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Do Menus "Lie?"

I always have trouble with salads at restaurants... "bed of fresh field greens", "chopped romaine with fresh cucumbers, tomatoes...", "baby spinach", etc.

Usually I get some nasty bagged salad mix, or worse yet, iceberg.

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Question of the Day: What are you ashamed to admit you use?

I have to throw in my support for the Bisquick users... there's no reason to be ashamed!

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Death by Veganism

Husband and others - I think some of you are missing the point. The article blames veganism for the death of a child, I and others are merely pointing out that the most healthy food for a baby is in fact part of a vegan diet.

Veganism is merely a scape goat in this case for child cruelty.

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Death by Veganism

Milk banks are available for those that can't breastfeed.

I am not a vegan (not even a vegetarian), but I do think that this argument has nothing to do with veganism. Vegans breastfeed, so using veganism as an excuse for starving a child is absurd.

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Do Menus "Lie?"

I always have trouble with salads at restaurants... "bed of fresh field greens", "chopped romaine with fresh cucumbers, tomatoes...", "baby spinach", etc.

Usually I get some nasty bagged salad mix, or worse yet, iceberg.

From Talk

Question of the Day: What are you ashamed to admit you use?

I have to throw in my support for the Bisquick users... there's no reason to be ashamed!

From Serious Eats

Death by Veganism

Husband and others - I think some of you are missing the point. The article blames veganism for the death of a child, I and others are merely pointing out that the most healthy food for a baby is in fact part of a vegan diet.

Veganism is merely a scape goat in this case for child cruelty.

From Serious Eats

Death by Veganism

Milk banks are available for those that can't breastfeed.

I am not a vegan (not even a vegetarian), but I do think that this argument has nothing to do with veganism. Vegans breastfeed, so using veganism as an excuse for starving a child is absurd.

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Death by Veganism

I plan to breastfeed my unborn baby. Human breast milk is, in fact, vegan. It is also a fact that a mother's breast milk is the single most nutritious food you can give a baby. It's so nutritious that you don't need to feed the child anything else until they are 3 years old if you so choose.

Summary: the most nutritious food for a baby, breast milk, is also vegan.

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Remember the chocolate cake from Grange Hall?

You will probably get more responses if you are more specific about the restaurant you are asking about.

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Question of the Day: Gas, electric, other?

Gas. Hands down, no contest. I cooked with electric until I was 24 and bought an old house with a finicky gas range. Despite the cantankerous nature of the old range, I knew I never wanted to go back to electric. We replaced it with a new gas range and haven't looked back.

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Kraft Foods on organic bandwagon

Kraft has always been a company that strives to come up with new products that satisfy the wants and needs of their consumers. They've been doing organic for a few years now (through their line of cookies, crackers, granola, and other foods called Back to Nature)

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Good place to eat--healty--near Imperial Theater?

when did Serious Eats become a place to get dining advice in New York?

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How the heck do I cook eggplant?

I love making eggplant parm, and the key is to salting and draining your eggplant slices for at least 30 minutes before prepping and cooking them. The salt gets out any bitterness, and draining them keeps them from getting soggy. I usually just salt the slices and place them on kitchen towels.

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Question of the Day: What do you eat at the ballpark?

ohmygosh! I can't believe no one mentioned bratwurst! It wouldn't be ball season without a brat!

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Why has no one asked the obvious PB question--creamy or chunky?

creamy. I like chunks of fruit in my jam and I don't want chunks of nuts to distract from the fruit.

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What Kitchen Gadget have you re-purposed for an alternative use?

I use a pastry blender for almost everything except for blending pastry. It's good for mashing bananas or avocados, slicing eggs for salad, or mixing all sorts of things.

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Organizing all those recipes

I enter all my recipes on RecipeZaar (www.recipezaar.com) and then add them to my online cookbook on RecipeZaar.

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Montreal Bagels Exposed

I guess this is just a random bagel rant.

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Immersion blender

I have a Kitchenaid. It does all the things I would expect an immersion blender to do, but I don't try to substitute it's functionality for that of a food processor.

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What creative dishes can you make in the crockpot?

I make chicken taco meat (or burrito, or sandwich). I take a couple pounds of boneless, skinless chicken breasts, a couple cans of chicken stock, and a package of taco seasoning mix. Put all this in the crock pot and set it to low for 8 hours or so.

When cooked, shred and use as you like.

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Question of the Day: Frozen vegetables -- as good as fresh?

Frozen berries are good, as are frozen peas.

I use frozen spinach quite a bit, but not as a substitute for fresh spinach.

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Is there a food you love that you won't buy?

Sorry about the panini recommendation, I didn't know about your Nutella problems ;)

I can't buy those little chocolate-covered donuts... you know, the little ones covered in fake chocolate that you can buy at gas stations. I devour them... they are so good.

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Ok all, I need some inspiration.

My family made the food for my wedding reception, about 250 people. My dad smoked pork shoulders for months, shredded and froze the meat with BBQ sauce. For the reception, we heated the meat in Nescos and served it with bakery buns. Other relatives made HUGE batches of pasta and potato salad. We purchased cakes. We had veggie trays and fruit salads as well.

The pork sandwiches were a huge hit.

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