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Cakespy: CupShake, a Cupcake Milkshake

Bleagh! I feel quite ill... bad enough blending cake with icecream, but then adding double cream???? Gross.

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Videos: A Preview of Amanda Hesser's "Food 52" Website, Plus a Tour of Her Kitchen

"Never trust a skinny cook"!

By the way, lisablock, I was going to disagree with you about people not buying cookbooks these days, but I just remembered my once-treasured and now, largely neglected collection of dusty tomes and I think I agree with you! I love logging on and finding one-off recipes.

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What's Your Go-To Neighborhood Diner?

Why oh why don't we have diners in Britain???!!! I have diner-envy!

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From Recipes

Cakespy: CupShake, a Cupcake Milkshake

Bleagh! I feel quite ill... bad enough blending cake with icecream, but then adding double cream???? Gross.

From Serious Eats

Videos: A Preview of Amanda Hesser's "Food 52" Website, Plus a Tour of Her Kitchen

"Never trust a skinny cook"!

By the way, lisablock, I was going to disagree with you about people not buying cookbooks these days, but I just remembered my once-treasured and now, largely neglected collection of dusty tomes and I think I agree with you! I love logging on and finding one-off recipes.

From Serious Eats: New York

What's Your Go-To Neighborhood Diner?

Why oh why don't we have diners in Britain???!!! I have diner-envy!

From Talk

Weekend Cook and Tell: Sandwiches!

A steakwich...French stick, split, with hot, thick-cut, melt-in-the-mouth steak, fried onions, mustard, salt and pepper! Off to make one for breakfast!

From Recipes

Healthy & Delicious: Grilled Zucchini with Quinoa Stuffing

Personally, I would mix the discarded flesh with the rest of the filling ingredients and pile it back in then I would bake them in the oven, rather than grill them. Oh, I see, you use grill differently from us Brits! I would still bake them.

From Serious Eats

Served: The Ballsy Waitress

@Duncan 1205...what happened then???!!! Fill us in...

From Talk

Spousal Cooking: Am I a bad person?

@Pumpkinbear - have you read "Why Men Love Bitches" and the follow-up, "Why Men Marry Bitches"?

@JerzeeTomato - I should not have liked to have a neighbour like you to point out my flaws in the culinary department - not at all neighbourly!

@ibchefft - Wow, wish I were married to you! So glad you allow "this woman" to "protect her femininity"!

From Slice

Sudoku Pizza

Why would you want potato on a pizza?

Glad I don't work there, I should get VERY confused as to where the component parts of each square go...Do the customers actually check/care if the pizza toppings are in the right order???!

From A Hamburger Today

Checking One Off the List at The Bucket in Eagle Rock, California

Oh my goodness - just look at all that seasoned salt! Wow, what a shame. I guess they haven't heard of KISS? (Keep it simple, sweetie) I don't think I'll be ordering a "1/2 ib" er any day soon!

From Recipes

Dinner Tonight: Grandmother's Egg Salad (Sandwich)

I wish "they" (whoever they are!) would leave the leaves on our celery in the uk! Why do they chop it off? it is so useful and flavousome, it's a real shame!

From Talk

Favorite Cheap Homemade Meal?

I love red lentil quiche. Make pastry (wholemeal is good), Boil up lentils with onion, garlic, chopped carrot until thick. Stir in 1T tomato puree and an egg (once the lentils have cooled comewhat), dump in some cheese and bake. Serve with salad. Used to make this a lot as a young mum with 3 hungry children to feed.

From Serious Eats

Cook the Book: 'The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook'

Mushrooms a la Greque with crusty bread and a chilled white wine. Heaven.

From Talk

absentminded kitchen disasters

I once lovingly and painstakingly brewed a gallon of elderberry wine, decanted it into a demi-john which I then placed carefully on some newspapers on the pantry floor. My parents came, unexpectedly for a visit, so I proudly showed them the wine. I went to pick up the demi-john for them to admire the jewel-like colour and ended up holding only the main body of the demi-john in my hand. The bottom had cracked off completely and now the kitchen was flooding with my precious elderberry wine. My kitchen floor slopes slightly so it was a messy and heart-breaking experience! I haven't made it since.

From Talk

Ok, I will follow with..how do you say Jalapeno

Ok, this is a cool thread. Here in the UK, scones are NOT pronounced like stones. They are scons like swans!

How about pie-ella for paella?

From Talk

Falafel ~ Tried and True Recipes?

Thin tahini down with some water/lemon juice and it's far from nasty.

