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

when the cheap loud fast fun thing hits again...just go to Chiles its all "fine" ...and one night soon after going to a steak house for a shoe I mean steak...I went to a Chiles and described just how extremely rare I wanted my steak ...now it wasnt the best piece of meat in the world but the damn thing was indeed screaming, fighting back rare as ordered

Clogs work the same muscles that the old Dr Scholes sandals touted Great for your calf muscles which seem to shorten when you stand a lot or wear regular heels. When you walk in clogs you tighten your toes with each step working these muscles. Physical therapist put me in them for kitchen work years ago.....ya know the foot bone - knee bone - lower back bones etc something like that T

Mayo makes the ultimate greasy crispy contrast on a grilled cheese... I dont remember to do it too often cause I really dont like mayo but it doesnt taste like mayo that way What is all this I see about 2 slices of american cheese ??? people five is the minimum toaster oven opens a whole new realm also ....if you like crispy browned cheesey bits put sliced white bread with 5 pieces of cheese each into the toaster oven or broiler let it go until almost black have fun watching it poof then remove the browned cheese and return to heat you can usually get 3 good brown skins then slap cheesey bread together and enjoy with side dish of browned cheese.... semi off topic anyone just put cheese in a non stick pan and let it get brown and crispy I remember drooling at the Silverstone commercials where they did that and it slid right out......make great crisps for plated salads too tracey

I have actually eaten some of those things...have a bottle of Brennivan right on my mantle ...where it will stay forever sealed , noone should ever drink that it is evil but hearing a waitress say ..." you call them Balls, no?" was a trip topper I have actually been to Iceland twice http://www.icelandnaturally.com/index.shtml tracey

I am trying to remember some of the Surreal Gourmets stuff.......ok green eggs and ham was a honyedew round with and apricot or peach half in the middle with prosciutto he did french fries....pound cake cut into strips in a take out fry container with raspberry sauce "ketchup" bacon and toast....bacon was milk chocolate spread on plastic wrap with white choc "combed" in to look like bacon then cut into bacon size strips ...toast was toasted pound cake his shrimp on the barbie was scarey just half a barbie stuck in a plate of shrimp

The mention of coconut milk just popped a light on for me...and reminded me of an icecream recipe I heard a while back something about using frozen bananas so I did a search and found something very "cool" here http://www.justfruitrecipes.com/fru-0070309.html ...non dairy, rich and creamy, nothing fake, well may have to use rum extract I dont know ...not Jewish tracey

This all too strange... as of yesterday around 4 pm I had never heard of a Spiedie then at 7:30 the Food Network had a show on ...protien of all things ..that featured the Spiedie festival held for 3 days each July in Binghamton NY....toooooo weird carry on ..never been there myself

I am a bagel halver only at work....I usually only eat half of anything at work so I can have half of something else too....good thing I work with a skinny little eating machine Now while you all bemoan the wimpy crust on todays bagels I think I may be due for a band-aide change...actually its a total of 4 band-aides on 2 fingers from 1 bagel...pumpernickel it was, before it went into the garbage followed by the knife to the dishwasher and the customer sneaking out.....he came back later today though I got a Bialy at another shop on my way to work...Steins in Montvale not half bad, poppy-onion as it should be and after all the blood and guts I just had to remeber that yesterday was supposed to be my first day off the counter and in the kitchen...chef gave notice then didnt leave...wheres my raise!? ahh when I was much youger I used to get a bagel on my way to work so noone would know I was having 2 every morning T

Absolutely ham in the oven early AM... If you want the lamb dont roll it ...just bone and marinate, if its cut to the thickness of ..."london broil" it only takes 25 min to grill build a nice lasagna/baked ziti/mac and cheese saturday potato gratin can pre bake to a point then just brown on sunday if you do grill keep the asparagus...add zucchini sweet onions eggplant etc...I do these on Saturday and plate then stick in Micro on Sunday anyway...this could be Apps with cheeses and bread or the Veg Bread pudding for dessert... mine uses left over pastries instead of bread and less or no sugar custard ham is cold 10 min after it comes out of the oven anyway ever notice that?

If you stand in front of the inspector looking like a MO-RON saying things like... I have some candy and some chocolate well most of it is chocolate and some chip like thingies and ummm well one bag of those is open already is that OK? and umm umm....they just shoo you and your 6 kilos of Icelandic butter right on through I have also ordered Icelandic lamb and butter FedEx to NJ the only thing I brought back from Italy was booze when I was underage T

Hey everyone feeding those extra kids.... check and see if one of them is mine...18, not too tall, bluish blond hair...havent fed her in a few days actually when I got home there was an open bottle of seltzer on the coffee table and some grape stems.......but no child

I usually just turn these into pork chops...I pick up a whole bonelss loin every few weeks at BJ's...like Costco Tried something new last week had about an 8 inch section in the freezer..(this could have gone very wrong but).... nuked it enough to get the remote digital thermometer probe in there put it into a Le Cruset, poured apple juice on it then S&P and tossed in some pineapple I had in the fridge and 4 bruised juniper berries...set the thermometer for 150 and the oven at 400........basted a few times then after it made temp I reduced the juice to a glaze It was awsome tracey oh served with boiled new potatoes and red cabbage

