I will answer yes to that question. I find blogs and food boards an invaluable resource. I love that you can post a specific question about a recipe or technique and get a wide variety of responses and suggestions. I never was confident in my ability to cook roasts or large pieces of meat. Recently, thanks to the internet I made the best pork roast I have ever had!
I just got my first catalog from Penzeys. Any must-haves? What are your favorites?
I am piggybacking on the question of the day. I see lots of people make their own bread. For some reason I have never even considered doing that. It seems too time consuming and hard to get the results you want. But considering that I am fairly confident in my dough "handling" when making pasta, can I take that confidence into bread making? Any tips for an easy start?
Right now I am into Sweet Baby Rays. It has just the right amount of sweet and heat. Yours?
Do you have to flavors or food items that you can't eat one without the other? I love caramel and whipped cream (especially on coffee). Also, I must have tartar sauce with my fries!
I bought a stainless steel cream whipper last year but have never used it. I have the C02 cartridges too. I am not really sure how to use it or what can be put in it. Here is a link to the one I have.
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/cw196/index.cfm?pkey=xsrd0m1%7C15%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7Cwhipped%20cream&cm%5Fsrc=SCH
any advice for me?
On another site, someone was asking about Michigan-style hot dogs and where to find them in Boston. I am from Michigan and aware that we have many "Coney Dog" restaurants around the metro-Detroit area. What I always thought was that these were just copies of New York style Coney dogs. Upon further investigation, I found that here in Michigan we do have our own unique recipe for Coney Dogs that is coveted by others outside of this state. I myself will have to start taking advantage of our local specialty...I didn't know I had it so good!
It's a dangerous thing to do......shopping while hungry. Sometimes it's unavoidable....what ends up in your cart?
I have so many. Alot of them get used up quickly and replenished. Many are used once or twice and then forgotten, or mabye only used for the holidays. It seems like such a waste. Does anyone have any ideas for using up forgotten herbs and spices?
I have at LEAST 50 pounds to spare...but my love for food makes it seem impossible to be a skinny mini ! I try to make up for the extra calories by working out like crazy...but deep in my heart I know I need to cut way back on calories for it to really do any good. I hope no one is offended by this question...it's supposed to be playful fun!
Sorry...but this photo is very unappealing!
I live in the Detroit area and frequent Windsor often. One thing I have noticed is that the hamburgers in Canada taste wierd to me. The meat reminds me of the soy burgers they used to serve in the high school cafeteria. Has anyone else ever noticed this?
I tease my poor mother-in-law about her habit of "boiling the crap" out of her frozen vegetables. Perhaps I should be more polite and acuse her of hammering instead.
A Big Boy Slim Jim sandwich and a chocolate shake. (wish i was hungover right now!)
It must be nostalgia, but I actually crave cheap, hollow chocolate bunnies.
My Nonna traditionally makes rabbit for Easter. When we were kids we used to joke that we were eating the Easter Bunny. He was tasty
My Nonna in her broken english says Saaaangwich. And she always called "hors d'oeuvres" - Hor Derbs, which has been shortened to "Derbs" in our family. She'll come over for dinner and say "OH! Don't make the derbs we have too much food". This is the same Nonna who offered to make me a "Fuzzy Nasal" with OJ and vodka....and calls my cousin's boyfriend "Trevor" - "Treasure" or "Travel". I could write a book!
So what? No one is forcing you to make it and eat it. Its not harmful to eat things like this once in awhile, and in moderation. If you don't like her, don't watch her. RELAX. Besides butter is PURE FAT already anyway. Aren't there more important things in the world to b**ch about?
Dean: "I'm gettin' fatter by the day. I just hate my arterae. I'll plug 'em up and make 'em die, 'cause everything I eat is fried."
Oh god. There really are a lot of things I will not eat. There is not just one. But, here are a few:
~Roasted Peppers - I will not eat them or anything they touch. AWFUL
~Mushrooms
~Asparagus
~Water Chestnuts
~FISH (but I do eat the Shellfish family-MMMM)
~Anything that has nuts in it. Hate it when people put nuts in bownies! No. This ruins the taste. But man, do I love nuts by themselves.
~Miracle Whip
I could go on, but I will stop here...
it's a very very...very long list... it's probably quicker/easier to list what I will eat.
One thing I absolutely refuse to pick around is mushrooms, if anything has mushrooms in it, I would rather starve than consume.... it's tainted.
W. Who wants to eat anill eat bananas and pineapple and peaches; but nothing with them as an ingredient.
I too, try to stay away from organs (except liver.) Oh, and lima beans.
Crabs have brains large enough to extract and serve?!?
Fish. Fish sauce. Anything remotely fishy.
Also, I HATE runny egg yolks, they remind me of mucous.
Beets and turnips. Can't get around the metallic taste either. Used to hate brussels sprouts, but found a way to make them yummy (roast them!).
As to the "sea urchin roe" detester, I can guarantee you have never tasted nor even seen sea urchin roe. Uni, which is the food that comes from the sea urchin is, in fact, gonads. When you order sea urchin in a sushi restaurant, you are getting the testicles from the hermaphroditic aquatic hedgehog. But I know what you mean. Uni is not my favorite either. Nor are crab brains, which I was served many times when I lived in Japan. For that matter, any kind of brains--sweatbreads from cattle, etc.
Back to gonads. There's a lovely restaurant in Oklahoma City, OK called Cattlemen's. They serve a dish called "lamb fries." We ordered it and ate it up with relish without knowing it was, you guessed it, lamb testicles. All I can say is they were incredibly tender and tasty.
Fuddruckers is really the best, but they closed in our area (Bucks County,PA) Second best is Outback and Cheesburger in Paradise (which are owned by the same company). Still looking for another Fuddruckers.
Dude, forget those above, they suck. Seriously though Ruby Tuesday's is the only chain burger that I have eaten that will not only serve it rare, the way meat was intended to be eaten. but it is also Prime. They also have one of the best salad bars I have seen.
If you ever make it out to western Montana try a place in Hamilton called Naps, they will also serve your burger rare. One of the best I have had.
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