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NYC Pizza Cultural Literacy

Any consideration for Ray's on 11th in the historical category? It's a shade of it's former self right now sadly.

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Equipment: How to Buy, Season, and Maintain Cast Iron Cookware

Got it, thanks. I guess the pan just wasn't well seasoned enough at the time. Also 2nd the comment on butcher blocks, how to keep that thing BACTERIA free without throwing a massive block of wood into the sink with soap was my 2nd biggest all-time kitchen puzzler.

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NYC Pizza Cultural Literacy

Any consideration for Ray's on 11th in the historical category? It's a shade of it's former self right now sadly.

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Equipment: How to Buy, Season, and Maintain Cast Iron Cookware

Got it, thanks. I guess the pan just wasn't well seasoned enough at the time. Also 2nd the comment on butcher blocks, how to keep that thing BACTERIA free without throwing a massive block of wood into the sink with soap was my 2nd biggest all-time kitchen puzzler.

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Equipment: How to Buy, Season, and Maintain Cast Iron Cookware

Thanks Kenji, I've always wondered how that worked. Another question - when I used to have a cast iron pan, I would cook steaks at very high heat, leaving really tough crusty charred bits around the pan that simply required a lot of elbow grease to clean up - some bits flatter than others. Do you recommend just leaving this stuff on there? Just getting what you can with a light scrub and leaving the rest?

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Equipment: How to Buy, Season, and Maintain Cast Iron Cookware

Doesn't oil get rancid?? Just rubbing a pan with oil then storing it seems to me to be a recipe for developing a rancid oil coating on a perfectly good pan.

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Baked "Buffalo" Hot Wings

What prevents you from marinating for an hour, rinsing them off, patting them dry, coating them in flour, baking them, then tossing them in sauce again? Then you'd get marinated and crispy.

And if the answer is because the marinating step adds nothing, then why do it - why not just toss in sauce and bake? Why the hour? Thanks!

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Two vegans taking on NYC July 4rth ...

lol savecara. The Per Se of vegan/vegetarian is... Per Se! I would also definitely recommend "veggie dim-sum" on Pell St. off of Mott in Manhattan's Chinatown.

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Bobby's Burger Palace

Not sure if you ever caught a tv episode where Flay talks about shakes (There was one where he talked about both shakes and burgers), but he was very very specific in his belief that a good milk shake MUST be eaten with a spoon. So it seems that your shake was, if anything, less thick than he would have it made (but then again, I'm sure your burgers were more cooked than he would have had it made...)

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Sunday Brunch: Great, Great, Pancakes

I also found it to be KEY that these get served with maple syrup. Kind of a "duh" statement, but when eating them plain (I taste everything as I go), they really do lack sweetness compared to regular diner pancakes.

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Sunday Brunch: Great, Great, Pancakes

I made this recipe for he first time - actually the first time I've made pancakes period. I made the following changes:

3/4 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 tsp almond extract
blueberries (almond and blueberries is classic)
1/3 zest of a lemon (no white)
half the juice of a lemon (instead of the water)

Due to the tartness of the blueberries, and due to the "just a touch runny" consistency of the batter, I'd leave the lemon juice out next time. I'd also back the almond down to 3/4 tsp. Can't wait to do this again, this recipe definitely has big time potential.

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Airport Restaurants by Famous Chefs...

I ate at Bonfire in the delta lounge and it was awesome. The Nachos were embarrassingly large, but beautifully arranged, and (well, ok, it's hard to f these up) the Kobe Beef Corn Dogs had a great presentation as well. I'm definitely eating there again, "airport" food this was not. Just my 2cents.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

poached eggs, spinach puree and potato pancakes with melted cheddar from Elephant and Castle in the Village. You get some 7 grain double sided toast, spread some butter, some spinach, pop the egg over it and enjoy with a spanish latte on the side.

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Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!

stove top - in the bird leaves me feeling a little queasy...

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