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Hands whenever possible.

carnitas, bacon, soprasetta... I don't know

I like to put it directly into my eyes (nobody actually reads these comments).

There's nothing wrong with eating it plain.

My drunken heart swoons over a Totino's pizza swirled with sriracha.

with asparagus

Whenever I make grilled pizza, I always make one with strips of grilled, marinated zucchini. Grilling leaves it fairly crisp, but takes a lot of the moisture out.

I live in Las Vegas, but I don't eat on the Strip all that often. I'm glad that Lotus of Siam is in the plans. That's a great restaurant. I would also recommend Bouchon. It can be a really expensive meal if you want it to be, but of course you can also keep it reasonable. Their weekend brunch has terrific prices, but you might have to wait since they don't take reservations for brunch.

I visited there a couple of times when I was in Napa a couple years ago. Pica Pica was a great place for lunch, and my wife fell in love with the Dad's Cardamom ice cream (she ordered it along with a scoop of orange-chocolate ice cream). In fact, we went back the next day so she could have more.

I could eat mapo doufu once a week, but my wife sees it as more of a once-every-couple-of-months meal. I like to make a fairly large batch so, when we do have it, I can eat the leftovers for lunch for the next two days.

I suppose since these are "uncured" hot dogs, they are being careful about how they will be shipped since the unpredictable process of natural curing makes temperature a bigger concern.

I like to let zucchini marinate in olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic for a few hours before I grill it. I bet that approach would still work well with the garlic chili oil and parm. I've also made a grilled zucchini pizza that was pretty similar to this recipe, but on top of pizza.

A bit of a nitpick: sport peppers are longer and much thinner than the chiles they have at In-n-Out. I don't know the name of the peppers that they use, but they are the same as the Mezzetta Hot Chili Peppers. Not what I would call a sport pepper. Also, they are delicious. My normal routine is to bite off half the chile and chew it a couple of times before taking a bit of the hamburger. That lessens the throat-burning, and it also seems to amplify the flavors.