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Pan fried chorizo mixed with fried pickles.

I have some Scharffenberger Natural Cocoa, with nothing added, and have never made panna cotta... Think maybe that could be used? It HAS to taste good!

Crazy! I went to Rome between Christmas and 12th Night and ate at the Taverna Flavia, too. We had the tiramisu as well. ← What were your thoughts?

What does bison liver taste like i wonder.. I would be curious about the organs. Edit to add: I would definately take the wings from the buffalo a la Jessica Simpson and maybe serve with a side of blue cheese.

Lamb Burgers with rosemary mustard,brioche, onion, and goat cheese.. Chocolate panna cotta pictures to come hopefully if they are worth it.. Eh, i will post my screw up also i guess Edit to add: Made a chocolate panna cotta.. Came out really good however, we just made it a couple of hours ago... We cheated and ate one early.. It will be more firm tomorrow. Used Shcarffenberger bittersweet.. We have had nothing but great results with their chocolate. Amazing! What could be wrong with chocolate, marscopone, heavy cream, and a little gelatin.

I cant give you any recipes, but i can tell you that my favorite tiramisu is served at Tarverna Flavia in Rome.. This was a great restaurant that actually made me extend my time in Rome for one more lunch and dinner there. They would serve it in an old fashion ice cream dish and put one lady finger cut in half at the bottom.. So the rest of the dish was just filled with the cream mixture.. It is So much better that way.

Haha.. I am so unfamiliar with it i mispelled it.. I am looking for the best particular one however.. Like if someone had a favorite or something.

Was in the area last night so I decided to have dinner there.. The whole experience was great.. I really enjoyed the atmosphere.. Really dark and warm.. The service was wonderful as well.. Had the Halim and a potato dish appetizer.. Split the Chicken Tikka and a Lamb Dish.. Everything was wonderful.. Looking foward to going back and trying more dishes.. Has anyone had the mustard fish, it looks really good.

Sorry for wasting a post here, but i need to find a really good black LICOURIOUS for a customer of mine for Valentines Day.. If there is a brand or a store i could go to it would be a big help.

If you can understand why someone would want to eat it once, why would it be hard to understand why someone would want to eat it twice.

And you're a brave man, bringing cheesesteaks home with you. I feel that they have a half-life of about 5 minutes, and decrease in quality simply in the act of being wrapped up (they start to self-steam.) But I suppose a reheated cheesesteak is better than no cheesesteak at all. maybe wrapping them in pizza slices would preserve them somehow... Thanks for your report, we look forward to part 2! ← Actually, I've eaten Pat's cheesesteaks nuked the day after. Or it might have been toaster oven-warmed. But either way, it was reheated the day after and quite respectable. ← I preheat the oven.. I nuke for 30 seconds.. This way the meat gets some heat and you dont burn the bread waiting for the meat to heat up.

provelone and whiz?!? This is an absolutely brilliant construction, but I think it's prohibited by several city ordinances. It's OK, we won't turn you in. It's already been reported in another thread here somewhere that Pat's and Gino's use rolls from different bakeries, neither of which is Amoroso's. And that's one of the big differences, it's a personal taste thing, but I think Pat's rolls are just perfect for a cheesesteak. And you're a brave man, bringing cheesesteaks home with you. I feel that they have a half-life of about 5 minutes, and decrease in quality simply in the act of being wrapped up (they start to self-steam.) But I suppose a reheated cheesesteak is better than no cheesesteak at all. maybe wrapping them in pizza slices would preserve them somehow... Thanks for your report, we look forward to part 2! ← Yeh no doubt that there is going to be a 2nd report.. Also, i am doing that cross country driving trip soon.. So i will post my pittsburg leg here as long as i dont take a wierd route and end up in memphis after K.C. But what i want to know is.. Does anyone think the placement of the cheese has anything to do with the sandwich? I think its a lot better move to take that spatula and rub it over the meat instead of spreading it along the bread..

Yeh.. I dont want to yuck anyone's good time.. But that pizza foldover maneuver sounds like the doings of someone higher then i have ever been.. I have one cheese steak left from the many i brought home with me.. I almost gutted it last night and put it on top of a fresh pizza dough I made last night..

Cooking thai food for someone who only eats seafood.. I have the shrimp tom yum.. Making a fried bass. Anyone have any other things to make.. Would scallops satay be good.

I also wanted to ask.. Down south street.. A block or two away from Jims. There was this pizza place that started with an L. There was a picture of a mystical woman holding a pizza i think. For some reason, me and my girl got a really good vibe about this place. Unfortunately it was closed.. Does anyone know what i am talking about.

