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here is a link courtesy of Publisher's Weekly of some forthcoming cookbooks (though a bit tough to read): http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6363310.html

antisocial?? I don't remember you being so antisocial a couple weeks ago.... ← kris - there is a serious divide between friends antisocial and family/in-law antisocial... or even online friendly vs in person antisocial ...as most of the people i work with will attest to edited to add - fg and ellen you do make beautiful babies together... or adopting them(momo). and it is wonderful to see a child revel in his/her world and discovering it for the first time. i would have been one of the people flirting with pj. as i tell my husband as a librarian all the men i flirt with are under 5 years of age or over 70

condolences jgm. we moved north from texas to new jersey in a little less than a week with two cats(do not try to go through nashville with unrestrained cats). we travelled mostly during the nighttime hours since it was cooler for them in their crate and we split the driving - 6pm to about 2 am for me and 2 am - about 8 am for johnnybird. we took sandwiches and ate in truck stops and the kitties made it up here fine - though jon's grandma wanted to keep them when they got north.... you can do it and pet therapy is the best healer in the world. again - many blessings on you and yours for the future

kikyut is beautiful - as is washington irving's home, also in sleepy hollow. dinner at blue hill at stone barns? a visit to yogi berra's museum and lunch in montclair? a visit to stickley's home http://www.stickleymuseum.org/ and lunch at an american grill?

The Christmas with Southern Living books are now gone...

so glad that you are enjoying the thread. here is the result of a purge of books that were donated at work. please remember that these were never in my count on the "How Many Cookbooks do you OWN" so please let maggie know if you have added them to your collection... Best Honey Cookbook. Honey Acres Beekeepers The Best of Martha Stewart Living... What to have for Dinner. Christmas with Southern Living 2000 Christmas with Southern Living 2001 The Dione Lucas Book of French Cooking. Dione Lucas and Marion Gorman Le Dome at Home. Eddie Kerkhofs Southern Living Annual Recipes 1994 Southern Living Annual Recipes 1995 Let the emails begin..... edited to say the michigan and potluck cookbooks are now claimed

mark- that's fine your contribution was a fine addition to this page. thank you. now you will forget everything you have seen....

Georgia Pig - last exit in Brunswick off I-95 S (or first N). get off the exit, turn left at the light, across from the Mobil station is this place. great Brunswick stew, phenomenal slaw and good pork sandwiches. bring a few bottles of sauce back

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i can find it at Bottle King in Ledgewood

Wow what a beautiful dish of borsch - i can almost taste it over here. your kitchen cabinets match those i had in my first house...who would have thought? i'm especially interested in any american foods you have become accustomed to that you seek out or make in your new hometown.

1030 pm and i want nuts.... Emerald Dry Roasted Peanuts by the half handful chased down with a half capfull of Johnnybird's toast dope. sweet and salty

SPIEDIES!!!!!! johnnybird isn't due back till friday or saurday so i have time to marinate my lamb in my spiedie sauce and make some pita and grill them puppies......... serve with a tomato salad... maybe some tzsiki sauce?

wonderful essay - perused as i drain my cobolt blue Rockingham...

i'm down to my last essay to read...and it is going into my bookshelf with the Oxford American Food Issue our own Racheld was kind enough to wrest from some slutty .... er, misguided teenage females. do not miss the Trillin essay "With the Grain" that is wonderfully nostalgic and enticing at the same time; "Some Pig" by David Rafoff about the love affair between Jews and pork (who would have thought that pork was a protest meat?), "The Taste of Home" by Junot Diaz about his love as a Dominican for what his mom called "American food" - actually in his case Japanese; i ached for Moique Truong and more for her mother in "American, Like Me" when the author only wanted to fit in and her mom did what she had been trained to do; Sietsema's essay on the Offal Eating Society made me laugh out loud - as I was ordering lunch and then have to explain to the barmaid why I was laughing about eating p#)&s ... now off to read "Fantasy Island" by Cynthia Zarin....

not surprised about the tummy troubles, kris - kids have notoriously iron guts and as we have aged ours have gotten a wee bit more tempramental... i grew up speaking french and english interchangibly though english at school always. the most fun was when we were in quebec and in a drugstore/ restaurant. we were speaking english and freaked the waitress out when she came over, addressed us in english for our order and we answered back in french - iincluding 6 & 7 year old estheranne and susan. course the time i dressed down a bunch of people who were commenting on the stupid americans at cape may was fun too. i know your mom make stuffed cabbage but are there any other stuffed cabbage makers those of us not having access to your mom might partake in? (i love gwumpki) and have finally found a reliable source here in nwnj after being lucky enough to have grown up on the east end of long island where many, many polish families settled.

