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What are you asking Santa (or whomever) to bring you?
I'd like the Momofuku book and a food mill. And some Vosges marshmallows.
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
I love pumpkin pie as much as the next guy, but I'll always be a sucker for salted and baked pumpkin seeds. mmm.
What's your favorite food when drunk?
Gyro and BBQ fries = best late-night food. McDonald's fountain coke = best morning-after drink.
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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Even though we're not even close to Italian, my grandmother's spaghetti and meatballs still holds my heart. That's true comfort food for me.
What are you asking Santa (or whomever) to bring you?
I'd like the Momofuku book and a food mill. And some Vosges marshmallows.
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
I love pumpkin pie as much as the next guy, but I'll always be a sucker for salted and baked pumpkin seeds. mmm.
What's your favorite food when drunk?
Gyro and BBQ fries = best late-night food. McDonald's fountain coke = best morning-after drink.
Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
Absurdly large plates of breakfast potatoes and pepper-filled omelets.
Who Likes Grape Soda?
I'm willing to bet that I love grape soda more than anyone else on the internets.
What's Your Favorite Food Court Stop?
Orange Julius wins, although I have a HUGE soft spot for greasy Sbarro's. Oh, and Hot Sam's pizza pretzels.
The Tornado Potato Touches Down in the U.S.
I'm giving serious thought to going to the Minnesota State Fair just to eat.
Cute, Morbid Sushi Figures
I need this print badly.
Cook the Book: 'L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook'
There's a bakery from the Chicago area called Galway Bakery who was out here for a farmers market a couple of weeks ago with the best gingerbread EVER. That earned them #1 on my list for the moment.
Cook the Book: 'Modern Spice'
I think I'd go Japanese as well. My knife skills could use a lesson or ten.
Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling
We would spend a lot of time during the summers grow up at a little cottage my grandparents had in southern Wisconsin. Every single morning, my grandfather and I would go out fishing until lunchtime. Upon returning, he would clean and prepare the fish and my grandmother and I would work on the rest of the meal for that night. Such fun.
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
Going to a few places around San Antonio with my mom when she finally visited for the first time since her teens. Besides the obvious nostalgic aspect for her, I had some very good tacos.
Served: The Pleasure and Horror of Brunch
There are few things in life that I enjoy as much as Sunday morning drinking.
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
I make my lasagna with a red pepper puree instead of tomato sauce. I don't know if it's everyone's thing, but I love it.
Valentine's Day Giveaway: Macarons from Itzy Bitzy Patisserie
Coconut with key lime filling. oh boy.
Wall Street CEOs, Get Familiar with Ramen
What was the sodium content in that post?
The Great Fast-Food Wings Taste Test
Eh, those CitySearch things aren't surveys, though. They're basically awards for whoever spends the most in advertising money for the local paper or whoever puts together the results. I'm not going to eat any of these wings, but it doesn't offend me to see the post.
A Thai Pizza Has Bacon and Cheese Stuffed in the Crust
It makes me uncomfortable that I agree with the last three comments, yet still want very badly to try this.
Photo of the Day: The Lord Works in Mysterious Ways
It's a good thing that doesn't resemble my handwriting or I would probably be under suspicion.
Chewing the Fat: Batali and Bourdain on Sex
Okay, it's too early in the morning to listen to Batali talk about sex.
'Culinary Slumming'
Isn't the "foodie" persona just one who eats for pleasure? It's not like foodie automatically equals gourmet. You really shouldn't feel guilty about a pleasure unless you're eating handfuls of lard out of the bucket or something like that. And even then, I might be swayed.
The Steak Sandwich to End All Steak Sandwiches
Jarritos is good stuff. The lime flavor is quite nice.
In Videos: Barack Obama Doesn't Know What a Half-Smoke Is
I care about free chili. mmm.
