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Maybe grandma was the only one that had silvery shiny wallpaper in her kitchen in the 70 but its a great way to keep an eye on the Flames shooting off the stove from the living room....french fries I think...many many grilled or rather Toasted cheese sandwiches turning into flame throwers in the toaster oven...ditto Elios frozen pizza toaster oven....someone came home drunk and hungry one night popped some in then went to bed.....kitchen towels too close to the stove...ummm but mumsie who tried to make frozen pierogis in an omlette pan half filled with oil soon needed to repaint her walls and ceiling.....my mama cant cook........ oooh how could I have forgotten take an untrimmed 3 rib bone in roast add a friend who keeps his gas grill on the screen porch just to whip out a burger now and then mix in sub zero temps and lots of beer there were flames shooting out of every crack and seem of that grill with the guys trying to wheel it out the door into the yard...got it outside (dont know how) turned it off waited in T-shirts for the flames to die down extinguisher at our feet grabbed the hunka hunka burnin love scraped and ate that was some good meat still moist and juicy not rare exactly but tasty better than the green bean cassarole the friend provided tracey

Baked potatoes are a fun way to taste salts also...if I have a great salt I can actually skip the butter....not that I would but a big ol' pinch of Malden sea salt (williams sonoma) on baked potato...MMMmmm you can feel it and taste it too I gave the staff at my chiropractors office a 7 salt tasting one day they thought I was slightly less insane than before it

I once watched my finance(now husband) cook for me thinking I hope to hell he doesnt expect ME to wash all those damn little bowls! My best attempt at organization is cut things and put them back into the little plastic bags they came home from the store in ...unless I already used them for the garbage, because having a LID on the garbage can drives me nuts, although some scraps I shove on the floor and call a dog in to clean up. If I were to remove the onion basket and potato basket and toaster oven and fruit bowl from the counter then I would have more than the 8 inches to right of the cutting board but the cabinets are full Every extra dish used here is one step closer to the septic system acutally exploding and sucking the house down the hole so another option is to prep onto paper towels that I can use to clean up with later anyway. Did I answer the question no I dont think so, does the fact that I accidentally left 3/4 of a can of tomato puree on the counter since last night answer it I am very good at work though...but there we have more work surface than I have floor at home. T

Dishes required for all self-respecting Southern meat'n'threes (rotating basis, Meatloaf Tuesday, etc., quite acceptable): Fried Chicken Chicken Livers Chicken and Dumplins Meatloaf Country Fried Steak A big ole pink ham for Sunday Dinner, cloves optional Whole Turkey Breast, sliced into the gravy Mashed Potatoes Gravy Mac N Cheese Butterbeans Fried Okra Snap Beans w or w/o Baby Potatoes Candied Sweet Potatoes Squash smothered with Onions Cabbage with big ham hunks Greens, any kind, every day (NOT spinach) Blackeyes or Crowders or Purplehulls Potato Salad Slaw Kidney Bean Salad Pea Salad Devilled Eggs Combination Salad (Iceberg, tomato chunks, cucumber, bell pepper) with choice of 1000 or Ranch, or sometimes already tossed, with just mayo and salt Three Bean Five Cup Jello Cubes (NOT blue) Congealed Salad--Crushed pineapple and KoolWhip stirred in before jelling Cornbread---any version, including jalapeno and sour cream; sticks, wedges, squares or muffins, but they better not APPROACH it with the sugar bowl unless they're north of the Tennessee/Kentucky line Rolls Light Bread Biscuits Coconut Cake Chocolate Cake PIES: Chess Chocolate Lemon Icebox Karo Pecan Peach Cobbler And our good fortune: though we live in what my husband calls the "Northernmost Southern State," we have at least three places very close by which serve exactly the above menu, done in exactly the way you'd find it in Natchez or Nashville or Atlanta. ← damn I just ate and I am hungry....cant wait to get to Knoxville this June still dont know where to eat yet....my mother said their must be a Cracker Barrel there We have Cracker Barrel in Jersey

I have to second the AB&G/ MB&G if only for there buffalo shrimp....for some reason anything I have ever had off there regular laminated menu was iffy but the specials have always been exceptional tracey

For a non chinese buffet there is a place around the corner from me called Town Tavern its only open thursday friday saturday they have a real menu but why bother. Just get the seafood lovers ...or loveboat or something 23.95 walk past the salad bar (just kidding) to the chilled king crab claws and shrimp and clams...1st plate, then hit the steamed crab legs fried shrimp steam clams stuffed clams 2nd plate, you could just keep repeating this or move on to carved prime rib, ham or turkey then there is the regular hot buffet stuff, ribletts pasta vegetables meatballs 'taters. but leave room for 2 plates of above average commercial desserts and they have a full bar town tavern macopin rd west milford edit to add they have a private room here which we had for a club Christmas dinner for 30, great for that type of event everyone found something they liked ...like the family in the original post

