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Butternut Squash? Apples? Cranberries? All in one? It's like fall in one happy package. (aka Butternut Squash Apple Cranberry Bake)

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Street Food Profiles: Don Chow Tacos in Los Angeles, California

I thought that said Chinese roast pork on rice and mac and cheese and thought "GENIUS!" They should do that next.

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what's for dinner 11/4?

Philly's has this transit strike right now. As a result, train commuters are now driving and it took me 30 minutes to drive .3 miles. No, literally. That means my speed was half a mile an hour. So when I walked in the door, I popped open a bottle of wine without taking off my shoes.

Then we had grilled cheese with muenster cheese, red onions (cooked down in olive oil) with seasoned salt. AKA Comfort food.

Now, as we watch the Phillies-Yankees game (hint, we are getting spanked) we are eating boxed brownies. NO SHAME.

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Hot Dog Of The Week: Texas Tommy

There is a place in Delaware (I think it is a chain) called Johnny's Dog House and they serve all sorts of hot dogs named after regional cuisines. They have a great Texas Tommy there--the first place I ever heard of it! They also created a Delaware dog in honor of opening in the First State--it has macaroni and cheese and hot sauce and is insane....

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Reheating pasta for a work cooking contest

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Georgian (the country) restaurant/area in NE Philadelphia

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Roadtrip-DeathValley, Utah, GrandCanyon, Albuquerque, St.Louis

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How do you put a price on your time/experience cooking?

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From Serious Eats

Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey

Butternut Squash? Apples? Cranberries? All in one? It's like fall in one happy package. (aka Butternut Squash Apple Cranberry Bake)

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Street Food Profiles: Don Chow Tacos in Los Angeles, California

I thought that said Chinese roast pork on rice and mac and cheese and thought "GENIUS!" They should do that next.

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what's for dinner 11/4?

Philly's has this transit strike right now. As a result, train commuters are now driving and it took me 30 minutes to drive .3 miles. No, literally. That means my speed was half a mile an hour. So when I walked in the door, I popped open a bottle of wine without taking off my shoes.

Then we had grilled cheese with muenster cheese, red onions (cooked down in olive oil) with seasoned salt. AKA Comfort food.

Now, as we watch the Phillies-Yankees game (hint, we are getting spanked) we are eating boxed brownies. NO SHAME.

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Hot Dog Of The Week: Texas Tommy

There is a place in Delaware (I think it is a chain) called Johnny's Dog House and they serve all sorts of hot dogs named after regional cuisines. They have a great Texas Tommy there--the first place I ever heard of it! They also created a Delaware dog in honor of opening in the First State--it has macaroni and cheese and hot sauce and is insane....

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100 (okay, 50) Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do

I'm not a server, nor have I ever been, but this list seems excessive to me. Steaming the labels off of bottles of wine? Never introducing yourself or giving any sense of person? I am also going to assume that not giving opinions means don't do it unasked, because if I ask your opinion, I want it.

Also, what insecure person feels insulted because their dining companion was complimented? Or that the other choices were poor because the server said "good choice" with their order?

And I imagine that sometimes a waiter can not be standing there waiting for you to finish a conversation so they can do their job. I mean, they can politely do it without rudely interrupting, but if you sit there and chat for too long, they are unable to do their job. There is a science to how restaurants function.

Obviously, some of these are great tips, but it seems the author was reaching to hit the magic number of 100 (I can't imagine what the next 50 will be like).

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Kiss the Cook!! What's for dinner Thursday Oct. 29th?

South Indian tonight: Curd Rice with Garlic Pickle and fried okra with salt and mirchi. Yummy and totally stomach-soothing (except for the mirchi!)

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Burgers with Pancetta from Burgermeester in Amsterdam

I own a cow in the Netherlands. Ok, not really, but we sponsor a koo, they have this program where you basically sponsor a cow and get updates on the cow...well until they go where good cows go. And you can visit the farm and visit your koo and the kindly Dutch farmer will serve you tea and you will awkwardly sit in the kitchen cause you don't speak Dutch.

Anyway, my friend who lives in Amsterdam gets the updates and says she takes her nieces and nephews to see the cow...and then they go to Burger King for a meal. Too funny.

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Dinner Tonight: Croque Madame

Without the bechamel, doesn't it just make it a grilled ham and cheese and not a croque monsieur/madame?

