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There is one on Ebay...brand new T

Kibbles and Meow Meow have joined in the BBQ fun....well the lounging around part of it and I have switched from Diet Pepsi to Spaten 1 more doggie to meet when he decides to get off his 14 yr old but T

OMG there is a song about Pork Roll?????? must go find this Welcom to posting Utenya! T there is ..there is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KegDMa8BAP4

a little tease for Rachel....3 hours in dried corn pudding for one of the sides, I tasted this a few weeks ago in Lancaster PA and picked some up at Dietrich's meats on Rt 78. That stop was torture since we were on the bike I had about a 4X8 inch space for goodies. We picked up 8 sausage 1lb of bacon ends and the dried corn. T

During a half hearted attempt to tidy up the kitchen I came across a recent grocert receipt so here are some local food prices. Shoprite Items sent with the child to her dorm apartment Francesco Rinaldi tomato sauce 2 for 2.00 Chunk light tuna 3 for 2.00 Pancake syrup store brand 1.50 Bush baked beans 1.25 apple sauce 6pk individual servings 1.50 12pk pepsi cans 4 for 11.00 Ronzoni spaghetti .99 Ronzoni Bowties 1.29 Ramen because all dorms must have ramen 4 for .50 tracey and my pork butt was .99 per pound

NJ is know for "mobster" accents, traffic, over crowding, pizza and tomatoes... Now the Sopranos being the Sopranos we will just pass that one by. The traffic is horrendus, my town has 80.4 sq miles and about 27,000 residents, no over crowding up here except maybe the Bears. I will say the Pizza is great but I dont love the superthin crust best....more on that later in the week, and the tomatoes are the best of course. There is one more iconic NJ food no one mentions though Taylors Pork Roll a/k/a Taylor Ham, Pork Roll, and Trenton Roll. This is a breakfast meat, well its mostly meat....in a deli it comes about the size of a narrow bologna in the supermarket you can get minis. Its not HAM its not a salami or a bologna, nor is it scrapple. It is a wonderfull thing, sliced and scored around the edges so it doesnt curl up and layered on eggs and american cheese on a Kaiser roll Now the Kaiser roll itself is a unique thing also, you can't get them in the supermarket, or a regular bakery, you have to get them in a deli where they come from a few select commercial bakeries like Rockland just over the state line in NY or Anthony and Sons out on Rt 80. The roll is chewy but not too and has a thin almost crispy top always dusted with corn meal or semolina and a few poppy seeds This is the ideal also for the Buttered Toasted roll mentioned in Suzylightning's blog served with a regular....coffee milk 2 sugars...Diet Pepsi for me though. T

Here is an old shot of our smoker rig with our old puppy Biscuit she no longer is here to help out but Kibbles will be getting her nose into things soon I have a 7 pound bone in - skin on shoulder on there now scored and rubbed with onion and garlic powder, sea salt, pepper and paprika. Being "lakefront" our house are built kind of backwards, our street side door is the kitchen door and with the blessing of the nextdoor neighbor my smoker is in that part of the yard, makes things so mush easier. My smoker actually isnt as bad as their mulch pile...just behind it T

Just a 20 mile ride from miss Suzy and were here, still in the far northern reaches of NJ. Ok the fire is started and I am only running 2 hours late Yes we are smokin' today, let me go get the piggy on the grill. Tracey

Ill take that french toast with strawberries and raise you Pancakes with Peaches cooked down with lemon and cinnamon...and of course Bacon I must admit though I let Aunt Jemima back in the house today. After years of trying to make a really good pancake, I finally remembered how. Open box, pour mix, add water, cook. Yup thats what pancakes are supposed to taste like tracey

Someone on another thread just mentioned Wild Cherries, I always called them Crab Cherries growing up and currently I have a tree. As a kid I tasted them and they are very bitter or tannic. Since they are ripening right now is there anything that can be done with them food wise? tracey

