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WOO-HOO!! a starred review from the August Library Journal and the review starts with the phrase: In his penetrating first book the review also mentions the raw-milk cheese issue, zagat and michelin (pages 115-116 for librarians playing along at work ) and on page 116 Paula Wolfert's The Cooking of Southwest France gets a star, too

blt on toasted wheat bread with miracle whip the tomatoes are finally coming in up here and this is the best way i know to eat them

prepping for the hawkwatch season (and future renovation of the kitchen) so i have a few more books to send off to good homes. if you are interested please pm me with your snail mail address. i answer in the order received. Dining and the Opera in Manhattan (one copy left) The Dione Lucas Book of French Cooking by Dione Lucas edited to remove claimed book(s)

lucy- hope you don't need to have an xray taken and are suspected of cannibalism like this poor guy was here in new jersey http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2004-...n-fingers_x.htm

Funny you should mention that book, Alex. I just saw it yesterday at the book store. . .it was absolutely adorable (and somewhat shocking, too! ). What photos! off topic - we have Bad Cat. have passed it around work, friends, neighbors and all agree it is a hoot. each person choses their favorite cat and put's their name on it(i'm page 8, neighbor carol page 116). on topic- i'll smell the melons but not slobber over them - EWWWWW

and one has just opened in the new section of the Rockaway Mall - just past the Olive Garden haven't been there yet and not sure now if i'm going to try it

i must be the odd duck at this party. i have one small bookcase in my kitchen and that's it. i go through my magazines, copy out the recipes i want then pass them on to someone else(egulleteer or friends). actually just put an order in for the first cookbook i've bought in years: Soup:A Kosher Collection by pam reiss. i borrowed it on ILL but there were so many good recipes i bought the book rather than copy them all. so add one for me maggie!

Hanami prawn crackers from AA Groceries. 60% of my daily sat fat if i eat them all. crispy, salty... uh, i think this belongs somewhere else...

I used to make "farmer's breakfast" for my kids--slice and fry potatoes; when they're almost done add chopped onion, then eggs and cheese. The kids called it "slop." Looked awful, tasted good. ←

well, johnnybird's breakfast last saturday was leftover oddles of noodles ... and a guiness. this was drunk to dull the pain of the sprained knee and broken ankle he got from falling down an 8 foot cliff in the dark since he had to walk 3 miles out of the woods to his car course we didn't know the ankle was broken until today when he had it xrayed since he wouldn't let me take him to the ER

so very, very nice, snowangel. the picture was well worth the wait.

johnnybird loves his eggses 1 egg scrambled in a cup dumped into a small pam that has been coated with non-stick spray that was heated on high turn down to medium slather one piece of cheap white bread with mayo several grinds of white pepper and sea salt; turn down to medium heat and flip the egg drizzle the other piece of cheap white bread with ketchup turn stove off and flip the egg onto the bread eat about 5 years ago with this regimine we got johnnybirds cholesterol up over his weight - it's about 133 now

on those boneless, skinless chicken breasts, stanley.

And what does my brother say? "Well, she's not you. She loves Olive Garden." OLIVE GARDEN!!???? And she warrants a third date with my darling little brother?? danielle, my question would be - how does your brother feel about Olive Garden? if he's ok with it - sounds like a match to me. my mother-in-laws idea of a good place to eat out(birthday or special holiday) is Steak & Stein or Red Lobster. actually all my Olive Garden coupons go up to her but send me your brother's snail mail address and i pop one in the mail for him needless to say johnnybird has had his ideas of "good" food elevated.

no ac and the basement with 2 dehumidifiers going is at 80F. way too hot for me to eat though i am going through 1/2 gallon each of tea and lemonade mixed. ohhhhhh, a nice red gravy with sausage and meatballs over spaghetti braised lambshanks venison stew roasted capon with the leftovers being made into a pot pie chris - take heart. the last line of thunderstorms should be through you in an hour or two and the temperature is supposed to drop by 10-15 degrees

oh, yeah that roast beef sandwich. love meat for breakfast and since you are in the middle of a meat market - no brainer. though i might have gone for the kidneys or maybe a quick liver fry. on a plate with some bread and cheese and onions. remember these guys are in the middle of their work day, though. 7-9 am when you probably got up about 2 - so you have a sandwich and a glass of wine then go back to cutting meat...i see no problem with that. couse i am a morning woman

kinda like a cross between "cooks tour" and dave atell. cool to put a face with the name who's material i have enjoyed reading... thank you louisa chu loved the point of food being something appealing to all the senses. with an inlaw family whose idea is you eat whatever so you can carry on and have no pleasure out of it now i begin to understand some of my heritage(grandmother born in lyon) also really liked the bakery stuff since i used to do that when i was much, much younger. the feel of the yeast dough, the smell of it as it proofs and rises, so wonderful... now on to mad money with jim cramer p.s. and i am happy that tony's pronunciation of the former market was more like mine than our aix en provence bookeeper's of the former meat market genvieve: it's lays all- lays suzi : i thought it was leh zahl (all phoenetically written)

just picked up some peaches at our local farmers market from windy brow farms. they aren't quite where i want them to be just yet but they smell like peaches. they are on rt. 519 near newton, nj

[This was my first time to make pancakes from scratch. In my previous life, I always used those little milk carton looking things you buy from the freezer section. Since I've been married to Russ, he's made the pancakes. I went for it today, after seeing the beautiful photos on this thread. I used Spagetttti's recipe, except that I put most of the blueberries right in the batter, dusting them first with flour so the blue didn't spread too much through the pancakes. Some I placed on the pancakes as they were cooking, to balance them. I was very pleased with my first effort. I can do this! ←

well.... he will be on regis and kelly on monday(hmmm... 5 second delay) and he and his family were just featured in the newest US magazine what can i say - in my job i have to skim all the popular media as well as all my reviewing media for work

am single for the next few days - johnnybird is off to vermont with a friend to fish(11 pm edt - they just pulled into the campsite. they got a late start - imagine that ) a ribeye steak on the grill. with oven fries and succotash(john is gone for the next few days ). a few glasses of a red bordeaux. dessert was dulce non leche(soy ice cream with a caramel sauce - minus the cream) with some leftover chocolate sauce and cool whip(sorry guys - i can make a beautiful whipped cream but i can't eat it). tomorrow is the local farmers market - will have to see what is good. though i am interested in doing a souffle. course i need a souffle dish. cheese souffle made with some local organic cheddar. some salad made with local veges.

wow melissa. do you have mud/thunderstorm season like we used to over in fredonia? love the price chopper - they haven't made them down to nw nj yet . so cool you guys can work in the same university and it seems there isn't that town vs gown problems so many places have. do you fish for salmon in the spring? when johnnybird went to ESF(SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse) he used to go up several times to around oswego/mexico to fish. how about my favorite fish(even more than flounder) walleye? or are there guys who sell off their boats? and those burgers look very good - can i have blue? with onions?

we know that johnnybird's friend, andres, has been let loose by his other half for a night of serious drinking when he shows up with a straw behind his ear. he says it keeps the foam down and allows him to ingest more alcoholic product quicker without becoming bloated. course back in the 80's we used straws and spoons for different things

i'm single for the next week or so and tomorrow is supposed to be quite nice. i picked up a new york strip steak- a little over a pound in weight- at the butchers. i'm thinking some coleslaw and grilled potato wedges. i also found a nice recipe for buffalo chicken wraps with grilled chicken tenders. perhaps tuesday for that recipe

cool, john. now there's a Falls View Grill outpost up in Vernon. is it worth a visit?