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one of our staff made pho for us for tet and she makes oxtail stock and chicken stock then combines them 50/50 to make the broth that she poaches her beef slices in. perhaps this is what you are referring to?

bout a mile away from where i live is a place called the Warehouse Grill. House salad with grilled chicken - about 7.00; grilled cheese with a house salad - about 7.00 as well, 2 mini burgers with frizzled onions and horseradish sauce(hold the cheese) 3.00. if i buy a beer it can be as much or more than my simple lunch. Jefferson Diner is good, too but a bit more money in some cases though i usually end up taking home half of the hashbrowns, corned beef hash and two eggs scrambled dry.

i'm starting to get back into basic baking, trying to do anything to stimulate johnnybird's appetite and help get some weight back onto him. no where near as creative as all of you are but last weekend it was a chocolate pudding cake from Southern Living that even i ate some of then yesterday, my day off, and i tried this jam cake that i've been threatening to do. quite easy to put together and he liked it...he really liked it... individual piece

a cold, blustery day so for lunch some quiche then for dinner my ultimate comfort food mac and cheese made with shells instead of elbows, aged white cabot cheddar and topped with cabot yellow cheddar and just a sprinkling of leftover black forest ham. last weekend it was pork roast wrapped with prosciutto de san danielle then seared in a pan and finished in the oven at 450 - served daringly rare with a saffron risotto and peas. hey, you can never have too much pork, right? but now i REALLY want a burger... and it's only 935 am.

when i worked in a kitchen, and even now when cooking "recreationally", i have had a hard time eating properly. for me, if this makes sense, it was because handling and smelling the food, even if i don't taste, my brain registers that full feeling. when i was working in a kitchen i actually drank more - iced tea, milk, beers at the end of the night- than i ate and lost weight. now, if i know i have a catering job or even a full day off when i'm going to cook several things, i will make myself eat at least by lunch time(i ususally cook during the afternoon) either at home or stop by a local place for something like a grilled chicken salad or some good soup. the other thing we have learned this year with johnnybird is that if he drinks meal replacement drinks(boost, ensure) or gatorade he doesn't feel like eating. good luck in undoing this riddle

robert, was that from Fine Cooking? if so how difficult was it to make? thanks for any input as my baking skills have gone south.... suzi

what a great juxtaposition, david ross. finishing up Cornbread Nation 4 and Second Helpings of Roast Chicken by Simon Hopkinson. i especially revel in books like these that allow me to dip in and out of them, sampling various essays at whim.

tonight's dinner will be vegetable soup with kale and white beans and a nice crusty rosemary garlic bread. the perfect thing to complement the inch or so of snow we are getting right now.

Baker and Taylor are listing a book by David Chang called Momofuku as out on 27 October 2009.

in today's Parade Magazine in our local newspaper tehre was a recipe for Chickpea Ragout that used garlic, cumin, chickpeas, tomatoes, thyme honey, lemon juice and broth. it isn't online yet but i can pm it to you if you would like...

since i had to work yesterday and today decided to make it easy on myself and see what johnnybird wanted. thursday night when i got home i marinated chicken breasts in apple cider. friday fished them out of the cider, dried them off and dredged in flour that had ground cinnamon, ginger, salt and pepper added to it. bake at 350 for 40 minutes. add 2 cups of cider, 1 Tbsp of brown sugar, 1/4 cup of applejack and one apple cored and finely sliced. bake 25 minutes more. served brown and long grain rice and carrots and peas. also a dead simple and very, very good chocolate pudding cake from Southern Living. yesterday after work and a very long bubble bath, meatloaf with a cheddar cheese mashed potato crust and green beans almondine. john got 40 godiva truffles and a very silly card and i got a sweet card. leftovers for the rest of the weekend.

last friday grilled cheese with tomato on white and a house salad with honey mustard at the Warehouse.....saturday *BINGO* i'm 54 1/2!!! WHEN WILL IT END?!!@

Hey Suzi!! Good to see you. Well, the game probably starts a lot later for you than it does here in Kansas! Nachos sound so good. I've just never perfected them. The cheese gets all hard too fast....... ← HELLO, GIRLFRIEND!!! my husband has never expressed an interest in super bowl food but now.... when i have to work.... ok - so i have some spinach tortillas that i will cut up and bake, some salsa, some chopped avacado, some grated cheddar cheese and some chopped black olives. some chicken tenders that i will bake then toss with some bbq/hot sauce and serve with some carmelized onion blue cheese dressing with *GASP* some chopped lettuce underneath to serve as salad/roughage. i'm on a meat freak right now so will chop some beef into 1/3" mince and make some chili with some anchos and accent with some black and pinto beans. no cardinal recipes here - we prefer to admire them than eat them... pigeon in tagine perhaps? cornish hen with an apricot preserve/red french dressing/onion soup dip sauce - at least it is kinda red.

