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A restaurant with no liquor license can marinate with alcohol...can they macerate? If they prepped the fruit mixes ahead, put it in the pitcher and present your bottle of wine, cant you pour it in the "decanter"... Tableside Sangria prep just like Guacamole. Me thinks it could work. tracey

This week I have had the pleasure of 2 office parties because I work for a company inside a company, sort of in-sourcing? So first was my employer who served us chicken francaise, baked ziti, steak like stuff,(not bad)rice pilaf, salad, and rolls, with cake, cookies and soda and ....door prizes. The main employer's party was today. Other than being a zoo as families were invited also it was Awsome Puerto Rican station - chicken, plantains, rice n peas Cental American station - roast pork, fried yucca with pickled onions and rice n beans Sushi station Middle East - chickpea salad, hummus, babaganoush, Tamarand bean dip, seasoned toasted pita and olives Cheese and cracker displays with shrimp cocktail The Heartland with roasts and chicken fingers, cocktail weenies, bread etc Chocolate fondue with fruit cake and cookies and Wine, beer, and soda The Heartland was packed, of course, so I had some of everything else and went home tracey oooops this was supposed to be bad meals .....

I always got to open the present from my aunt Ni Ni on Christmas eve because it was new pajamas for the pictures in the morning. ← Were they bunny pajamas with a big fluffy tail on a trap door in the back?!? ← Maaaaybe, well Yes usually the last year I got them they didnt have the rubber grippee feet and I slid down a whole flight of stairs. Good thing it wasnt a bicycle year, Santa usually put them right at the bottom of the stairs. tracey got my oranges

what about pecan pie? tracey

You dont want to go ANYWHERE near this place. Check the health checks thread..you will see why. Also, I know people who have gone there and they said it was horrid. ← i take it you've never been there? shortway's has always intrigued me. now it's on the list! ← Check out the Barn. Marge Shortway still works there every day at 87. When she's not in the kitchen she sits at the bar with a drink and a smoke. ← Geeze I havent been there since I was about 18..shhhhhh tracey

I have heard good things about Roxannes in Mahwah where Nobody's Inn was on Franklin Tpk T

buy one package of ramen, buy everything you like at the salad bar, find that one lonely chicken cutlet/pork chop/small steak in your freezer. Palce ramen block in bowl of hot water and stir fry the rest of ingrediants add softened ramen seasoning pack sesame oil etc to taste serves 2 for about 4 bucks tracey

Halloween night 1992/3 maybe. Dressed as the bride of frankenstien. We jumped on the train From Ridgewood NJ to NYC with pint of vodka and a pint of blackberry brandy. Arrived in Hoboken and hit the bar in the station, took the Path train to the village and proceeded a Papaya/hot dog place...couple of dogs... then on to hit many bars and drink many things including Dr Magilicuddys [sic] had a couple of slices of pizza and moved on to the Rock n Roll Cafe started drinking for real. I crawled out for a few Shish ka bobs from a street vendor around the time we realized we missed the last train out of Hoboken. One guy wanted to give up and drink some more and one girl HAD to be home soon, so we headed for the bus station. We had by then missed the last bus to Ridgewood. We grabbed some Gyros at Bill's next to Mogli's candy store on the corner by Church's fried chicken ( All gone now ) and started thinking, yeah right, We split up, 7 of us and started trying to get a cab back to NJ. Someone scored but the poor guy was freaking when we started piling in. We kept calling him Abdule just because he looked Arab...later I saw his tag. His name really was Abdule. As he dropped us off he asked for directions back to the highway....uh left right straight left look for a sign ok? tracey

Karo bottle for pecan pie Nestle bag for cookies Love Love Love onion soup burgers...but at work I used minced onion and beef base for making meatloaf, just because I could find no other use for minced onion there tracey

The only "cassarole" in my house was lasagna... about 10 yrs ago a friend served it to me accompanied by lipton noodles n sauce stuff and some sort of grilled meat my husbands grandma made it every thanksgiving so my mother did it this year, she used fresh green beans for Me. tracey Italian/beige

I searched the recipe database and did a few topic searches yet I can not locate your recipe or the "chewy chocolate chip cookie thread". If you could either post it to the RecipeGullet or direct link it to this topic it would be appreciated. Thanks. ← I just had to run and pull some out of the oven...really http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=78845 tracey

Does it count if I actually tasted it at the source? Davethecook's shrimp from the Pig Pickin. I went home and made it the next day, and a few weeks later and last week too. I also tasted Larb and roasted cauliflower...the cauliflower is OK I also made the winning entry in the chewy chocolate chip cookie thread...YUMMIES tracey

