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In a Pickle: Small Batch Sauerkraut

Just prepped two jars of kraut using this recipe. Much appreciated! Thanks go to Lorenzo for the supplemental info. My kraut certainly won't be ready to eat tomorrow for good luck but I wish you all a happy New Year!!

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Dishes for someone that doesn't like Thanksgiving food

Your Mom's oven will be occupied with the bird and the range might be full of traditional sides.

If she (or you) has a slow cooker, a pork shoulder or your favorite braised cut of meat could work. She could put the alternative protein in the cooker at the same time she puts the bird in the oven.

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Whatever you want, what would you eat right now?

A bowl of steamy pho ga soup with a ton of basil, lime and nuoc cham and Vietnamese coffee.

@bitchincamero: Congrats! Hope you are feeling good. I haven't been around for so long. Miss all the familiar voices here. I had a baby boy last April . . . wonder how many SE'ers have multiplied since the site started. Didn't Alaina just have a baby, too?!

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Video: Cat in a Banana Split Costume Eating a Banana

Oh my God. I had no idea that cats could eat bananas. Oh and by the way, this made me laugh my ass off.

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In a Pickle: Small Batch Sauerkraut

Just prepped two jars of kraut using this recipe. Much appreciated! Thanks go to Lorenzo for the supplemental info. My kraut certainly won't be ready to eat tomorrow for good luck but I wish you all a happy New Year!!

From Talk

Dishes for someone that doesn't like Thanksgiving food

Your Mom's oven will be occupied with the bird and the range might be full of traditional sides.

If she (or you) has a slow cooker, a pork shoulder or your favorite braised cut of meat could work. She could put the alternative protein in the cooker at the same time she puts the bird in the oven.

From Talk

Whatever you want, what would you eat right now?

A bowl of steamy pho ga soup with a ton of basil, lime and nuoc cham and Vietnamese coffee.

@bitchincamero: Congrats! Hope you are feeling good. I haven't been around for so long. Miss all the familiar voices here. I had a baby boy last April . . . wonder how many SE'ers have multiplied since the site started. Didn't Alaina just have a baby, too?!

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Video: Cat in a Banana Split Costume Eating a Banana

Oh my God. I had no idea that cats could eat bananas. Oh and by the way, this made me laugh my ass off.

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cake balls are gross

Good point, hmw0029. I bet portiaf does eat sushi. And there is -- of course -- a very easy work around here for the germaphobes.

Just wear gloves when rolling the cake balls.

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What's your favorite Indian dish?

My favorite dish right now is Avial, which originated in Kerala and is a spicy coconut-based vegetable curry.

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Lemon verbena - what can I do with it?

Love the stuff. You can use it to flavor pound cake, scones, compound butter and also use it in a hair rinse and potpourri.

http://oldfashionedliving.com/lemonverbena.html
http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/lemon_verbena.html
http://www.superbherbs.net/Lemonverbena.htm

And if you love the smell as much as I do, you can wear it as a perfume.

http://www.fragonard.com/parfums_grasse/eaux-de-toilette/verveine-c-86.htm

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cake balls are gross

@hmw0029: Cake balls are indeed a great idea for messed up scratch cake or cupcakes. I actually "favorited" Lucy Baker's SE article on cake balls a while back after my scratch Ghirardelli-based chocolate cupcakes slipped off my car hood. I used quality ingredients but adapted her methods. And, btw, chocolate chocolate cake balls are *aces* with coffee.


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Serious Heat: What's Spicy in Your Fridge?

I'd like to add Swad coconut chutney, if you're a fan of South Indian dosa (like me). It's available at Patel Bros.

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Puff Pastry- What's your favorite?

I usually buy TJ's puff pastry. We've done it baked with camembert or brie and covered with mango chutney, apricot preserves or fig jam on crusty bread. We also do a sloppy joe and cheddar pocket pie, like @arwenb above.

Looking forward eating this stuff again when the weather cools down in the fall.

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State College, PA suggestions (not just for restaurants!)

India Pavilion on Calder Way offers a very reasonable all-you-can-eat lunch buffet for $6.95, Seoul Garden on Locust Lane has wonderful Korean food and Viet Thai (in the stone cottage) off of North Atherton actually does justice to Vietnamese and Thai food. They've all been around since I lived in State College (8 years ago) and they are still there . . . which must be some testament to quality.

@Dcarl1: Agree 100% on Saint's for coffee. I caffeinated there often as an undergraduate and for a year after graduation. Webster's Bookstore on Allen Street also has good coffee and tea but I hear they're behind on rent and may be closing soon. Sad.

