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Seven layer. There's just something comforting about it. And you get frosting with every bite.
Serious Cheese: Part Two in the Adventures of Lactose Intolerance
@jamieforrest, I may not be off-base, but I should certainly not simply skim (sorry) articles during work hours and then chime in. I hope you have luck with your experiments in finding cheese you can eat.
Serious Cheese: Part Two in the Adventures of Lactose Intolerance
I may be totally off base here, but I was under the impression that the older the cheese the better for folks who are lactose intolerant because of the cultures in it - much like yogurt.
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Restaurant That Invented Caesar Salad Closes
There is just something very sad about this.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
Seven layer. There's just something comforting about it. And you get frosting with every bite.
Serious Cheese: Part Two in the Adventures of Lactose Intolerance
@jamieforrest, I may not be off-base, but I should certainly not simply skim (sorry) articles during work hours and then chime in. I hope you have luck with your experiments in finding cheese you can eat.
Serious Cheese: Part Two in the Adventures of Lactose Intolerance
I may be totally off base here, but I was under the impression that the older the cheese the better for folks who are lactose intolerant because of the cultures in it - much like yogurt.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: Pancake Mountain
Hate to sound self centered... but my homemade pancakes on a Sunday morning with bananas, strawberries and bacon.
How to Store Coffee, from Coffee Expert Jerry Baldwin
I keep hearing different views on this. Some say freeze... some say never freeze. Some say refrigerate... some say that's no good.
I dunno. Until I read hard, scientific evidence one way or the other I'm just keeping my beans in a cool, dark place in an airtight container.
Tropicana Reverting to Old Packaging After Consumer Complaints
@Dee: Actually I've not had any regular Tropicana orange juice since the change... not because of some idea that it is different, but because every time I visit my family down in Florida I come back and can't stand how different the stuff tastes when it isn't fresh - that's not an elitist thing, it is just true.
I did, however, try their orange/pineapple juice blend this past weekend. It was quite good. Surprisingly tart for a commercial product. My toddler loved it! Of course, the only way I found it was by seeing the purple stripe at the top of the container (Why purple? Is purple somehow more "island?").
Tropicana Reverting to Old Packaging After Consumer Complaints
Meh... it was clean typography and simple design that was completely inappropriate for the product. It isn't enough for something to look nice. Branding exists to sell the product, not the designer. Typical these days, really. Some over-eager corporate type pairs with an overblown design agency to ruin what had been a perfectly good package and logo design. Pepsi got along fine by separating the soft drink and fruit juice lines for years (seriously... Coke drinkers seemed perfectly alright crossing the line to go to Tropicana over Minute Maid despite brand loyalty in soda). Why in the world do they feel it is necessary for them to share the same typeface now and stress the connection? That and it became virtually impossible to differentiate one Tropicana drink from another if you didn't notice the different color stripes at the top.
Oh well... sorry about the rant. In any event... the juice tastes the same in the end, I guess.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks
I'm sure after I win these two lovelys it will be porterhouse. I have my price. My meat-vote can be bought.
I Never Want to Hear the Words 'Toothsome' or 'Cloying' Again
Good point, Daniel. Your post has a toothsome quality that has excellent mouthfeel without being cloying. Perhaps these purist restaurant critics should consider a go-to, tried and true thesaurus for their holiday gift list (sorry... that was sad).
Help me fellow SE members... a bizarre request awaits...
What the...
pie goes after EVERYTHING! Sheesh.
Seriously, though, pumpkin always seems pretty easy. Especially if you go for the graham cracker crust.
Turkey Cannon Cooks Turkeys, Does Not Shoot Them
My reaction to the headline:
"aw... maaaan!" Why DOESN'T it shoot a turkey? If Ben Franklin can electrocute them to culinary perfection (seriously... look it up) why can't we fire one across the dining room table's bow?
My Brocoli Rabe was bitter
I find rabe to always turn out bitter. I want to like it, I really do... it just doesn't do it for me.
Lavender: where to find it and recipies
www.penzeys.com
Dried, anyway.
