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I made the Bayless tacuba style enchiladas tonight because of this thread.

Thanks for the tip. They were great! Green, flavorful, and creamy.

I added a jalapeno to the poblanos, and sprinkled on some green Tabasco Jalapeno sauce for a kick. AWESOME.

I did a 1.5 recipe, so we have plenty of leftovers.

I do that all the time. Recently, I signed all of Drummond's books at my local Borders, plus some by Alton Brown, Ina Garten, and Tony Bourdain.

Thought it would be a nice surprise for shoppers.

I too thought Jen was a contender in the beginning. She was winning challenges and seemed really confident.

Then she did a crappy quickfire one day, and the wheels started coming off. She may be one of those people who needs a sports psychologist type to keep them pumped up. "You are talented. You are a good person."

My mother's fried chicken, green salad with Italian dressing (and lemon juice and celery salt), potato salad, dirty rice, and iced tea. Standard Sunday lunch growing up.

I love Black Sheep Ale and Monty Python Holy Grail Ale, both by Black Sheep Brewery in Yorkshire.

I also go through gallons of Newscastle, but it is as NotAmerican said. A Yorkshireman once told me Newkie Brown is considered a beer for "students."

I would like to visit NYC and hit as many Asian noodle shops, Thai restaurants, bahn mi places, and the like that I could make my wife visit during a week.

I just got a Weber Smokey Mountain smoker and have done ribs, chicken, turkey, and brisket in the last month. All were great.

On my brisket, I did about like you except I overslept and found the meat at 180 when woke up. I foiled then, with some beer and apple juice in the wrap, and cooked on until 195. Then I wrapped it all in towels and newspapers and put in an ice chest to stay warm until dinner. Very tender and flavorful.

The best thing we made with the brisket were tacos, made with soft tortillas, cilantro, sauteed onions, lettuce, tomato, and sharp cheddar cheese. Awesome!

There is a good bulletin board on smoking at http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/index.html

I like Alton Brown, but that 10th anniversary show was just awful.

I was embarrassed for him and uncomfortable as I watched it.

Can't see how anyone would think it was funny. I think they were trying to be funny. So bad. Just incredibly bad.

I hope the COOKING channel lives up to its name.

It seems the other specialty channels, History, Speed, MTV, TLC, Food, etc inevitably drift away from their original focus and become nothing but reality shows(Ice Road Truckers and Pawn Stars are history?) full of midgets, multiple births, tattooed freaks, cake competitions, and pimped out cars.

I pray the Cooking channel isn't full of cake competitions and Marc Summers type crap in two years.

Tyler got dissed a bit. Usually, they show a contestant or two gushing about what a great chef the guest judge is.

For Tyler, they showed one cheftestant say that he knew of Tyler because he was on Food NW and had some cookbooks. The contestant did not even say Tyler's show or books are good.

That's a sad commentary on Tyler's rep if that was the best endorsement the producers could wring out of the group.

That Jeffrey guy on Food Network suggested this had to be smuggled into the country. I'm not willing to put anything that spicy in my smuggling hole.

Still in school, I ordered a Pace Picante Sauce cookbook for about $5. I still make the chili chicken stew from that book. And I still have the little book.

The Bittman HTCE book was probably my first more serious book once I got into cooking.

Very cool! I am totally going to Frontera next time I go to Chicago.