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Angela Alaimo

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  1. A few years ago we dry-aged a rib roast using the Alton Brown method. Not only was it delicious, but every time you opened the refrigerator, you got a whiff of beef filling the kitchen. Sort of like roast foreplay, with all that built-up anticipation.

    I'm just saying.

  2. Two things I felt while I was reading this story:

    1) Hungry

    2) Stupefied--These people must have drunk the Kool-Aid if they have convinced themselves this is a Great! Idea! I believe the author was right when he got that cult-y feeling during their alleged dinner together.

    Even the asparagus spears on the plate in the picture looked like they were starving.

    A

  3. I tossed out the oven mittens a long time ago. And the kitchen/side towels are usually wet because we are using them as well, towels. I'm in the pot holder prefer category. We've got all sorts, from the regular quilted cotton-ish ones to a cool Viking leather one (yes Fabby, it works), and several that one of my boys and I made with those little looms and loops. They might be my favorites for everything save a really big heavy roasting pan.

    Oh, and we got a pair of those little potholder-like sleeves you can put on a pan handle at Cracker Barrel a few years ago. We could use a fresh pair--these are a bit burned (see, they work!).

  4. I take a mixed approach, with a heavy dependence upon stochastic theory and the Laws of Quantum Physics.  Effectively, I have come to learn that a cookbook can be in any location in the house at any time.  The only sure thing is that it will not be where I'm looking for it at the precise moment I need it.

    I lol'ed!

    I sometimes find myself in a similar situation and can't help but wonder how the things end up where they do--but I am mighty grateful that I found them!

    PS: Police officer: Do you know how fast you were going?

    Physicist: No, but I know exactly where I am!

  5. Mine are arranged on the bookshelf the way they arrange the items at the grocery store.

    The most often-used ones are at eye-level/in the middle, then the next popular are the two shelves down/one shelf up and the least-used are way up high where I can hardly reach.

    The very bottom shelf holds some wine bottles and they will likely have to go to make room for more cookbooks.

  6. Yay sticks! You should have seen the place before they put in the paved roads. The wagon wheels were always getting stuck in the muddy ruts after the latest hurricane/tropical storm.

    I do have to say we've had power when other places have been without. Must be because of those kerosene lanterns! har har

    Just ate a plateful of vegetables that came from the Brewster Farmers Market and my backyard--I'm going to explode--at least the scraps will be organic and wholesome.

  7. My son, who is going back to school on Friday, has a craving, so we're having boneless, skinless, chicken.........fried steak! <grin>

    I buy those things maybe once a year, because they just don't have that zing--the fact that they are so versatile makes me frustrated that they have no flavor. I made some Chicken Francaise the other night but was able to convince said son we needed to use pork cutlets instead.

    So the final answer is No, never have or have had a craving for BSCB.

  8. I just got the news from Zero Point Zero that the Bourdain in Beirut episode will get a special repeat airing on TLC this Wednesday, August 29, at 10/9C.

    And on a lighter note, Miami Ink will feature Tony getting a skull tattoo on his chest tomorrow night, Tuesday, August 28, at 10/9C.

    Thanks, Louisa! I've been trawling for that episode for months, in frustration!

    Oh, and I thought I had posted this correctly, but I guess I messed up. AB, Ruhrlman, Ripert and Gabrielle Hamilton will be at the 92nd Streeet Y in NYC on 10/23:

    http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?p...tid=T%2DLC5CB05

    Gabrielle Hamilton is so cool--she rocks. And Eric Ripert is so cute...Ok, they're all cute.

    I hadn't seen the India episode until last night (fell asleep)--he sure was right about the colors, and the food! Well, that's why we're watching, eh?

  9. I think they have a very *Z*-ishness to them. Zippy, zingy, that sort of thing.

    As soon as I saw them I could imagine them catching your eye. Don't know exactly what I mean, but something like the set seeming young and edgy.

    Shoot, if you were cooking some of your tasty treats I'd eat them with a paper plate and a broken bamboo skewer. Good luck with your adventure!

  10. Black olives, I've been told, have been chemically treated in some manner to turn them black, and then they are "sterilized". I reckon those steps are what give them their own special taste.

    Back when I lived in the old country, southern Indiana, we only had little green olives with the pimentos in the middle. It wasn't until I was in my late teens before I learned about the exotic black olive.

    We usually keep both the black ones and real (untreated? unpitted? You know what I mean) ones around the house. And we also get jars of some big green ones that Goya sells, pull out the pimentos, an install a blanched almond instead. A little time back in the brine and you get a usually-expensive treat for a fraction of the cost. Wonder if it would work with the black ones?

  11. And put those eggshells around your roses--they like the calcium.

    .... and the ashes from your grill too, for that matter. Burned organic material is highly acidic and roses love it.

    I am fairly sure that as soon as those ashes get wet they produce lye, which is strongly basic, not acidic.

    You know, I was scratching my head, thinking that wood ashes are basic, but then scratching the other side thinking well how could that be? Oughtn't they be acidic?

    Which means my confusion was right all along, somewhat. Thanks!

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