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I love my local independent grocery store, Hyde Park Produce (I live in the Hyde Park neighborhood of South Chicago) so much that if they weren't right next to my apartment, I would probably move.

Barbecued husband!

Just kidding. My husband did make himself the center of a rather startling conflagration several Fourth's ago, though, when he opened the lid of a barbecue grill and was confronted by a flaming ball that singed his eyelashes and earned him the nickname "burnt toast."

Ahem. I like to make barbecued shrimp, prepared with a very simple olive oil, red chilli, and lemon juice marinade.

Actually, forget I asked that -- I just realized, of course, it's a bread. It's not going to do well in the fridge. :-)

Dori, I have a loaf of this sitting in the kitchen as I type and it is a cheese-lover's dream. Next time I might use a better quality cheddar, but as it is it's pretty darned wonderful.

How long do you think it would last in the fridge?

peanut sesame noodles, like they used to make 'em at the Chinese restaurant of my childhood. finding them again (the restaurant has closed) is my white whale . . .

Soup dumplings

Steamed dumplings, General Tso chicken, Beef Lo Mein

Any kind of crispy whole fish. If that's on the menu, and I can convince a few other people to share it with me, I'll get that every time.

Roasted duck, chicken, ribs, char siu, squid, etc. anything that's hanging in the window when you enter- it goes great with everything (rice, noodles, porridge) and by itself as well. Yum!