$16 for an overcooked BBQ brisket sandwich - nah! When it falls to pieces the brisket gets dried up.
I ask for a rare burger and get told that I can't have one as they only make them medium rare or rather well done. The thin thin patties that fast-food places use which is why I don't frequent them.
So envious. We started our Farmers Market in Belvidere, New Jersey last Sunday with just three vendors - one coffee, one eggs and pork and the third flowers. Another vendor stopped by and said that there simply wasn't enough produce to bring to market now, thanks to the winter and cold spring. This week should see another vendor. Last year the debut year, the market started in August. I volunteered to help.
Commiserations to all of you brave masochistic souls who took on this assignment. I am with Kenji - accept no substitutes, no fake chesse, go eat something else.
When I was visiting family in Toronto my brother introduced me to a place there which provided a facsimile thereof. It brought back memories of childhood in Singapore and reminds me of why I never thought Sno-Cones were all that great!
Love it!
Dumplings year round, in the summer cold noodles with sesame sauce - yes I know I can make it, but I always find myself fighting with the glued together and completely unmoveable sesame paste! Grrrr!
I have vivid memories of my late SI coming into the office on the weekends bearing two big breakfasts for us and always an egg McMuffin for the resident Cocker Teemu. It didn't happen every week but it was a treat when it did - sometimes I got the hot cakes and he got the big breakfast. And even though I am not a fast food fan (just too salty for me) those memories are still sweet on my mind.
I don't think I've seen Yehuda in my supermarket out here in northwest New Jersey, but if I do I will pick up a package. Otherwise you've sold me: Streits. I'm not Jewish either but I rather like matzo.
Most memorable St. Patrick's Day meal was last year when a good friend suffered a stroke on that day and I went to the hospital with her teen-aged son. I had not started making the corned beef and cabbage yet and ended up with a fast-food burger for dinner.
Breakfast for me is two slices of toast, but bacon and eggs have featured not only in Sunday brunch but dinner, when I add a side of vegetables and potatoes to the mix. For Sunday brunch it is more toast.
Some obesity at any rate comes from overeating! I personally find the whole thought of government as a Nanny offensive and Bittman's call for such is irritating.
This is when I have twinges about no longer living in New York.
Lady and the Tramp (spaghetti dinner), Tom Jones (that major seductive meal)and there was one Italian movie I saw with a friend when both of us were hungry and we could barely sit through it - I swear every other scene was a big dinner, a buffet, a romantic for two meal and it all looked so delicious.
Zhajiang mien!
Corned beef and cabbage always with potatoes.
Can I have a substitute for condensed milk. I simply have a gag reflex for all canned varieties of milk evaporated and condensed and if I were to use it I would not be able to eat it. Heavy cream?
CityMinx is right! I am a bit iffy on the wisdom of kidney souffle as a dinner party dish because of the large number of Americans who don't eat any innards and those who will only eat liver in that category.
@Lorenzo: We use bamboo steamers which solves that problem because the steam goes through the bamboo lid and doesn't condense. I have two which fit nicely into my wok. Only problem of course is washing up but you have that with any steamer.
My grandmother's cooking especially her duck and homemade salted vegetable soup which was almost a staple among the four soups at lunch and dinner. The ducks were raised in her yard along with the chickens and always three geese who used to chase me with their heads extended - ah memory! Singapore - can I say it with a sigh like "Moscow"?
My fondest memory of living in New York was that at every single corner store you could always find a loaf of decent rye bread. Alas this doesn't hold true at all in my neck of the woods in New Jersey!
Made split pea and ham soup which is great for lunch with some Vermont Common Crackers added - I have just ordered a new supply. Tonight I made a spaghetti sauce with meat and diced zuchini over rigatoni. Have some tripe in the freezer, think I'll make an Italian tripe dish for Sunday dinner.
Every winter I make leek and potato soup at least once. I have just made split pea and ham soup, another standby. My favorite stew is beef Burgundy style, but of course a tad adapted being hemmed in by budget and available ingredients. It's that or Lion's Head.
Well the Christmas Gift catalogues are hitting my mailbox daily, and I keep getting the expensive meat ones - you know where your order of 6 strip steaks comes to something more than three figures and that does not include shipping-handling. Has anyone ever received or tried these items which just seem so ridiculously overpriced to me?
Friends of mine are going to be in Berlin for two weeks in January. She is doing a museum thing as part of her masters course at Johns Hopkins. Any recommendations for Berlin specialities and restaurants and streetfood would be welcome and will be forwarded on to her.
Thanks.
Today's mail contained a large white envelope from Adriana's Caravan a wonderful spice and condiments mail order store in Brooklyn. Sadly along with the catalogue it contained a letter stating that Adriana's Caravan is folding up its tent and everything must go. How sad! I loved the store. I never ordered all that much, but for the past two years I have managed to put together with their help a nice Christmas care package for a friend in Michigan. Unpacking my mail order delivery from them was a little adventure! So so sad.
Ciao arriverderci Adriana - you were a good source.
Is there a good place to get pho in Princeton, NJ?
I volunteered to make stir-fried broccoli as a covered dish as part of a dinner at church. They are figuring on about 50 people but as there will be all kinds of other dishes (trust me I checked that sign-up sheet) I should figure on 10.
I plan on using broccoli crowns - two pounds or four pounds?
Thanks.
My nephew is going to be in Vienna for two months this summer. He is a vegetarian - not a vegan - he eats yoghurt, cheese and eggs and probably butter if he gets the chance.
Are there any vegetarian restaurants in the home of the Wiener Schnitzel and are they any good at all? Any dishes to recommend? Thank you in advance.
A couple of nights ago I was watching a rerun of Top Chef Masters (from Season 1) and heard this word that sounded like "weegan" . It took me a while before I realized that they were talking about or considered themselves "vegans" a word I have always pronounced "vaygens" sort of from "vegetables", I don't understand why the long "e" - could somebody please enlighten me?
I have just received my set of seven dog biscuit cutters and the three recipes that came with them. I know I could go on-line and find thousands but I trust you fellow foodies to come up with some that you have actually tried and tested.
I don't trust myself as a baker so please, please keep them very simple - sort of for small challenged children!
Many thanks.
I shall be in town Friday night with a friend, and we are going to be around the East 54th/57th area and may need somewhere to eat at about 8:00p.m.
Looking for somewhere that won't break the bank and where two women of "a certain age" may be seated and treated with respect . Cannot make reservations as I don't know for sure what plans are, but, would like to be prepared as the Boy Scouts say. Thank you all very much.
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Anything supported by HSUS (Humane Society of the U.S.) is suspect. This organization raises money and grants less than 5% of the amount raised on animal shelters, etc. The rest is spent on a huge staff and lobbying. Yet its fundraising ads all feature animals in shelters or in jeopardy after a disaster!