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and would it kill you to wear a sport coat?

I think life would be better if we all dressed better all the time. So put on a god damn tie!

for what this is worth, and let me further preface this by saying I was just a cook on the line, a restaurant I used to work at used to keep the bread bowls for so long the would start to mold on the bottom, and they wanted us to just shave the mold off and serve them. I never would do it. I also never ate there, and never eat there to this day.

belay that last comment. The tish-pishti is nothing like the baklava noted above. Only the syrup concept is the same.

I like the egg, but we roast them, and I think that helps. And as for the sponge cake, by lots of strawberries, or raspberries, or what ever fruit looks good, and make it in to shortcake. My have tish-pishti, which is the pesach baklava noted earlier, but it's all about the nuts.

Things I want in again: Crepes fried scallops baked potatoes french fries fried in beef tallow Howard Stern Things that can go out: Janet Jackson menu writers

I know that Pogophiles knows all the "roadfood" sort of places to eat. Am I allowed to say that phrase here?

God Bayless. What the Bayless where they thinking? Hey JHL, that works pretty well, and it's fun. I see the future, and it's an angus whopper. That they'll charge you twice as much for. And it'll taste just the same. Not that that's bad, since I like the whopper, but... I wonder what the marketing campaign will be? Which "celeb" chef will tout this product? Maybe we could start a pool. I've got Al Roker.

I feel your pain. I was making dessert ( it was a maccaroon inspired "cake" that I was still working out the details on) when I got a phone call from my Mom. My sister in law found this recipe for some dessert, and she really wants to make it, says my Mom. Would that be ok? My head said no, damn it, it's not ok, I've been working on this for a week now, but my mouth said "sure no problem. " So now I'm making, um, nothing. I love the holidays, it's my relatives that I can't stand. So, I just found out my Mom has been lurking around the site. Mom, I still love you, and I know it's not your fault. You didn't marry her. OK?

embarrassing as it is to admit, a powerbar. vamilla crunch.

that's a great idea, but my wife is on a diet, and the boys, well, they'd rather have ice cream

Perhaps you are looking at this backwards. Maybe it is he that should be tempting her with fabulous meat filled recipes. Like a nice meat shake. yum.

I feel your pain. I was making dessert ( it was a maccaroon inspired "cake" that I was still working out the details on) when I got a phone call from my Mom. My sister in law found this recipe for some dessert, and she really wants to make it, says my Mom. Would that be ok? My head said no, damn it, it's not ok, I've been working on this for a week now, but my mouth said "sure no problem. " So now I'm making, um, nothing. I love the holidays, it's my relatives that I can't stand.

Hold the phone there, fella. Mr Rodgers was a kind sweet man. Meet him a few times, talked to him on the phone as well (my mom was an advisor on a book he was working on) and he was never, ever an ass. He was a very kind gentle man.

I think it's funny that we are thinking of ways that this might actually work. And that the ideas are REALLY good. there might be money in this yet...

was he ever found guilty of anything? did he ever get his day in court?

Did they use cream cheese in it too? I thought it was an "only in Michigan" thing.

My Mom (and who would know more about brisket than a jewish mother?) made that brisket, but skiiped the reheating step. It was very tasty. She bounces back and forth between traditional onion/garlic savory, and the sweet with the fruit. I'll eat it any way she cooks it. But there is no way that you are going to feed eight with a brisket that size. Much like Thanksgiving, there has to be leftovers. It's a law. Have fun!

where does the charcoal go?

Novels? You mean books? Like the kind you read? They still make those?

"Spam, sausage and spam. Spam, spam, spam, and spam," etc. (Tana, I don't think we can define what "foreign" means on the "General Topics" board of an international website. If people in France, China, South Africa, and Australia want to bring up their favorite domestic TV series, it would be on topic.) they have TV in other countries? You sure? I thought we owned the rights to all popular culture world-wide.

The Thanksgiving food fight scene at Carla's house on "Cheers". Peter Brady's "pork chops and apple sauce" on the "Brady Bunch". George Shrink's Aunt Eunice making Sho-fly Pie on "George Shrinks". Dan Ackroyd - Bassmaster on SNL.

That's a great life you've got going there, Brooks, thanks for sharing it with us.

Nothing better than making your Mother proud.

Parmesean crusted salmon. Macaroni & cheese (with crumbled bacon for the topping, and the roux made from bacon fat) corn niblets salad with feta and Paul Newman dressing garlic bread Ben & Jerry's coffee heath bar crunch