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Every year during dungeness crab season my husband saves the the "good stuff" in our freezer. Once he has a large enough batch, he sautes them with garlic, onions, and fish sauce. This filipino delicacy called "aligue" or crab fat is fantastic on steamed rice with a squirt of lemon. I've also used it as a sauce over angel hair pasta. Oh and made flan with it ... You get my drift.

We end the season with at least 3 pints of this stuff in the fridge!

this sounds like a fantastic recipe! filipinos use raisins in a christmas meatloaf called embutido. i am definitely trying this, thanks for sharing!

oops .. i meant to say...

japanese! could it eat every single day. there is so much complexity in the food - even for things that appear simple such as chawanmushi (egg custard), sushi (try making sushi rice, or finding pristine fish!), or takoyaki (essentially a dumpling with some octopus int it .. frustrating to make at home!).

i travel a fair bit and on occassion have had to take back to back cross country red-eyes. I almost always have to eat on the plane nowadays - which means i need the foresight to pack a snack (never happens) or grab whatever is available at the airport (probably in a noisy plastic or paper container with some smell potential)

I had never eaten a burger on a flight but sat next to someone who did (making me wish i had one!). I happily munch away on sandwiches that probably have a higher scent factor than your average bag of pretzels or peanuts.

this makes me want to watch the superbowl even more! a definite try for our next get together. thanks for sharing!

i grew up eating - and loving - sardines sandwiches (with butter)! so i can imagine swapping out fats (avocados for butter) makes sense!

I absolutely adore Mike Symon. Not only is he a bacon fanatic he seems to be such a down to earth person. I find food network so boring now, but i do tune in for his iron chef battles and the best thing i ever ate series.

I love that his guilty pleasure was Miracle Whip and not som cookie cutter pleasure like ice cream.

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Sorry to hear it was a failure. I am glad I said no to free tickets!

This actually happened last week!!!! I live in the cooler part of the bay area and I decided to grill some korean spare ribs that had been marinating for a few days.

We use an outdoor grilll and everything was fine and dandy. When all the ribs were done, I let the grill burn off the grease that had accumulated. I went inside to bring the ribs in and to clean out the grilling utensils i had used. I was probably inside a good 3 minutes. I already know how dumb i sound. I go back out to the patio and the smoke is intense. Worse yet, FLAMES WERE COMING OUT OF THE SIDE OF THE CLOSED GRILL and the thermometer outside the grill had hit the top range.

I had enough wits about me to shut off the gas and pull the grill away from the patio fence/barrier. I was terrified i was going to burn our condo down! I called the fire department but the fire died down while I was on the phone with them. It was terribly embarassing!

its probably a tongue in cheek label since all other places label their crab cakes without quotation marks despite having very little crab.

Candied bacon is a must during fall and christmas now.
As well as pasta puttanesca made with anything available!