Cook the Book: 'Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics'
Chicken Parmesan. It has been a while, but for the longest time it was the go-to dish for gatherings and it was always an enormous hit.
Tonight Is National Men Make Dinner Night
So what happens if I cook the meals everyday?
Chewing the Fat: Alton Brown on Race, Class, and Food
Joy,
I figure that even if the food transcends race and class (which many of the great dishes do) it certainly stems from it. I mean, look at French and Italian peasant foods. You pay through the nose to eat a plate of osso bucco! Most braised foods exist because of the need to tenderize a piece of meat that is virtually inedible when cooked fast over high heat. Same with coq au vin - you ate the rooster when it was too old for anything else. No nobleman would ever eat that back in the day.
So, yes. I feel that you are correct that many foods become more than what they started, but we should never forget where they came from.
Just my opinion, of course.
Did you hear about agave syrup?
Wait... how can it be "basically hfcs?" High Fructose Corn Syrup is made from (wait for it) corn (gasp). Agave nectar (or syrup) is made from agave. Last I looked they were entirely different plants. Also, HFCS is corn syrup with fructose added as an extra sweetener as corn syrup isn't quite as sweet as cane sugar, which is why it doesn't really tend to replace sugar by itself in recipes. Is fructose added to agave nectar?
I've never used it. I've tasted it when a co-worker bought some, but that's it so I've no vested interest either way here.
Honey Lavender Shortbread Cookies, An Alternative to Rosh Hashanah Honey Cake
You can get dried at Penzey's spices at the Grand Central Market.
Peta, are you kidding me?
I would imagine that Ben and Jerry snorked cow milk out their noses when they first read the petition.
Not that I agree with it, but I can at least comprehend PETA's issue with using cow milk. But replacing it with human breast milk doesn't just border on ridiculous, it crosses the border, studies for the naturalization exam and becomes a full-fledged citizen of ridiculous. What ever happened to soy milk or rice milk? Not that I'd eat it, but come on, PETA, there ARE some sane options out there.
Then again, to back KarynMC up, PETA wouldn't be able to use naked models on an ad about using soy milk.
Salt Mill/Pepper Grinder... difference?
Thanks, all!
Having wandered around during my lunch break and asking people at both Williams Sonoma and Crate & Barrel (telling them the whole story so they didn't think they were going to get a sale) I got mixed messages. Williams Sonoma woman told me the salt grinder could NOT be used as the mechanism was different. Crate & Barrel woman, on the other hand, said that yes, they are different, but the Peugeot salt mechanism (other than material) is virtually identical to the pepper mechanism in everyone else's lines (most everyone else's sets have identical mechanisms - with the exception of material). So I guess that even though ideally you'd use the Peugeot pepper grinder for pepper (and never, ever for salt) - there appears to be very little reason (other than designer's intent) why you couldn't use pepper in the salt grinder. If this isn't the case, please speak up (I'm lookin' at YOU Kerosena!), but if it is essentially OK, then great!
Who knew this could be so complex?
Food Network... Let's give them a hand!
DCraver:
I think Serious Eats isn't anti-food network per se. I think it is more that people remember when it was good and about the love of food (both preparing and eating it). I think there is a disappointment and a hope that it can pick up what decent programming it has and run with it to somewhere that is less about hip reality show programming and more about what it was intended to be originally.
For my money: if Julia Child would recognize it as food television, let it stay. If not, ship it over to Fine Living.
NectarineGate: Zuni Cafe's $8 Nectarine Dessert Is Actually $4.50
I guess it is the fruit equivalent of the mark-up on wine. Come to think of it, wine is made of fruit... so I guess it's OK then.
Coming Soon to Charm City Cakes: Duff Goldman Action Figure
My wife and I don't consider it a "cooking show," but we do enjoy it the odd times we watch it. It's the only reality show (or at least one of the very few) that shows a healthy work environment. They work together well, have fun and genuinely seem to want to be there. Refreshing compared to "American Chopper" and the like.
