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Question of the Day: How do you like your hot dog?

Mustard only, please!

Well, except that if I'm at Crif Dogs in the East Village I'll have it wrapped in bacon with avocado and sour cream on top, and at Dash Dogs on the Lower East Side I like it with cilantro salsa and garlic aioli. My mom went to Lourdes on a pilgrimage and hopefully one day my equivalent experience will be to Chicago's Hot Doug's.

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How to Outfit a Kitchen for $300

Yeah, especially since the Cuisinart food processor is only $30 more at Amazon and is considered best-in-show; I'd rather spend slightly more on a good gadget than get one I don't like and end up not using. I do appreciate his point about just getting stuff and starting to cook, since I do use the perceived expense of acquiring equipment as a crutch to procrastinate about cooking more often, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

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Cooking With Liberace!

If you read the post again, there is a fairly filthy one in there, I promise.

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Finally, Pizza for Pizza Lovers from Pizza Hut

Yes, but imagine the possibilities—say, a recursive slice from DiFara's...

From Talk

Question of the Day: How do you like your hot dog?

Mustard only, please!

Well, except that if I'm at Crif Dogs in the East Village I'll have it wrapped in bacon with avocado and sour cream on top, and at Dash Dogs on the Lower East Side I like it with cilantro salsa and garlic aioli. My mom went to Lourdes on a pilgrimage and hopefully one day my equivalent experience will be to Chicago's Hot Doug's.

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How to Outfit a Kitchen for $300

Yeah, especially since the Cuisinart food processor is only $30 more at Amazon and is considered best-in-show; I'd rather spend slightly more on a good gadget than get one I don't like and end up not using. I do appreciate his point about just getting stuff and starting to cook, since I do use the perceived expense of acquiring equipment as a crutch to procrastinate about cooking more often, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

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Cooking With Liberace!

If you read the post again, there is a fairly filthy one in there, I promise.

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Blue Bell ice cream in NYC? Bueller Bueller?

Yeah, I was just hoping there would be a crazy Texan entrepreneur in the city desperate enough to get some over here somehow. *weeps*

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Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?

I never understood why the Japanese were so crazy about mayonnaise until I tried THE Japanese mayo of choice, Kewpie—and then I totally got it. Kewpie is just sooooo good, it's super rich and creamy and tasty and once you've given it a try you can't go back. I keep a squeeze-bottle in my refrigerator at all times, Kewpie + rosemary + a dash of Sriracha + roast chicken = best chicken salad sandwich you'll ever have.

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Looking to buy Kristall Pear Soda. No Whole Foods in TN. Help!!

scandiafood.com will happily sell you a case of 24 twelve ounce bottles for $29 + shipping, but if a comment I read on The Knowledge for Thirst is correct, you might want to call your nearest IKEA to see if they carry it and just go there!

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New Orleans Jazz Fest: The 5 Must-Have Foods

I just drooled all over my keyboard, Zach! So jealous! Maybe I'll be lucky enough to get myself out there next year.

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Make Your Own Soup Dumplings

Mazzer, I think Megnut would tell you there is no such thing.

Adam, Grand Sichuan on St Mark's and New Green Bo, although I inexplicably have not been to the latter in a few months. Let's go!

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What is your go-to midnight snack?

Pork gyoza! I try to have a sack of them in the fridge at all times. If I don't have any, usually I make a grilled cheese sandwich. I'm not sure why but if I'm hungry late at night it's always for something salty!

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Chopped: Food Network Searches for Top Sous-Chefs

Yeah, they really should have said THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.

(And then of course included a photo of Christopher Lambert with a toque crudely drawn on his head.)

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Question of the Day: What surprises your friends most to hear that you make yourself?

BaHa, most New Yorkers aren't "native", and buying ingredients for just one person would cost me way more than walking two blocks and getting a lovely $4 gyro from a nice man who's been making them all his life. Eating out doesn't mean spending a lot of money!

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Question of the Day: What surprises your friends most to hear that you make yourself?

I eat most of my meals out like a good New Yorker and pretend that I never ever cook, so people are surprised whenever I make anything. I make great lamb chops!

she thought I didn't have any idea how to cook anything vegetarian.

So you cooked them in bacon fat, right? Right?

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Inexpensive dinner in NYC's Village. Recommendations?

Neither Momofuku takes reservations—well, Ssam does, but only for a big party ordering the Bo Ssam—but if you show up when they open, you shouldn't have to wait for a table, even on Friday and Saturday nights.

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Inexpensive dinner in NYC's Village. Recommendations?

Pretty sure the one on St Mark's has been closed for a while, but I heard it was more because they kept getting raided for underaged drinking than health violations.

If inexpensive can go up to $25 or $30, go to Momofuku Noodle Bar or Momofuku Ssam Bar—if you polled the Serious Eats staff on their current favorite restaurants, I'm sure every single one of us would name the latter. David Chang is a master of tasty.

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Question of the Day: What's Your Favorite Type of Cake?