I cant remember what I was going to grill but I had fired up the webber kettle, went back in to get the meat and POW its raining, no its freekin pouring. Must have been steak or I wouldnt have ....dragged the flaming grill up the stone path through the mud around the cars and across the lawn just to get it near the the covered porch where it still stands since this summer. Ya see we live in a lake front house (oooh aaah) well lakefront means your back/kitchen door is on the street side, so to grill on usuall side of the property is as far from the kitchen as possible. My neighbors dont care that I now have the Webber and an offset smoker on the front I mean back or front or...whatever Lawn... going to smoke butt on Saturday tracey

I have about 100 but really only cook from Betty Crocker's cooky book...owned since 1977 used every year Mexico the Beautiful...used many times but now is lost...ok too big to lose, left at previous job Better Homes New Cook Book for pancakes waffles usually tracey

There is this really nice guy in the mailroom at work that seems to "find" snackfoods and redistribute them.....to us Thursday was an entire giftbox with sausage cheese crackers nuts candy etc...he said to each go ahead and pick one I managed to get the cinn cashews and the dried cranberry pecan carmel corn. Then friday our diabetic boss got a cinn walnut coffee cake which he donated to the breaktime cause, preceded by a buttered roll extra butter breakfast and onion pizza for lunch. Dinner was most of my favorite foods bread, butter, foie gras, lamb sausage, pork belly, duck confit, chocolate mousse cake, ooooh why did I eat beans. In the middle of all this my 5 danish arrived from O&H Bakery......cant eat feel ill. HE eats cherry cheese danish and drags me to the mall at 8am 2pm bacon double cheeseburger my fries and his and diet coke tracey

geee All I was ever served was 12 grapes in a baggie, although I was just thinking that a skewer might be nice. T

I thought we already had this under control... working on something for March maybe tracey

In years past I have done the Sheraton Tara in Parsippany espensive but great and the Sheraton in Hackensack right off rt 17...less expensive but nice....nice view also If your going to drink like a fishy its the best place to be tracey

Ok still not sure if your doing buffet or plated or killer cocktail hour then plated.... I just looked for references on Alaskan cuisine all I really found was game, seafood, berries, and mushrooms. Dont they have giant cabbages too? so without more info I suggest a wild mushroom dish either over grits aka polenta or a mock strudel with cabbage as pastry.... either could be a beg main course or the polenta could be a "pasta" course ....or mushroom and cabbage with pappardell pasta would be tasty too If it is plated with cocktail hour, work your meat in the cocktail hour - beef saty, a nice country ham on biscuts, mini ribs, crab cakes, smoked salmon, then have a fish and a veg dinner option the berries - sorbet or granita of berries or lemon sorbet with an awsome fresh bluesberry sauce on it thats all for now tracey

I have a brand new Polder dual temp one, it is supposed to tell the temp of the meat and the oven or smoker.....me thinks I got a lemon though unless my oven is off by 150 degrees and really rare lamb cooks to 167. oh well going to replace it this weekend my Pyrex one got melted accidentally it was pretty good tracey

I've done it and its a good thing...ooops wrong show I used a plate with a cooling rack on it, then the meat, then a big plastic bowl. The rack keeps the bowl up to give the air room to circulate under it and the meat isnt touched by the plate or the bowl. tracey

There is really nothing more painful then a burn.. I think I would take three cuts to a bad burn.. Like those kids in high school that cut themselves.. EH, I am not impressed.. Show me a burner, now thats a bad ass... Those freaking pulses of pain, what is that.. OMG, whiskey is the only thing.. Ice pretends to be your friend, but coming off it is twice as worse.. ← i gotta disagree on that one, i would rather get a burn than a cut, because when im working on a busy line on a friday night, the last thing i want to have to do is run to the first aid kit, a burn i can deal with until closing, you cant really do that with a cut. ← cuts, get me some duct/packing tape....burns, I am going home to cry/pass out/generally go into shock my poor little hands are a mess right now all sorts of nasty little cuts and abrasions and broken nails and jammed cuticles.....damnable first office job is killing me tracey

The product looks like a cross between pie filling and jam mixed into whipped cream.... to me at least tracey

Well, the rosemary is throwing me, I dont like rosemary...but what I really like with pork roast is an apple cider vinager and apple cider reduction. Get it real syrupy so it is sweet and tart at the same time. tracey

ooh, great site to satisfy our bacteria concerns, thanks. It's on my favorites list now. My husband is way more paranoid about this stuff than I am...but then again, his stomach is much more sensitive and protests when he eats vs. store-brand chicken vs. Purdue wingettes. ← The only beef I ever worry about is ground beef because it is essentially inside out, and I never did like rare burgers....steak on the otherhand should be just barely warm in the center and any roast beef thats not pink better be sauerbratten. tracey