW, I'm new too, cooking at ya from Portland Oregon, for what's it's worth, I didn't take your post as a pitch, but we left coasters tend to be rather laid back not to mention thrilled to be asked for our opinion on anything. Sounds like a fun read... keep me in the loop when you start it I am always looking for new food ideas in the kitchen, (but do so off this board apparently).
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
You go girl! (I think your a girl...) Can't wait to see the site and read some of your moms recipes. As far as names are concerned, isn't it a good idea to also have in the title the type of food? So when people google VN food your site will pop up? My only experience is with my dogs web site and I made sure to put in her breed name in the title so everytime the breed name pops up so does her site. Could be different with food blogs, don't anyone bite my head off...
I've been reading this site for a while now and this is the first time I have seen a "Keeper of the Rules" pop up. Seems to me there are lots of us out here that don't have that specific rule book. I look forward to seeing your site and I hope you will post a link on here when it's up and running. Good luck!
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
You could also go "Green Eggs and Pham." I'm feeling the Dr. Seuss vibe this morning.
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
@kumasi46 - Absolutely. So welcome to SE and so sorry that your first post had to be about common sense politeness we all should have learned long ago. I am here to learn from and share with everyone, regardless if you have been posting for years, or if it is your first post! No on has to court me or comment a certain number of times before I will answer a topic question of theirs. Each and every one of us has something to bring to SE - that's what is so great about this community. So, there's no need to be nervous, with at least most of us here I think. Please, share away.
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
OK, now I'm nervous. First time poster, and not because I'm shy, but because I haven't had anything to say. I read lots of blogs/food sites, but hadn't realized, except for the no spamming, no commercial posting, that there was etiquette, except general politeness. If this is a community, shouldn't we be more welcoming?
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
@bananamonkey...I, too, hung out in the shadows of this site that I found last summer. I just contributed in March and was very timid about it. I enjoy gleaning and sharing and I think we might remember "The Golden Rule" before we type (my mom was a congregational Baptist-sorry). Welcome, @hppzz, good luck and maybe you will share more about yourself and your cooking here as well as your blog.
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
@hppzz... For what it is worth, I'm with Ed on "Phamished" one word, short and sweet, with the benefit of being easy to remember.
As far as the other hubub is concerned Hong, don't be offended. The people here are great (with me being the greatest of course) and usually pretty friendly. Feel free to post early and often, as your comments and topics are always welcome!
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
@BananaMonkey: There's been a call for a sort of n00b's guide or FAQ for a while now. I actually have to block out some time to draft one to help avoid situations like this. Thanks for listing some of the questions you'd like to see answered. I've had some of those rattling around in my head, but others I didn't think of.
@hppzz: Welcome to Serious Eats—or to posting on it at least. The community is usually much more welcoming than this. Hope this thread doesn't deter you from posting again!
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
db, i don't think greenbean was referring to you. i think greenbean was referring to the original response to the post. or perhaps also to people who share the same mindset as that contained in the initial response.
i love pham-tastic!
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
The problem I see (and it's just my eyes) with "Phamily" is that since it's not a real word, my internal spell-check wants to read it as "Pharmacy."
How about Pham-tastic Food?
@_greenbean, which "you" do you mean? The OP? Or if you were responding to the post just above your comment, that would be me, and I'm not sure what you found in that that was particularly offensive.
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
I think Phamily Foods is cute. Good luck on your new blog.
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
there's a negative response, then there's a clique-ish, seniority-based, who-do-think-you-are type response. the latter is what has occured and was totally uncalled for. and honestly, it's not the first time i've sensed this. people have probably already gotten to know you in more ways than you think.
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
@BananaMonkey, I think the "rules" for this place are spelled out in the terms of service, and generally you're not supposed to post things of a commercial nature and it should be food related. And it shouldn't be nasty or offensive. Something like that, anyway.