Domino's Oven Baked Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich: No Cheese, No Steak, Lots of Bread
I don't know. I really don't want bigger portions of crappy food. It's sort of like asking someone to kick you harder in the junk.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Coming from a Turkish household, my favorite family dinner is mercimek çorbasi (lentil soup) with köfte (ground beef/meatball-like patties), domatesli pilav (tomato rice), and yogurt.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Favorite family dinner would have to be my childhood birthday meal of Earl Abel's fried chicken and black bottom pie.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Sauerbraten and homemade sides.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Really anything, as long as it's accompanied by family and laughter. We often have shrimp scampi in the summer and a roast with Yorkshire Pudding in the winter....mmm.... :)
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Our favorite family dinner is Homemade Lasagna with a green salad and homemade yeast rolls.
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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
spaghetti and meatballs
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
We called it "chicken and glop", but it was chicken and rice. How did my mother put up with us?
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
It depends on the weather for me, but at this time of year it's roast chicken, mashed potatoes, peas (homegrown, please; frozen peas from the store are inevitably overripe), green salad, and pie.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
meatloaf and mashed potatoes!
What are you asking Santa (or whomever) to bring you?
a boyfriend to cook for...
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
My favorite family dinner would have to be posole. We have it every christmas eve with fresh tamales and it is sooo good.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Gosh, my favorite family dinner!? That's hard . My family is full of great cooks so I guess it has more to do with the atmosphere. So then I would have to go with Christmas eve dinner. 14 cousins plus 16 Aunts and Uncles all eating and drinking and being merry. Usually there's a goose (which doesn't hurt) and floating islands for desert. super yummm, it warms my heart just to think about it.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
ribs. lasagna. soup. anything my mom makes
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Our favorite comfort food is mapo tofu - spicy and warming - over rice with some sauteed greens. Something about one bowl foods you can hold in your hand do it for us...
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Pasta with meat sauce and bread!
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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Boring but comforting - an overly stuffed tuna salad sandwich, on wonderful crusty rye bread, a slight smear of mayo, crisp iceberg lettuce, juicy tomato, cut in half please.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Irish Coddle. A big pot, almost stew but with not quite enough liquid, of potatoes, bacon, sausage and onion. Gets you fattened up for hibernation season.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
barbeque salmon and broccoli slaw, mom's favorite summer specialty
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
One of my favorite family meals is banh xeo. They're savory, yellow crepes and having all sorts of people in my family through marriage, some being born in Vietnam, some being born here, etc., my mom gets a lot of different requests as to what to put in them. First she makes the vegetarian kind for those folks then regular Americanized ones then the hardcore ones.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
(I posted this in the wrong place earlier today--so this is a "re"post!) A general comment about all the "Cook the Book" posts and recipes: The publishers are very smart to provide five free copies to SE because your write-ups have caused me to go online and buy many many cookbooks that I never would have known about otherwise! Sometimes I enter the giveaway with a comment, but I know my chances of winning are slim, so I go ahead and order the book in a frenzy of impatience. The Mark Peel cookbook is an example; it will be winging its way to me today because I love the cover photo and the recipes for green bean salad and mashed potatoes--and I can't wait to receive it! This has been true for several other cookbooks, too. (One time I actually won the cookbook in the SE giveaway, and had to give that second copy to my son. He was Seriously Happy!)
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
My favorite family dinner that I make for my roomies is pulled pork sandwiches! Maybe a side of spicy thai cole slaw.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Homemade pizza! Usually 3 different varieties... last time it was alfredo sauce, fresh mozz, marinated artichoke hearts, baby spinach, leftover grilled chicken; marinara, fresh mozz, diced fresh pineapple, julienned canadian bacon, and oregano; and marinara, shredded mozz, and pepperoni for the kids. Everyone gets to help and everyone gets what they want. Then a big caesar salad w/homemade croutons and dressing.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
fried chicken & mashed potatoes!
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
I would have to say that my favorite has always been a tie between my grandmothers beef roast and fried chicken. The roast was always cooked with carrots and potatoes that was grown in our garden, served with green beans that we canned our self, and cabbage slaw made with Italian dressing. The fried chicken was always served with mashed potatoes, fried squash from our garden, fried okra from our garden, and green beans. Their was always rolls to go with it, slathered with jelly she had canned. She always makes gravy, brown from the roast, or light white gravy from the fried chicken. It's always better when my grandmother makes it, even if my mother tries to replicate it.
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Even though we're not even close to Italian, my grandmother's spaghetti and meatballs still holds my heart. That's true comfort food for me.