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Website: http://www.queenietakesmanhattan.blogspot.com

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The Ten Most Recent Comments By MegB

From Recipes

The Best Chocolate Cookie Recipe Ever (Unless You Have a Better One)

I've never found a recipe that works better than the Toll House classic.

MegB at 5:22PM on 05/11/08

From Serious Eats: New York

Life Without the Momofuku Pork Bun

Amen, Barbara.

MegB at 3:13PM on 05/09/08

From Required Eating

Photo of the Day: Mini Condiments

@bessfour: Sorry - Maille all the way for me. :-)

MegB at 10:52AM on 04/30/08

From Required Eating

Oh My God, Maple Bacon Lollipops

Holy crap, this is amazing. A package of these and some of Vosges' chocolate with bacon, and you have the best gift basket EVER.

MegB at 4:12PM on 03/12/08

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: 'Roast Chicken and Other Stories'

Cold roast chicken is my favorite food. Yum!

MegB at 7:28PM on 02/25/08

From Talk

Dinner party on a budget, no dishwasher. Can it be done?

Of course it can! Making a schedule, plotting out stove and oven time, and using your fire escape as refrigeration space (only advisable in winter, obvsly.) are all big helps.

MegB at 10:08AM on 02/01/08

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: 'The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without'

Tossed salad, roasted brussels sprouts, and roasted asparagus. Ohh, and wild asparagus sauteed with a little garlic.

MegB at 3:48PM on 01/08/08

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: 'The Food You Crave'

Cucumbers. Grilled chicken, cold from the fridge. Tomato and basil salad. Clementines!

MegB at 1:42PM on 01/02/08

From Required Eating

In Gear: Pie Birds

How timely! My aunt sent me my birthday present (money for a knife skills class), and sent me a pie bird along with it. I had never seen one before and had to Google it...

MegB at 11:21AM on 11/15/07

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: Asian Flavors of Jean-Georges

Bun xao, hands down.

MegB at 4:21PM on 11/14/07

Responses to Comments by MegB

From Recipes

The Best Chocolate Cookie Recipe Ever (Unless You Have a Better One)

These chocolate chip breakfast cookies are the most awsome cookies I have ever tasted, I am not a big chocolate chip cookie fan (maybe because I never found a recipe I liked!) I made these and now we can't stop making them! my husband me and my 5 kids are addicted to them. I always make a double batch. I think something about melting the butter and adding the brown sugar to it makes it taste like nothing I have ever tasted in a cookie. you can even over cook them and they still taste incredible! I will never use another chocolate chip cookie recipe.

themorelandfamily at 7:17PM on 05/13/08

From Recipes

The Best Chocolate Cookie Recipe Ever (Unless You Have a Better One)

I think the best is the Nieman Marcus recipe that circulates around sometimes---with the ground up oatmeal & chopped milk chocolate in addition to the semi sweet chips, brown sugar, etc. Scoop onto lightly sprayed pans, wet fingers & mash down slightly. If baked right they are the quinticential perfect crunchy around the outside, softer/slightly chewy in the middle.

Ask Cookey at 8:59PM on 05/12/08

From Recipes

The Best Chocolate Cookie Recipe Ever (Unless You Have a Better One)

I use Meg's recipe, slightly adapted for my sanity (I converted everything to weights and then rounded things up or down to make my life easier). You know what? It really is a mean chocolate chip cookie.

jenilowrance at 7:58PM on 05/12/08

From Recipes

The Best Chocolate Cookie Recipe Ever (Unless You Have a Better One)

I have my own recipe, devised to have my favorite aspects of chocolate chip cookies: a little chew, a little crunch, and just enough chocolate.

Of course, that doesn't mean that I don't want to try every recipe I come across just in case they're better. I suspect everyone has a touch of the grass-is-greener mentality when it comes to cookies.

butterface at 8:59PM on 05/11/08

From Serious Eats: New York

Life Without the Momofuku Pork Bun

Has anyone tried this:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/240258

I'd like to, but not if it will end in deep disappointment.

I'll agree that the hype around this guy is pretty outrageous. But these buns were so good...

renzata at 12:41AM on 05/10/08

From Required Eating

Photo of the Day: Mini Condiments

I love mini sizes, but I can't help but think of the environmental impact. How often do you need a tiny jar of catsup?

MsLadyness at 12:15PM on 04/30/08

From Required Eating

Photo of the Day: Mini Condiments

Aren't these the cutest little things? The only other little thing I can think of that's just as cute (NO NOT THAT!!) are mini-liquor bottles!!

RichardCrystal at 11:09AM on 04/30/08

From Required Eating

Oh My God, Maple Bacon Lollipops

WHA?

foodinmouth at 4:46PM on 03/12/08

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: 'Roast Chicken and Other Stories'

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roboppy at 6:08PM on 03/03/08

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: 'Roast Chicken and Other Stories'

My sis , I and our kids went through a drive through zoo down in gentry ark years ago. They had gobs of baby chicks crated up to feed to the animals and snakes. The guy that worked there mentioned they had to many chicks and we could take some.The kids wanted to save the chicks from being ate so we ended up taking home a crate of them. Big Mistake. Baby chicks make a whole top of noise in a small car along with 2 kids.when we got home we had no where to put them so a neighbor took them.Talk about a headache.lol

jmahurin40 at 4:36PM on 03/03/08