hey, shelby - the husband has requested nachos and baked chicken tenders with blue cheese dip. course i don't get home until 530 or so since i have to work.....

thanks, jess but oh, no .... it's maggie. but just after i wrote that guess who visited for a day! maybe we need to start a new thread on post menopausal women and the excuses we use for our cravings... or are we still pumping out a bit of estrogen that give us cravings occasionally?

don't know where in the state you are but Jerry's is moving away from being a totally seafood place into becoming more of a mixed market now that fulton has been relocated up to hunts point. you do have to order ahead of time. course i'm spoiled since all i have to do is call up to quattro's and my in-laws can pick it up for me.

recently i've been stopping by Pearl of Siam in Randolph and really enjoy the food there. i've found that if i talk to the hostess/owner and her husband and express my interest in real thai food they will make some items off the menu that gives me a better insight into the food they eat at home.

blueberry pancake with crispy bacon and turkey breakfast sausages. the pancake was just an excuse to eat the meat with real maple syrup.

friday - lunch at the warehouse grill. thinly sliced pork in bbq sauce on a roll with crispy bacon and cheddar. dinner was a buffalo blue cheese burger with crispy bacon on a whole wheat roll. see a pattern developing? today(sunday) - breakfast blueberry pancake with crispy bacon and turkey breakfast sausages. the pancake was just an excuse to eat the meat with real maple syrup. lunch is going to be a grilled reuben sandwich. hey, it does slow down... i'm 54 1/2 and only had 6 periods last year....and i must be the only person i know who doesn't take xanax. i have korbel natural.

hey, y'all - you could be Kelly Ripa's dad who lives in south Jersey and is an avid Lion's fan and has been for years. great duck breast, dr.j. picked up some d'artagnan chicken breasts that were discounted. took off the bone and will riff off one of my mom's 60's recipes for chicken with onion and peppers with wine. saute the breasts; move to a plate; saute the onion and peppers; add some artichokes and some capers then deglaze with a macon-lugny "les charmes" chardonnay. breasts back and into the oven. serve with some green rice and some sauteed zucchini. luckily our local shoprite had ground buffalo today - good for some bacon blue cheese burgers on whole wheat with oven baked sweet potato fries for dinner friday. will re-purpose some of the leftover pot roast into a cottage pie with some sauteed mushrooms, carrots, onions and peas with mash.

i usually don't cook from this mag but picked the latest number up while doing a marathon shop - at costco of all places. read through it while luxuriating in a bubble bath(thank goodness gloomaway is back) and sipping some korbel natural - hey it's my day off and i needed this after the last week. anywho - several people who wrote in had your same concerns and have asked the periodical to include more challenging recipes in the future for people who are "amateur gourmets" as they labeled themselves. actually one of the recipes that was mentioned from the last number looked quite satisfyingly adventurous -chocolate pomagranate torte that i may have to try.

i had some tomatoes on the vine that i babyed to an acceptable taste and texture

a vegetable soup of sorts for friday's noonish meal: homemade chicken vegetable stock onion, garlic, carrots, butternut squash, a few sprigs of thyme. cook until the carrot and squash are just soft. add some tiny pasta. served with a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich.

only about an hour and a quarter left at work today... when i got home from work yesterday i seared off the pot roast i had pulled on friday then it braised in a concoction of beef broth, newcastle brown ale, carrots, garlic, bay leaves, thyme and juniper berries for 3 hours at 300F. i took the meat out, strained the braising liquid and popped them into the fridge to chill. when i get home i will remove the fat from the liquid and either reheat the meat for an hour in the liquid or slice the meat and reheat in the reduced liquid. serve with honey dill carrots and spaetzle.

johnnybird had to call in to a meeting this morning but before that i made blueberry pancakes with some locally produced bacon and real maple syrup. lunch was a toasted cheese and tomato sandwich and a vegetable soup of onion, carrot, butternut squash, homemade chicken stock, thyme and pepe. i have to work the next three days while himself is off. will use up some tomato gravy with sausages and meatballs and some marmalade turkey cutlets with dressing. i do have a nice beef roast that i'm thinking of pulling out.