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Perhaps no one answered it because there aren't any, at least none on par with average NYC sushi. Why would you want to go out for sushi in Rochester anyhow, entertaining friends? I know that the Korean place I mentioned has a sushi menu, I never seemed to get in on it however. There was a Sushi bar a couple blocks down the street from it about 5 years ago, what was it W. Henrietta, it was average for upstate. I wasn't really impressed, but I didn't get sick either.

Spot Coffee, they tried to take it to Ellicottville a few years back, it's not there anymore. I don't know where to get coffee as I don't often, just the occasional thai coffee or espresso. Phaelon56, I like how they opened a Starbucks in Ithaca, that's got to be a hot target for vandalism. There are lots of coffee spots near the universities in Buffalo, I'm sure you'll find a good spot.

I have some plans on checking out Buffalo's food a little more, first I'll tell you what I know already. Guerico's is in the market district on Niagara, I think, it's a decent Italian market, nothing like Federal Hill, but it has the necessary items. There are lots of meat markets in that area too. Cheap produce! There is also a small but nice Asian market down from there towards downtown, bear left at the split and it's on the left hand side called Niagara Asian Market, I think. Apparently the mega Asian store is up to the east of where you'll live on Sheridan Dr. somewhere as yet undiscovered by me. I did find a small Indian store there. There is a great fish market right near you on Hertel, near Premier wine and cheese (same side of road, just a bit south of). There is a gourmet/organic place that just opened up a couple years ago I haven't been too. I think somewhere near downtown off Elmwood. That should be an easy find. You have the Niagara Food Terminal for all things cheap and wholesale at Clinton and Bailey, which is also home of the Sausage Maker, who recently told me of one Eastern European Butcher Shop, which I have heard about and forgot before, but am now determined to locate. I don't know of any grocery's that do close to the job of Wegman's. Alot of stuff, esp. produce is way overpriced however.

Ahh, cabinets are up, it must feel like it's close now. The finish work takes alot of patience to make it work in any house, let alone an older one. Now is the time you really need to keep those workers happy. I love the UFO's.

Ahh, just as soon as I wasn't able to read anymore you posted some pictures. It looks really nice. I just finished making some built in seating on my screened in porch myself, so it's nice to see some others sweating in this unseasonably hot and (currently) sticky upstate June weather we've been having. I like the way it's been coming. The soon to be in-laws are also doing a renovo this month, they are a good ways along as well, but I think you have them beat by a yard or so. Their original budget of 2000 is shot full of holes however, how about your budget, holding up still? I know mine fell somewhere between the cabinets and countertop, not to mention the floor which we switched to tile midstream into heat seamed marmoleum (ten bags of leveler, that's 450 plus numerous bolts, nuts, and osb board). Arrgh, the memories.

Good tip, I'll have to check that out next time in town. I also loved the Pajun there, but especially liked the Duk Mandu Kuk as it was winter time. I have been back since and been happy every time. Also Lee's Market is tucked back in the same plaza (Food Terminal?) as the King and I, it's a decent asian grocery. Whoever mentioned it, I think you might want to check out some of the Buffalo eats before Niagara on the Lake, I haven't been out to eat too much there so I'll risk my cards a bit but Korea House just off of Sheridan Drive is really great as well. I've liked Jasmine II for Thai, across from the Boulevard Mall. And I believe as of this writing there is no decent sushi since Kuni's closed. Rue Franklin is consistantly recognized as the best overall fine dining restaurant in Buffalo. I've never been, but hear only good things so it's high on the list. There is alot of bad pizza and wings, but ask a native to show you the good and you won't be disappointed, guaranteed. Then the old guard: Ted's Hot Dogs, la Nova Wings, John and Mary's Subs, Anderson's Custard, Antoinette's Ice Cream, Schwabel's Beef on Weck. There are alot of FD establishments that look good on paper, and I've been burnt a bit, but not too severely, it's Buffalo after all, what's better to do than eat.

