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Ham egg and cheese :)

Ribeye

Make sure you have nice heavy 1/2 and 1/4 sheet pans with fitted racks i use them for almost everything. Chicago metallic also makes a Roasting pan that's next on my list.
oh, and oxo pop containers, the one button in the center ones, (think the pantry items on iron chef, you can never have to many and they're like $8-20 each so your guest can choose how much to spend.

Cooks illustrated put together a good lists of kitchen essentials pretty recently. Get the $80 meat thermometer, it's amazing, i got one for christmas and love it. Flip pen what ever it's called, alton brown also uses it.

The first time i had lardo in a pasta sauce in rome. No protein just chunks of tasty tasty fat.

Hill country in the city.

Aww bert and ernie didnt win, I'll recover, and practice my craft until next year. Maybe it'll be the sweedish chef to tie into the food theme. Dr. Frankenstein was the best one there though, great use of light.

eve sucked again, she's out

which brother is which?