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Robyn, it's so sad that you had to spend so much time in Miami getting bad service and sub par meals. I'm very glad that I've had such different experiences than you. I DO have to wonder where you are living now, and if you are receiving the service and quality of food which you found lacking in Miami. Your opinion of Miami is a bit skewed, in my opinion. How many people of high income do you think live there? Who do you think is living in all of the multimillion dollar homes year round? As a member of many charities in Miami, as a record label owner, as an active member of the art community, I must travel in very different circles than you, because everyone with money who I know eats out, and eats well, often. Heck, I feel hard pressed to compete with the rest of the evening's offerings, with my appetizers and such, at my little pre-dinner cocktail parties! When I'm home, I eat out often, and I get great service and great food, and I'm a girl of very little funds and even less looks
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My kiddle wanted oatmeal cookies today but I've only got steel cut oats and I hesitated. Doea anyone know if those will work out in a cookie?
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Oh my holy oats. My arterial walls thickened just looking. I MUST drive to this Philadelphia town soon.
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Ramen with steel cut oats and peas in a broth made from chicken thighs and garlic. Lots of garlic. Yes. Ramen. Me. I swear. Kiddle is home sick and had a craving.
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All beef?
Custom batch? 
How does a long distance sufferer get in on this? 
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You know, I end up at Sushi Siam on Lincoln Road a lot. They were great up until about 2 years ago or so. The service is up and down, the food is as well. I ask to see the uni before I order it because they always say it's fresh but a few times it's been wilted and sad. I can't trust the sushi guy to tell me if it's actually good or not. that's terrible. I guess I'm just too lazy to get in the car and drive down to Matsuri's. Besides, I remember the good days there, and I keep thinking it will happen again. Bad girl.
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ceowd is fast typing for crowd, I'm so not here today.
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Jumbo's on 75th Street and 441/7th Avenue is a GREAT place for old school Miami fried food. Plus, they have great beets. You've never seen a chicken wing this big, I once ordered one that was 8 inches long! I've eaten there many times, but never ordered a burger, everyone around me always gets shrimp, I don't know, it's just great, and open 24hours a day, too. Nary a tourist except during WMC and Art Basel, because we tend to take a lot of starving artists there for a fix.
Peoples BBQ- 360 NW 8 Street, DON'T walk there, even if you live in the towers on 1st ave- we did a couple of times(hey, we were CRAVING) and weren't comfortable on the walk back to the studios.
BUT, still, amazing Florida style sauce, lots of amazing sides too. Chicken that falls off of the bone, really.
Delicias Del Mar- On Biscayne around 29the Street. Order the Calamari and be happy.The dried corn atop it is amazing stuff, as is the 'salsa'. I've also gone with almost no money for lunch and had cheese potatoes, you can't imagine how good and simple those can be!
La Loggia- I dunno, it's on Flagler, just walk to the library and MAM, where you should be going a lot anyway! This place has a great mix of clientele. The lunch ceowd is all business and law, the courthouse is RIGHT across the street, after all. dinner on the weeknights is the best. This place ahs a great bar, too, and you can order food at the bar. My kid loves the carpaccio, she can eat a few orders of THAT alone! Me? The gnocchi is first rate, as is most of the rest of the menu. Why this place isn't more of a destination is beyond me. for lunch I prefer to sit on the terrace, the interior is too loud and crowded for me, and I think the service is better when you aren't a part of the mob.
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I don't have my Miami book here, but I'll try to find it for you, until then, look into CSA in the Redlands. Homestead, too. We have lots of great produce from South Miami! I think it's really difficult for people to find the 'good stuff' if they're not from Miami originally because heckola, Miami is BIG. I can not for the life of me recall the name, although I've gone there many times for over 25 years, but there is a great farm in South Miami that has a shack in front and sells strawberry milkshakes. The farmer used to pinch my cheeks when I was a kid, then he pinched MY kids cheeks! He always said the same thing too, berries make your cheeks pink. Well, the shack has become a bit more than that, in recent years. Illness is keeping me befuddled, give me a few days and I'll try to think of the name, etc. for you.
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Thank you for blogging for us! I can't imagine how you can, with your busy life, but I'm grateful that you are willing!
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Gee, that's too bad, I've only had wonderful service there, and it never seems to matter whether I'm with someone famous or if I dine by myself and I only eat appetizers and dessert. I always keep PT in my list of places to take friends with less money than their taste buds need, we don't eat the entire menu but we get great service and we have amazing food for the money, every time. Plus, at the bar, although the drinks are expensive for me, I think the bartenders make GREAT drinks and serve large drinks. One thing I have to say about Miami, now that I am in NJ, is that I really like the BYO policy when it comes to wines, I drink a lot more wines with my meals in NJ, because I can almost never afford the wine mark up in restaurants in Miami!
