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I've only ever stayed at one B&B, and that was in Idaho, when I was fishing on the Snake River. I have to say that the place was beautiful and the breakfasts were fantastic! Good hearty American stuff - eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits with gravy, pancakes, fruit, etc. etc. etc. Magnificent, and I hope the host and hostess knew how much all us guests appreciated their efforts. I had a great time and the food was great!

I was all set to accept Melissa as the winner until I saw her little bio piece at the beginning of the episode, and she basically said that she was totally concerned about women, her girlfriends, and so on. As a guy, I took that to mean that I am TOTALLY not part of the audience she wants to reach. After I heard that, I became much more pro-Jeffrey.

@yay food: I was all set to accept Melissa as the winner until your comment that she was "like tofu". I HATE TOFU!! Now I can't even think about her without gagging.

So now I'm pulling for Jeffery. Oh well.

Wow! What a huge list!

Mine is Maruchan Ramen noodles, cooked like it says, but with the water drained off and the packet of chicken seasoning mixed in, with an egg as well, and maybe some leftover chicken if I have it. Pepper and red chili flakes. Let the residual heat of the noodles cook the egg. Add butter. Stir. Sinful but I love it!

I make my hash browns with onions, so (in my mind) they don't need ketchup. What they DO need is an egg cracked over top!

So, no way on the ketchup, WAY on the egg!

I used to use my roomie's empty champagne bottles. Then someone gave me a meat flattening hammer, but I think I'll use my cast iron skillet next time, seein' as how everyone recommends it.

It's very clear that Fox has instructed Ramsay to go totally over the top angry on Hell's Kitchen. He's nowhere near as extreme on any other show I've seen him on, especially the British ones. When he loses his temper on the British version of Kitchen Nightmares it's almost always with someone who is really asking for it. And even then, he does come across as someone who genuinely cares about getting the restaurant running right.

I can't form an opinion (much) about White yet because I've only seen one episode of his show. Steingarten is someone I can take or leave.

I enjoyed it. I like MPW - he comes off with a kind of Vincent Price vibe to me, gentle, civilized, yet quietly menacing. I don't think he means it, but if you picture him as a horror-movie icon you might have more fun watching the show. I mean him no offense; as far as I know, he's earned his culinary reputation. But that voice, that delivery, belongs, it seems to me, in old horror films, and I mean that in a good way!

OK. I love good roast chicken, and I like crispy skin and moist breast. But I've seen in this thread people saying temperatures from 350 to 500! I have always stayed around 350, because I thought that higher temperatures would dry out the breast, but am I right? Should I scorch my chicken at 475 to get a nice crisp skin instead, and will it have a moist breast? I've been too cheap to perform this experiment myself. So my question is, do you get a good moist breast and crisp skin at 450 or higher, or do I stay with my good old 350?

The ad is not hilarious. It's disgusting. I hated it. It made me avoid Quizno's for years. That, and the ad they had in which people were pulling leftover sandwiches out of the garbage cans, their dogs' mouths, etc.

I mean, seriously, YUCK! I have never seen a Quizno's commercial that made the food look appetizing. I'm sticking to Subway.

Usually 8:30 to 9 for us. It's just me and my roomie, no kids, so it can be fairly late. I'm the one who cooks, and my habitual TV programs are over by 7 pm, so that's when I start dinner. Unless something dumb but addictive like American Idol is on, which delays dinner!
I know we shouldn't do things this way. We usually don't eat lunch, so we're starving by dinnertime, but it's late anyway. I almost never make a lunch, but sometimes I go out to get Subway sandwiches or something like that. If I do that, then dinner might be as late as 10.

How do you cook a butterflied chicken on a charcoal grill? I tried it once and the fat dripped onto the coals and I had an instant bonfire. Now I only cook butterflied chicken under the broiler. That way, I don't get sabotaged by gravity!

Coconut. I can't stand it. Also lima beans - ugh. My roomie loves lima beans, and hates cooking, so I make lima beans for him and just heating them up grosses me out. Also liver. I can't stand liver.

I'm amazed at some of the things people hate. Watermelon? Watermelon is beyond delicious! I may be biased - my grandparents grew watermelons on their farm and I grew up on them. I LOVE watermelon!