From Serious Eats: New York

Blue Hill at Stone Barns: The Most Important Restaurant in America

Looks a bit too nouvelle cuisiney for my taste. A wee bit pretentious? I clicked on this link because I saw the words farm and gutsy so I thought it would be more substantial fare. Ah well. What is Reisling? Is it the same as Riesling?

From Talk

Are you giving food gifts for Christmas?

@AuntJone - go see Fly Lady! She'll sort you out in a soothing way.

From Talk

Are you giving food gifts for Christmas?

Rice crispie and marshmallow squares,

crushed rich tea biscuits covered in dark chocolate and cut into squares,

peppermint cookies - cookie dough wrapped around a chocolate mint and drizzled with chocolate when cool,

honeycomb (made with sugar and bicarb),

sesame balls with crushed cornflakes, malt syrup, rice crispies and milk chocolate,

double chocolate choc-chip cookies

From Talk

Stocking Stuffers: What food fare do you stuff 'em with?

Apart from the traditional nuts, apple and tangerine, my son is having a Terry's chocolate orange, a chocolate Father Christmas, a sugar mouse and mini boxes of raisins from California. I might stick in some microwave butter popcorn and some hot chocolate mix.

From Talk

My favorite salad greens are ________.

cabbage, red, white, green - all used as a base for a wonderful, crunchy coleslaw.

From Talk

Ham-tastic recipe?

@heartofglass "beef was preferred as the 'meat showpiece' for Christmas and Sunday dinners that I attended (or lamb)." Certainly not for Christmas! We eat turkey and ham for Christmas dinner. Roast beef has been expensive for a long time now, here in the UK, so chicken is usually the preferred meat for Sunday lunch. My mother always does a spiced beef for my father for Christmas, as a treat and he is very possessive of it!

From Talk

Rutabaga/Turnips: Way or No Way?


Mashed with butter and pepper (called swede here in England, turnip for my Irish father and neeps in Scotland) or roasted with other root vegetables around a joint of meat. Delicious.

From Slice

Do You Put Ranch Dressing on Pizza?

How do you get a white trash girl to suck your d**k?

Dip it in ranch dressing.

From Talk

Secret Supper Clubs, Foodie Speakeasies, Underground Restaurants

For anyone that runs an underground restaurant, do you require your guests to sign a waiver or release form? How do you protect yourself from a lawsuit say if someone were to get sick or have an allergic reaction after eating your food?

From Serious Eats

Top Ten Worst Halloween 'Candies'

I disagree about a lot of the candy items mentioned here.
I, for one, LOVE the fun-sized (or mini, if you prefer) candies. It's a tiny bit of something insanely tasty, enough to give pleasure without causing tummy pains. When I was a young'un and I went trick-or-treating, one house gave out mini Clark bars. Yum-o-delish! I polished those off first.
I think the chewy peanut butter kisses taste absolutely divine.
Candy corn, I think is plenty of tasty, as are the candy pumpkins made of candy-corn base. Think little dollops of hardened cake-frosting.
As for apples and raisins, those I didn't mind in the least.

However, some items, I do agree about.
Toothbrushes -- a boring reminder
Religious pamphlets -- disappointing and WEIRD to boot.
Packages of "normal" food -- oh, for crying in Manhattan, what kid wants to receive a can of baked beans or a box of oat bran in his little plastic jack-o-lantern.
One time I received cough drops -- and not the Ludens or Pine Bros or Smith Bros or F&Fs, which are tasty and could pass as hard candy (as can the Ricolas). These were nasty little green pellets that were -- and tasted like -- MEDICATION. Like I said, for crying in Manhattan! For crying in Manhattan, Chicago, and San Francisco

Oh well. At least I didn't get a ROCK

From Serious Eats

Top Ten Worst Halloween 'Candies'

If I didn't live in an apartment building with no kids in it I'd be giving out and full sized candy bar AND a red bull to every kid. HAHAHA!!! HALLOWEEN IS FOR KIDS! SUCK IT PARENTS!

From Recipes

Cakespy: CupShake, a Cupcake Milkshake

Actually, Sonic (the chain restaurant) made a "birthday cake shake" for their 50th birthday in 2003. Theirs was pretty good, though a bit too sweet for me.

From Slice

Do You Put Ranch Dressing on Pizza?

I don't put ranch on anything! Gross tasting stuff.

From Slice

Do You Put Ranch Dressing on Pizza?

Amen "omnomnom"! (I'm from Mich, too. Same area)

From Slice

Do You Put Ranch Dressing on Pizza?