I DO have to say this, though. I've had TERRIBLE service at the gas station on 15th and Alton, and I'll NEVER go there again.
edited by me to add this: I've got the face of a nobody, and no one recognizes me when I'm alone, trust me, Miami Danny would attest to it if he even remembered me. Which he doesn't.
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That's funny. I read that article and wondered what the haggis Lee was even talking about. I think that Lee thinks that saying negative things makes you look like a real pro, is all. Anyone who lives in the Miami area and eats out would be hard pressed to find Miami food terrible. For big food served well, we've got Pacific Time, Osteria Del Teatro, Blu, 1200 AND Palme D'Or, Tamarind, Norman's, Romeo's, Sheba, well, Holy Oats! I'm not even scratching the tip of the list here, just listing the last couple of meals I had in trend setting places before leaving a few months ago. And, I'm not even mentioning BED, evwen though I LIKE the food, 'cause everyone bashes it. And for regional greats, which the Sterns completely missed out on when they visited Miami, we've got an array of great places- a sample of which are Peoples BBQ, The Pit and Jumbo's, just to name 3 places you all may have never been yet. So, I say, let the critics critique and I'll happily eat.
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Fortunately, I just sold 42. We can now see the floor in the front hall closet. Unfortunately, the money is going to a few new cook books. Kiddle is becoming interested in braising, roasting, Asian whole fish dishes and such. Must also remind self, check fire extinguisher.
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...Wow. All I can say is how political this whole, entire, ever loving thread became, and how quickly!
Sad. Thought I could retreat from the politics on this board, but oh well...
Saying that something is political does not make it so. And, BTW I looked over this book, I thought that it was a brilliant piece of , um, 'marketing'. I found most of the recipes in this book mainly really weird, and a bit frightening in their milieu of the nonexistent fantasy most people seem to have of the US in the fifties. Hmm, I suppose it would be political of me to say...I see the theme of the book, now? Perhaps it's not really about food, but is a metaphor for the desires of the presidency. I'm just saying.... it quacks like a duck, it looks like a duck, it lays duck eggs, but maybe I'm being political if I say it's a duck?
edited by me to add: Nothing wrong with ducks, either. Kiddle is roasting her first next week!
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I suffer from the same illness of instant consumption ever since giving up the extra freezer..... somehow it was easier NOT to indulge when the food was wrapped and frozen ELSEWHERE.
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One big coffee conglomerate (awshucks, it rhymes with $$) gives away all leftover pastries, about to pass sell date candies, syrups and beans daily. Usually the food goes to the neighborhood shelter, but I do know of some instances when it has gone to Second Harvest instead, because there was no shelter nearby to give to. I think it's nicer when companies donate the excess. Feeding hungry people means a lot to me, and the truth is, freegans DO have a point. There is a LOT of edible food in the garbage, all over the country.
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Thank you very much for sharing your week with us. I will add my voice to the group and ask you to please consider a book. I've adored every moment of reading your 'blog'.
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Well, I think they're mostly against wastage of food and are trying to proove a point that there's food being thrown out that people could eat. Besides, how's it possible to come to a conclusion that they're absolute anticapitalists just because they choose to feed themselves on what people throw out? That's like assuming someone's a vegetarian just because they don't eat beef. I mean, take a look at this, same thing right? Just more organized and less DIY.
And for the squatting part, they ARE trying to organize people who are genuinely homeless & living in shelters too. Considering there are more homeless people than shelters, seems like a good idea to me as long as they're law-abiding (bar the act of squatting itself) and try to take all necessary precautions from causing harm to the rest of the community, which they do advocate on the 'handbook'. Besides, there are regions of the world (such as where I come from - Malaysia) where people set up squatter housing (you might have seen them if you watched Entrapment) and form entire communities out of them. A lot even get power supply from the utilities company. Not technically legal, sure, but they pay their bills & taxes. Coining a euphemistic term for squating is just another way to prevent themselves from being ridiculed and discriminated against. What difference does it make to other people anyway?
Hear Hear! BTW, 'homesteading' has been a well used term for 'squatting' for over 30 years. This freegan group is just a small faction in the vast world of living off of other's excess. There IS a lot of waste in the US. Go take a look in your own garbage. I'm frugal and I still wonder at all of my garbage.
