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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks

Ribeye! Ribeye! Ribeye!

There. I've said it. The whole world knows.

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Dinner Tonight: Grilled Chicken with Herb Sauce

I'm no big fan of breast fillet, so I debone legs almost every day - I don't need them in sock-like fullness, just deboned. I slit them legthwise along the thigh bone to the ankle, using a sharp paring or fillet knife, then cut the meat from the bone on both sides, and then start slicing the tendons and connecting tissues away from the 'chicken knee' until i have a flat fillet. Takes maybe 40 seconds. I usually remove the skin but you don't have to. You can split the leg fillet into a thigh and a leg, and you have the basic cut for some great japanese fried katsu or grilled chicken. Cut into smaller bits for stir fry or kebabs. Without the bone it cooks much quicker and more evenly on a grill or fry pan.

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Does anyone carry their own condiments around?

As a musician based in Europe, I travel a lot, and a lot of times bands on tour don't get to choose where and what they are eating. So I carry small bottles of hot sauce with me (el Yucateco Kutbil-Ik) in case something terrible happens, such as being fed in Austria (national dish: schnitzel) or Finland (national dish: cat food).

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The Joys of Bluefish

A recipe well known among fishermen in New England is to clean your bluefish right after catching it, wrap it in heavy duty tinfoil, open up your automobile's engine hood, place the tinfoil on top of the radiator of your car, and drive home (approx. 45 minutes) Sounds bizarre, but people actually do it.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks

Ribeye! Ribeye! Ribeye!

There. I've said it. The whole world knows.

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Dinner Tonight: Grilled Chicken with Herb Sauce

I'm no big fan of breast fillet, so I debone legs almost every day - I don't need them in sock-like fullness, just deboned. I slit them legthwise along the thigh bone to the ankle, using a sharp paring or fillet knife, then cut the meat from the bone on both sides, and then start slicing the tendons and connecting tissues away from the 'chicken knee' until i have a flat fillet. Takes maybe 40 seconds. I usually remove the skin but you don't have to. You can split the leg fillet into a thigh and a leg, and you have the basic cut for some great japanese fried katsu or grilled chicken. Cut into smaller bits for stir fry or kebabs. Without the bone it cooks much quicker and more evenly on a grill or fry pan.

From Talk

Does anyone carry their own condiments around?

As a musician based in Europe, I travel a lot, and a lot of times bands on tour don't get to choose where and what they are eating. So I carry small bottles of hot sauce with me (el Yucateco Kutbil-Ik) in case something terrible happens, such as being fed in Austria (national dish: schnitzel) or Finland (national dish: cat food).

From Serious Eats

The Joys of Bluefish

A recipe well known among fishermen in New England is to clean your bluefish right after catching it, wrap it in heavy duty tinfoil, open up your automobile's engine hood, place the tinfoil on top of the radiator of your car, and drive home (approx. 45 minutes) Sounds bizarre, but people actually do it.

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Cevapi, the Best Ground Meat Product in the World

Thanks for the heads up to my blog "Dumneazu" - but next up is the Banja Luka style cevap... there are two competing cevap styles in Bosnia, and it's hard to choose in Sarajevo, where both coexist on the same streets since so many Bosniaks from Banja Luka were resettled in Sarajevo after the war. Kind of like arguing White Castle versus White Manna... And "sac" burek... mmmm...

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Wechsler's Currywurst Bratwurst, a Taste of Berlin in the East Village

Most places in Berlin don't use any specal curry sauce, they just cut up the wurst, squirt on some ketchup over it - usually Heinz - and then sprinkle curry powder over it. Konnopke's rules, but that's because it is right under the Metro station near my friend's house when I stagger home from a night out.

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Photo of the Day: Crocodile Meat for Sale

Looks like gator. I had alligator once at a LA Cajun music festival. Dare I say it: it tasted like chicken. Chewy, slightly goat-frog-swampy chicken, but not bad. Given the large numbers of poodle-predating gators infesting the canals of Forida, I see no reason that Chinatown (If-It-Moves-Eat-It) should not take advantage of the bounty.

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Top 10 Improbable McDonald's Items from Around the World

Just returned from Chisinau, in Republic of Moldova. The McPlacinta was offered, which is basically a potato knish roll.

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On Smashburger and Smashed Burgers in General

White Manna in Hackensack uses the smash tecnique, and nobody complains about their burgers.

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About zaelic

Website: http://horinca.blogspot.com

Location: Budapest, Hungary

About: Musician, travel writer, ex-chef, trained as an anthropologist, I travel a lot.

Favorite foods: Meat cooked by Turks. Non-meat cooked by Italians. Leave everything else to the noodle joints on East Browdway.

Last bite on earth: Katz's pastrami (juicy cut, please) on rye..