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Personally, I think it's a brilliant invention; steam comes out, grease, for the most part does not. I think I got mine at either Target or Wal-Mart, but I'm sure that Bed Bath and Beyond would carry them, but you'll pay more! Just be sure the screen is bigger in diameter than your favorite skillet. The screen also doubles as a draining sieve and a cooling rack. Not a uni-tasker at all! (regards to Alton Brown...)

Alinka, many thanks for taking me to a lovely destination that I would never see otherwise! Beautiful food and fabulous pictures.

Chris, will you be only in Miami-Dade Co. area, or are you planning to go further north or south? If you're going to be in Broward Co. (next north from Dade) maybe I could be of help. I'm not working at the moment, so if a driver is needed, or a phone messenger or whatever, please let me know!

Gagh!

I was a carnival worker for perhaps 10 years, and every place that sold candy apples cooked the syrup in unlined copper bowl shaped pots. I have seen food sellers closed down many times in many places, but never ever have I seen a sweets seller closed for using a copper pot!

I feel that there's a vast difference between "food writing", where one might describe a snack of calf fries to be testicles or balls, depending on the tone of the peice being written, and "food quoting" as reporting verbatim a chef's remarks about a situation, recipe, or what ever. I can make a sailor blush in three languages, and vulgarity in writing doesn't particularly affect me one way or the other, but to insert vulgarity just for the sake of vulgarity? Nah, no point.

Now, if only somebod would come out with a study that Pastrami is good for your heart... However, I have been known to rationalize that if I am mostly good, the occasional Pastrami sandwich won't hurt me... so add me to the ranks of the severely depressed as well !! ← It may not be good for the physical muscular pump, but it sure helps the emotional one, especially when you're homesick for "New Yawk"!

Ah, er, shouldn't that be "butter and butter" ? (Ducks and runs...)

Just checked, the book's available on Amazon, both new and used. HTH!

Brilliant; dead f'ing rapid brilliant!

Possibly re-hydrate it and make a marmalade? I seem to recall buying straight tangerine juice at a Whole Paycheck down here a long time ago...

Please don't forget to mention the "folks" that even in these enlightened times, seem to feel that anyone on a bike (of any shape or kind) is a close relative of Satan...

Wavy Lays sandwiching a slice of crispy dill pickle! Yousah!

As a child, saltines dipped into Bosco chocolate syrup (Blech!); as an adult, patty sausages dragged thru real maple syrup. Yum!

Argh! I "don't have permission to use" this link!

Chocolate or lemon pudding cake! Yum! Or maybe a chocolate/coffee kind of thing, with hot coffee substituted for the hot water you pour over! There's a recipe in Recipe Gullet called: Reinvented Chocolate Pudding Cake, (I'm not techno enough to know how to make that a link) that looks extremely good!

Rachel, what a lovely poem that is! I had thought it a quote, and wondered at the attribution; I apoligize that I didn't recognize it as an original!

Please see thread titled "I will Never Again..." to read all about mishaps like this and more!

If you'll click the "Show All" link at the bottom of the emoticon list, it will come up with a larger list which has a "blush" icon. It works well for slightly shamed embarrasment!

When you're shopping a Hispanic market, look for something called Narajana. That's the Spanish fo the sour oranges you want. We get them here in Florida all the time. Also worth trying is a powdered spice mix called mojo seco (dry mojo). Very tasty! ← Actually 'naranja' means orange. Sour orange is 'naranga agria'pronounced na-RAHN-juh ah-LREE-ah (the LR is a rolled r). ← Oops, my bad! Thanks for the lesson!

When you're shopping a Hispanic market, look for something called Narajana. That's the Spanish fo the sour oranges you want. We get them here in Florida all the time. Also worth trying is a powdered spice mix called mojo seco (dry mojo). Very tasty!

This is a famous spot for windsurfing--at the outlet of Waddell Creek at the eastern end of Big Basin Redwood Park. (If you bring two cars you can take a wonderful 14 mile hike that starts deep in the redwoods in the mountains, pass large waterfalls and finally ends up at the beach. The change in terrain over the course of the hike is spectacular.) Green chile or artichoke soup at Duarte's in Pescadero with some of their home made bread alongside and pie for dessert is a good ending to the day. Another good option after coastal hikes in the area is a super burritto at Tres Amigo's on Hwy ! at the junction with Hwy 92 in Half Moon Bay. Windsurfing at Waddell Beach Farther up the coast, just north of Half Moon Bay at Pillar Point is the site of the Maverick's surfing competition and the largest waves in California. They are also among the larges wavest in the world for surfing at 30-70 feet. ← A WONDERFUL 14 MILE HIKE? Sorry, Ludja, but that phrase is totaly oxymoronic to me!

Please all you foragers, remember the original: Euell Gibbons! Some of the best food I ever tasted came from his foraging tips; day lily blooms (the taste is like sonw peas when steam-sauteed with soy sauce) wild onions (not really ramps, but close) and oodles of other stuff. Amazing books, Stalking the Wild Asparagus, various other "Stalking" books, and especially dear to me, Feast on a Diabetic Diet. Too good! Edited because while I CAN spell, I can't type!

Baked beans, huh? My old stand-by comes to mind: fry up a bunch of ground beef (I usually use a pound for 4-6 diners) drain some of the fat off, add a bunch of chopped onion, salt and pepper, garlic (optional) and a good big can of baked beans. Remove the piece of pork fat, if it's in there, and stir well. Then add a good big shot of either maple syrup (the real stuff ONLY!) or molasses, and (the secret) more oregano than you ever figured you'd put in anything... and stir again. Cover, let simmer for an hour or so, checking the liquid every so often and add a bit of water if needed, and serve over noodles. Yummy!

← You forgot the Plant City Strawberry Festival in Plant City, FL right outside Tampa. TOO yummy!