MMmm I had some fried fish head at a Japanese buffet Wednesday, partially because it looked good and partially to impress my Chinese co-worker. It was good and did impress him. And it somewhat freaked out the other co-worker at our table eating noodles I remember a friend insisting that Yes she wanted the whole fish to an English challenged waiter, then having to cover the head with a lettuce leaf to eat dinner....he kept asking if she wanted the Whole fish Tracey

Umm plan "spice day" when you can have a big BBQ or something, then you came make a bbq rub and some herb dips and use em all up t

Karen what I really noticed is that every Baptist church in TN was around the corner from .....another Baptist church and since I was never in TN on a Sunday I dont know if Baptist church ladies can cook No country store by me just generic deli/coffee shops T

Shoes are expensive So is fixing plantar fasciitis, mangled achiles tendons, knees and hips Your feet hurt you walk funny, so your knees hurt and you walk funny, and your hips twist sideways and you stop walking. Could be fancy springy shoes or sneakers or clogs are the dream shoes for you but you must find them. For 8 years I wore the same model LA Gear white hightop sneaker -new pair every 3 months. I watched them go from 100 to 20 dollars over that time, then they stopped making them. I survived another 2 yrs on my feet trying other shoe after shoe all the while in PT, it is 2 years out this week and the swelling in my ankles hasn't gone down yet. tracey

Yeast wont be great for cookies and batters that are lightly mixed (no Gluten) There also other chemical reactions happening having to do with Acid/Base that will affect some chocolate and fruit recipes. Like depending on if you have a recipe with Baking Soda or Powder blueberries can turn green and the product looks nasty. Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate) Cream of Tartar (Tartaric Acid) if that helps at all tracey

Rethinking this ..there are also foods that do taste good, for just a moment. Then another flavor compound hits you and a mouthfull of happy goes all wrong. Like a dulce de leche cake filling that also had guava, first you got warm caramel then a strange musky background. Which is no where near as bad as being shocked by goat milk dulche de leche a few months ago...thats really wasn't fair tracey

In the vein of the worst meal at someones house and the anti dinner thread.... How about a food being presented to you that looks really good but taste awful. My hubby just suggested this thread when recalling some "buffalo wings" we were recently served at a christening. They looked perfect moist and saucy...except the sauce was pretty much just ketchup. tracey

At a beer hall in Munich the foreign language menus has little space ships in the corners...ya know for the Aliens. It was cute and the food was good, for a beerhall. tracey

breakfast? http://dominicanrepublic-guide.info/food/culinary.styles/ T

If we all stop buying pork loin ...nah they dont care I recently boin a pork Sirloin roast, much darker meat than the loin next to it. I cut it into 6 chops, shook them and cooked them 20 min at 450...Sirloin much better than Loin. Tracey

I want to try out the Taxi driver Fat Daves tours, he seems like a trip http://www.famousfatdave.com/blog/ tracey

I will take that baton...service set up - go to the garden center and find really cool low planters and bigass flower pot saucers, get some cheap flexable hose, a big plastic tub, duct tape and a few bricks. Extra linens or plastic table cloths for draping would be nice too. Arrange your new "platters and bowls" on the bricks, duct tape hose sections to the flower pot holes and run the hose under the table to the plastic tub, arrange the linens to hide the bricks and hoses, add crushed ice and seafood, garnish and have fun...fear not that your ice will melt onto the floor pretty scarey huh? tracey

I missed the fair but I did have a cool aid pickle back in June...it wasnt terrible Have Fun tracey

Randi I am guessing they wont be ready for BBQ chicken thighs right away. The other way I use them most often is browned and added to a seasoned rice blend to simmer together in the oven. Which really means brown them in a dutch oven and pour on a box of Goya Mexican Rice 2 cups of Water and shove the pot in the oven for 30 min. Something more Rice a Roni like or even Homemade would be good too and if you can cook the chicken and the rice together you can use less of the "seasoning" pack tracey

Check out Melissa's and Penzeys website for all your dried spice, tea, dried fruit and veg, and mushroom needs. even if their prices are steep you may at least be able to see what you would like to bring and find things cheaper at camping stores or sites like Cabellas. Small pack of thing are usually more expensive but reclosing something may speed spoilage. Tracey