There are a lot of hungry, poor, homeless people everywhere, including the US. You may not like this particular group, but they're such a tiny part of things, you really can't judge from them. Let's try NOT to judge. I've fed plenty of hungry people in my life. It's appalling. The society that we live in works for you, but not for everyone.
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No, just sleeping. I think people here are pretty bored with New Yorkers asking for South Beach restaurant recs. Most people who live in Miami don't eat on South Beach-many places are very expensive and overrated. Get off SoBe, and it's a whole different world.
I'm a native of South Beach and although I haven't been home for 4 months, I feel qualified to disagree, as I've lived on South Beach for most of my(not so short) life! South Beach has GREAT restaurants, thanks in part, to the great visitors from NY, who are willing to pay the actual cost of a fine meal. And many restaurants are not overpriced, maybe some of them are just too expensive for some of us who aren't making decent money. I'm not making decent money, and I still eat great meals often in great places on the beach. Oh, and btw, making the statement "most people in Miami don't" is like saying "most people in the boroughs don't" for a New Yorker. Miami is big geographically and diverse socially, just like the boroughs. You be the judge if that kind of statement can actually mean anything to your own demographic.
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BREAKFAST- turkey(dark meat only)
LUNCH- too full to contemplate, give me some hot tea!
DINNER- an immense salad, mixed greens, an onion, tomatoes and an avocado
11:00PM- a delicious overcooked, crispy turkey wing, shared with kiddle.
None of you can see, but I'm being a really good girl and leaving the hashu alone! Kiddle doesn't eat turkey, only hashu, AND this batch of hashu is particularly rich.
I'm such a good girl, I ate 4 chocolate covered cherries to reward myself!
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Oh, for goodness sake, you big silly! Just make it a nice little ritual for your visits. You love you parents and you want to offer them something special, so YOU bring a small selection of beans, a pot's worth of a few different selections isn't too dear for a visit to the parents. (Not too dark a roast, mind you! We must compete with DD good grief.)
And we take it from there. It is your LOVE your parents which prompts this, BTW. NOT your personal dire straits, capish? "It is so much trouble to clean a machine, Ma, I will do it for you right now! Don't worry, it's like meditation for me, honest!"
After cleansing the machine, YOU grind the fresh beans, and then you make a decent pot of drip brew. "Dad, how is this blend to you? What do you think of this compared to the one we made this morning? I would love to know which one you end liking the best. I wonder if we'll end up liking the same ones. What? No, it isn't a test, Dad, I swear, they're all excellent beans, it's like good cigars, personal preference."
Don't come to this subject from the place of hurting their feelings. The reason you can't hurt their feelings is you are not going to do this out of your own frustration, but to SHARE this lovely habit of yours with them, to PLEASE them, not to denigrate their taste, and certainly not to TEACH them anything.
You only have their pleasure in mind while you do this. You are giving them a present of your time, effort and affection! Look! He's brought all of those beans for us to try. He's a nice kid, after all. Weird, but an OK guy.
You ask them their opinions of the various beans you've brought, you tell a funny story or a small bit of intriguing fact about the beans to them, you ask your parents when they began drinking coffee, they will tell you stories about college or kitchens with aluminum percolators. Stories about paper cups of swill drunk in offices, dates that were prolonged with pots of weak diner coffee. Whatever they tell you, it is NOT about the coffee, but becomes about their lives and winds onto how they feel about their own memories.
So. You enjoy your cup of coffee, and you allow yourself to enjoy your parents memories, and then when you leave you get back on your laptop and you write us a nice piece all about it, so that we can be touched as well, by your wonderful visit.
Or, just suffer, and you'll have a funny story to tell folks when you are older.
Edited by me to add this: I've just read your last thread on this subject. Dear boy, I hope you're not the family trouble maker, 'cause THAT will make executing my plan all the more difficult! If that's the case, I'd suggest passing the instructions along to sis. Be
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Someone brought a Delicious Orchards blueberry pie to dinner and my 12 year old niece made a sugar free Jello um, sculpture(for want of a better description) but I ate another plate of turkey with trimmings. It's Thanksgiving and I'M grateful for turkey with trimmings!
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I just eat the cookies I've got stashed in my purse.
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Now I know what to make for gifts in future! Corn syrup= DISGUSTING.
Regarding Oatmeal Cookies...
in Pastry & Baking
Posted · Edited by Rebecca263 (log)
Hey, Claire is the nice one! I'm the one who is dumb enough to try the cookies tomorrow with steel cut oats.
I'll bake a batch tomorrow night and give a report after. It's worth a batch of cookies to further the cause of eGullet! anyone want to help me choose a recipe? I've got about 50 here at home, hmmm.