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"The origin is unclear, but they are most likely an americanized version of the classic Mexican dish, chile rellenos" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalape%C3%B1o_popper tracey

Since Marlene's gravy was calling to me the other day I had to make something with gravy. I went with pork shoulder braised in Hacker Schorr Dark Weiss beer with just a chopped onion, 2 bay leaves and the teeniest touch of ground cloves. While the oven was going I roasted a few golden beets and purple and white cippolene onions and then finished them in a pot with balsamic, honey and some of the braising liquid. The rest was turned into gravy for the falling apart meat and some potato dumplings tracey

February....... Chef Lo Pinto is at Highlawn right now http://njmg.typepad.com/foodblog/2007/11/c...ng-crave-c.html tracey

Maybe bring it to a quick boil....then keep it in the fridge .... that would make a great deglazing liquide for a pan sauce tracey

Pretty much the same here...I check a few online recipes and pick the one that I have the most ingrediants for. Except last week when I had to have Alton Browns Lava muffins...I substituted some white chocolate and cocoa for the dark chocolate....it worked T

My daughter coordinates a Vegan Thanksgiving dinner at Ramapo College and has ordered 200 cupcakes for Monday...I'll let you know after her event .... Food will be from Veggie Heaven tracey

as you wish T

MMMmmm Big Burner super garlicky shrimp "scampi" served with Simmer Burner perfect sticky rice and asparagus forgot to photo the food after saving the shrimp from the turbo jet front burner, even the good pan with the thick aluminum disk heated Right up....must go bake something tracey

Kerry the Beard Papa "secret" is they freeze the raw choux puff with a thin layer of either cookie or pie dough around it, then bake from frozen all day and fill to order....damn they are good chocolate show and queasy....done that...and bumped (literally) into Jaques Torres too. Mmm chocolate and Jaques tracey

I planned on making either shrimp or salmon for dinner tonight. After work I stopped at the store and called home to see which my husband wanted, I asked him more generically what do you want for dinner? He said anything you dont have to cook because the stove is on the porch....Ummm Pizza or Chinese? Better get pizza there's no room for Chinese He took every piece of furniture, everything that was in or on the furniture, and the fridge out of the kitchen. Then took up the floor and threw out my stove I cant wait till tomorrow, what shall I christen my new 5 burner Stainles Steele GE range with? tracey

Well that was definitely good, hand sliced, fatty pastrami. BUT, if it was a fish you would have had to throw it back for being under weight. After the sandwich Karl went back to the counter to order a hotdog but after a few min of standing there we decided to just give up, fork over the 18 bucks and head to BK. Just kidding I wouldnt let him stop at BK but did promise to make something yummy for dinner. Now I have to order up a Boars Head pastrami and pop it in the crockpot with my secret recipe tracey

In a few weeks I will have an oven with a window!!!! and I wont care as much if things arent cooking as fast as the recipe says, but tonight my dessert took 50% longer than it should have. must be restricted gas flow like you said hmmm tracey

Tonight was onion soup made with onions slow cooked 4 hours on the stove top covered in a le cruset topped with toasted Calandra's baguette and a provolone and swiss combo. Served alongside were cold roast beef (deli) sandwiches on the same bread...buttered for him, oil, vin and oregano s&p for me. followed by molten chocolate cakes with home made roasted banana ice cream tracey oh yeah IT SNOWED HERE TODAY

This evening after about 3 min of careful research I determined I didn't have the ingrediants for what I wanted. I made it anyway. What I wanted was a molten chocolate lava flourless...whatever you call it... to go with Carmelized Banana Icecream. I used some Lindt white chocolate, butter, cocoa powder, eggs, sugar, and flour with Alton Brown's Lava Cupcake method. And it actually worked perfectly except even when I use the actual recipe these things take much longer to bake than the recipe says. New oven in 2 weeks so I won't worry. tracey

I knew there was a chance that this would come back to bite me! That would be the "New Joisey" pronunciation. As in Tony asking Carmela where's that box of shfooyadells! Correct pronunciation can be found here... ← looks the same to me tracey

Abra all I know about carrot greens is that you should cut them off so they dont suck moisture out of the carrots Tracey

When my grandmother was still doing the cooking there was always lasagna and turkey for Thanksgiving...Christmas was lasagna and ham, so was Easter....getting a pattern? even 4th of July usually had at least Baked Ziti. So I say either lasagna or baked ziti ( all the same ingrediants exept mix in a big bowl with cooked ziti instead of layering with lasagna noodles, 5 min -vs- 1 hour) And multi colored shreaded veg can be added to either for color. A big vegetable gratin can be a side or veg main This is easiest if you have a mandoline or V-slicer tracey

how about http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showto...152&hl=chengdu1 I think Ejebud ( http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showto...2908&hl=amazing ) is one of their family by now

What the hell is a zip car? And try Kinchley's super thin crust bar pies in Mahwah..its a dump with long lines and great pizza Public Transporwhat in NJ?...I gotta be 20 miles form the nearest train station Tracey

I havent been able to find a website for them, so I dont think so... Our last dinner there we had seafood stuffed portabellas, and mozzerella en carozza with anchovy sauce for apps and then lobster fra diavolo which also had mussles and clams, and gnocchi with braised beef. They have a very good menu not skewed too heavily to "red sauce" I have unfortunatly seen people in there dressed very casually. T Mmm leftover gnocchi

On a recent show on The Food Network a chef was challenged to do just this thing for a dinner. One item they made was basicaly a meatloaf that looked like choclate cake. They pureed ground beef with a Very dark Mole Barbeque sauce and also made a chicken mousse (could use pork and shrimp) and layered them in a pan to look like a filled chocolate cake, and served slices with more of the sauce on the plate. His dessert that show was a "hot dog" of flash frozen strawberry ice cream in a sponge cake bun with poppy seeds dressed with fruit to look like a Chicago Style Hot Dog tracey ok I found the link...there was also cauliflower ice cream.. http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/re...6_79536,00.html

Berta's Chateau was recently reviewed here... http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showto...0entry1490594 In Bloomingdale is Kopici (973) 283-8112 163 Union Ave, Bloomingdale, NJ 07403 We really like this place, white tablecloth, lovely service, great food, fairly casual crowd. Owner used to be the chef at Macalusos in Hawthorn tracey

They closed on Saturday...it was sold 3 weeks ago but they stayed open for some catering contracts Jeff will begin construction of a new place in Montclair in Dec...so it says here http://njmg.typepad.com/foodblog/2007/11/f...nato-in-ly.html tracey

Maybe just because it was so simple....anyone could think OK, this is just chicken soup with eggs. No foreign ingrediants, no sauces or things chopped up in it. And it tastes good, nice and rich and pretty filling too. Even mom could make it tracey