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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'

SeriousEats and PioneerWoman are two of my visit every day blogs. And The Kitchn. I follow Smitten Kitchen and Baking Bites too!

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The Food Lab: Animal Fat Mayonnaise

I love when you do write-ups because they are always comprehensive & in-depth...like reading Cook's Ilustrated! Much better than some of the surface-skimming "guides" I have read.

And as for the subject matter...::muah muah:: can I say more? Sounds amazing. Can't wait to try!

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Eating out in Minneapolis area?

We need more information on what you like, besides "great."

Personally, I've been dying to try out Raghavan Iyer's new restaurant Om. It's billing itself as contemporary Indian cuisine.
Chino is also fun for a group and the Sushi and Seven is really good. But Om would be my personal pick!

Happy Birthday! Mine was a few days ago but I didn't do anything--been stuck in bed since Tuesday with a horrible stomach bug.

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what's for dinner 10/21?

Chicken soup and garlic bread. Both of us are sick...and we are worried he has mono! Last night it was tomato soup and grilled cheese. It was supposed to be a fancy dinner since it was my birthday, but ohhhh well.

*crawls back to continue feeling sorry for herself*

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Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?

Here's another option: Let's all make homemade treats and have a treat exchange! It will be like Serious Eats care packages!

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Stupid to Make Homemade Halloween Treats?

@gingercookiewithlime: I certainly hope you didn't eat toothbrushes. I kid, I kid. Yeah, save the homemade treats for a party. I'm not super young, but my parents were always against homemade treats being handed out. I still remember the house that handed out snack bags of chips and cans of pop, though! Oh and the one that handed out FULL candybars.

But yay! An excuse for a party!

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hamburger contents?

@tusti: What the hell does India or China have to do with ground beef? Especially India, where the majority of the population doesn't eat beef, period, and the folks that do eat beef don't eat it ground.

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This Week In Eating Out

I love pumpkin. Why do we all love pumpkin so much? Is it its limited nature (only for one month this fall! Get yours now!) or is it something more?

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They carry ________ but not _________?!

Uh yeah, most of yours are kind of crazy...my last grocery store carried Marshmallow Fluff but not Marshmallows. I mean, seriously.

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How Important Are Family Dinners?

Sunday was the set day for family dinner, but somehow we usually ended up eating dinner together every other night anyways too. It's weird, though, how it was "Sunday Night Dinner" in our heads--I guess that was the one we never missed...

And yes, I think it is important. Especially as a cranky teenager, it was probably the only time my parents saw me. And it's something I value today. I don't think it has to be homemade, either (though that is nice!). Even a family dinner with KFC and no TV is good.

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Food and Culture

Oh I hit post too soon, but that's okay, this way it gets broken into two easier-to-read comments.

The rub in all this is that I get annoyed with what people consider "curry," which doesn't exactly exist (get Raghavan Iyer's "660 Curries" where he discusses this. I swear I don't work for him, I just really like him). My husband made the mistake of ordering "curry" on our one chance to eat at Moosewood. I told him it was a mistake, which he realized when he got a dish that tasted more of turmeric than anything. The book I talked about also discusses "curries" and the Anglicization of the word as well as the food, which is interesting.

And @blitzcheetah, tell me about it re: Starbuck's "chai tea lattes." I die everytime someone order's one. My husband has a chai blog, though, which he is regularly updating again: www.chaientist.com. Brings up a second topic: are experiments with chai more authentic from us because we are Indian and less of a bastardization? Why do I think that it is okay for someone within the culture to mess with a food but from outside a culture it's showing a lack of respect?

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Food and Culture

I wish I wasn't on vacation when this topic came up because i would love to have participated fully in it! Oh well, I'll put my two cents in anyways!

As part of my vacation, I was reading an interesting book called "Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors." While I have my own set of issues with the book, as someone of Indian heritage, it is interesting to read about foods and techniques that I consider "Indian" as actually being the influence of Invaders or foreign merchants.
Some examples:
--Tea was only drank for medicinal purposes until the Brits decided they had an untapped market that needed to buy their products!
--Potatoes, chili peppers and Tomatoes were also brought in by various merchants. I can't imagine cooking a lot of Indian food without those ingredients, especially tomatoes and chili peppers!
--Rice was also not a native dish. Can you imagine? My grandma did not consider a meal finished unless we had a bit of rice.

