Jason Perlow

what's wrong with the one on the back of the Hershey's chocolate chip bag? Just use better chocolate.

its like a scene from the X files. Mulder: Oh my god Scully, look! Its Egg Roll evisceration! The truth is out there! Scully: Shut up and let me eat my lunch, Mulder.

There used to be a good vietnamese restaurant by Riggs Bank, I dont know if it is still there.

Jersey Boy bagels is also a place where you can sit down and eat, and as far as chain bagels go, they are pretty good, with good accutriments and breakfast sandwiches. No locations in bergen county as far as I know though. Theres one on RT10 in East Hanover and one in Morristown.

Last night we made Klinkbasa with purple cabbage, apples and potatoes. Although we only had tastes of it and ordered out Vietnamese food, since we ate some the sausages with traditional sauerkraut and mustard accutriments earlier in the day and were a bit sausaged out. Rachel browned the sausage, then added: 1 whole red cabbage, cut into large slices 1 granny smith apple, peeled and cubed 1.5 lbs of small red potatoes, quartered 1 lemon, all the juice and a few strips of zest, minced 2 Tbs white vinegar 1 tsp sugar 1/2 cup water After it had braised for about an hour, stirring occasionally, Rachel added a slurry of 1 tsp cornstarch to thicken the juices. The dish was delicious, the unanimous favorite of all that sampled the kielbasa that day.

eccola is a nice place but very, very loud and packed on weekends.

Yeah, had she bothered to ask me I would have answered her :) I actually spent an entire summer in Mexico City, and Celaya in Guanajuato staying with a 2 families and going to language school in 1985. As to knowing exactly how much "bastante" is though....

do you have a title for that Corcoran article? I'm trying to find it on the NYtimes web page, and they dont have a specific jersey section link.

One thing you have to understand about Saigon Republic is that it is not a TRADITIONAL vietnamese restaurant. It is a an excellent asian restaurant, period. The chef is trying new and inventive ways of combining different southeast asian ingredients and cooking techniques. So while she is vietnamese, she has stuff like "pad thai" on the menu but it really isnt pad thai, its a unique noodle dish. The pho soups ARE traditional and are very good but you are missing out by not ordering her specials and other entrees. Everything on that menu is good.

They finally shipped the bordeaux glasses to us as well....

What does Wollensky Grill charge for their burger nowadays?

Tim Tams are the same things that our Australian coordinator, Heather is so fond of, right? http://www.hgworld.com/thingstoeat/article...les/timtams.asp

I wonder if there are any actual differnces in the "flavor" of the sugar cane grown in Cuba, versus sugar cane grown elsewhere. I suppose differences in the soil and such would cause unique impurities.

I like how they define sizes of turkeys on that Kelly Turkeys site... Super Mini Roly Poly Wrolstad Plumpie BBB (Broad Breasted Bronze) the last few sound like descriptors out of a newspaper personals section "hi, I'm a 24 year old Plumpie...."

In the context of the recent discussions regarding MQing, I perceived your signature as a stark reminder of your status. I was playing around with different signatures and avatars last night, it was indeed too large. I decided to settle on the current one until I can get one that is more aesthetically pleasing stark reminder? Thats for addressing Josef Stalin, not Jason Perlow.

Rachel made a yummy roasted chicken using cajun spices stuffed with lemons, which made a fantastic "gravy". Came out really nice and moist. And Jim Dixon's roasted/caramelized cauliflower. God, I can never get tired of that stuff. You definitely need to make 2 heads though.

Fine. And I have no intention of responding to posts from people that use names of spanish blue cheeses as their alias.

So was it worth $375?

oh man that was obnoxious.

Very nice little place but can be EXTREMELY difficult to get into on the weekends. Rachel and I ate there I think twice when we were living in the Cedar Knolls area.

I suppose if it will work for the Japanese (where this reverse osmosis occurs all the time with americanized japanese food such as California Roll) it will work for Indians with Chicken Tikka.

If a dish can "become" american, it can become Indian, or Chinese, or whatever. Certainly other countries are susceptible to the melting pot phenomenon. In India definitely so because its already assimilated so much British food culture already. And BTW, I didn't know it wasn't legitimately Indian or that it came from Birmingham!

Bring back a Turkish coffee pot, with the brass serving tray and demitasse glasses. Also turkish tea glasses and tea, its great stuff. And coffee. And anything in tins.

Sliced Niman Ranch Top Sirloin Chateubriand with Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Saute of Pepper and Onion, and Garlic Saute of Haricot Verts Click for full size picture

Pete, after finishing up most of our punch list... Click for full size