I grew up in a bakery so I'm about as picky as JerzeeTomato—except for that I can't actually bake to my own standards! Any good cake is a cake for me, so I'll just go into specifics. I live a five minute walk from what are currently my two favorite desserts in NYC: the sticky toffee pudding at Schiller's, and the banana pudding at Sugar Sweet Sunshine. I'd walk miles for either one.

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Jazz Fest Food

Lorin, I can't speak for Ed, but from what I've read many food industry workers were among those evacuated, and many of them made the hard decision to not move back. A lot of restaurants are gone, sure, but structures can be rebuilt; it's the people who ran them, cooked their food, and passed down recipes through generations that can't be replaced. There are pre-Katrina experiences, culinary and otherwise, that no one will ever have again, because the people that made them are just not there.

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Meet & Eat: Chubby Hubby

I literally ate everything in sight, clearing off several trays' worth of the stuff.

Love it! So hilarious. Great answers to everything, Mr CH!

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Question of the Day: What's your favorite candy bar?

I've never met anyone else who'll admit to liking it, probably cause it's apparently not made with real chocolate, but I do love Butterfinger. Nothing's better in a Dairy Queen Blizzard! Nothing!

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Interesting food combinations

There's a Filipino breakfast dish that I love called champorado, it's a a sweet chocolate rice porridge made from sticky (glutinous) rice and cocoa powder, served with condensed milk to taste... and salty dried fish on top. It's that last bit that usually gives people pause, but if you think about it for half a second, sweet and savoury together = delicious.

Lilartist, femmebot: in the Philippines, queso ice cream is really popular—it's vanilla ice cream with small chunks of cheddar mixed in. I'm totally going to make some with my ice cream maker this summer!

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Anybody ever hit up the Red Hook ball fields?

I haven't yet, but a friend of mine went out there with his girlfriend last summer and says the food is divine. Getting out to Red Hook is a pain but apparently well worth it!

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150 Things to Make With Roast Chicken

What I do with leftover roast chicken: add some Japanese mayo + a few drops of Sriracha (a.k.a. Rooster Sauce) + rosemary, and voila, best chicken salad sandwich ever.

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Eight Glasses of Water A Day Is A Myth

An ex-boyfriend's sister heard about the whole eight glasses thing and thought you had to drink them all in one sitting. She made it through about six glasses before starting to cry at the idea of having to do it every day for the rest of her life. The worst part is that she wasn't six or seven at the time, like you'd expect from the story, but a college graduate.

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Blue Bell ice cream in NYC? Bueller Bueller?

Yes, Hill Country does have it! Plus, they carry "Big Red" soda pop...need a float? LOL

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Question of the Day: Any former vegetarians out there? What happened? Why'd you go back to meat?

I was a vegetarian between the ages of 13 and 22. One night (about 2 months ago) I decided that I simply wanted a steak. Right there and then I went to a diner with my best friend and she watched me down a steak. It was incredible. Not only was that night amazing, but since then I have SO much more energy than I did before. For nine years I had issues with energy. It hit a climax last year when I literally could not stay awake at 2pm every day for months. That went away after I started to take insulin pills (I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes at that ime), but I was still kind of low on energy, moody, depressive...

I swear eating meat has been my savior! I feel like a new woman! I literally feel like a completely different person. I have energy now! And I'm not as moody or depressive... wow, things are different! Plus I feel more like "me"... I never saw myself as the girl who'd eat a salad at a steakhouse while her date had a rare one. I saw myself as the down-to-earth-red-meat-eating chick even when I didn't eat meat for 9 years.

I love steak! I can't ever be a vegetarian again!

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Question of the Day: What's the best food song?

I sang this one in elementary choir and it's still sticks!

"In today's noodle soup, alphabetic;
there's a fly looking weak and pathetic.

In the noodles he spells out a message!
SOS, send a raft, or canoe.

Look the fly still continue's the message!
And PS, I did not like the soup."

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Question of the Day: What's the best food song?

I love "Lunch Lady Land" too, by Adam Sandler. "Sloppy Joe, Sloppy-sloppy Joe...." classic.
But, in a nod to a post I did a few days ago, who can forget Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang?
"like a can of beer that's sweeter than honey
like a millionaire that has no money
like a rainy day that is not wet
like a gamblin fiend that does not bet
like dracula with out his fangs
like the boogie to the boogie without the boogie bang
like collard greens that dont taste good
like a tree that's not made out of wood
like goin up and not comin down
is just like the beat without the sound no sound
to the beat beat, ya do the freak
everybody just rock and dance to the beat
have you ever went over a friends house to eat
and the food just aint no good
i mean the macaroni's soggy the peas are mushed
and the chicken tastes like wood
so you try to play it off like you think you can
by sayin that you're full
and then your friend says momma he's just being polite
he aint finished uh uh that's bull
so your heart starts pumpin and you think of a lie
and you say that you already ate
and your friend says man there's plenty of food
so you pile some more on your plate
while the stinky foods steamin your mind
starts to dreamin'
of the moment that it's time to leave
and then you look at your plate and your chickens slowly rottin'
into something that looks like cheese
oh so you say that's it i got to leave this place
i dont care what these people think
im just sittin here makin myself nauseous
with this ugly food that stinks
so you bust out the door while its still closed
still sick from the food you ate
and then you run to the store for quick relief
from a bottle of kaopectate
and then you call your friend two weeks later
to see how he has been
and he says i understand about the food
baby bubbah but we're still friends..."

