rokinrev

Are there any other Syracuse egulleters? Depends...you buyin? As a almost unemployed minister I don't THINK I'll be available as we are getting ready to head towards Chicago for a conference, but yes, there are other syracuse e-gulleters!

I just got back from a family funeral on the Cape, and on the way out stopped in Albany at my favorite Dragon Bufett on Central...and ran smack into their fourth anniversary...and an expanded menu of even greater proprtions than I remember! http://www.dragonbuffet.net/ This place has "the usual" but also really hand rolled (not hand thawed) sushi, Mongolian BBQ, Hong Kong Noodle Bowls and Congees of all kinds. It also has agar based (jello is animal based, agar based geletin is plant) desserts like the ABC we had at our place that night phaelon. Worth getting off 90 and heading a bit north then towards Schenectady on 5, across from KMart

Tully exit off I-81 south or north. Cross under the highway and go into Tully. It's just past the Nice and Easy at the Motel. I think you enter at the bank sign

Olean- The Library, which used to be ....a library! Hornell- Club 57 has the best Thai salad http://www.club57.net/ Rupert's at the Lodge for anything else Billy Shues for b'fast The Country Kitchen for fish fry

My favorite place in Rochester is in the Wedge district, a store front Veggie place near the Rochester gay/lesbian store. In South Wedge ? - You must mean "Slice of Life" cafe. Veggie Club sandwich with sweet potato chips dusted in tumeric - sound familiar? OH YEA...that's it...it's heck getting old

My favorite place in Rochester is in the Wedge district, a store front Veggie place near the Rochester gay/lesbian store.

well, as a former cook, and a grad of Miss Farmers (yes Virginia there really was a ol dame named Fanny the Farmer) which closed (after 75 years) in 77 due to the encroachment of Johnson and Wales, I'd say 150 give or take the latest one I just got "The Balthezar Cookbook" A LOT of them are church and community ones I have been given/inheritated from the past pastor. These are fascinating and very collectable as they are histories of communities. My leasr fav is the "Road Kill Cookbook", which ,unfortunatly is serious. My fav is still the 9th (war) edition of Fanny Farmer's, which was my Moms.

White Rose bakery Forget it.... not at all worth the trip. There are better places in Herkimer County, belive it or not the best is the TravelStop truck stop just off 90 ( spent 2 years traveling this route 2x a week between Albany and Syracuse Ann Street Deli is a deli, no big whoop. A pretty one yes, but a deli none the less. Try the little place just outside St Johnsville if you want atmosphere. Right on the river even.

I dated a guy for 15 years and he lives off 30th Ave. Best Greek is that little hole in the wall on 30th at the triangle where the grocery is...(help, it's been years since I've been there).... near the 30th/Grand N line bridge We were the only non-Greeks in the place...during World Cup.... and even after... we used it as our local place to go, as did others, even as the neightborhood changed it didn't. Boy, I miss that resturant...him? eh <shrug >

Best Mexican I ever had in the US outside of AZ? A hole in the wall in Dayton OH...first time I ever had cactus (but I digress, OH is NOT Upstate NY...sorry ) And thanx for the welcome docsconz

RE: Dino Barbeque OK, I LIKE Dino. I LOVE Dino sauces, and I can go to the local store (any local store) and get them. But part of Dino is the atmosphere, so you go to Dino, and you bring a book and earplugs if you're alone, or a friend if you're not, and you sit and eat BBQ. My partner goes there a lot with clients. They get there at 5:30, she rolls home at 10, having waited more time than she's eaten. But it's a Syracuse "landmark"...........

One of Kettle Lakes big things (besdes their prices) is that they deal in totally fresh CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) produce from Grindstone Farm in Pulaski that comes in daily during season. No one local eats there....they can't afford it I know, I lived in the next town down the road for 2 years serving their church.

Let's face it folks, "reality TV" (gulp ) is here to stay. It's cheap, it's easy, and americans seem to tolerate it well. Rocco taught us all last summer (and yes, I watched it, i even taped it ) that if you build it, they will come. On his name alone he had so much free publicity on shows like TODAY and Arthur Schwarz' Food Talk (WOR radio 12 noon online) it was a guarenteed ratings hit for beleagured NBC. Heck, it was one of the few non repeats on at the time last year they showed it. So, they will show it just before sweeps this year, and it will leak into that dazzling month of May, probably just after "The Apprentice" and then, thank G-d we won't see it again for another 45 weeks! Me, I like soap operas, so I will probably watch it, and even tape it again. But in the end, it's all about the food. If I had to wait 2 hours for a cold entree, i'd not go, would you?

YUM Scrapple...I miss scrapple Makes my "eyes light up and my tummy say howdy" I've eaten lots of things for b'fast, but I think my fav is a really good bagel with lox and sheamr (cream cheese) and i've eaten some really really baaaad bagels in my life over the country (ND and SD thnk bagels -or DID think bagels were bread doughnuts when I was there in the late 80s)

They tell me that "chez Piggy" also just up the road and across the water is very good

I just finished a quick lurk on the site that sort of brought Phaelon56 and I into the same universe (syracuse.com) and they are lofting kudos to Hooters(!) in Clay (north of Syracuse in a sort of up and coming strip mall kind of way) Me, give me Dino BBQ (near the hospital in Syracuse)or China Road (in Mattydale), but I'm up for anything. Latest addition to our area is Sushi Hana (also Mattydale) and Sahota Palace (replaces Little Thai House in Liverpool). Also sad to report that our one and only Greek place in the 'burbs is now gone (has been on the way for a while) to be replaced by yet another Italian. Guess it's off to Utica if we want Greek Phaelon56, you around? Have you tried any of the new places yet? I did try Sahota Palace for lunch and liked it alot

however, it is available via search in the Times archives . Just type Bitter Melon in the engine. It's probably available in other places too...like a northern chinese recipe book

When I saw your name Jensen, I wondered till I read further in Phaleon's blog if you weren't the person I know who sings in my choral group..... If you are hun, it's a long commute and Petanque , isn't that like carribean bocci? (I grew up in RI)

There are people in Syracuse who would disagree there...think I'm a bit of a pain Glad to be around, may even join a couple of other forums.

Good Day, I am one of Phaelon's compatriots on the Syracuse Dining Club. Just to let you know all of us had a great time the other night and not all of us have opted out of getting involved in this forum. Name's rokinrev (aka Andrea) a minister at large in the Syracuse area, somewhat reponsible on some levels for the dining club as I got personally based on the food forum we were almost all on. Background: 1977 graduate Miss (fanny) Farmer's Cooking School (since closed after 75 years as the oldest cooking school in America), a stint as a sous chef in a seafood resturant and as cook in a private boy's school in RI, BSW and MTS as well as M.Div and ordained in 1989 in the UCC where I am now an interim for the Central NY area. Based out of Syraucse where I "met" Owen online about a year back. And, btw, it was OUR house he was at for the Chinese meal.