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Crouching Wallflower; Hidden Bad-Ass. That's Bev.

Grayson is my gal. "Like a meatball, Tom?" Heh. This has to be the most boring season ever. I'm kind of wishing a producer would propose a show that is a hybrid of Top Chef and Top Shot/Manhunter. The loser gets a head start and the winner gets a high-powered rifle.

I'm with Michaela on this. I am perfectly capable of making my own puff pastry, but after costing it out (ingredients, time) it is easier and cheaper to buy it premade. The results are more consistant, as well.

Lou Diamond Phillips I remember from "La Bamba"---about 25 years ago. I can't watch the show. I tried and couldn't make it through it.

I've grown tired of Tony. I like his books better than him.

I'm with Emily_R on this one. I also think there was a previous season where they didn't eliminate anyone in a challenge. Beverly doesn't strike me as under-confident. Just because she is introverted (or at least she appears so on the show) doesn't mean she is second guessing herself. I want her to come back and take the whole thing.

I'm with Alcuin on the pan-roasting, unless you won't have enough room on your stove top.

Rats! Bev, Bev, Bev. *sigh* If only you had gotten those rice krispies on the plate, immunity was yours. I'll look forward to seeing who wins between Beverly and Nyesha.

Oh, gosh, I'm not sure. It depends on how much counter/storage space you have, Jaymes. You feed quite a few people in your household, so either one big one or two smaller ones, if you have picky babies, so they don't have to have "their" food on the same oogy grill. The one my son took off with was rather small and could hold a couple of steaks or four hamburger patties. It was big enough for us, but I never used it much and he doesn't have a grill right now, so off it went.

Don't have a GF grill. Haven't used a GF grill. So I never thought about doing Reubens on a GF grill. I'm getting one today. You'll like it, Jaymes. you can make panini style sandiwiches on a waffle iron, as well. At least if you have one of the old school waffle irons with the grids that flip over to a flat side. I scored one at the thrift store after mine finally gave up the ghost. Anyway, my son made off with our GF grill when he moved out of the dorms a year ago. He uses it all of the time and loves it.

Australia or NZ, I think.

Oh, leave Pauler alone. She's not a dietician and never claimed to be one.

I don't care for pastrami and prefer my Reubens made with corned beef. I had to laugh when I saw this topic since I just made these last night. I'm also a Reuben snob and need drained and rinsed sauerkraut, buttered bread, swiss cheese, corned beef and Russian dressing cooked on a griddle. I'm surrounded by biscuits and gravy folks here. B&G is fantastic, too, but I miss deli food and have resorted to sourcing and making my own sandwiches when I get nostalgic.

That site is a hoot. My son and I trade pics off of it all of the time.

I said something about that to my son, lindag. He hadn't noticed, so maybe it's just us. I can't stand watching his talking heads. And, yes, he can PYKAG anytime.

Bev could be annoying to work with, but that certainly doesn't excuse the lambasting she was taking during service with Lindsay and Sarah talking over her (literally, since Bev was cooking not talking) like she was some kind of a retard or didn't speak English or wasn't as qualified as they to be on the show or hadn't won a couple of challenges already. If it was me, I would have "accidentally" spilled something on Lindsay so she would have to go back out to FOH (where she was cussing at the servers, too) with a big stain on her. Front or back, take your pick. And, when they were sitting in the stew room, Lindsay was STILL grousing about her stupid fish and refusing to take responsibility for the fact that it was the method, not Beverly following her instructions, that was the problem. I hope Bev sends them postcards from her trip that she won. Just to rub it in.

Grayson would be good, too. I don't like any of the guys now that pretty Chris and the guy with the umlaut in his name are gone. He looked like a pirate. So we now have two Asian guys with family pressure issues and Samurai Chris from Moto---who should have gone instead of the pirate guy-- left on the guy side.

I'm glad Beverly won. In fact, I'm wanting her to win the whole thing since she isn't getting any respect from her fellow competitors and keeps chugging along like the little engine that could. I admire her restraint in not lighting into Lindsay when she was swearing a blue streak and blaming her lousy fish prep on Bev.

Heh. I've been saying "throw him/her under the bus" since the 80s, too.

Not limited to food shows. It's a modern thing, apparently. You don't "change" things anymore, you "change them up". You don't "switch" something, you "switch it out." It's odd, isn't it? Finally! I'm ahead of the curve since I've been saying those things for ages.

I have been known to bake frozen buttermilk biscuits when it's been a long day or I am pressed for time. We love our hot breads here in the South, and these turn out perfectly every time. My grandma decided when she was 80 that the whack-a-biscuits were good enough for her. She lived alone and if you didn't like them, you were free to whip up a batch, thank you.

I've been eating canned tuna for over 40 years. The only appreciable difference I've been able to find is between albacore and chunk light. The latter is most definately catfood. I also like my tuna packed in oil and it's really getting to be a bear to find it not packed in water.

I buy marked down meat all the time. We do a huge quarterly shop at Sam's Club and they often have Reduced! items in the coolers with the newer meats. We've saved a fortune and I've never had a problem but perhaps that is because these are cuts of beef only. One of my favorite freezer bins is the marked down bin. I just bought frozen duckling for 98¢ a pound, marked down from $3.98 a pound. I also repackage all of the meats in new packets and put them in the chest freezer. We live way out in the country and a chest freezer is your friend when the roads are frozen solid.

I see Ed is getting the villian edit. Look for him to pack his knives and go next week after Restaurant Wars.

I use paper towels quite a bit, as well. We buy them at Sam's Club and they are the select-a-size rolls. Very handy for kitchen uses as well as "place mats" under the cat's food (she is messy), and for polishing glass on cabinet doors and windows, of course.