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Hey just wanted to say the food and sunshine have been a boost to my week... and THIS is Yasgurs Farm LOL

We have a local "fine dining" place that repeatedly spells Cioppino as Cippino on their Facebook updates. Tracey

Late '80s family run deli with multiple locations, product name Ham Salad. The construction of ham salad took a feww weeks because it started with a pail of water in the bottom fridge under the deli showcase. Into this pail of water were thrown the "ends" of all pork based deli meats, when there was enough for a batch of ham salad the moldy meat at the top of the pile was trimmed up and the whole lot dumped into a Hobart buffalo chopper. This was mixed with fresh bread crumbs, mustard, mayo, relish, seasonings, and red food color...Voila Ham Salad. I refused to make this item and the owners responce to my opinion that we were going to poison someone was to boil the old meat before making the salad, and then eat heapng piles of it on rye bread. It was frustrating to be in culinary school and working for an "old deli guy" at the same time tracey

Chick-Fil-A is the only reason that I am thankful for the Bergen County NJ Blue Laws...we have had one in Paramus Park Mall since it opened in the '70s. tracey

I thought of this thread last night when my husband cought me sighing at granite counter commercial on TV. We have actually done quite a bit to the kitchen since I moved in, but I wouldn't call it a single remodel. We replaced a "furniture like" cabinet with a dishwasher and smaller cabinet and lopped the bottoms off a couple of uppers that actually went all the way to the counter top. We measured for the new counter ourselves by adding up the width of the dishwasher and the cabinet and ordered custom from Home Depot. The best part was that the seam was now going to be on the other side of the room away from the cutting area...the worst part was that we didnt include the extra inch we needed to open the dishwasher door after putting it in a corner, so the counter top is short on one end DOH. A few years later we replaced the fridge with a nice stainless steel model that opens in the correct direction for the layout LOL And a few more years later we got a beautiful stainless 5 burner stove. At some point I planned on replacing the rest of the cabinets to match the new one but they dont carry it anymore...so I have 3 different kinds in there and the ceilings are maybe 7 ft tall so the uppers are so low the toaster oven is roasting the varnish off the cabinet above it....oh and there is a window over the stove and a door next to it so that is my Ventilation for cooking. Oh well most people walk in and say Nice Stove...not WTF were you thinking so... tracey

Well I found this going through Yahoo.de http://www.landmetzger-schiessl.de/Bruehwurst/Jaegerwurst::55.html which translated looks like this Our hunter sausage - one heartful, delicate sausage sort. For the production of our hunter sausage we use 40 per cent vorgesalzene ham cube insert. This is lean-meat-roasted with as well as mixed with cut up pig belly carefully. For that heartful, delicate taste of our hunter sausage noble nature spices provide, refined with whole dried green pepper grains. tracey

I have been craving Crab for a while now and made this to try to end the craving...eating like this too often may end more than cravings LOL Home Fries, Rib-eye Steak, Jumbo Lump Crab, Asparagus, and Hollandaise Sauce tracey

There are some moments in life when you wish you had the video.... So far all my injuries have been at work - the usuals, tip of the finger into the slicer, splash from the fryer, grilled nuckles on the flat-top etc... One thing that was funny was during a weekly visit to my Chiropracter she asked what the heck I had done to myself and I knd of counted days back on my fingers and remebered that I fallen onto my hip in a puddle of lemon sauce the weekend before tracey

oh YES

My husband seems to have more problems in the winter which I feel is the weight gain (which we both seem to have). He is a Rolaids kinda guy but I have gotten him to try a Gas-Ex (generic)which seems to work just as well as it relieves pressure in the stomach. tracey

After reading this I wondered into the kitchen for a sip of soda and thought about my friend saying on Saturday that she can follow recipes very well but still doesn't think she knows what goes together on her own. As I recalled this I thought about an amazing marinated pork chop with papaya salsa she had made us one night, and looked at the chicken wings in my fridge. Somehow it has now been decided that half those wings will be marinated in Jerk paste and served with pineapple salsa and half will just be Buffalo style. Recipes are for getting ideas, arent they? tracey