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Question of the Day: What's the best food song?

"Prepare yourself and you know it's a must...gotta have a friend in cheese sauce..."

What? What's that you say? 'Gotta have a friend in Jesus??" Oh, whoops. Well, whatever, it works my way, too!

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Question of the Day: What's the best food song?

Spam monty python
If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake Andrew sisters

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Question of the Day: What's the best food song?

"Grandma Put Summer In A Jar." Great song, I think sung by John Brown.

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Question of the Day: What's the best food song?

A second vote for "Cheeseburger in Paradise!" It's my dad's favorite song---I've always told him we'll dance to THAT at my wedding!

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Question of the Day: What's the best food song?

"Kitchen Man" by Bessie Smith, but I think it might not really be about food.

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Question of the Day: What's the best food song?

Come on a-my house (Rosemary Clooney)
Party on the Mountain (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

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Chopped: Food Network Searches for Top Sous-Chefs

I hope this is a SERIOUS hit show because a friend of my daughter's is working on it and he deserves every bit of success in the world. I like the premise of the show and if all goes well, it should be very well executed and be a blast to watch. We are real foodies here and watch almost all the shows so this isn't our first rodeo, as they say. Best wishes to all!

From Talk

Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?

Dinosaur's Wango Tango here too!

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Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?

We order Big Bob Gibson from Alabama.
Also Rudy's BBQ in Albuquerque has a really tasty sauce.

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Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?

i love sweet baby ray's. i gonna try stubbs.

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Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?

dinosaur...rawrrrr

or pierce's pitt barbeque from williamsburg va

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Favorite bottled BBQ Sauce?

You never know what you have been missing in a great BBQ Sauce until you have tried Benny's BBQ Famous Sauce.

Benny's BBQ found the secret of what BBQ sauce lovers have been looking for years. Benny's sauce is vinegar based with, of course, their special secret ingredients making their sauce "Simply the Best."

Benny's BBQ also makes Benny's Famous Texas and Benny's Famous Peanut sauces that also enhances any BBQ on the planet.

Benny's BBQ is located in Richmond, VA and has been a Richmond tradition for over 15 years.

Visit BennysBBQonline.com and ask them to ship a bottle of one of their sauces to you.

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Interesting food combinations

My favorite is pickles and cinnamon applesauce. It works best if you have whole dill pickles. Bite the end off, then spoon some cinnamon applesauce onto the top of the pickle and eat. I add more applesauce after each bite.

From Talk

What is your favorite (quick and easy) breakfast food?

Toasted English muffin, scrambled egg in the microwave, a little cheese.
Yogurt with granola and dried fruit.
Oatmeal. *wry smile* I keep frozen fruit and lots of spices on hand, so that helps.
A Carnation Instant Breakfast, peanut butter, banana, and milk smoothie.
Cottage cheese with a banana and toast.
Hard-boiled egg and toast.
Frozen waffles/pancakes with peanut butter and honey.
Cheese toast with a side of fruit.
Scrambled egg and cheese wraps (with or without breakfast meat - precooking breakfast meats help!)

I've been experimenting with breakfast egg muffins - sort of like breakfast casserole, but made in a muffin tin and frozen and reheated. I'm not quite happy with it yet, but I think I'm close!

From Talk

What is your favorite (quick and easy) breakfast food?

I like peanut butter on a whole grain waffle with banana slices. I've also spread cream cheese on a wheat tortilla, topped with banana slices, cinammon, and little bit of sugar. Mixing different fruits in my cereal keeps me from getting too bored with it. :O)

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What is your favorite (quick and easy) breakfast food?

Smoothie -

1 banana
1/2c cottage cheese
1/2c yogurt
2-3tbsp water or milk
1/4-1/2c berries (frozen works great!)
1tsp honey
1 tsp ground flax

Blend, toss in a travel mug, and enjoy :-)

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What is your favorite (quick and easy) breakfast food?

smoothie with banana, strawberries or other fruit, milk or juice and a tablespoon of Ovaltine or malted milk powder
cottage cheese with pineapple
occasionally yogurt with flax seed meal; I'll try it with honey some time...
waffle with butter and a bit of cinnamon and sugar
The next time you make pancakes, freeze leftovers, and you have a quick way to prepare and eat them!
toast with: apple butter, peanut butter, cinnamon and sugar, jam, honey
with a banana on the side
and when I have to force myself to eat (no appetite because of medical conditions and meds)...I go with a nutritional supplement. Sometimes it's easier to drink than eat something, especially when you just feel you can't. Meal replacements are also convenient and portable. I like Carnation instant breakfast (all flavors) and Ensure (chocolate is my favorite, not a fan of vanilla, and strawberry is pretty good. Has anyone used the Butter Pecan before? If so, is it worth buying?

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