Has anyone ever eaten Korean in Rochester, Seoul Garden on Jefferson is really great. I ate either there or at the King and I on Henrietta every week night for two months straight once all subsidized by Corning, Inc.(expensed). I also really enjoyed Rooney's (Contemporary). I was there last year, about $100 for two salads, apps, and dinners and maybe a glass of wine, and well worth the money. It took a while for anyone to notice we were there however (a Tuesday), but they treated us well thereafter.

Yeah, that was funny, but I think he came real close to singing a little there. You know he was happy about catching all those fish. That was a beautiful episode.

I go through socks like they were paper, just my right big toe, I think my right foot may be bigger than the left or something. I wear shoes for crews, they are almost identical in appearance to dansko, except slight cosmetics inside I can't tell the difference looking at them. I'll take them for a third the price however.

I think I'm going to hit Dano's spot up sometime, saw his Opening Soon show he made an awesome looking stuffed pig, and his wife is looking familiar, like she knows me or something, it looks really cool, got to get him some mushrooms so he can cook me up a real feast.

Tell that to the Chinese.

That's why I bought into them too. The surface takes a while to build up before you can do eggs in it however, at least with little fat like a non stick. They are a handy all purpose pan too so fry potatoes for breakfast in them alot and anything high fat where there won't be hot liquid especially acid involved, that's what I did.

I though Tiffani's lamb was raw in that one. It was Tiffani or LeeAnn who were going to go that episode. It's just that Chef Wong committed the cardinal sin of overcooking the lamb, which is a cardinal sin for a chef by the way. The stuffed gnocchi, her sauce, and puree was obviously a mess, but so was the butternut squash sauce. Plus they also cooked lamb, I think LeeAnn could have left her lamb raw as well and still won out, but since she didn't she was sent packing. I have a good deal of respect for the judging in the final episodes, the one I disagreed with the most was overcooked carrots Brian, who was the only one of his group trying to win it for his team and his carrots weren't the only stinky dish. Tiffani, Harold and whoever else were just lousy that episode too. But that whole contest was flawed to a degree I guess.

I made spanakopita and mac and cheese last week, froze it and ate it a few days later, both turned out great. I also made a pizza and some bread and froze that, they also turned out. I pre cooked the bread and pizza sans cheese to almost done let them cool, threw cheese on pizza, wrapped and froze. It made my vacation much more of a vacation.

Yeah, highly concentrated country ham stock usually, not really skimmed of fat. It's pre salted so it's used as a sauce for all sorts of things, as well as the base for lots of the stuff on the menu posted previously.

I meant to say also that I totally called the pimento cheese appetizer thing when you posted the menu, or rather, that's what I would have gotten for an app, then I realized I'll probably never go there so I stopped reading it too deeply. A couple I hang out with just decided to move there, he's going to music school, she's a teacher, so you never know though. That's the secondary reason I'm checking out this thread, the first is trivia and I check for weight and the sound a watermelon makes when knocked, but have no idea what it has to do with wolves, maybe the seeds get in the way of the eating creating some sort of wolfish anxiety?

I have made that kind of cornbread once, from an old Craig Claibourne recipe. It's pudding-souffle like. I'll take a stab at the one of the unanswered questions (not a boldface one), but it leads to my own question. The fernlike vegetable alongside the beansprouts and spinach or whatever, it looks to be "mountain vegetable" which I've seen at Japanese and Korean restaurants, and which is nobody ever has been able to qualify for me. You know, there are several, and for one vegetable to be called mountain vegetable implies one has never been to the mountains. So what is this mountain vegetable?

No, I didn't try that. But I did see a Buddhist temple on the way back to 81N, and also noticed that they were very nice. Yeah, and that crispy shell was advertised as homemade on the menu, hmm.