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Grilling: Keftedes

This post is quite timely. The family reunion for the Greek half of my family is next weekend and I can't go. So, I'll have to get my Greek on some other way! I've never seen keftedes done on the grill and am very curious. Will try this.

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Road trip suggestions: NY to Pittsburgh to Buffalo to Boston!

If you stop in State College, PA, try Herwig's. It's an adorable Austrian bistro run by the Brandstatter family and is located on College Avenue.

The Berkey Creamery at Penn State is also fun to visit if you end up on campus in University Park.

Enjoy your trip!

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Food lover or food snob?

Endorsing comments by ell.victor, cycorider and LizLemon. Yes, yes and yes.

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Why Wine Drinkers Should Care About the HR 5034 Bill

blair_houghton: My goodness. How did you get the idea that the federal court judgment "changes things"? It follows the current controlling case law on the matter (i.e., the 2005 Granholm v. Heald SCOTUS case referenced above). Read about that case ruling and what it means at some point. Also, you may benefit by reviewing the concept of "legal precedent."

Here's my beef with H.R. 5034: It appears to change the controlling case law/legal precedent here by (1) getting rid of the BOP shift to the state once a challenger has met their initial evidentiary burden (i.e., facts prove discriminatory effect/discrimination) and by (2) creating an impossible BOP for a party challenging a discriminatory state wine law.

I hope that makes sense to somebody reading this. I really don't wish to go on and on.

Can we end this now?

And, no, I did not get drunk but I did enjoy two glasses of wine with my dinner on that weekend in question. Thanks!

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I'd rather be called a X, Y or Z than a "foodie"

I don't like "foodie," either. There's a lot I don't know about food . . . and I'm not the most successful cook or baker in the world. That's for sure. This is why I visit SE as often as I do!

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Why Wine Drinkers Should Care About the HR 5034 Bill

(And no I'm not a "boozer," people. A lot for me is two glasses.)

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Meat cooked to well done

@Catboy: Heh. To each their own, right?

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Do you eat while reading Serious Eats?

@Jen Blacker: I'd hit SE while eating lunch, too, when I was working. It's a great source of meal ideas and I'd hit the market after work to pick-up whatever I it inspired to me to cook or bake. I'll be back to work soon . . . my infant son just turned three months.

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Why Wine Drinkers Should Care About the HR 5034 Bill

"Like duh, that's how law works: legislatures pull laws out of their ass, that you then have to follow unless you get a court to agree with you that the law is just plain wrong*."

@blair_houghton: That sure is witty. But when dealing with the relevant Commerce Clause litigation over state liquor laws, you aren't quite right.

Once a discriminatory effect has been shown by a challenger, states have the obligation to present evidence that a discriminatory state law accomplishes a state purpose and is no more discriminatory than necessary.

Here's language from a federal court judgment with the law:

“[T]he initial burden of establishing discrimination rests with the challenger. Once discrimination is established, however, the devoir of persuasion shifts and the affected state must demonstrate that no reasonable nondiscriminatory regulation could achieve its objectives.” Cherry Hill Vineyard, LLC v. Baldacci, 505 F.3d 28, 33 (1st Cir. 2007)."

Read the whole thing if you are, like, crazy enough to parse through it:

http://www.coalitionforfreetrade.org/litigation/massachusetts/MA_2008_Family_Winemakers_Summary_Judgment_Motions.pdf

P.S. A few silly people told me to respond to your law lecture with something insane and Letterman-esque like, "uh... uh... you got any gum?" or "something from the meat case, Linda?" I couldn't cop out like that, tho'.

In any case, I'm going to enjoy a lot of wine this weekend. Three-tiered, marked-up wine.

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Why Wine Drinkers Should Care About the HR 5034 Bill

HUH? I don't know what to say except good luck in life, blair_houghton. Good luck!

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Why Wine Drinkers Should Care About the HR 5034 Bill

. . . oh and section 3(b) appears to *allow* states to have laws that discriminate against out-of-state alcohol producers as long as there's justification. I can't believe I didn't mention that earlier. It's written in the bill.

Anyway, the people at the National Association of American Wineries are a lot smarter than I am and they issued an excellent summary of why H.R. 5035 is evil.

http://www.wineinstitute.org/files/Wine%20Institute-WineAmerica%20Opposition%20Letter%20to%20H.R.%205034.pdf

Check it out.

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About: I was born in a city on the Susquehanna River . . . .

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Last bite on earth: Dad's avgolemono soup.