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I am one of those pesky Americans that just want to throw a few cups of whatever in a bowl and add sticks of butter...(mmm sound like pie crust) But I recently wanted to use a recipe that threw me totally off, it actually took me a few days to figure it out and by then I had made a different cake anyway. This recipe was by volume and metric I will stick to bread baking and savory cooking for now, I like the "some of this or that" world tracey

All I am getting is somewhere near Lancaster PA and they have Guitar Hero T

The Fulton Fish market has moved to the Bronx...Hunts Point is the big commercial market over here. Meat Fish Veg ...everything is relocated there now, So says my hubby the refrigeration tech tracey

What would the protein be if I used a infused cream? I'm wondering if cooked bacon will set up? I guess I might have to run a couple of tests and variables. ← some nice trotters would have all the gelatin you need T

Now that is hard core! ← This is Ruhlman's new crusade http://blog.ruhlman.com/ruhlmancom/2007/08...ducingthe-.html tracey

do you know someone with a bbq smoker rig and 12 to 14 hours for drinking? that ham would make some fine BBQ right now tracey

Since no one else seems to understand my need for Korean BBQ (well I dont understand it either) I made a set of dishes that were at least remotely Asian really spicy vinagre poached carrots tossed with cucumbers rainbow chard with oyster sauce broccoli with toasted sesame seeds and raw garlic fried zucchini with garlic and sliced raw chiles and plain old roasted peppers all served with pork tenderloin cutlets marinated in gochujiang, and white rice tracey

Hey I see at least 4 vegetables in there and crispy fried happines and and some creamy potato-y fried happines happiness is healthy tracey

Ok I used to butter my Kraft cheese and eat that cold with no bread, and I still eat frosting out of the can with a spoon, but somehow sprinkles and butter just doesnt do it for me t

Daniel Did you try the Hooters Wings yet? tracey

Minute Rice T

I had the site superintendant at my last job ask the electrician for some pvc that the carpenters could split lengthwise for me to form baguettes...that first batch all went to work with me for paybacks and in reverse form I have used my Ginsu knife to strip bark from a Cedar tree to make a new front porch support at my cabin, and yes the Ginsu will still slice a tomato very nicely tracey

Mmmm real (paper) grocery bags, built to hold lots of stuff, with handles too I have a cloth bag too I think it is hanging in the coat closet T

I grew up with large qantities of chicken cutlets....made some last night actually with tomato sauce and mozz I also make pork schnitzle alot now with gravy and potato dumplings tracey

David my local NJ supermarket thinks so too....just means I have to drive an extra 10 miles to 1 of the 3 local orchards tracey

Is this technique called spatchcocking? I'd read about it but it sounded intimidating in the source I read, but this doesn't sound so bad. I may try it. ← It is indeed... for real fun with chicken and your guests, grab a pair of good kitchen shears and reach into the chicken and start snipping and pulling bones out. About 20 min later you should have just the legs and wing bones left. Stuff the chicken and roast... later when you carve you can cut right across the bird and freak people out tracey

Indeed Opalescent - a great local baking variety the slices hold their shape perfectly and an all butter crust. If I had only remembered the starch to thicken the juices it would have been a 10 tracey

I had another one of these from last nights leftovers....grilled lamb, lettuce, onion, bbq sauce on pita tracey

Grilled boneless leg of lamb seasoned with garlic and onion powder, paprika, cayenne and S & P Lettuce, Tomato, Onion, cucumber dill sauce, bbq sauce and pita become this and then there was Pie tracey

I managed to stay awake and see the whole show myself. It was funny. That cassoulet looked awesome. And I have a can of skyline chili in my cabinet that I pull out to tease my Ohio wife when we discuss chili. Even she thinks that stuff is nasty, but her chili is like Wendy's or something. Terrible. And of course she hates mine, that is made the right way. ← If anyone wants to see a dissertation on Skyline Chili http://offthebroiler.wordpress.com/2007/10...-indians-chili/ T

Does she love it even more than her grandmother's homemade mac&cheese? ← I am afraid so - she also likes canned mushroom soup better than Nana's! In her defence she loves duck, lobster and crab but only the duck is likely to appear on her plate here! ← Kraft dinner is just a totally different dish - I love it, too, but it's a different kind of comfort food. It tastes completely different from homemade, so it's in it's own category rather than being a pale imitation. At least in my experience. ← I always relate Kraft Dinner to Spaghettios - If someone in your family made home made Mac and Cheese you ate Spaghettios...if someone could make tomato sauce and good meatballs you ate Kraft Dinner The first time I tried to make mac and cheese home made I had never even seen the real stuff, I was 24. I melted some cheddar in a bowl with some milk in the microwave. It didnt work I really dont like the real stuff, its all pale and then if its baked with bread cumbs on top....yech yech yech T

Is eating on the Metro legal?... I did have a croissant in a station staircase once (it was raining out) In NY there is no eating allowed and there was once a news story of a woman being ticketed for giving her toddler some juice on a train. tracey

We cruised down the CT Turnpike much faster than we came up it and just in time for lunch (have to keep up you strength on the road) We arrived in New Haven CT for Pizza. Since it was Monday and lunch time I didnt have to worry about which world famous Pizzaria to try only Frank Pepe's is open on Mondays. That was a damn fine pizza, we got the Original with cheese...the regular Original is just tomato... nice thin crust little char on the bottom, crushed tomatoes and mozz. It was a knife and fork deal till it cooled off a little. and that was that had some cold cereal for dinner at home and back to reality tracey

After deciding not to drive an hour north for the 2 for $21.00 lobster dinner we saw on a sign, and crossing off RooBar as too eclectic for our boiled and broiled seafood needs that night we took off with 2 names. Seafood Sams a local chain dive, and the Quarterdeck another little pub right in town. Seafood Sams looked closed, and if it wasnt it looked scarey So back to the Quarterdeck http://www.capecoddiningguide.com/quarterdeck-restaurant.asp Where we indulged ourselves with more stuffed clams, a huge bowl of mussels in white wine and of course a boiled lobster dinner and more baked scallops with sherry for me. As I ordered a vodka cranberry before dinner I was amused to remember this is also know as a cape codder or something. A little more ice cream later and our weekend was almost over... Almost we still had all of Monday to play and started with a snack from the Mary-Ellen's Portuguese bakery, Fried dough with sugar and a Blueberry turnover for the road. We didn't seem to be leaving by the same highways that we came up on, (Duh I missed a turn) and I was getting worried we might miss all the Tim Horton's doughnut shops I had seen on the way up. Not to worry I found one, so I shoved aside the last few bite of breakfast #1 and we dug into this cruller apple fritter vanilla frosted double chocolate bluberry fritter maple frosted Dunkin donuts need not worry

Since we skipped lunch on Saturday I thought it only right to have it twice on Sunday, so when I saw this sign which I remembered from many a Chowhound post we pulled right in and ordered ourselves a 2-way platter of Haddock and Oysters and Onion Rings and French Fries and after a while we got down to the oysters Jacuzzi time - Nap time tracey still had decide where to have dinner