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The Ten Most Recent Posts By zekks

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Bread recipe question

I was wondering if anyone was familiar with a bakery/patisserie over in London called Apostrophe? They have an apricot & raisin sourdough loaf (dark in color) that I think might be organic/or maybe wheat free? I'm not sure. Anyone have a recipe for it or something similar?

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Venice restaurant recommendations

Going next month with family to Venice. Any recommendations for really good places to eat at that are the most expensive or fanciest. I'm looking for really good food, preferably not fried though. I know there's a lot of discussion out there on this on which places are actually worth going to and which are just tourist traps or overrated. Thanks in advance!

P.S. Also, spending time in London and Amsterdam (we're going on this tour: http://www.affordabletours.com/search/it/?t=HB#w) so if there are suggestion for those places or any of the others too that'd be great too. Thanks again.

The Ten Most Recent Comments By zekks

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My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: Wine Bar Food

chocolate or an apple

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'Top Chef': A New Kind of War

@ shell0724: I have to disgree about Dale. I think that he didn't "only try to rescue a meal that was doomed." He just tried to put his hand in a little bit of everything and I think that instead it appeared that this was his reasoning behind getting into so many different things was that to use that excuse that he did so much so the judges would keep him around. Nothing he did was great. He did a lot of things mediocore. Like its been said before, I think its worse to do a bunch of things at a so-so level than a few at a great level. I think that's why Spike was saved (by the chilean sea bass). I can't disagree with the choice to eliminate Nikki at all but I think that Dale is real close to the chopping block and has become exactly what Spike called him....to put it politely.

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Cook the Book: Cowgirl Cuisine

Homemade spaghetti and meatballs

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Top Chef: Mother's Day Comes Early

My guess about the whole $10 thing was that the chefs were provided other "staples" a la the Top chef pantry in order to be able to overcome it. Not that something like this would ever get mentioned though on the show

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Breakfast Club Ideas!

Personally, I wouldn't mind a sweet chocolate or fruit bread pudding for something more brunchish but for earlier you could try a egg quiche w/vegetables like asparagus, mushrooms, or zucchini

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Cook the Book: Lidia's Italy

usually a homemade fancy dessert

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Cook the Book: The Oprah Magazine Cookbook

I think it'd be Jon Stewart as well. Something like a huge breakfast or a 11 course dinner

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Cook the Book: The River Cottage Cookbook

i would definitely grow tomatoes, hot peppers, zucchini, and carrots

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Cook the Book: The Cornbread Gospels

have to say homemade

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Cook the Book: Wine Bar Food

Lady fingers Strawberry cheesecake

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Cook the Book: Wine Bar Food

Ooohh...that's easy.... Godiva's rasberry filled chocolates, glass of champagne (okay, two glasses) and a long hot bath. Heaven.

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Cook the Book: Wine Bar Food

Anything that is fruity and sweet!

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

Hard boiled egg whites. Don't eat the yellows!

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My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

over medium between two slices of heavily buttered cinnamon raisin bread and a couple of strips of crisply cooked bacon. lots of hot sweet milky coffee to wash it down.

or shirred in salsa with a heavy gooey blanket of melted swiss cheese on top.

but i never, ever eat them that way anymore... now it's hard boiled, or scrambled in a tiny bit of olive oil and garlic with dry toast. accompanied by unsweetened tea with low fat milk.

dang.

sigh...

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Cook the Book: Wine Bar Food

Strawberry & chocolate or cheese!

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

I like eggs in omelets, scrambles, and souffles, and hard-boiled.

About 4 times a year I'll really want poached eggs, but the rest of the time the liquid yolk tastes too eggy (haha, no kidding!). It's just the usual sulfurous, metallic egg-taste that lets me know I'm eating something full of iron and vitamin A, but it's too strong if the yolk isn't set.

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Cook the Book: Wine Bar Food

From Talk

My favorite way to eat an egg is ____

not runny. that's my main criteria. the texture of wobbly egg whites makes me gag.

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Cook the Book: Wine Bar Food