Yajna Patni

Oooo andi! this is good to know. I also used to collect coffee makers from all over the world, but my collection had to stop due to my teeny teeny apartment. A few weeks ago i tripped and fell, I was unhurt, but my beloved Chemex was in pieces. They are not hard to find, but i am not realy able to blow 70 bucks on a coffee maker right now. Just that after noon I was in the goodwill, and found a brand new still in the box Yuma vacuum pot from sweet marias. I have used vacuum pots in the past and loved the coffee they make, but my old one with the glass filter was too much of a pain to clean. But this seems meant to be. I have to get some alcohol to fire up the burner. It does look a little more complicated that my vintage one. Any one got tips?

I know it's too late, but a shout out for alexis. My parents live round they corner and eat there a lot, and so do i when i got visit. The food is great.

Syrups are an excellent idea. I didn't drink for a really long time and what frustrated me about non alcoholic drinks was that they were always sweet. I much prefer a not so sweet drink. There is no reason that non alcoholic drinks cant be complex as the boozy ones. I mean....alcohol is tasty stuff, but so is the whole entire spectrum of fruits and vegetables and spices and such that exist. I bet elder flower syrup would be awesome.

If you live somewhere where coconuts grow it is really not that hard to make. I lived for a number of years, a long time ago on small farm on the edge of the Carribean, and while running water and electric were scarce, coconuts were not. I made it almost on a daily basis for cooking drinking etc, and used the oil in my hair. (I still do). Moving then to the North East US, I found the coconuts that I could get were too old, dry and nasty to work. I tried canned milk and thought it tasted weird, and had a nasty texture, really smooth and slimy. However in Chinatown, I found and continue to find frozen coconut milk, mostly from Thailand, that to my taste tastes and behaves much more like the real thing than the can.

To succeed as an actress you have to teach your self to despise food and fat and all of that. Actresses should therefor never host food shows. It would be like Mario Batali discussing exercise regimes.

Shakshouka is a favorite of mine and is easy to make at home. Also, what jenni says is something I have noticed also. Sometimes when people try to cook with out meat, they try to make it very healthy, and leave out salt etc. And the resulting blandness gets blamed on the lack of meat. Kale is not my favorite vegetable, but when I cook it I tend to put it in a vegetable stew kind of thing, tomatoes, white beans, and kale, onions garlic herbs etc, and just let it cook for a good while till the kale is actually almost melty.

I wanted to write a lot about this. I have been vegetarian since I was 14. I am now 50. I do not eat meat or fish. I did not eat eggs till 6 months ago, but that is another story. The reason that it is hard to write a post is that for me, vegetarian is just food. An entire lifetime of cooking and eating and enjoying. That is a lot of ground.

If a tea tastes good to you, then you should enjoy it as you wish and to heck with anyone else. I like some teas with milk and sugar, some with plain sugar or honey, some with lemon and some plain. When someone begins telling me how I am supposed to drink my tea, I am on the way out the door. And I like flavored teas, at which some tea fanciers turn their noses up. If I want to drink my tea out of an old tin cup, that's my choice.

I know JUST what i would say... either heck NO! or else no trouble, you can have that smoker, it will be $450 dollars please.

If you have English ancestry, and I believe you do, you can put it in everything. It is good with potatoes, carrots and peas, it is delicious as tea, mint sauce, ice cream, and mojitos. I like it chopped in salad, in tabouli, on tomatoes with a little olive oil salt and lemon juice. um... almost everywhere. I do not know how to preserve it though.

Gen's guiltless gourmet. It is like watching barbie make plastic food.

That is how I felt. Till I moved to the US and tasted US butter. It just tasted bland and mostly rancid to me. Unless you dropped 7 dollars or more on something that came from a local farm. To be honest I just did not eat butter till kerrygold appeared. It is so much better than what is on offer in a US supermarket, it makes it seem amazing. I used to go home at Christmas and just eat butter and bread for a week.

It is Irish supermarket butter. I do not know if it is so good as much as, apologies every one but American supermarket butter is really bad.

I have been led to understand that Irish Breakfast is Assam and English Keemun and others. I grew up mostly in Dublin and it was just tea. At home we drank Bewley's as Andi mentions, or Barrys. Here the Barry's is called Irish breakfast, at home it is just tea.

I work in an ice cream store, and I have become quite adept at coming home and dumping ice cream into booze, some of my favorites are a scoop of grapefruit sorbet in cold gin, or mango habanero sorbet in a martini. Yum. I do not blend it, i prefer it just all melting and mixing together in scoops. I also like a cosmo. I always feel I should apologize for it, but sometimes I do.

A Ramos fizz! I had everything i needed! I did not shake it for 5 minutes, only one and a half, till my arm nearly dropped off, but it was SO DELICIOUS. I will repeat the experiment. Even though alcohol + cream+ egg seems like so so many more calories than I need. ahahhaha. When did that ever put me off?

I used to grow it in a pot in my apt. I would just give it a haircut into my salad every so often.

Sorrel is very lemony, not peppery like mustard of arugula. Have you tried looking for it in stores where there are vietnamese people? They use sorrel too, I get it from the farmers market from a vietnamese man.

I made a cake that looked like a kitty litter box once. Good times.

I am with Andi, I make my own.

Trader Joe's usually has a list that says which of their cheeses are made with animal or vegetable rennet.

I was going to nominate the legs and eggs buffet at the Foxy Lady, but was beaten to it! scrambled eggs, sausage and a lap dance?

Just a small idea as to how large and varied India is, the 1961 census recognized 1,652 languages spoken as a mother tongue.

I kind of enjoy the pre-divorce blow out couple. What I can't stand is the get a room couples.

I have not eaten meat for 30 years. I would never to a restaurant that did not have at least some kind of focus on vegetables on my own time. But what about when my friends and family celebrate occasions? Am I supposed to sit there with nothing on my plate, and embarrass me and my hosts? Or should I stay home and pretend I do not care who graduated etc. All it takes is a small plate of some steamed vegetables or salad or god forbid frys to make it so I can sit there. I would never hold the quality of what they turn out against the restaurant, but sometimes I need them to bend their stiff necks so I can go along with a party.