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Sounds delicious, but only heating the sausage to 70-80F kind'a squicks me out. I'm sure German meat grinders are fastidious, but I'd *never* trust American forcemeat (man, I *love* saying "forcemeat"!) at that temp.

My mother would boil russet potatoes until just a bit underdone, then roast them in the oven basting with oil and baconfat. There is no better way to cook potatoes.

I tried one of these a few weeks ago. It was so salty I couldn't eat it. I'll stick with Burgerville and 5 Guys for my fast-food hamburgers.

No. No no no. No.

Sick and wrong. Nanaimo bars are pure and holy. They should never be defiled. The mint and the espresso cream versions that started popping up at the corner StarPeetTulley's coffee-shop-o-rama were bad enough... but this? Hideous. There ought'a be a law...

50/50 lamb and ground beef, seasoned only with salt and pepper are our standard burgers nowadays. Toss in a good dose of Hungarian paprika and onion for most excellent cevapi burgers that beg to be topped with homemade tzatziki... mmmmmmm......

Open-faced croque monsieur... crusty bread, mornay sauce, black forest ham, local tomato, artisan gruyere melted and toasted nicely.

Call my cynical if you must, but I suspect that the "executive chef" position at Ramsey's new restaurant will be more of the "Executive Deputy Vice Chef in Charge of Plate Stacking" variety than the "Executive Chef" variety.

Oh yeah, and Ramsey's "serious burns" didn't seem to affect his enthusiastic hand clapping at the end of the episode. This show, while entertaining, is complete theater.

Well, I imagine in her mind it's something like this:

A "blog" would criticize what a chef does, while "people who have created food websites where they share experiences, like pictures from the latest restaurants they've been to" would gush about how great a chef's food is.

Rather telling...

Wednesday is (Prince) Spaghetti Night for us. Last night, we were out of dried spaghetti so we broke out the pasta machine and cranked out fresh. Seriously good spaghetti...