Well here is my review of the cheese steaks i ate.. We started around 9 am.. And ended up eating our last one at 11 am due to the fact that lazy old jims opens at 11. We also went to Tony Lukes to find it was closed as people had instructed us.. But we still had to try.. Firstly, I think they all used Amorosa Bread.. Jims got a delivery while i was standing online.. And the others tasted very similar. I am not going to give it a point system.. I will flat out say, Pats is the best.. The meat is the most full of flavor.. And for me the construction of the sandwich is far superior at PATS. The way i get my cheese steak is with provolone and whiz wit onions... At Pats they put the provolone at the bottom of the bread.. They then put the meat on top of the provolone, and then put the cheese whiz on top of the meat.. This way the provolone protects the bread from getting soggy, and then the cheeze whiz can sink into the meat.. Genno's I didnt like the flavor of the meat as much, and to put the whiz on top of the provolone it gets lost.. The meat was too thick, a little dry perhaps, and just lack character. Here is the line outside of Jims.. It was cool to see everyone waiting outside.. I was really hoping for this to be good.. You can also see the bread truck to the left of the line. I loved how compact the sandwich was.. The meat was sliced a lot more thin then the other places.. It seemed more of a loose meat sandwich.. I liked the fact that i could get raw onions or fried onion, and that they served beer.. This was my second favorite place.. So my ranking so far would be: 1: Pats 2: Jims 3: A distant third Genno..

Chocolate!? Two, three, four and five ways. ← Yum - memories My mom is from just outside Cincinnati, and I remember trips to Skyline when we'd go to visit her family. Coincidentally, I just made my family's Cinci chili recipe for a Super Bowl party! We've doctored the spices a little & use steak cubes but it's still the same animal, handed down from my grandmother. There is nothing better than a big bowl of CC on top of spaghetti with some shredded cheese The chocolate confusion might be because it's a little sweeter than Texas/southern chili. Mine uses sugar, also allspice and cumin (among other things). ← I have done several web searches and the majority of the recipes for cinccinati chilis have chocolate in them.. Alot of them have a 1/2 oz of chocolate to 2lbs of meat.

Whats cinci chili.. Chocolate in it? I also think there might be some rice in there too..

When you go on Valentines Day, I would highly recommend that oyster fois gras sea urchin thing i spoke of.. Also, the waitress told me that they either give you three or four oysters depending on the size.. So even if you arent going to split them, tell them you are splitting it and ask for four smaller ones.. They did it for me.

Actually, this year the organizer was named in the Gotti trial and had to step down as chairmen.. The guy that was named to replace him as the chair was again fingered as a mafia memeber.. So, finally, the third person had no ties..

Last night I made three ice creams.. I made a regular vanilla.. A chocolate Gelato, and a cinamon I used for the vanilla: Two cups of Cream Two Cups of Milk Two TableSpoons of Double Strength Vanilla A cup of sugar Pinch of Salt Added chocolate nips while it was mixing towards the end For the cinamon I used: 1 cup whole milk 1 cup whipping cream two 6-inch cinnamon sticks, broken into pieces 4 egg yolks 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon pinch salt Brought the mixture of milk and cream to a boil with the sticks. Let it sit for a half hour off the heat.. Then added that mixture to the whisked eggs, sugar, and ground C. Put that on low heat for a while.. Then did a quick chill with a double bowl sitting in ice. With the gelato... I used Scharfenberger Cocoa as well as Bitter Sweet Chocolate... It came out terrific..

Where are the pictures Burt. HOpe you had a good weekend.

I know city bakery has the jalepeno Hot Choc.

If it were me, the bill wouldnt have come to much more then three hundred dollars after the tip.. Thats terrible you were treated like that.

We ended up driving down saturday, instead of friday night.. On the way down the turnpike we blew a tire completely.. The tire ended up falling off the car.. So we put a donut on the car and drove to a garage i know in Elizabeth New Jersey.. There i got a new tire and and went to a great little cuban cafe.. Alvarez. We had Mamey Shakes and Cuban Sandwiches.. After eating the sandwiches we were in PHilly like an hour later.. We went straight to Redding Terminal.. There we walked around a little bit.. I really wanted a beer and a cigarette.. We didnt get far when we saw the bar and by the bar was this huge Dungeoness Crab in a tank.. We ordered a three pound crab and a bunch of spicy jumbo shrimp.. We sat at the bar and happily ate the seafood.. We walked around for a little bit and we saw Bassetts Ice Cream.. I remember watching a show on this place.. I got a chocolate Double Milk Shake with rainbow sprinkles put in the bottom and she ordered a mint chocolate chip cup.. It was pretty good.. Not the best, but certainly not horrible. We then did our thing during the day and waited for a our reservation at Morimoto... The next day, sunday starting at 9 am we did a cheese steak test. I will post that with pics later. Edit: This weekend was a little hechtic with problems on Friday as well as the tire blowing out.. We have already planned on going back in a month or so.. Next time we will have a few more pics.. And Katie i will have my coupon.