We did a Carnival Ny to Halifax last fall.... the breakfast buffet was lovely, good assortment and the scrambled eggs were nice and creamy. Lunch buffet was pleasant...nothing was above or below the level of "nice". The main dining room for dinner....the only item subpar and 2 different ways was the Fillet of beef very strong beefy taste and or in a heavy sauce was more like med cooked potroast in flavor. But on the second night my husband realized you could order as much food as you want so if the menu said soup or salad options you could get both....I swear one meal he had soup salad 2 apps and 2 entrees. The food is there, you know there are people on board afraid of the fancy dinner and eating at the deli or burger stand. And... if they have the extravaganza special over the top midnight buffet with photo ops, take some pictures then go get a sandwich. of course the fish and chips, lobster roll and dozen oysters we got on shore beat it all tracey

buffet 23...on rt 23n wayne very well lit..... sushi, king crab legs, grill stations, fresh made hot sugared donuts great vegetables skip the Costco desserts get the soft serve

there is one on Ebay http://search.ebay.com/raymond-calvel_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8

Dollar store ....they are only a dollar while buying aluminum pans at 3 for a dollar I noticed that you could outfit an apartment with tableware for about $5 per person

just cleaned and trimmed 8 pounds of skirt that I opened the cryovac on, this past wednesday yeah it was grey with gnarley things hanging off it....damned tasty though I get it wholesale 8 to 10 lb packs at restaurant supply .....2.29

I found this recipe site a few rears ago after one of my trips http://www.isholf.is/gullis/jo/index.htm you guys are driving me nuts all I can think about now is Icelandic butter really great bread and the lobster soup at Ari i Oggi ok I did eat all the weird stuff too but that butter is to die for I have even had some shipped here tracey

Our true friends are the ones that don't run screaming out the door when we put the plates on the floor after dinner and let the dogs lick them. "Pre-rinse". ← as long as the dogs name isnt "cold water" so later you can say these dishes are as clean as cold water will get em......sorry old joke dont all dog owners have that prerinse cycle??

99% of the time I know why I work days but if I am always serving lunch how can I ever GO to lunch? have fun

Lou seared foi gras would be a wonderful addition on the new menu (hint hint)....oh yeah the question one thing you could try is noting the option to guests that they could have the ?? and ?? from the seared bass with their chicken instead... Gazelle in Ridgewood does this, they also offer an option to have just sides from a list to build your own vegetarian plate. Because I will sometimes forego what I really wanted for an entree if it comes with something yucky , but it is a way to get me to try new things also ....as I found out last time we visited you.... tracey

Last time I was at An American Grill there was a baby at the next table....we held our breath...but its hard to eat that way....The little angel was silent all night and much better dressed than her very pretty mommy...(long john top with a T-shirt and jeans) Next time I will have to let my husband wear his nearly naked lady shirt....just a warning

just as an aside if you try this in an old house with a window over the stove instead of a hood.... and ya stick a fan into said window.... you end up with a grease stain on the screen in the form of a basketball, stich lines and all tracey gonna just use the bbq....hmmm is that why grandma used to fry chicken in a pan on the bbq?

How about this kind of food in the Knoxville area....going there in June and want to stuff myself with biscuts etc.... tracey

i cook the food, i serve the food, i usually ring up the food, i dont get tips..... we probabley tip better the lower the check is..... i am always recalculating in the car to see if it was enough that we can return there someday....never quite sure....once a tab starts getting up to 200 or so i start to panick about money for the rest of the week....should just stay home but whatever we do tip its on the after tax total

O H bakery for the best Danish .....in the new world http://www.ohdanishbakery.com/ got these for Christmas tracey

Has anyone ever seen or used Visions cookware?.....has anyone ever noticed Emeril say never leave cream on the stove unless you want to remodel?..... Well visions cookware gets about as hot as hell really fast and when you are a 23yr old culinary student you obviously know it all Well my first shot at fettucini alfredo was cooked in a glass visions pot and while trying to heat cream and assemble all the rest of the ingrediants it boiled over ....a few times but hey once I got the cheese and the (eggs)? in there it was "looking good"....about 2 min into eating, as it cooled it began to congeal...we ate faster... it took on a life of its own lumps flecks creapy nasty yuchy oh yeah fast forward 10 yrs while we were eating 20 oysters in the dining room I managed to forget that I was giving the last 4 oysters another min or two or 15 on the heat......I did throw that pot out T

My favorite restaurant in Reykjavic is ARI I OGGI...this may be one of my top 10 restaurants anywhere. I have spent a grand total of 10 days in Iceland and eaten 3 meals in that one place. Its a cafe /bar ...some game boards, magazines, students, very casual, service a little umm slow but ......the Lobster soup is to die for chocolate crepes and hot chocolate buried under whipped cream....oh man I really need to get back there...It is only a few doors off the main shopping street up hill, Nellies is on the corner MMmmm lobster soup dont forget to try a hot dog and eat butter at every oportunity we wont discuss the price of Fed-Exing butter to NJ yes I have and a loin of the best damn lamb in the world tracey edit by the way, you do know whats for breakfast right?

I am a few day past on this one but Monday the Thumanns guy brought me a nice pastrami brisket no top round... by Tursday I got around to popping it into the crock pot with a jar of pickle juice saved for the occasion and let her go all day on low after work made coleslaw and toasted some nice rye bread made up a pickle plate a basket of chips....ran the toast under the broiler with loads of swiss cheese and carved that moist fatty dripping steamy brisket all over it one toasty plate at a time ...no time for pics each diner had to come to the kitchen for their hot plate as it was carved had to trim hubbys he doesnt do fat....isnt the fat the point tracey

Ludja any meal posting that mentions butter 5 times is good enough for me