Gifted Gourmet

The good news? The stir fry looks and smells delicious! The bad part? Soon the bleeding from my left thumb will cease ... Need to know more about those Dexter cleavers ...

In this day and age, when death need not be quite so permanent, there are videos and internet and recordings .. In short (forgive me 'cause I just had to!), Bobby will always be with us in a manner of speaking ...

Updating this thread with another idea/question: Who talks more about food: men or women? With the advent of such chefs as Ming, Emeril, Bobby, Mario ... I kind of thought maybe no more "how 'bout them White Sox?" ... Still women chat only?

As usual, I plan one thing for dinner and reading the forums here changes my plans completely .. now I am having a stir fry as well .. Chinese eggplant, to be exact ... even dug out my wok ... Thanks for the inspiration!

Tonight's menu includes: Sausage and vegetable soup Salad: carrot rapee (no photo...) Chinese eggplant stirfry Zucchini, olives, tomatoes, garlic dish Chicken breasts a la schnitzel (in panko crumbs) Cranberry-port applesauce Wine, challah Babka (cinnamon) for dessert Shabbat shalom!

Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice story by Sylvia Rosa-Casanova, pictures by Robert Roch. Still Life Stew story by Helena Pittman, pictures by Victoria Raymond. Lunch stories and pictures by Denise Fleming. Too Many Tamales story by Gary Soto, pictures by Ed Martinez. Never Take a Pig to Lunch (And Other Poems about the Fun of Eating) selected and illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott. We Had a Picnic this Sunday Past story by Jacquiline Woodson, illustrations by Diane Greenseid. I believe that many, if not all, of these children's books can be purchased on Amazon. May require some Googling because I am a bit short of time to do so.

You have brought up some good points here which I had not thought about previously ... yes, of course, the feeling of intimacy is especially important and there is nothing like a glare of harsh light to illuminate laugh lines and forehead furrows ... and the energy one spends on analyzing food can indeed be considerable, Marcia ... just never thought about it this way! and from birder 53, which is now something I will listen for when I eat in nice restaurants.

some information here on the taste and we had a thread here on these grapes in which therese describes eating scuppernongs quite expertly!

Sounds as if you are my separated-at-birth sister, Marcia! Talk too much about food? Not possible ...

The Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman, Marla Frazee The artwork alone will be engaging for children who can read the book by themselves already. I have given it as a birthday gift on a few occasions.

The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss (which taught my daughter to read, or so she claimed!) Cherries and Cherry Pits by Vera Williams Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak (a classic I still love!) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

article from the CS Monitor Discussing food, as the author of this article notes sagely, is often a great ice-breaker. Food is generally a common interest for many and is usually neutral unless it becomes political or judgemental. With that in mind, might I inquire: Do you discuss food with others? Whom do you usually do this with? Is this something one can do with friends and strangers alike? Does food chat add to your knowledge base? Does it evoke nostalgic memories?

If you want to do a potato kugel, one simple and the other a bit more complex, try these two recipes from Recipe Gullet

All great ideas .. now how about in a restaurant setting? Which elements make a meal romantic in dining out?

Refrigerated, I would think that your batch is probably just fine.

eGullet thread: Feeling Schmaltzy Ideas for chicken fat .... I use it when I have run out of my Oil of Olay ... (or should I say Oil of Oyvey?)

More vino veritas before they invented the term ...

more on Egyptian wine culture ... .

like the original vines? Hard to tell with a few scrapings from the wine vessels and the ensuing of years, I'll bet ... Does this finding mean we'll have to endure a special of Food Network from Marc Summers "Wines (& their mummies) Unwrapped"?

Tut tut, my man, hopefully not a merlot ...

thread on Apple Mac & Cheese an Alton Brown idea ...

Not yet but after your introduction to it, I will be hunting down a copy for my collection! Thanks for this "lead"! and, best of all, the used copies are only $13.25!

Apple stir fry? Waldorf apple salad? Apple turkey saute? Glazed apple sidedish? Apple yam casserole?

Not so much "swipe" as "receive great inspiration from to enlarge and enrich" the topic and make it less regional .. romance is popular in many parts of the world ... Betcha that romantic dinners occur in Botswana and Boston and Eritrea and Paris and Dubuque ...

Aha! You have isolated one essential element in this statement! Tiny details, when taken together, create the elegance and mood for you .. I can identify ...