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My prom was there in '86 but I cant remember a damn thing about it tracey

Do Not WASTE that steak..... I usualy use ground beef but have used lefter frozen cooked pork...actually I have just parceled out the last of a huge smoked ham turned into "rice and beans" After that never ending pot of beans he may kill me if I make chili...maybe if I invite the kids up on sunday..... T

I have really really wanted kimchee for a couple of days now, so 4 stores later I had a basket with kimchee, wakame salad, teeny piece of tuna, 2 tilapia filets, baby bok choi, garlic, udon, sesame seeds, broiled eel sushi roll, and sesame nut crunch....oh and Pocky. Grandma just got out of a rehab center so I have been making up all our leftovers into frozen dinners she can nuke. Grabbed them and my groceries and went to her place. Shared with grandma some kimchee, wakame, and eel sushi for lunch. Then gave her some strawberry Pocky to make up for it Went home and made ...soy honey marinated tuna rolled in sesame seeds and pan seared served over wakame salad - floured and seasoned the tilapia with the seasoning packet from the Udon - plain jasmin rice - sauteed the baby bok choi with lots of garlic and carrots with sesame oil and seeds - and put the kimchee on the rice. too many flavors and too much food...oh well tracey

Gave my grandma her first taste of Pocky yesterday, Strawberry. I had to give her something nice after the kimchee, seaweed salad, and broiled eel sushi. Actually she liked everything but the kimchee I told her the Pocky tastes just like a strawberry shortcake icecream bar. T

Smoke em! I have to do some butt on friday I think I will get some turkey legs too thanx T

Chocolate crepes at Ari I Oggi in Reykjavic Iceland...just a chocolate filled crepe covered, no smothered, no devastated by fresh whipped creme....and a hot chocolate also with whipped cream. Even a cup of hot chocolate at the mall was smothered in cream...good place Iceland tracey

Donuts, cinnamon buns, and fruit danish are the only kinds of bread pudding I have ever made. The danish are killer when you use different ones every bite is a surprise. But I dont use any sugar in the custard, just dust the top a little. tracey biscuit donuts are cool

What about the optional dark napkin to avoid lint on your black silk slacks?....If decor appropriate I like the middle ground of a Burgundy napkin. Refolding is fine but groping around my lap isnt. t

Just dont open any old Baileys type creamy stuff ....you dont want to know what they look like affter 5 or so years. t

I put cayenne pepper in my apple pie, and there is not a soup in Euro/American cuisine that doesnt benefit from a good shot of hot sauce. I havent made any Asian soups yet. tracey

Just cheat and make Baked Ziti...everything you would put in lasagna just all mixed up. I will never assume someone knows what baked ziti is anymore, someone asked me last weekend they liked it tracey

I tried octopus at a Greek fair once in a salad and wasnt impressed, it was chewey with a a pretty bad dressing. Fast forward 10 yrs working temporarily at an Italian deli, I couldnt resist, totally tender swimming in oil with red onions and celary. Husband wouldnt touch it though, he just wanted the Thumanns "crab" salad. tracey

Kristin... I have been recently wondering what Burdock tastes like, is there anything you could relate it to ? tracey

Lambykins here too, ran to teh store for steak but always looking for a deal I found 3 packages of lamb chops for 3.99# mixed in with the 9.99# ones Unlike the day I found steaks for .79# I made it out of the store. So we had steaks pan seared with 2 little garlic rubbed lamb chops each served with sauteed onions, baked potato rubbed with sea salt, and salad. Pulled a layer of cake out of the freezer for dessert. T

Just saw a commercial for Fresca's new flavors...peach and black cherry I think. Anyone seen 'em or tried 'em yet? tracey

I havent worked in a Kosher enviroment but was heavy into gourmet sales, mostly "gifty" type items sauces, candies, dressings, etc. If I knew that a product was kosher I would mention it to the client, and often have to give a brief on what that meant. I always just told them that another layer of inspection never hurts and its better for potential food allergies to know off the bat if something contains ...say milk protiens. Many of our clients were in mixed marriages and would be seeking items to serve relatives. Our cakes were Kosher, as long as we sold them sealed in the original box. It was always sweet when neighbors would contract us to send a Shiva gift but I wonder how much got buried in the yard. T

you can start here http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=73801 tracey

Chicken Marbella (sic) used to serve this at one place that I worked...had apricots too T

sesame ( bene) wafer of some kind - maybe something with peanut butter decorated with black and white sesames....peanut and sesame are tradtional African ingredients and ya get the black and white too tracey

Now that I have decided to ...probabley never cook profesionally again I am in the process of throwing out all my nasty stained T-shirts. The only apron I own I actually use for getting celebrity chef signatures. Hated wearing front of the house colored aprons...they never came as clean and fresh smelling as whites. I guess I had better save at least one oversized yucky T for cooking at home. And must learn to keep my grubby hands off my butt...always flour on dark and cinnamon on white. tracey

dinner at Per Se or Alinea or Trotters or a new stove.....no, Dinner tracey

9 pounds of fresh ham and 8 hours of smokin' New grill isnt bad takes alot more fuel and needs to be shoveled out unlike the Weber, but I just happen to have a wood stove shovel. The meat probabley could have gone another few hours, was more of the slicing than pulling texture but I was hungry Should reheat very nicely... for your tuesday drooling pleasures....I really need to get a job tracey

So, if you build it there will be pork yes that is a log cabin....after a meaningful discussion about where to put the beast...( lakefront home streetside is back door/kitchen door - normal homes front yard) so we have a smoker on the "front lawn" I won ....for now. Neighbors dont care they want meat Fired it up last night to burn off the packing oil and this morning puppy and I cook three hours in this uses alot more charcoal than the Weber tracey

That bad boy is the ONLY heat in my BILs apartment in Hoboken Nj....good thing its a small apartment. tracey

I just this min remembered when I started loving lamb. My grandmother let me cook at a very young age and would keep stuff around that I could make myself. Sometimes it was minute steaks...never knew it was often filet mignon that I would pan sear and put on toast, but often it was little lamb steaks/chops the round bone from the leg. They cooked very fast and I loved em. When I took over Easter dinner I started doing a butterflied leg on the BBQ. It never occurred to me anyone might not like it. They Were confused that I was putting the meat on the grill at the same time as setting out the rest of the food on the table. I really dont think anyone in either family had ever grilled a holiday meal before Oh well there is a leg in the freezer but I have to go cook a butt now...well soon tracey