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Time for a Drink: Hemingway Daiquiri

I don't usually stray too far from whisky, so I'm wondering... what would be a good "light rum?"

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Cook the Book: Sri Lankan Beef Smore

What the crap is a fenugreek seed? Any suggested substitutions?

I'm also wondering, as this is a quicker pot roast than most I've seen -- do you want firmer meat chunks? Or could this recipe be improved by a longer, lower cook time (like 300 degrees for 3 1/2 - 4 hours).

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Cook the Book: Sri Lankan Beef Smore

What the crap is a fenugreek seed? Any suggested substitutions?

I'm also wondering, as this is a quicker pot roast than most I've seen -- do you want firmer meat chunks? Or could this recipe be improved by a longer, lower cook time (like 300 degrees for 3 1/2 - 4 hours).

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Video: How to Preheat Your Pan

Loved this! So cool. Food Lab is now my single favorite thing on this site. More!

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Aged cookie dough: awesome. Aged bacon cookie dough.. dangerous?

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Gonna be Downtown Manhattan today... where should I eat?

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From Recipes

Time for a Drink: Hemingway Daiquiri

I don't usually stray too far from whisky, so I'm wondering... what would be a good "light rum?"

From Recipes

Cook the Book: Sri Lankan Beef Smore

What the crap is a fenugreek seed? Any suggested substitutions?

I'm also wondering, as this is a quicker pot roast than most I've seen -- do you want firmer meat chunks? Or could this recipe be improved by a longer, lower cook time (like 300 degrees for 3 1/2 - 4 hours).

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Cook the Book: Sri Lankan Beef Smore

What the crap is a fenugreek seed? Any suggested substitutions?

I'm also wondering, as this is a quicker pot roast than most I've seen -- do you want firmer meat chunks? Or could this recipe be improved by a longer, lower cook time (like 300 degrees for 3 1/2 - 4 hours).

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Video: How to Preheat Your Pan

Loved this! So cool. Food Lab is now my single favorite thing on this site. More!

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The Crab Pot: The Intrepid Blue Crab

I love these articles about crabs so much. Makes me miss driving down the Chesapeake Bay with my Grandfather and getting eaten alive by the green-head flies.

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Dear Whole Foods,

Whole Foods, or at least the one near me, both bakes and carries completely inedible bread. The rolls are too hard for anything, the prepackaged bread has no flavor, and their baked loaves are horrid and flavorless. And don't even try to find a decent hot dog or hamburger bun. They have one variety of each and they're overly huge, dry, and inexplicably oily and wet on the outside.

Bread is the only reason I make the occasional trek over to Wegman's.

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Grilling: Barbecue Chicken

I gotta say, I think you've got it backwards. I like to cook my chicken slow and low, at around 250-300 or so for an hour or so -- as long as I can take it, really -- turning every now and again. No sauce, just a basic bbq rub of brown sugar, salt, and spices. Once the chicken is fully cooked, then I put the sauce on and let it sit on there for another 15-20 minutes or so, letting the sauce slooowly carmelize. You still get that sticky-sweet, beautifully carmelized bbq flavor, but the chicken, at this point, has been cooked to an indescribable perfection and falls right off the bone (without being at all dry -- especially if you brine beforehand). And the skin! You don't know chicken skin till it's been slow-cooked for an hour or so. It's almost as good as fried and it soaks up the bbq sauce like salt soaks up a wine spill.

I thought your picture above was an example of how your bbq should NOT look! Look at the poorly cooked skin peeling back, all that blackened bbq sauce... it's horrid!

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Cook the Book: Eugenia Bone's 'Well-Preserved'

I've been going through Ruhlman's charcuterie book the past year. I'd really like to get my hands on a whole boar leg and make some legit prosciutto.

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Cook the Book: ''Wichcraft'

Something with Lardo. Anything, really. Just feed me lardo, plz, kthxbye.

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Where to eat while in Europe?

Get a bistecca alla fiorentina whilst in Italy. You can find the best ones in the Tuscany region north of Rome.

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Cook the Book: 'Kneadlessly Simple'

I'm only just starting so for me... bread. White flour, egg, bit of sugar... just bread. That's all I can really do right now. Unless you count pizza crust?

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Cook the Book: 'On the Line'

Raw, sliced thin, a spritz of lime, a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, a sprinkle of coarse sea salt, fresh ground pepper, and matchsticks of something with crunch: celery, apples, radishes, whatever.

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Gonna be Downtown Manhattan today... where should I eat?

Ended up eating at Zeizeff. Wasn't bad! But not great, either. If I had more time, I definitely would have hit Le Halles. Thanks for the advice, everyone!

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Gonna be Downtown Manhattan today... where should I eat?

Aw, c'mon, guys! Help! I gotta leave in a few hours. All my searches of seriouseats.com returned either reports about how there aren't many good things to eat in the financial district or reviews of places that just opened there that aren't very good.

I'm starting to think I should just hop a cab to Ippudo or the Shake Shack and finally give those a try.

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Gonna be Downtown Manhattan today... where should I eat?

....and I do mean anything. At all. Whatever's tasty and interesting or essential.

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Do you know how to pronounce Gouda?

I've always heard it pronounced (by people who should know how to pronounce it) as goo-duh as in "a pile of sticky goo" and "no, duh"

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Am I the only one on the planet who dislikes ___, or loves ___?

Love: liver (liver & onions, chopped, pate, etc), raw beef (tartare and carpaccio), raw fish (sushi and sashimi), Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, coriander/cilantro (the latter three seem to be the most often hated veg/herb)

Don't care for but can eat: whipped cream, pound cakes, peanut butter, most biscuits (cookies), especially if store-bought

Never, no how, no way: beets, cooked, candied and dried fruit & berries (which includes apple pie and granola, among other things), pumpkin pie, oatmeal

I swear, Brooke29, if you removed the "Don't care for" section (peanut butter? seriously?), this would be EXACTLY my loves/hates. My wife saw this and made me read it. It's uncanny!

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Dinner Tonight: Grandmother's Egg Salad (Sandwich)

I've always been partial to adding Old Bay to my egg salad.

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Cook the Book: 'The Great Wings Book'

Buffalo wings with NO BREADING. You bread those sucker and get 'em all soggy with sauce and I will END YOU.

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Liberté Yogurt: My Holy Grail of Dairy Products

Wow, my memory's terrible. I _did_ try Liberte. The grain one. And hated it!

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Liberté Yogurt: My Holy Grail of Dairy Products

After getting salmonella poisoning and totally ruining my stomach over the summer, I decided I was going to get over my distate for yogurt and sample as many kinds as possible. Unfortunately, my local whole foods doesn't (or, at least, didn't at the time) carry Liberte. So I'm eager to find some and try it. My favorite turned out to be Fage. Here are my findings and ratings of several yogurts, for anyone who's interested:

http://thescrabbled.com/posts/68606

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Aged cookie dough: awesome. Aged bacon cookie dough.. dangerous?

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