Coming Soon to Charm City Cakes: Duff Goldman Action Figure
Oh, but go Duff!
How many people get an action figure of themselves?
Restaurant That Invented Caesar Salad Closes
On a similar note, we just got word that El Moderno restaurant in Piedras Negras, Mexico, just closed down, also victim to the crime wave and decreased tourism. My wife is from the border town across the river and we'd eat there all the time -- I was floored the first time I saw the plaque there talking about how one of their chefs invented nachos.
Technically, nachos were invented at a restaurant Nacho Anaya worked at earlier, but he then went on to work at the Moderno, and they still served his recipe up until today.
The closest thing we've found to them in New York are the "Nachos Vestidos" at El Parador.
Restaurant That Invented Caesar Salad Closes
All these years and I never realized the yummy Cardini bottled caesar dressing was related to the original caesar salad. Sheesh!
The restaurant may be closed but the legendary salad will live on.
RIP Caesar's.
Restaurant That Invented Caesar Salad Closes
and a historical landmark has been closed,
being closed because of the swine flu and crime... truly sad
Restaurant That Invented Caesar Salad Closes
Sad. Though I don't think I've been to the Caesar Restaurant, I recall many great meals in Tijuana--far beyond "Mexican food"--when I used to live across the border in San Diego. Many capable chefs there in many cuisines. But the town's situation has gotten out of hand in recent years.
Restaurant That Invented Caesar Salad Closes
Maybe they can move across the border?!
Restaurant That Invented Caesar Salad Closes
Sad indeed. Thanks to the Cardini family for one of my favorite foods.
What bread makes the best toast?
CROISSANTS CROISSANTS CROISSANTS so yummy!
Kitchen Timers
OK, let me try to help the community out. The best kitchen time I have found is the digital unit with large display (see links below). It can time 4 separate items for up to 10 hours. You will notice a look similar to timers like on Top Chef et al.
http://www.etundra.com/EnlargedImage.aspx?productID=7641
http://www.etundra.com/4_Function_Programmable_Digital_Timer-P7641.html
This is $42.90 on sale now.
No I have no affiliation to Tundra Specialties or anyone else named "Alton"
Enjoy!
Al
Serious Cheese: Part Two in the Adventures of Lactose Intolerance
In addition to having Celiac Disease (gluten intolerance), I have problems with cow's milk, but goat's milk, including kefir & cheese from it, are very agreeable to me. I had no dairy (cow's milk) at all for two years, and recently started ingesting goat's milk products, and to my surprise I actually feel better than before I started. There are many reasons why it is better than cow's milk, according to experts. The products are a bit expensive, but worth every penny. Can't wait to try come ice cream made from goat's milk!
Serious Eats Gift Guide: Kitchen Essentials
These are great suggestions! I recently got a KitchenAid mixer for a friend's wedding and they love it! Since it's summer, if you're looking for some new grilling gear, check out: http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/06/elizabeth-karmels-grilling-tips.html
AmericanHunter.org has some great suggestions!
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
Thanks to all who entered, and congrats to winner sidebernie! You have been sent an email on how to claim your shirt.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
Princess Torte - white cake with some raspberry filling halfway through and a white creaming filling and marzipan over it all. YUM!
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
Red velvet
or a Costco cake with chocolate mousse filling. No kidding.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
carrot cake. yes on the raisins, no on the nuts, lots of classic, tangy, cream cheese frosting, and just a hint of nostalgia.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
mmm cheese cake!
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
red velvet with roux icing. yum.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
White cake with chocolate frosting! Mmm... now I want cake...
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
i love white cake with chocolate frosting...plain and simple : )
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My grandma's mystery chocolate cake with the cherry pie filling in the middle. Makes me bounce off the walls like a 7-year-old.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
Chocolate-raspberry cake with chocolate frosting.
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Blackout Cake with a cup of coffee.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
grandma's cheesecake
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
It's always been chocolate.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
Pepperidge Farms vanilla cake, love the frosting so much!
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There is just something very sad about this.