I absolutely love ranch on my pizza. Granted, I am a middle-school student (though homeschooled), and got the idea from my (middle school, homeschooled) friends after we started dipping French-Fries in Ranch (that's justified in Mich--here most of the fries are way too greasy or way too dry). We decided to try it on our pizza--and it's great. Only Hidden Valley (tm) works though. Deep dish pizza doesn't need it, fortunately. A group fave for us is cayenne pepper, fresh black pepper, ranch, and tabasco sauce. I agree, if it's good pizza, it doesn't need condiments, but (1) pizza in metro-detroit isn't that good, and (2), it doesn't matter if it needs it--if ya want it, I say put it on unashamedly!

From Recipes

Cakespy: CupShake, a Cupcake Milkshake

I have to admit that I let my curiosity get the better of me and I made one of these last week.

And it was pretty awesome.

From A Hamburger Today

The Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt, a Bacon Burger with Two Bacon-Stuffed Grilled Cheese Sandwiches as Bun

Oh my, WHEN are THEY going to come up with that magic pill? Can you imagine this creation with a side of fettucine Alfredo?

From Serious Eats

Served: Every Night Waiting Tables

This blog is great!! Check out www.stuckserving.com for similar stories!!

From Serious Eats: New York

What's Your Go-To Neighborhood Diner?

We often go to Comfort Diner (45th between 2nd & 3rd) on lazy weekends and their eggs and pancakes are great.

From A Hamburger Today

Shake Shack Burger Patty Recipe

You really need to try Big Nick's Burger and Pizza Joint on 2175 Broadway, its like a hole in the wall burger joint. Great burgers and great service too

From A Hamburger Today

The Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt, a Bacon Burger with Two Bacon-Stuffed Grilled Cheese Sandwiches as Bun

If I had any bacon left, I'd do this idea tomorrow for lunch/dinner. As it is, to really put the topper on it, I had a few ideas on how to make this really nice and unhealthy.... first, take a page from the burger with the cheese ooze core... stuff some cheese in the burger as well! maybe chop up some bacon to mix in with the meat too. Next, gotta add some mayo, then slap a fried egg in there as well. If you're still alive and not on your way to the hospital after the first bite, then I'd applaud you, but you may want to have someone ready just in case.... in case you take a second bite.

From Serious Eats: New York

What's Your Go-To Neighborhood Diner?

George's in Ditmas Park (Coney Island Ave @ Cortelyou) - the food is nothing special, but it's seriously old-school.

Anapoli in Bay Ridge (3rd Ave @ 69th) - the food IS something special, especially the gyro omelet. And they serve iced coffee in old soda shop coke glasses.

From Talk

Weekend Cook and Tell: Sandwiches!

Oh, my, thanks for reminding me about PB&Bacon! It's my comfort food.

From Talk

Weekend Cook and Tell: Sandwiches!

HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO>>>Main entree + Dinner roll....say I get chicken parm..I always eat my entree as is.....but take a small piece of delicious cheesy chicken parm and grab a dinner roll or bread, cut it in half and put the piece of my dinner in there.......it changes with every restaurant...some have those warm undercooked rolls...:) some have soft scali....etc....it works with anything...turkey dinner sandwich......chicken saltimbocca sandwich corned beef and cabbage sandwich....etc......whatever

From Talk

Weekend Cook and Tell: Sandwiches!

Whole grain toast, peanut butter, grated carrot, honey, cinnamon, and maybe a few raisins.

From Talk

Weekend Cook and Tell: Sandwiches!

Mine is the BLT. Buttered toasted bread, crispy bacon, fried egg, caramlised balsamic vinegar onions, rocket, spinach leaves and topped with a chilli ranch sauce.

I made this on the weekend but added the left over crispy bits of the bacon and fried egg with oil onto the sandwich. Not good for the arteries, but boy did it taste good!

From Talk

Weekend Cook and Tell: Sandwiches!

Grilled country bread, homemade mayonnaise, shallot mustard, a couple slices chunky rabbit terrine, grilled zucchini with garlic and olive oil, and a hard goat cheese. I made the rabbit terrine, and while it isn't particularly pretty, it tasted gooood, especially in this sandwich.

From Talk

Weekend Cook and Tell: Sandwiches!

Sourdough bread, leftover London broil, leftover hollandaise or bearnaise sauce, sharp cheddar cheese, spinach leaves.

This even makes the packaged dry mix hollandaise/bearnaise sauces taste good. They don't taste anything like the real sauces, but the butter and herb content is high enough that they are still pretty tasty. There is, however, no lemon flavor in the hollandaise at all. Weird.

From Talk

Weekend Cook and Tell: Sandwiches!

check out the Provencal Sandwich I made... it's full of mushrooms, spinach and goat cheese. A trip between two breads, definitely!!!

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