I can look out my window and see the lunatics sitting on their buckets on the weekends LOL Actually a few years ago we were out racing the quads and snowmobiles around the lake with the neighbors and someone decided we should make a party. The ladies went for supplies and the guys dragged a few gas grills onto the ice and we had burgers and fresh fish. A very good day. tracey

Since I picked up 4 pounds of bacon at a Pennsylvania smoke house yesterday, I knew I was going with that. We only had 2 eggs left and the only bread was some Oat Nut stuff... So I made some simple pancakes with about 14 small strips of bacon Thick pancakes for my husband, then I add water to the batter and make myself thin ones. It was worth getting 4 pounds of the bacon...the rest of which is nicely vac sealed in 4 to 6oz packets tracey

Have you considered taking the cabinet doors off and replacing them with curtains, it might give the needed airflow to make them usable... I removed some of mine as part of a "renovation" that made my kitchen much more usable but even less attractive (if possible). send Sichuan Peppercorns LOL tracey

Does anyone remember if the last "meal" before just the brown bread was the salt cod gravy or the 5 potatoes? tracey and extra points for anyone who continued onto the next series of books...where did the foreign lady carry the biscits?

I believe I am now a plus 3 Tracey

Between these 2 threads and my friend texting me Long Winter trivia questions everytime it snows (we're in NJ it's snowing alot) I have been laughing to myself all morning. We are going on a little roadtrip today and it feels like one of Pa's trips to the homestaed for hay between storms. I guess it helps the theme that we are heading out to Amish country in PA for a buffet lunch LOL maybe they will have green pumpkin pie. tracey

My lost recipe is for Lemon Poppyseed Muffins, easy right? Well these had ricotta cheese and use liquid veg oil and I can't remember which leavening agent or how much lemon juice and it makes me sad. The recipe was from a teacher at Bergen Community College tracey

Many years ago while working in a corporate kitchen, I left my station for a moment. When I came back to my board to resume slicing Flank steak into strips I nearly lopped off a finger. The knife sharpening service had switched out my knife with a freshly sharpened one. tracey

Pesto, Tapenade, eggplant, ummm

I had the electric one as a kid and loved making peach pie with buttered white bread and canned peaches. At good camping/outdoor stores you can get a Pie Iron it is square but the same idea with a very long handle to hole over a campfire, like this http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/45792?pi=795069&subrnd=0&qs=3021028_pmd_pricegrabber tracey

I dont like the Nestle brand of cookie dough LOL I saw many permutations of the DiGorno plus last week, but not the cookie one. I was picking up a "gift" for my husband because I knew he would be shoveling us out the next day but went with the old skool Tree Tavern Pizza. he does like his "man food" now and then

I was in my early 20s before I hear anyone call sauce "gravy" and it was my "former" M-I-L, So I assumed she was crazy LOL. Her gravy involved frying the tomato paste then adding chunks of beef and pork to the pot to brown. She added chunks of stick peperoni, fresh garlic, dried oregano, I assume salt and pepper (actually it was so salty I almost choked the first time). Canned tomato puree went in and was cooked for a few hours then meatballs and both sweet and hot sausage were run through the broiler and then added. Around lunchtime my husband would start eating the peperoni out of the pot folded in slices of white bread or the bakery rolls left from breakfast. Dinner was around 3pm and included bakery bread, pasta, the meat platter, and iceberg lettuce, cucumber, and tomato salad with Good Seasons packet dressing. I tried a few times to get the balance correct but havent tried the whole deal in a long time. Our local Shoprite Supermarket actually sells a "gravy pack" of meat...a couple of chunks of meat, a hot and a sweet sausage, and a bracciole. tracey

We are in for Friday tracey

I use a double sided scrubby/sponge and do run it through the dishwasher occasionally. I probabley keep them in use 2 months but I have had this purple scrubby for a few years, maybe more it hasn't started to degrade and nothing sticks in it. This also goes into the dishwasher often. http://www2.shopping.com/3M-3M-Scotch-Brite-Purple-Scouring-Pad/info tracey