Whether something is noncommercial and/or related enough to food can be in the eye of the beholder. The ones that are truly out of line usually get pulled pretty quickly by the staff.
Just because someone gets a negative response to a question, it doesn't mean that the question was out of line. It could simply be that someone misinterpreted the question or was in a particularly cranky mood that day.
Asking for help with a blog name is interesting, because sometimes that's just a cover for sending traffic to an existing blog, which might be interpreted as a commercial post. In this case, there is no existing blog, though.
As far as posting links, if it's part of a signature, it seems to be allowable. Or if it's in answer to a question, that's fine, too. Or if it's a news item/video/whatever that's fodder for discussion, that's fine too. But if someone posts, "I just found this wonderful thing on this website!!!" and posts a link, that's commericial. So links depend on the context.
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
Oh, and hppzz--how about Phamished Phoodie--to draw out the pun? Actually that sounded a lot better in my head than it looks typed out. Might be difficult to search as well.
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
I think a FAQ or ettiquette section would be fantastic. I lurk in a lot of places, including for MONTHS here before I started posting. I would have been pretty p*ssed if someone responded to me in this way the first time I posted. If in fact asking for a blog name is considered gauche...then there has to be a gentler way of cautioning someone. There are differences between web communities and I for one would love to see some guidlines about what is and is not appropriate here instead of people getting slammed for crossing lines that appear to exist solely in the minds of the cool kids.I am not sure who made up the rules of 'seniority', but it's getting to be that the most innocent questions are being treated with derision and contempt.
I've got lots of ettiquette questions. For example: What's the policy on linking to recipes etc that exist on other sites? I've seen people apologize to Adam for that. What about schilling your own blog with a signature link every time you post? What about linking to your blog if it's relevant? What about re-posting a topic that has come up in the past? What about a tag for issues that are only tangentially food related but which might be more personal--I recall someone looking for strategies to take over food prep from an ailing and non food safety conscious elder relative. It was a great thread and I believe helpful to the poster. Or a 'silly stuff' category to keep the whiners from calling this place a waste of time when we chime in about childhood memories etc.
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
I'm glad my idea is going over well!
@hppzz
I think a lot of the ideas you have are good!
whatever you choose... keep in mind some things:
make it memorable
make it spellable
(example: what if people are trying to remember it as "a bit of this, a bit of that" instead of "bit of this and bit of that" It'll come up on a google search, but if they are typing it in as a URL, it might not work)
make it unique: a lot of people say "bit of this and bit of that" or some variation of it. Try a google search before settling on it. Make sure no one else is using if for something else.
good luck!
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
Hi All,
Wow, I had no idea my post would generate this much discussion. Thanks to all for your supportive comments. True, it was only my first post, but definitely not the first time I've read the site (one of my friend contributes to SE as a columnist).
It was also true that that after the first exchange I didn't even want to follow up on this thread, but I knew better. Having read other threads before, the SE community is extremely creative and knowledgeable and that it would be a shame if I let the first exchange dissuade me from seeing other opinions in SE.
Like some of you have said, this is all about the sharing the love of food. I will chose my own blog name, but I see nothing wrong with asking for suggestions for and bouncing ideas from other foodlovers. It's not my goal to write a cookbook or get rich from this.
while making alot of mom's traditional home Vietnamese recipes will be a big part of it, I don't want to be pigeon holed into just Vietnamese cooking.
how about "Phamished Foodie: Ravenous adventures of a novice cook".
too wordy? what about
-"BitofThis&BitofThat" that's how my mom would describe her recipes to me as she did everything from memory and never wrote down recipes.
-Braised&Battered: Adventures of a novice cook.
Thanks again!!
Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
Oh and PS it also doesn't help its the one and only post hsppzz has ever made, so yeah I agree kinda of spammish.
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Wow, what's the point of being a member of this community if you can't ask a question like that and not get nasty responses? If I ask for a Midtown NYC restaurant suggestion, should no one answer because they might be pimping a certain eatery???