Anyway, one of the points of the book was to debunk the claim of authenticity in Indian cooking, so...well, as people we are a sum of our experiences. So as a cuisine, Indian food, or Italian or Mexican or Armenian, is a sum of It's experiences.

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chili contest palate cleanser

If there is spiciness involved, something with dairy is always good. What about yogurt, milk. Or take what @engmcmuffin said about classic corbet, but just serve a tiny scoop of good ice cream.

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Recipe for limoncello?

The recipes above look good to me. I made mine with vodka, which I know it not perfectly authentic, but the "bite" is less. I highly recommend using organic lemons, if you can. Since you are using so much zest, it's nice to have that peace of mind regarding chemicals and pesticides.

Of course, then again, we are talking about a drink made with grain alcohol, which could also double as a drain cleaner... =)

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Hot Dog of the Week: Beer Marinated Chili Dog

Actually, Whole Foods has some pretty good hot dogs at their meat counter! They were sampling a few today, yum!

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Cannibalism

Don't think I would.

I've read reports of missionaries/explorers in various places stating that the locals where they were posted/had travelled claimed to have eaten human flesh, and that it was delicious, but. . . you know, it was so common for many cultures (particulary Western ones) to consider others (particularly non-Western ones) to be completely lacking in either sense of humour or humanity, that the locals who allegedly reported this may have been pulling the missionaries'/explorers' legs, without the latter being aware of this.

My point is that there is no evidence we taste good (although most tastes are acquired), and there would be no way of knowing (without having actually having eaten human) that a synthetic product actually had the flavour and consistency of human (and I cannot imagine eating another human being, but then again, I've never been in the sort of situation where I'd need to make this decision). It also seems like the sort of thing Marilyn Manson would go for in a flash (especially if it were called, say, 'Pam', instead of 'SPAM') and make a big production of, which would make the entire act of eating human-like meat kind of embarrassing ;)

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Cannibalism

I wish one of you folks who is interested in trying human would contact me. Flightlinek (at) hotmail.com. Maybe we can work out some kind of arrangement.

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Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey

Congrats to our winner merckurybubbles, and thanks to everyone who entered! The winner has been notified and the Contest Winners page has been updated.

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Dinner Tonight: Croque Madame

Looks great but what about the melted shredded cheese on top of bread? I have never gotten one in France that didn't have cheese on the outside as well. It makes a perfect resting spot for the egg. . .

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Hot Dog Of The Week: Texas Tommy

When I was in college, I waited tables at a fairly small restaurant in Jenkintown called "Peter Pan" and we had a fabulous Texas Tommy. Partially split and filled with american cheese, wrapped in bacon and deep fried! It was THE best and I tried to eat that or their cheeseburger every day for lunch. Luckily, in those days I could eat like that and not regret it.

I haven't seen one like that since the restaurant went out of business many, many years ago. Alas! Sister restaurant in Abington, called "Amy Joy", made fresh donuts every morning and delivered them to us. Oh, the memory of warm custard filled donuts......

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The Pumkin Pie Brulee and Silver Palate's Corn Bread-Sausage Stuffing With Apples.

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Cranberry Sauce With Champagne and Currants - a double serving please! Thanks for all the recipe suggestions.

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I think the Maple-Walnut Cornbread sounds delicious!

Thanks for the giveaway!

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i will make the best drop biscuits, they sounds easy and good!

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I will make the Pan Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Candied Pepitas and Cider Vinegar! I might add some pancetta!)

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Sauteed Brussels sprouts and bacon...mmm..sounds delicious

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I really love the stuffing recipes. I'm going to be cooking for all our family this year and shamefully, never made stuffing before. I really love The Silver Palate's Corn Bread-Sausage Stuffing With Apples recipe. I just printed it out and I think that I'm going to give this one a try.
These turkey's sound delicious. Thanks so much for offering this great giveaway!

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The Honey-Brined and Smoked Turkey recipe sounds delicious...I'm ready to try it.

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I'm going to try the brine soak for the turkey.

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Corn Bread Dressing with Pecans and Bacon--sounds so southern and comforting!

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Lidia's Apple Strudel would be a great addition to my table.

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