Rebecca263

If I was a guest at your B & B I would be hard pressed to eat only ONE breakfast order. How does one choose between rack of lamb with a cheese phyllo roll in that lovely preparation and omelette with smoked snoek fish cakes? My partner would NEVER get to eat their meal, if I had to order only one meal at a time. How do you handle gluttinous patrons? Do you offer an additional menu for extra ordering by hungry girls?

Black Jack! That gum is still available. Yum. How about SenSen? I adore that stuff. I eat a lot of licorice, and I chew on sticks of the root when I'm at the hospital. It gives me something to focus on without eating sugar or salt. Does anyone remember the soft Callard & Bowser licorice? That and their hard butterscotch, oh, I dream of them!

Well, here on the Monmouth/Middlesex County lines I can only find KP Coca Cola in DIET so far! AArrrggghh, I had better luck in Miami!

What I'm enjoying is how you mention the (to my ears) exotic in such an offhand way. "I have two loin of warthog"... priceless.

I don't know, Ling. I tried everything that you showed us here, it all tasted like computer screen to me. Seriously, I get a really bad sugar high when I eat a lot of chocolate, did that happen to you? Drinking lots of water and taking 3 aspirin when I go to sleep helps me to feel better the next day. (Notice, I haven't stopped over indulging, just learned how to compensate).

I'm looking in Monmouth/Middlesex borderline area, too. I'm rationing the Mexican Coca Cola until we can find some Passover Coca Cola. Woo hoo! It's the time of year for binging on Passover Coca Cola, marshmallows AND stocking up on ketchup and chocolate syrup! If you can't take corn syrup, Passover is your "Christmas in April". Haha! edited by me: bigning, hahaha!

Beautiful place, and I can see that this blog will be unique and full of gorgeous moments. Smoked crocodile? Wow. Thank you.

This book has had a recent rise in it's popularity, at least here, in Monmouth County! I'm still on the wait list. Hmmm.

I don't know how you managed to eat so much this week, dear, but I'm grateful to you for taking a week for the team here on eGullet! Now, whenever I see your posts, I'll have a face and the feeling of your personality to put to your name, and I'm glad to have the chance to follow you and learn a bit about your life, aside from the amazing meals! Thank you. My wish for you is that you'll have many, many more wonderful "chestnuts filling the air" (to paraphrase) moments ahead.

At my favorite flea market in Hialeah (at the Dog Track), there is a guy who sells ceviche out of coolers, he sells out by noon every day! There is also a family that sells Cuban pastries, I hate them because I CAN NOT resist their products. There is no substitute for true passion when it comes to making guava filling. I think that you should make what YOU are passionate about , not just what you think will sell. If you are really passionate about it, instead of just passionate about 'being the best at something', it will show, and your business will have an edge. Marketing and just wanting to be known as the best by being clean looking and such won't really get you the same results as a true passion. It sounds to me as if you are passionate about having a reputation, but not about the product, as yet. Close your eyes, think about your favorite foods, and go from there. Tripe? Fine, go for it. Onion balls on a stick? (anything on a stick is good, if you ask me) Great! Pho? Who knew? Educate and elucidate the world! Find your true niche by finding your true food passion. I honestly believe that the rest of your drive will take you far, once you find your own food passion.

Can I share with you all? My father loves Ashkenazi charoset and my mother NEVER made us the traditional Sephardic date charoset that the rest of our family eats! I LOVE charoset made with apples, walnuts, raisins, cinnamon and wine. And, we always have to make literally at least a gallon of it, EVERYONE seems to eat it by the bowlful. Gee, Daddy eats with my stepmother's children every year, because they are more observant. I should sneak him some of our charoset this year, I believe. He might have to eat it out on the front steps, but so what! You know, I am really enjoying hearing about everyone's Passover plans here, I'm not allowed to help this year and I miss it. Thank you all for sharing!

About to start it, tomorrow. I'll let you know. BTW, the Joy of Cooking? Eh, not so much a joy to me, I just don't get the charm. I'm more for the narrower interest books, myself. JOC is going up on the block next week. As usual! There was a period of time when I had over fifty various copies in my shop, many years ago! I sold them for a buck apiece, and gave them away with purchases of 12 books, as my 'bakers' dozen' special! OT, Star Trek books and romance novels were other give aways. Can you say ubiquitous? A local shop has a dozen copies of JOC right now. Poor guy. They're all recent editions. Worthless.

