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I find it really bizarre that Lisa expected the win. Stephanie and Richard were very clearly the front runners going in. Lisa may have made a solid final meal, but it certainly was not better than Stephanie's, and Stephanie clearly was the superior chef throughout the series, earning win after win week after week. Wasn't Lisa's only win a group challenge?

I do, however, think its a nice picture, and I would really like to try that soup and soup dumpling from the finale.

3 things Ed, and you probably already know this....

1: Are you drinking lots of water? The more hydrated you are, the better your metabolism will work.

2: Are you tracking how much fiber you eat? Those snack packs don't have any, I am guessing, or protein either. You might want to consider making your snacks something like veggies & hummus or small servings of nuts.

3: Are you eating close to the hour you go to bed?

Dont want to sound like a know it all, but these methods all worked for me when I lost 50 pounds....good luck!

I usually break it when I carve the turkey...

I am a little confused. Did Rebecca Charles invent lobster rolls? I am pretty sure she didn't, since I have been enjoying them since long before 1997. Heck, the McLobster was around before that year. True, my family comes from New England, but anyone who has ever traveled to that region in the summertime has likely enjoyed a lobster roll and freshly fried belly clams.

I recently posted about lobster rolls on my blog as well. I didn't credit a chef of a trendy restaurant because not only have I never eaten there, but I didn't need to. This is the way my family taught me to make them, long before Pearl or Mary's or any other NYC fish place existed. It doesn't take a brain surgeon, or chef, to figure out that if you add lobster meat to mayo and celery you have lobster salad.

Maybe if I launch a movement to make jello molds trendy once again everyone will then have to credit me....

My 2nd Date with my husband was at Markt, where he pretended not to be grossed out by the large bowl of mussles I devoured....our first date was drinks only, and we went to Botanika on Houston, then to Library Bar.

i used to hit smiling pizza three times a week when i lived in the slope!

(quote)@ratbuddy. Awww, thanks. That, too, means a lot. This post lured out a lurker! ;) I'd love to do a Hartford-area crawl. That would be a bit more involved, with car rental and such. Would have to really plan that one out. What would you recommend up there?(end quote)

Asides from the usual suspects in New Haven (Pepe, Sally's, Modern) there are some great pies a bit north in the Hartford area. A couple locally famous favorites include Harry's (2 locations, not related, both awesome) and Luna (not my thing but many people like it.)

First and Last Tavern in Hartford makes an awesome pie, as does Vegas Blvd on Sisson Ave.

There is also a great style of pizza up here that I don't see often on Slice called 'greek pizza' which has nothing to do with olives, spinach, and feta. It's a pan-cooked medium crust pizza that's cut in squares. My all time favorite closed a year or two ago, Pizza West in West Hartford, but there are still some great examples around. Park Lane Pizza in W. Hartford, Riverbend in Southington, Master Pizza in Avon, Apollo's in Simsbury, and a few others that slip my mind.

A bit further up I-84 is Ellington Pizza, also locally famous for their red potato pie. I haven't tried it yet, but I've never heard a bad comment on it.

That's only scratching the surface of the more well known places, but I better stop at that since I'm starting to get a serious craving for pizza from about 6 different places! Connecticut really does have a great wealth of very good pizza places, and there just aren't enough meals in the day to sample them as much as I'd like ;)

I started going to Lenny's on Fifth Avenue in 50's when I was a kid. The slices were 25 cents then! I always compare any pizza to Lenny's, which will always be the quntessential Brooklyn Pizza to me.

a good place to check out in your end of BK if not discovered already is HOUSE OF PIZZA & CALZONES on Union Street and Columbia. Old School Place that deep fries their calzones which isnt to my liking - but reliably good pizza.

http://jdittmarphoto.com/calzone.html

Some Brooklyn old school reliably good pizza can be found in Bay Ridge at Grandma's on 69th and 3rd, Del Corso Cafe on 72nd and 3rd, Pizza Wagon on 86th and 5th and Elegante Pizza on Ovington and 5th. There are other good Pizzerias around the Ridge - but those are the standouts IMHO!