Apparently, they're very much a delicacy in Iceland. The Icelandic people eat some unusual things, like sheep's head jelly and ram's testicles. ← hey I have eaten that stuff.....I agree AAAAAAACK tracey

has anyone else noticed that Thansgiving can also be a very beige meal....ok cranberry sauce but...shades of beige from white to orangy..... for dinner tonight chicken thighs seared in an LC add 2cups water box of Goya rice Mexicano 1 can corn 1 can diced tomatoes and pop in hot oven for 35 min yummy should be on the box

well I was doing really good for a while but twisted my knee and when it went pop the pizza menu came out...... sunday obscene huge steaks with sauteed onions and homemade butternut squash ravioli with brown butter and pecans monday pasta with meat sauce from the freezer ....nothing else...well girl scout cookies tuesday cheeseburgers tater tots big salad wednesday take out pizza thursday pork loin braised with apple juice beef base and juniper berries with boiled new potatoes sauerkraut and red cabbage....have to love that remote probe thermometer friday out for tacos not too bad and my knee feels a little better

I must admit I never tasted Oatmeal until I was about 30.....Grits at about age 24 (while on vacation in FLA) had some today actually......What grandma gave me was Pastina with milk and butter then later on another pasta called Acini Pepe also with milk and butter....still eat this as often as possible. Sometimes now I make it like risotto cooked in chicken stock with a garlic clove tossed in...at the end I fish out the garlic and smoosh it back in and top with Parmigian cheese Mmmmmm tracey

ok the plate thieves really bug me because no matter how much time my husband spends fussing with his meal he finishes first as far as when I am paying he says straight up to the server "oh no she's got the money" a friend with wealthy parents learned quickly that in real life you only get one fork at Chile's etc... I am actually seeing less of the "do you need change" thankfully and all the way back to bitchslap....having been blessed with many gay friends and co-workers I always hear the term in that sence except for the time our server dropped our apps then quit ...and we were charged for them I rarely speak to management T

add most of Ridgewood too

OK heaving this up with a BIG BUMP How about version 2.0 for early -mid May come on John put in for a day off and lets get this old dog back on its feet tracey

last time I saw chicken fried at home my grandmother....Brooklyn born Italian ....fired up the gas grill and dragged out her mothers big black pan, it wasnt cast iron but it was heavy as hell...she didnt want to mess up her new kitchen. I have a nasty rusty old cast iron pan that I got at a garage sale guess I have to clean it now tracey

Easter is our homes holiday since its usually warm and snow free by then to get the old folks up the mountain to our cabin...yeah right this year someone may have to cary G'ma over the snow drifts. Dinner has finaly evolved into a fairly constant menu : asst snackies including cheeses pepperoni olives veggies moving on to grilled veggies- asparagus sweet onions eggplant zucchini that I do on saturday and plate ready for nuking, Moms lasagna or baked ziti depending on her schedual, baked cola glazed ham shank half, grilled butterflyed leg of lamb that I dry rub on saturday with garlic, onion powder, cayenne, white pepper, oregano, and tons of hot smoked paprika, this only takes about 25 -30 min to cook on the grill. Brother in law and G'ma bring wine, other brother in law brings veggies, Nana brings fruit, Mema brings dessert....everyone over 50 having been so named by my daughter now 18...my poor mother is Mammy past holiday end runs have included having so many people here I had to climb over the back of the couch to get the butter from the kitchen and the general population looking like I was insane for starting the lamb after the cheese plate. we will be having 9, 13 or 15 this year depending on the US Army and my best friends family's homophobia...whatever... just ordered more china from Ebay tracey

Hi all just got back from this great place I found out about on the NY thread...Barnstormer BBQ in Newburgh NY just up the thruway a couple of exits. Since some of NJ is closer to Newburgh than NYC is I just wanted to give them some coverage here. The food is great and close enough if you highway it but those that go antiquing or leaf peeping may know some great driving roads up there too.....well the food is great ....see here http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=58149 i cant get links to work

ok here are the pictures from today...one is a little fuzzy since the batteries were going dead.....we whipped the batteries out of the all important GPS and went on with lunch outside front window inside the wings right before the camers said low battery the PIG OUT after changing batteries the ribs our gracious host ..in front of the smoker

Whew we made it up here today ...the "back roads" directions I had found werent great but.... damn that is good food. Four of us piled into the car to pile into the Q, I made sure someone got the sampler aka The PIG OUT. At that suggestion Jose suddenly went from BBQ Pork sandwich straight to Pig Out while Patty had the Texas Kettle Beef Sandwich, Karl went for the Pulled Pork and I of course had to round it out with a half rack of Ribs. Wings and a bowl of chili were the starters, Awsome wings with a touch of smoke a sweet sauce and I was told a great blue cheese dip, nice meaty chili with a good sting to it (no beans). Jose almost needed his own table for the Pig Out and the paper towel roll on the table started getting unwound pretty fast. There were forks flying across that table fast and furious with keilbasa and ribs going to the less fortunate among us. I got a little tiny bit of Karls pulled pork...perfect, the chopped beef was very rich....Patty made it disappear pretty fast, and the keilbasa was great not at all greasy as commercial versions, really smokey and well spiced, cole slaw was nice and fresh and the baked means really good not too mushy....but the corn bread oh my god...since the butter was a little cold i just dove in plain....plain is not the right word here moist sweet and oh so yummy, given just that cornbread I could have been happy..... After we rolled out of our chairs we were given the tour of the kitchen and huge walk-in stacked with boxes of pig parts ready to be transformed into BBQ. The smoker had just been fired up so there there was no peeking but I did see a whisp of smoke escaping... Well since our ride to Rhinebeck Aerodrome will need more mapping trips...we will be back soon and cant wait to show off this find to our big bad biker club pics next post tracey