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Croque Madame, arugula salad Parmasean Chicken (Ina Garten), Mixed Greens, Goat Cheese Pullaw Noodles w/Chicken

Grateful for any recommendations for dining/drink destinations in the Pudong area of Shanghai. More specifically, I'll be staying at the St. Regis - I understand there may not be much there, but that's where I am being put for 10 days next week. While I'm familiar with Hong Kong and Beijing, this is my first visit to Shanghai and I've always gotten good recs. here. Many thanks in advance, Cheers!

Recent Holiday Feasts Penne alla' Amatriciana Rack of Lamb w/roasted fingerling potatoes Poached Eggs on Leftover Fingerlings w/some smoked paprika for good measure Eggs Benedict X-mass Prime Rib Prime Rib Rubbed (mustard, peppercorns, salt) Finished w/port wine peppercorn jus and cream fraiche-dijon gratin

Shepherd's Pie last night

Endive, pear, and Haynes Point Blue Cheese Salad Beef and Shitake Mushroom Stroganoff on toasted homemade bread

Please,please, how does one get bread to turn out like that? I have tried so hard and failed miserably each time to get the crust like that. Please point me in the right direction! Also, my wife has begged me to get the recipe for the lasagna. She was looking over my shoulder at the pictures and really flipped over the lasagna! ←

A couple dinners from last week: Veal Scaloppine w/roasted fingerlings Simple Crusty Bread from last week's NY Times (just as easy as the "no knead" version Lasagna

Mushroom, spinach & goat cheese salad Ribollita

Weekend meals: Beet & Arugula Salad Milk Braised Pork Roast w/Creamy Polenta Leftover Pork Roast on Homemade Bread w/Arugula Juniper & Ginger Marinated Chicken w/Red Cabbage

Brined & Roasted Pastured Raised Chicken w/Maine New Potatoes and Grain Mustard Sauce

Grilled Chicken w/Pumpkin Seed Oil, Roasted Maine Heirloom Carrots and Potatoes Lemon-Dijon Baked Cod w/Arugula Salad Roasted Cibola Pork Loin w/Cabbage, Potatoes and Pink Peppercorn Sauce

Breakfast of Champions

Those are local, pasture raised pork sausages from Cibola farms, and they are fantastic. The Ribollita recipe is a conglomeration for me these days - a good way to use up leftover homemade bread and fall ingredients. I tend to base it off of the first recipe I used years ago from the Union Square Cookbook. Good pancetta, good quality stale bread (I use up to 4 or 5 days old - again you couldn't do that with commercial bread), and a good slick fruity olive oil and a handful of pecorino make the difference. Cheers.

Grilled Cibola Farms Italian Sausage w/White Beans Local Heirloom tomato salad (days are numbered) Ribollita

The boys are heading up to Baltimore from DC to celebrate the last days of bachelorhood. We're looking for a great steak dinner, and the small group is singular in the food snobishness, any recommendations out there?

Salad of Heirloom tomatoes, leftover grilled corn, avocado Sunday Night Sandwich: Leftover Grilled Bison Sirloin (Cibola Farms), Carmalized Onions w/Dijon, Boursin Cheese on homemade bread

Poached Pature Raised Eggs, feta, red potato and pepper hash

Some recent meals: Stir fried pork, snow peas w/XO Sauce Day-boat Sea Scallops, polenta, tomato-garlic confit Yellowfin Nicoise Heirloom Tomato Salad w/Grilled Chicken and Basil Sauce

Definitely: http://www.tonylukes.com/menu.htm But there is a ton written on this subject right in this section just a quick search away.

Tabbouleh, Ratatouille, and Tzatziki (lemon grilled chicken still on the grill. Leftover gilled chicken sandwiches on homemade bread, homemade basil mayo, bacon, avocado, summer tomato...

Just returned from Cape Breton, and heading back up at least two more times in the next three months: I second in a big way the Chowder House in Neils Harbour. Simply outstanding chowder. If oysters are your thing, you've got to try the local Aspy bay oysters, where they are plucked fresh at a local camping ground and served up; its called the Hideaway Campground and its near Neils Harbour. A truly great local product. http://www.campingcapebreton.com/file/oyster.html And yes, Sydney should hang their collective head in shame for not being able to put forward a decent - mid-level - dining experience. However, in Boularderie, off the TC highway, there is the Cedar House restaurant and bakery which has excellent fish and chips as well as fish cakes.

BUCATINI ALL'AMATRICIANA Almost a weekly thing around our house...

Lobster Mac & Cheese?

I love lima beans. What all do you have in that delicious looking dish ? Bacon? Cream? YUM ! ← Yep, bacon, onion, red pepper, corn, the beans, cream (about 1/2 to 3/4 cup) and some lemon thyme from the garden. All about freshness.

Wife picked up sweet corn and shelled lima/butter beans on trip to southern VA. Turned it into sucottash.