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See: http://www.nakedwhiz.com/elder.htm
· 1 C white vinegar
· 1 C cider vinegar
· 1 Tbs. sugar (Hawaii style when you can)
· 1 Tbs. cayenne pepper (fresh ones split 2 of em instead soak 2 days or more is best)
· 1 Tbs. Tabasco sauce
· 1 tsp. kosher salt
· 1 tsp. cracked black pepper
Makes 2 Cups

That will make you happy.

Are you CRAZY? Durian smells and tastes like shit. Hell, not even that good! It's more like the smell you'd expect if you threw a chicken carcass, some used cat litter, a gallon of milk and two heads of garlic into a trash can and left it outside for a week. During the hottest month of summer. In Florida.

The flavor is not much better, and you'll be burping up that smell for two days.

DO. NOT. WANT.

NOOOO! Oh my god, it's not on there. The Park Cafe in Saint Mary, Montana, right outside the entrance to Glacier National Park. You have no idea what you're missing. It's almost good enough to make me move to Montana. It's one of those places where, for the rest of your life, you'll be saying "oh lord, remember that pie place? what was it called? it was soooooo good." There's a couple of OK pie places around here (Zingerman's, a branch of the Grand Traverse Pie Company, and some good stuff in Detroit) but nothing I've ever had hold a candle to this place. It's beyond comprehension.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g45345-d508904-Reviews-Park_Cafe-Saint_Mary_Montana.html

I think good grass fed beef is way better than corn fed (or finished) beef for anything where you want a lot of flavor. I eat beef because I want to taste the meat, not because I want some sad, chicken-like neutral protein source that serves as a blank slate for whatever I throw at it. You do have to be more careful about overcooking it and never serve it more than medium rare, but I'm convinced the anti-grass fed beef lobby is crazy. :)