Someday I'M going to open the place I've wanted to find at the flea markets, I tell you! I am a flea marketer. Almost full time. I want really high quality french fries in a paper cone, vinegared, with a pick, so I can eat them while I'm moving. I want a salt baked potato on a stick. I want a decent cup of home made soup. I want a decent pickle, too. I DON'T want seafood, eggs, tacos, bbq, funnel cakes, sausage sandwiches,or another corn dog stand. Every one of those items takes away from my time to deal, and is MESSY. Plus, I feel so full, and sometimes icky from the greasy intake, afterwards, I can't function. It reminds NOT to eat at those places as often. Maybe a fried Twinkie or Oreo from time to time, but not as a steady item. Fresh juice, and lemonade, oh yeah! The Englishtown guys make me a lemonade without sugar all of the time, that and a pickle are quality food items that are distinctive to the market, I can walk around with them and not feel sickly full and gluttonous after eating them, and that is nice!

Salt baked potatoes, french fries and soup. Seriously. You can stick a tongue depresser into the salt bakeds, serve the fries in a paper cone, and the soups in a coffee container, with lid. Rotate your soups and you'll have a major hit. Distinctive, too!

My only complaint is that she didn't sleep with the men I'm interested in knowing about. Who wants to know about Clint Eastwood and those guys? Tell me about Francois Truffaut. Still, the chef at Le Cirque? Think of the appetizers!

Gee, I have a small stock pot, a dairy pot, 2 small pans, and 2 mixing bowls. And that is for EVERY Passover! When I think of having a home of my own, with a full kitchen, it makes me sigh.

Holy Oats, that meal was sublime.

He's secured a position as a private chef. I think that's wonderful for him, that someone will pay him well to do what he obviously loves to do, and does at such a divine level. I can't help but wonder though, how long before savvy investors back him, and open up Shola, Restaurant Kitchen.

Red bean paste, cut into tiny cubes, and dipped into shaved dark chocolate, when no one is around to tell me not to-YUM!

Well, if Davy Crockett can make wine, why can't she?

Shola has just very nicely informed me that upon his return to the States he will be working in the private sector, and Studio Kitchen will be no more. We wish him all of the best, and expect to see his name on a restaurant, someday! We will be there, for a special meal, and kiddle will appreciate it all the more, for the year when she missed Studio Kitchen. Now, there's some money in an envelope that we've got to deal with!

Maybe I'm incorrect, because I have an only child, and a girl, at that, but when she was a preteen/early teen, if I took my daughter to ESPN Zone for a meal, she'd play for a little while, and then come to me and say "We're in Washington D.C.! Where are we eating? I want a grown up dinner!". She would happily eat a sandwich in a diner, if it was well prepared and had some fun thing as an accompaniment, but she's be mad at me if I fed her somewhere 'corporate'. She always found that less of an adventure, and she adores adventure! Kids are people, just like us, and they're as varied as we are. What does your friend have to say about her boys? That's the key to your plans. Although, I find that boys of that age always eat calamari, it tastes 'good' and there's the gross out factor, too.

Judging from my neighbors here and in South Beach, Land Rover, Hummer, Prada, Louis Vuitton and Gucci. The entree into being seen as wealthy seems paved with an expensive purse and accompanying car, in the suburban mind. EDITED TO ADD: Whoops, you meant food! Brandwise? Even Wolfgang Puck is doing poorly, with those horrid coffee drinks and such. I really think that it's brand name vodkas. It's distilled alcohol, and the point is a LACK of indentifying flavor. And yet, the marketing! No one is getting the food marketing thing down the way Wolfgang almost had it a few years ago, in my opinion. I'm sure that someone will mention Starbucks, but I don't agree. I find their espresso is actually very good, and the accompanying backlash to their success confounds me and points, in my mind, to the typical "I'm so esoteric and far ahead of the pack, I CAN'T stand the big guy." I mean, really, they've given us espresso! Italian roasts! Varietal beans! And a decent business ethos as well. Ah, here it is: the benchmark for if you are an aspirator: Haagen Dazs. As good as the marketing of the fake euro name. Sorry, but there IS a place where you pass the decent amount of butterfat mark, and head into that terrible Cold Stone place of a too coated tongue, and overly sweetened flavor. Still, it's great junk food!

Ah, Jamie, as usual, your golden typing charms me!

I'm Sephardic, but my daughter isn't, so no rice, no green beans here. I don't rub it in, that's mean!My ex husband wanted to eat rice, he thought that marrying me made it OK for him. Ha! No way, #0 boy. Besides, there is so much great food to cook during Passover, and my daughter LOVES matzoh, no matter what you do to it.