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What can I make with 2 cups leftover Sangiovese - no beef!

"No beef" was specified, so "Boognese" is out.

Okay, I'LL take one for the team and drink the leftover two cups.

Help! Incapable of thinking or decision making.

@meatnataters, bravo. It is often hard to resist posting snarky replies to some of the "mundane" questions people ask. What gets me even more is that instead of doing a little Googling to gather information from a variety of sources and making a decision based on that, they think their fellow SE readers somehow have magic answers.

What can I make with 2 cups leftover Sangiovese - no beef!

Remember the adage: If you wouldn't drink it, don't cook with it.

The Food A**hole's Dilemma

It has become fashionable to poke fun at pedantic foodies and those who advocate extreme local/organic eating. Many pieces like this have been popping up in the past few years.

Five West Coast Cheeses You Must Try

@franko and AnnieNT, my guess is that the author wanted to show us something other than the cheeses you can find in any Whole Foods in the US. Yes, Cypress Grove and Cowgirl Creamery make good cheese.

Win Pop Chart Lab's Worldwide Cheese Wheel Poster

I would be a ripe French cheese like Camembert so I could smell like ze feet of angels.

Get the Cevapi, Not the Burek, at Burektore Illyria in Bensonhurst

See, I got that exactly backwards. The Serbs call it "cevapcici."

Get the Cevapi, Not the Burek, at Burektore Illyria in Bensonhurst

It's also called "cevapcici" in some regions (Bosnia, I think).

Islamabad for the summer, looking for recs

Not exactly a common tourist destination. Have you tried searching for local food bloggers or expat discussion boards?

Cocktail Science: 5 Myths About Ice, Debunked

I am glad I am not a cocktail nerd, as I would never be able to enjoy a simple old-school Scotch on the rocks (my father's drink) or tolerate cloudy ice.

Open Thread: How Do You Say These Food Words?

@twoflower: But "Herb" is a person's name! I don't want to confuse my friend Herb with an herb.

Speaking of herbs and such, how about some basil. That's BAY-zl, of course.

Coffee Varieties: Heirloom Ethiopians

What I enjoyed most about the coffee in Ethiopia is that they don't have a bunch of self-professed coffee experts telling you what and how to drink. You ask for coffee, and they prepare it for you--and it's the most straightforward and honest preparation in the world.

5 Brewing Terms Every Beer Drinker Should Know

@beersnob, good one, but "decoction" is even better.

Taste Test: The Best Sriracha

"Turns out that the only thing tasters really cared about was spiciness. With rare exception, the higher the perceived spiciness of the sauce, the higher the ranking."

I use sriracha sauce when I do NOT want overly spicy. Huy Fong is nice and mild as hot sauces go. When I want spicy, there are so many other varieties of hot sauce that I would use.

Fernet

It's an herbal liqueur, not unlike Jagermeister. It tastes like bitter herbs and tree bark and liquorice and that sort of thing. Like many other herbal liqueurs.

Jjigae Question...

I will add as a footnote that Korean soups and stews are not only amazing but they are relatively easy to make at home. There is no simmering for hours and hours as in pho or ramen or laborious processes as in some French soups. Anyone with access to a few Korean ingredients can make Korean soups and stews as good as you can find in most restaurants.

NYC Restaurant Bans Tipping

This is exactly how the system works in much of Europe and perhaps elsewhere in the world, and I am all for it. The price on the menu reflects the true costs to all the people we might refer to as the stakeholders (hey, how about steakholders!) of you having your meal. If I lived in NY, I would patronize this place.

The Food Lab: 7 Old Wives' Tales About Cooking Steak That Need To Go Away

This article is a compendium, right? You've addressed all of these myths before in separate articles, if I recall. Nothing new.

Jjigae Question...

Sundubu jigae doesn't have soybean paste (doenjang), so it doesn't taste like, uh, soybean paste. If you don't know what soybean paste tastes like, I can't help you.

Father's Day Giveaway: Win a KettlePizza Pro 22 Kit

Only bringing home pizza for dinner on Fridays.

Any fried turkey fans? Please share your recipes.

Seems my attempt to point out bad blog linking etiquette was deftly deflected. Okay, whatever. Since @compleatchef actually returned here to comment, I'll cut some slack.

@boobird: If I'm not mistaken, the word "compleat" has a history in archaic English as part of book titles. For example, "The Compleat Angler." In other words, it's an allusion to books of yesteryear that purported to be encyclopedic treatments of a subject.

Any fried turkey fans? Please share your recipes.

How about if I go to your web site and post a recipe with a note and a link to Serious Eats telling readers there to find "all details" back here at Serious Eats?

I Made A Spanish Tortilla Out Of Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips

For a thoroughly Spanish carb-fest, use it as the filling in a bocadillo (sandwich).

On Bourdain.

I like that he's dropped the tough-punk shtick with the CNN show. He's too old for that.

Los Angeles: An Overcomplicated Burger at Bon Vivant Market & Cafe

Something way over the top in L.A.?--no way!

"like a jaundiced cyclops"--I love it

oat nutrition: steel-cut, rolled or doesn't matter?

A friend of mine believes she read that the human body gets more nutrition from oatmeal made from steel-cut oats than from oatmeal made from rolled oats or, for that matter, rolled oats eaten in other ways. She was specifically referring to the cholesterol benefits. All the information I have been able to find suggests that nutritional differences are negligible. But that information doesn't seem to address any studies that may have been done about how the human body absorbs or uses those nutrients and any specific effects on cholesterol. I know there are a few nutrition hounds on SE. Anyone have information?

Expat Thanksgiving stories

In another thread, someone's question of where to buy Thanksgiving supplies in Paris seemed way too easily answered: a store called "Thanksgiving." I remember the days when being an American abroad at Thanksgiving meant hunkering down with fellow Americans and cobbling together a Thanksgiving meal. Does anyone have any good stories? Plans for this year?

how do I separate fresh rice noodles?

Because they looked good and I had never experimented with them, I bought a package of fresh (not dried) rice noodles. Shrimp noodles to be exact. They come in a package stuck together in one near-solid mass. How do I get them to separate? I tried simply putting the whole mass in a pot of boiling water, but they don't separate. And no matter how gently I prodded them to try to coax them into separating, they just broke apart into bits rather than separating.

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