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Video: 2009 New Orleans Po-Boy Festival
Okay, so I'm going to a concert in Chicago on Saturday night. I wonder how quickly I can get from there to New Orleans. I'll just start walking down I-90 with a "sashimi po-boy or bust" cardboard sign.
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Pumpkin pie brulee.
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Photo of the Day: Self Service Cranberry Bog
This is pretty awesome.
Video: 2009 New Orleans Po-Boy Festival
Okay, so I'm going to a concert in Chicago on Saturday night. I wonder how quickly I can get from there to New Orleans. I'll just start walking down I-90 with a "sashimi po-boy or bust" cardboard sign.
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Pumpkin pie brulee.
Mmmvelopes: Bacon-flavored Envelopes
Okay, it's officially gone too far.
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Pumpkin pie brulee for the win.
9 Tasty Foods Named After People
Thank you for everything, Ignacio.
Sugar Rush: Caramel Marshmallows at Vosges Haut-Chocolat
As if I didn't love Vosges enough already.
The 'New Yorker' Food Issue
I would guess the chances are pretty good, as it's usually at the front counter of every Borders and Barnes and Noble I've ever been to.
The 'New Yorker' Food Issue
I think the big thing about Trillin is how well he conveys the link between comfort and food. He doesn't beat you over the head with why you should eat boudin or a certain deli's bagels, he just wants you to enjoy food.
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Pumpkin pie brulee.
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Are these all new comments for today? Maybe I'll choose a different answer each day - there are enough wonderful things to choose from. Eh, nah. It's still the pumpkin pie brulee.
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I've got to go with the pumpkin pie brulee. There's always too many desserts at Thanksgiving dinner, but I may have to bring these along.
Gadgets: Pump-Action Potato Smasher by Joseph Joseph
Dadgum it, the Pilgrims didn't need one of these.
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.
Photo of the Day: Self Service Cranberry Bog
Seriously, though, does anyone know if they stay fresher stored in water like this? I say this as someone who bought the bagged cranberries too early and had to throw out a lot more squishy ones than I wanted to. (I would have been sorely tempted to swish a hand through that trough myself. :)
Best Hangover Food?
i go to mcdonalds and get a mc-double with whopper special sauce, and a hot and spicy chicken sandwich, since i wake up after breakfast haha. then i take the mc-double and pull it apart right in the middle. then i take the entire hot and spicy and put it between the two patties of meat and smush it down. it works wonders and doesnt even taste like mcdonalds.
Photo of the Day: Self Service Cranberry Bog
We were at the Fresh Market yesterday and they had this same set-up. And I'm one of those moms who turned around from the clementines to find her 7-year-old swishing the berries around with her hands. She was promptly scolded, of course (even though I had the urge to do the exact same thing). Still, I can't imagine it's any worse than the produce on the shelf that's been fondled and sneezed on by adults.
Photo of the Day: Self Service Cranberry Bog
Oh BTW @Arnold, I neglected to mention ... I wholly agree with you about the Lingonberry being superior. It would certainly be nice if they were as readily available here.
Photo of the Day: Self Service Cranberry Bog
@Arnold, right you are ... none. And I thoroughly enjoy them. Not much about food scares me at all. We all eat about a bushel of dirt in our lifetimes anyway. Unfortunately for some, there's considerably more than that. We're just too antiseptic for our own good. Pass the haggis please, and those great grilled dogs with the natural casings that just snap when you bite 'em.
Photo of the Day: Self Service Cranberry Bog
The Fresh Markets in my are do the same kind of setup.
Photo of the Day: Self Service Cranberry Bog
Yeah, I saw this at Whole Foods. Gave it a great big eye-roll, and a curmudgeonly sigh.
Photo of the Day: Self Service Cranberry Bog
Luna, please explain to us the real difference between a fresh load of cranberries in a sealed plastic bag and the fresh ones sitting in the bog?
Answer is, none really......
Persoanlly I gave up on cranberries years ago and opted for the far superior Scandinavian Lingonberry.
To each their own, Happy Thanksgiving.....
Serious Heat: What's Your Secret Chili Ingredient?
My secret ingredient?
Love...
Photo of the Day: Self Service Cranberry Bog
"Potential sanitary issues aside" ... "Swine Flu Bog, if you ask me" ... Oh puh-lease. Anyone who knows how cranberries are harvested knows this would be the least of their worries. I guess some people avoid farmer's markets at all costs and head for the shrink wrap? Here, have some mushrooms ...
I love this idea. Very cool and very authentic.
Photo of the Day: Self Service Cranberry Bog
Nice, but I wouldn't buy the product from within.
How many youngsters reach in with bare hands and fondle the berries while mom is browsing the fruits?
Swine Flu Bog, if you ask me.......
Photo of the Day: Self Service Cranberry Bog
hahahahaha, this made me laugh like Spongebob!
Photo of the Day: Self Service Cranberry Bog
They have this at Whole Foods as well, I believe.
Video: 2009 New Orleans Po-Boy Festival
Just got back from New Orleans. Po-boy fest was AMAZING. This year, you could vote for your favorite po-boys by texting in a specific number to the organizers.
Several of the winners:
Jacques-imo's Fried Green Tomato & Shrimp Remoulade Po-boy
Gattuso's Roast Beef
(surprised!) Dong Phuong Banh Mi Nem Nuong (Vietnamese BBQ Pork)
and the best overall po-boy was Grand Isle's Shrimp Caminada (which was inspired by Vietnamese food).
Crazy!
Serious Heat: What's Your Secret Chili Ingredient?
The key is suet. Almost impossible to find in New York these days, but the butchers at Ottomanelli will scoop it out of the porterhouse sides by hand if you ask them nicely. Browning the beef (and pork if you use it) in rendered suet gives an incredible depth of flavor.
Beyond this I use freshly ground anchos, pasillas and especially guajillos, with pequins or birdseyes ground in by hand to taste as the chili cooks. My guide is John Thorne, though I add tomato paste and sometimes beer (to deglaze) or pork belly if I have a taste for it. And... onion powder. So not politically correct all the way. But SUET... if you can find it. Some butchers have openly laughed at me when I asked for it. "We used to feed it to the birds!" said one East Village butcher, otherwise a kingly establishment.
Serious Heat: What's Your Secret Chili Ingredient?
My company had a Halloween chili cook off. I entered a vegetarian chili (my first time making chili). The base of it was kidney beans, tomatoes, and lentils. To up the savory quotient, I added several things including:
-carmelized onions deglazed w/ red wine
-roasted corn
-salted, dry-fried mushrooms
-stock made with seaweed and corn cobs (both a big source of natural umami flavor)
My chili turned out really well and I honestly liked it 1st or 2nd best of all the chilies there (out of 20). I ended up losing the vegetarian competition to a chili that had lots of fresh veggies but tasted like salsa.
Serious Heat: What's Your Secret Chili Ingredient?
Young's Double Chocolate Stout and beef shortribs, braised Italian style but in proper Mexican chili spices.
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pumpkin pie brulee!
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I'll go with the Pumpkin Pie Brulee today. (But I'm still planning on making the Brussels Sprouts & Bacon)
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i like the looks of the brussels sprouts gratin
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Chipotle meatballs sound awesoooooome
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Corn Bread Dressing with Pecans and Bacon
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Dorie Greenspan's Holiday Cake. To have 3 hours after dinner with a nice glass of something bubbly. (Probably Alka-Seltzer)
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This is pretty awesome.