Harissa: What do you do with it?
I found some chedder cheese with harissa in it from Trader Joes. Fun stuff! I used some of it to make a variation of pimento cheese (except it would be harissa cheese)
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Chinese Food, Christmas Day, and the Jews: Where Can We Go for Old-School Chinese?
I am Jewish but I never did the Chinese Food thing on Christmas Day. My family's Christmas tradition was to work at the homeless shelter and we'd have whatever they were being served, usually stoufer's lasagna or meatloaf. Mmmm. (my mom almost never served frozen food so it was a nice treat)
Funny thing is that now I'm living in a DC and I drove down to the National Mall to check out the national tree and I noticed nearly all the Chinese take out places are closed. However most of them were in predominatly Christian neigbhboorhoods.
Can't-miss restaurants in D.C.?
Some of my favorites:
Dino - really good Italian. Lots of small plates and a killer wine list.
Mandalay- Out in silver spring.Serve Burmese food which is a fun mix of Chinese, Indina. and Thai cuisine The salads there are awesome. The food is really cheap, last time I was there it was two people who orded soup or salad, main meals and desert and the bill was 36 dollars.
E Pollo Rico- Peruvian Chicken and no much else. Very cheap (they only take cash) and the line is usually around the block. In Wheaton MD.
Colorado Kitchen- pretty controversial amongst DC diners, some love it, some don't. I think this place is fantastic, a Tiny diner that serves a combination fancy food and comfort food. Also does a killer brunch on sundays where the wait for a table can take upwards of 90 minutes but the homeade doughnuts are worth it. (colorado ave NW)
Tiffin - my favorite indian place on Unverity BLVD in Langely MD. Has a delicious buffet. Makes lots of awesome vegetarian dishes. Sister resteraunt Udupi Palace is all vegetarian and also good.
for more recomendations I'd join up www.donrockwell.com, great board for serious DC eaters.
Junk Food Country
I think that the willful ignorance of some of the posters is apalling. Poverty has an ugly reality whether people want to pay attention to it or not. Junk food is a lot more afordable than healier food.
When you have a lot of cream cheese, you should make ____.
My mom makes this wicked delicious appetizer called a torta. You raid your local deli section to get some different spreads like olive tapanade or pepper spread or pesto and layer them with cream cheese, and top it with pine nuts. Mom makes hers with pesto and red pepers and she'll mix in feta for good touch and people are always begging her to bring it to parties
What's in your Fall salad bowl?
Yesterday I made a kickass salad with some romaine, mcintosh apple slices, gorgonzola and some sauted onions left over from annother dish. I dressed with dash of olive oil + balsamic vinegar and then inhaled it. Yum.
Favorite Brand and Flavor of Potato Chips?
I'm a fan of kettle chips.
I also love Terra Red Bliss Olive Oil, Roasted Garlic & Parmesan Potato Chips but I don't buy them very often becuase I'm likely to eat the entire bag.
2 Eggs... Meat... toast... juice.. hot bev
Eggs fried with a very runny yoke.
meat: bacon, baby.
white bread.
Orange juice.
Cofffee with milk.
Häagen-Dazs vs. Ben & Jerry's: Which Are You Down With?
In 1978 first Ben and Jerry's opened up across the street from the office building where my mother worked. My parents loved their ice cream and would even go to in in the winter when the temapture hovered around 20 below zero or colder in the evenings. They really wanted to keep that place in buisness til the summer. They still mourn the loss of Wavy Gravy but they're happy that New York Super Fudge Chunk and Phish Food are still around.
However I've noticed if they just want vanilla ice cream to serve with something else they will usually sever Haagan Daz.
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Harissa: What do you do with it?
Oh my goodness, I can't believe you read my mind. I have been thinking about harissa endlessly as of late. I wanted to make some actually. I just tried the stuff somewhat recently at my aunt's place and I love it! It's sooo spicy and delicious. I just spread it on some bread with some hummus. Yummm.
Hillary
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Harissa: What do you do with it?
I was sitting in class yesterday and I realized that I have some ground pork in the freeze. How good would pork burgers be filled with harissa, onions, and garlic?
Harissa: What do you do with it?
I love that stuff. mix a generous amount with any quality fruit preserve (I've used mango, quince, etc.) and makes a wonderful chunky glaze for roast poultry. last time I did it, I rubbed it all over turkey thighs when it was about a 1/4 of the way through, so it finished beautifully caramelized.
Harissa: What do you do with it?
I rub it on whole roast chicken too. I also use it to make roasted eggplant which you can buzz in the food processor and serve with warm pita mmmm.
Harissa: What do you do with it?
harissa mixed with mayo or aioli makes a great dip with veggies or french fries or sandwich/hamburger spread!
you can also put it in chicken salad, potato salad...anything! rub chicken breasts, pork chops, lamb chops ESPECIALLY! in ground lamb for lamb burgers.
Harissa: What do you do with it?
I love harissa paired with chick peas. (Try a daub in your next batch of hummus.)
jenberger, that popcorn sounds amazing! Yum, indeed!
Harissa: What do you do with it?
There's a restaurant here in Roanoke that serves popcorn glazed with harissa and cinnamon as finger food at the bar. It's amazing and addictive. Yum....
Harissa: What do you do with it?
Harissa is great rubbed on a porkchop to be panfried, or scrambled into eggs with kale. Though sometimes I'm paralyzed trying to decide between harissa and sambal when it comes to eggs. It's also good in a garlicky dressing for a cracked wheat salad, maybe with pomegranate syrup. Good stuff all the way around.
Harissa: What do you do with it?
use it in your sauce base when making shakshouka! it gives the dish an incredible kick.
a decent basic shakshouka recipe (EVERYONE's got their own version):
http://kosherfood.about.com/od/kosherisraelifood/r/shakshouka.htm
enjoy!
Harissa: What do you do with it?
I like to rub a chicken all over with harissa, put half a lemon and some garlic cloves in the cavity and roast it. Really good served with some tabbouleh.
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