Hey Phaleon56, New Century was really good. We had two apps: their special shrimp rolls, and their chile lemongrass beef wrapped around onions and skewered. The beef was really great. I had chili lemongrass pork with broken rice and my girlfriend had a shrimp and bbq pork vermicelli. We enjoyed ourselves immensely, thanks. There seem to be quite a few nice restaurants up in the Lake Placid Saranac Lake area since I was up there last six years ago, unfortunately none of them were in the time budget.

Anybody hear B on NPRadio yesterday talking about his book? I did, and so did my girlfriend (seperately, I might add). It was quick, Bourdain on seal eating, his not so present chef gig, and veganism, nothing new to us eG'ers. It caught me by suprise, he's not the exactly the type of person I associate with NPR.

He got the best tasting dish, I'll give you that (for round three), but his dishes sucked for round one and were just better than the bar food Harold put out in round two, but H also received points for those wings. Tiffani, as I recall, got knocked for her knife skills in round one, and no salt, round two completely blew, but those poker guys didn't care, they prolly scored her pretty well, third round sucked but she did finish three. Kicked up marinara, I doubt anyone gave that high marks. Therefore she finished middle of the road on two maybe three, you can't fault the judges for scoring her ahead of Dave, plain and simple as I see it. I was pissed too, but I realized it was just my emotional dislike for Tiffani's character.

Hey, I just remembered actually seeing this place once, they weren't open, and I beleive it was Sunday as my folks were up visiting, and it happened to be graduation weekend or some such at Cornell so the only place they could get a room was a bed and breakfast on the same road in Homer. I had heard about Bob's and really wanted to go, but alas they weren't open Sunday. They had some really good french toast at that B&B however. I love me some well executed Cornell sauce chicken, it is a work of art, and science.

Well you're right, you know, there is a whole world of culinary technique and traditions which everyone is exposed to at one time or another. We didn't taste anything on this show, but we have taste perceptions that help us relate to one another's cooking these are developed through one's own cooking, and by eating others food. It's these perceived tastes we are talking about when we say one's tastes better than another. It can also be our perception of the judges' table reactions as well. It is at best a combination of the two. I for one like to preface all my statments about the contestant's food by I thought, or in my opinion. By using this language I am admitting a degree of uncertainty, which would still exist if I am there actually tasting it, because after all, nobody I've ever met is worthy of ultimately judging anyone about anything. I also respect most people who communicate in this way as well.

What Howard said. For all the (many) faults of the Next Food Network Star, they were at least upfront about their goal. They were making their judgements largely on what, according to their market research, would appeal to the food network viewer. With TC, you had to pay really close attention to discover that the judges' "decisions" were made in concert with the producers'. Many times the judges had to tap dance all over the place trying to 'justify' a decision that was so obviously not theirs, but Bravo's. I really hate "Reality TV" and this is one of the reasons why. ← You truly see through everything. Nah, you don't. Dave F-ed up majorly when he forgot to include a third dish, it doesn't matter that nobody eating it noticed, he did not finish and was disqualified, same as Miguel and his falafel buns. I agree Dave has better taste, but clearly the judges were justified in their decision to disqualify Dave. It's like the guy who's in the lead in the 26th mile of a marathon and breaks a foot. I agree with carpetbagger, esq. that Dave can go places, and if I wasn't straight, I'd be a Dave groupie, but he DNQ'd out, so save the drama. I thought Tiffani almost pulled it off last ep., her food struck me as better than Harold's, but she wouldn't shut her mouth and be humble for once so she loses. Plus the regular judges were so poisoned against her by now (for good reason) that they were fired up to trash her as much and as vociferously as possible. It may take some time, but hopefully she finds some corner of the world to call her own and makes the best of it. She's obviously intelligent, I wouldn't be suprised if she manages to wake up a bit.

Dano's Heuriger is going to be on TV. Fine Living's Opening Soon, this weekend, not sure if it's a repeat, but it's on this weekend in case you're interested in what you may have missed.