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Poutine from Potato Champion in Portland.

Best BBQ hands down: my ma.

With a crispy outside.

With crispy skin! I've never had foie gras. Pick me! Pick me!

I just moved to Portland from a smaller city in Michigan. I now have more delicious food choices than ever before. However I am unemployed at the moment. It's torture.

I don't have family dinners much. I live with my roommate and sometimes her boyfriend comes over. Regardless I make dinner for groups of friends very often & I think these recipes would be perfect for such occasions. I was just recently talking with a friend about things our moms used to make regularly that we could never see ourselves cooking in our kitchen. One of which was swiss steak, which I might just make for the novelty factor.

I live in Michigan, where BBQ places aren't very prominent. But my mom is the mothafriggin master. She is my BBQ queen, always has been, always will be.

I've been lactose intolerant since birth. My mom said I would puke up milk immediately and gave me rice milk instead. But the intolerance has changed throughout my life. As a child, (post rice milk drinking stage), I took in lactose like a champ. No problems. As a teen, things started to get funny again, I drank virtually no milk in middle and high school but would still have cheese with no problems. I ate ice cream, sour cream, in small doses with little tummy aches. If I did have milk it would be awful. I now can have almost anything I desire. If I have a really large glass of milk, or more than 1, I get some pains, but that's about the extent of it. It has been said that allergies can be depleted if taken in small doses, depending on the strength of the allergy. (I heard somewhere that they're trying to give children with peanut allergies very minuscule doses of peanuts.) So I continue to have dairy products and ignore my symptoms hoping I'm curing myself or something, but who knows, it could get worse again later.