On pasta, with spinach and pine nuts.
Ballpark the oven time for us?
Dan Dan Noodles are a definite winner, but the technique posts are also something I use all the time.
On the bread and butter with sprinkles topic, in Australia they call it "fairy bread." Which is clearly awesome.
@Kenji and Aya:
I disagree about Sweetangos only being sweet. They're distinctly tarter than Honeycrisps, at least here in Minnesota.
Excellent pseudo-academic satire. Highly amusing.
Italian peasant loaf!
"Brekkie"? Really, guys?
Malaysian fried chicken is the single best thing I have ever eaten. It probably helped that I'd just finished a nine mile hike, ridden an elephant down a mountain, and then rafted down a river, and that I was seven at the time. But nonetheless, it was singularly, perfectly delicious. My own personal Proustian madeleine.
Magner's only comes in bottles, doesn't it?
These, or at least my very similar recipe, are truly excellent with dried cranberries added.
I live in the Twin Cities, and TeaSource is, in fact, the best tea shop I've ever been to. I go all the time. It's gotten to the point where, when I walk in the door, they go downstairs to get me a pound of Earl Grey. Anyway, point being that I highly recommend their teas.
Whoa, there, high horses. We did a blind taste test of Andre (to be fair, that was Andre Extra Dry, I believe) versus a $40 bottle of champagne once, with 8 test participants, and the Andre won 7 votes. Just saying.
Living in Minnesota, apple season is hard to beat. Applesauce, apple pie, apple pecan cake with caramel sauce, roast pork with apples...I could go on.
As a complete dim sum virgin, I have chicken feet questions. Well, just the one, really, which is - would a fairly adventurous eater find them difficult to eat for the first time? While we don't have a lot of dim sum around my area, my local (and very good) Szechuan place does make phoenix talons, and I keep thinking about trying them, but haven't yet done it. Anyone have opinions about it? I'll try most things, but these have given me pause.
I live in Saint Paul, and am therefore lucky enough to have had homemade sambusas from a Somali friend. They are completely awesome. Think samosas, only different. I'll probably keep relying on my friend to make them for me, but it's nice to have a recipe.
@lawandmusic: Oh, man. Valomilks are truly an amazing experience. The first time I had one after moving to the south is a distinct sense memory of that oozy white marshmallow stuff just flooding out of the chocolate...
I really like lamb biryani, but I'm not sure I'd call it an everyday meal. Still, it's delicious.
It's a bit of a walk, but great burgers and fish and chips.
My parents lived in Oklahoma City for about two years, and the highlight of visiting them (aside from love and family and all that warm fuzzy nonsense) was getting ice cream at Braum's. My god, the place is amazing. Their banana splits are the best I've ever had, and at the low low price of $3.50.
On an only tangentially related note, you can buy fresh fruit from the drive-thru. As in, "I'll have a cheeseburger, fries, and a banana." That's service.
Chicken suzette - crepes filled with mushrooms and chicken in bechamel, then covered with sauce mornay. Lovely.
Chocolate mousse cheesecake. Mmmm.
I agree about the links to recipes in this latest page redesign (not that it's that new). I always wish there were a link at the bottom of the page. It's just not that obvious this way, nor is it particularly easy to use. Alas.
Smokey Mo's in Austin.
In a couple of weeks, my husband and I are flying to Norfolk to drive down to the Outer Banks. When we arrive, it'll be around 6:30 in the evening, and we'll need to eat something before driving down the coast. Anyone have any suggestions in the immediate area or fairly nearby? We're not going to want to go very far outside the planned route, but I'd really like to avoid enormous chains, if possible.
I don't think I'm the only one who's annoyed by the overuse of the word "garlicky," (Though I could be wrong; perhaps I'm just whiny.) so I find myself trying to think of words to replace it.
So far, my husband and I have come up with a couple:
garlescent - sort of like irisdescent, I suppose...
or
garlicious - also implies deliciousness.
Or, here's a thought - maybe we should just add an -ed to anything with garlic...as in, "garliced yogurt dip," instead of "garlicky yogurt dip."
I could just be crazy.
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First the New York Times, and now Kenji. The Midwest is not a barren wasteland strewn only with meat and butter. It's not very difficult to order and eat vegetarian and vegan in many places, nor are there strange looks or sighs when you ask what's in something. Also, "the Midwest" is a pretty big area that includes Chicago and the Twin Cities, so, really, there are some pretty top-notch restaurants around, as well as a wide selection of international cuisine.
I know, I know, I'm sensitive. Those of us from the Midwest start to get a little touchy after years of getting called flyover states.