you might like to check out this thread from the cooking section: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=44635&hl= right now i'm playing with peach soup from the Cooking Lighr Soups & Stews Cookbook and Melon Gazpacho from Pam Reiss' Soup book next month... when the tomatoes come in...gazpacho

yesterday it was: raspberries and peaches from Windy Brow(john is away in vt. so no pie this week) radishes from DanaRay (the lady ahead of me took the last of the mustard greens) potatoes, bi-colored corn, zucchini, kirby cucumber, zucchini - yellow and green, white onions, wax beans and heirloom tomatoes from Valley View Farm dinner last night was a salad with those radishes and the cuke, grilled onion, potato salad, corn and some ny strip steaks i picked up. dessert was raspberries and peaches with vanilla yoghurt.

thanks all - we go 57 w from hacketsburg out to alpha then jump on 78 w. i can picture just where this is and it will be on the dinner menu on the 29th.

no ac - just fans upstairs and dehumidifiers downstairs. luckily the farmer's market this weekend had some good stuff so all kinds of salad makings, some raw milk cheddar cheese, fresh peaches and raspberries, local corn(in the microwave). i don't sleep well in the heat so i'm up early and cook whatever i need to - elbows or farfalle for pasta salad, chicken breasts, hanger steak and one morning i was sitting outside and hot smoking salmon at 630 am in my pjs. soy yoghurt, fruit, now that the tomatoes are in bbt's (basil, bacon and tomato), for johnnybird a peach kuken with vanilla toffuti... and carafes of coffee and tea in the fridge.

Susan, I don't really have a food background, except for the fact that I have always loved to cook and to eat. I'm originally from the Toronto area but have moved around a bit. Just after we were married we moved to Grand Rapids Michigan for a couple of years. I took a few hands on cooking lessons from Pat Davis. She ran a cooking school in her home. Matthew was born while we were in Grand Rapids so he actually has dual citizenship. We moved back to the Toronto area and lived there for the next 12 years and then ended up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario for 5 years before moving to Vancouver back in 1998. Then we ended up in Dunkirk, NY for two years. I really liked living there. I was only an hour from Buffalo, Erie, PA and Jamestown , and all of these cities had Wegman grocery stores. So I went into Bu ffalo at least once a week and usually into Erie and Jamestown once a week too. And we were less than three hours from Toronto. So we would get down to Toronto quite often. We moved back out west the summer of 2001 and lived in Nanaimo for 3 1/2 years before selling our house and moving to Vancouver for a year. Moe was working on a few things and it was easier to do from Vancouver. Matt lives in Victoria and we really missed seeing him whenever we felt like it so we moved back to the island last December. Since we are less than an hour from Victoria we see a lot of Matt now. Thankfully he is happy to have us so close too. My son is a real foodie too and is becoming quite a good cook. I recently gave him my Cuisinart . It was an excuse to buy a new one for myself. Here are my new toys. ann- glad you liked dunkirk but too bad you got there after the Koch(pronounced Cook's ) brewery closed. it was down on the lake across from Top of the Mark restaurant/bar. i graduated from SUC Fredonia and remember going up to the falls at least 3 or 4 times as year , checking out the local wineries, and hitting Buffalo for wings and beef on weck, one of god's most perfect sandwiches. Nanaimo, huh? any Nanaimo bars in the future of the blog? love the pictures of your beautiful section of the world - keep 'em coming... and thank you.

tracey- is this place before the turnoff to alpha or after - closer to pburg proper? we're heading out to pa for a meeting in 2 weeks and i'm thinking this would be a great place to stop for dinner on the way home.... thanks

it struck today... a pint of sweet and sour chicken. they forgot the rice. no problem. i sat in my car in the parking lot and scarfed down the chicken, dipping it in the sweet sticky flourescent red sauce and then popping it into my mouth while scalding hot. i finished the pint and was happy.

there are Rita's in Pequannock and Rockaway: http://www.zipmath.com/SL/slm.cgi?LOC and if you buy the lemon ice they will contribute a portion of the profits to Alex's Lemonade stand for cancer research

sunday Valley View Farm had their own tomatoes on sunday so i picked up about half and dozen. they are going to be cut up with some cucumber, ricotta salata, salt and pepper, olive oil and vinegar for dinner tonight. i also was able to pick up local corn at Lindeken's here in nwnj. not silver queen yet but not sourth jersey either. all the talk about long island tomatoes and corn kinda makes this Shelter Island girl homesick - but what i miss the most are the lima beans. fresh, sweet limas with sweet corn for the best succotash. the best place i have been able to find them fresh here in jersey is in cape may. the last time i was out on the island most of the places we would stop for fruit and veg were just about holding on and not much more than that - Wickham's and Terry's. and all the potatoes fields - real estate or vineyards