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An Uncommon Apple Tart Featuring Goat Cheese and Rose

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An Uncommon Apple Tart Featuring Goat Cheese and Rose

Is rose petal jam the same as rose hip jam?

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Dinner Tonight: Eggs in Purgatory (Eggs Baked in Tomato Sauce)

to SkinnyFatty-
no judgment here, but i dont think this is dinner party fare...it is way beyond delicious, but kind of messy in that you want to be able to sop up all the sauce and egg with more bread, not something you would want your guests to have to do. Again just a personal opinion.

From Serious Eats: New York

Best New York Steak From Non-Steakhouses?

Landmarc at the Time Warner Center or down in Tribeca has great steaks and the fries are fan-fugu-tastic. Also relatively reasonably priced.

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Essentials: Guacamole

I like to keep it simple, just avocados, lime juice, garlic, salt, pepper and a little cayenne to add some heat.

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Flatiron / FIT area lunch suggestions?

Check out:
http://www.flatironbid.org/dining.html

its a listing of restaurants in the Flatiron District provided by the Flatiron 23rd Street Partnership the business improvement district representing and serving the Flatiron neighborhood.

From Talk

Bacon Salt

Its freakin' awesome i have all three, original pepper and hickory. i use it on eggs, fries and even pizza. truly one of gods greatest creations.

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Father's Day Grilling: Homemade Beer Brats

No No No No No. the first step in making bratwurst no matter whether you make the brats from scratch or not, is always always open a can of beer. then you may start cooking. also you cook the brats in the beer and onions (also known as a beer hot tub), no butter. then you throw them on a hot grill to crisp up and get a nice grilled char on them. then you put them back in the beer hot tub for a few minutes on a low flame. then, eat to your hearts content. AND ABSOLUTELY NO KETCHUP!

Responses to Comments by eszarets

From Recipes

An Uncommon Apple Tart Featuring Goat Cheese and Rose

From Recipes

Essentials: Guacamole

I love all of these suggestions! I was schooled in guacamole when I lived in New Mexico and traveled extensively throughout Mexico. Now I live in Denmark and they only way to get good guac here is to make it myself. Some of my Danish friends seem to think that "authentic" guacamole contains creme fraiche. Oh the humanity!

From Recipes

An Uncommon Apple Tart Featuring Goat Cheese and Rose

From Recipes

An Uncommon Apple Tart Featuring Goat Cheese and Rose

Thanks, Emmab and Gastronomeg!

Eszarets, I've never had or seen rose hip jam, but the idea of it excites me. As I understand things, rose hips are actually the fruit of the rose flower, as apples are the fruit of the apple blossom, and rose hips are high in Vitamin C, which gives them a more tangy, acidic quality than their floral forebears. That said, I suspect that rose hip jam is more fruity/tangy and less floral/rosey than rose petal jam. Still, I imagine that the rose hip jam would be a lovely addition to the apple tart in place of the petal jam, or maybe paired with a citrus curd or clotted cream on a fresh scone or biscuit or sampled with a sharp cheddar maybe. Yums!

From Talk

Flatiron / FIT area lunch suggestions?

Eisenberg's used to make the BEST BLT, but in the past 2-3 years, it has gone significantly downhill.

I want to love Calexico, I really do...but the cart food is really quite poor. I keep hoping for a burrito place in NY that will prove me, a San Franciscan, wrong about our oft-repeated snobbery about lack of good burritos here, but Calexico sure isn't the answer.

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Bacon Salt

So I mentioned bacon salt to my Other Half this morning, and off he went to our local Stop & Shop shortly thereafter. He returned all chuffed and proud of himself, bearing a bottle of Hickory flavoured bacon salt!

Tonight we had a pizza night. I made two small pizzas, a tomato sauce based cheeseless pizza with caramelised onions, garlic, peppers, sausage and turkey bacon for my OH, and pizza bianca (olive oil, mozzarella and pecorino romano) for myself. We both sprinkled our respective pizzas with bacon salt, and I have to tell you, I loved it! Since my pizza was relatively plain, it really gave the bacon salt a chance to shine, and I loved the subtle smokiness that it added. I was very pleased, and so was my OT.

From Talk

Flatiron / FIT area lunch suggestions?

The Calexico cart is now in the neighborhood! Just walked past, the guys gave me a postcard with the menu on it. It's their very first day on that corner. They confirmed they were the same ones that are in Soho.

Four kinds of burritos for $6-8 (carne asada, pollo asada, chipotle pork, black bean) and a list of $1-2 sides (guacamole, chips, rice, crema, salsa, pico de gallo, beans). Looks like the menu is much smaller than what's listed online (no tacos or quesadillas).

The cart is on 25th Street, in front of the Bank of America, just past the northeast corner of the intersection (with Park). Look for the yellow cart and guys in blue t-shirts.

From Talk

Flatiron / FIT area lunch suggestions?

I'd second Eisenberg's!!! Looove that place! Please go support!
I love the fried bologna sandwich on rye.

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Bacon Salt

erg. Edit button, where are you.

Last line should be: I may still buy...

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Bacon Salt

I wanted to like this...I really did. I bought the "original" today. Was hoping to find the Natural, but the store said they wouldn't have that until the next shipment. I tasted a bit, just plain, to see if it was truly bacony and wonderful.

Sadly, I can taste the MSG. This does not make me happy.

I'll still try this on veggies or something, but I'm not as giddy with joy about this as I thought I would be. I may still but the natural, since that doesn't have MSG, but I'm sooooo glad I didn't buy the whole collection.