Jinmyo

Would you let Adria decorate your living room? Trotter design your office building? Keller sing Kindertotenleider? Mario do your wardrobe?

Nashi are kind of apple-shaped pears.

All luck, CC.

Brown rice is wonderful when paired with braised meat and mushrooms. (But better when barley is mixed in as well.) And great with butter and chiles. But I can't think of an Asian dish where it would be appropriate. Except as crispy rice, smothered with gomasio. Not for risotto. Not for congee (jook). Never for sushi of any sort or kind. Okay as a stuffing for duck or Cornish hen. But better with wild rice mixed in.

tommy, the picture is a bit dark but I'm sure it was nice and crispy. I usually don't like chicken breast but this sounds good.

torakris, I do something much the same but use mirin and no sugar, sake or Shaoxing, and about two and a half times the black pepper. For the fruit, I find that Fuji apples and pears work well. Sometimes I chile it up as well. I marinate for about four hours.

I like you, Rich.

Soy and butter. Works with steak but with shrimp ravioli? Nice peppercorn writeup. I love shard so please, speak of shard, Rochelle.

Cahrit. Got it. Doesn't matter now though since the incident in Cambodia.

Gyoza. Lots of gyoza. Filled with glass vermicelli, shitake, scallions. Red wine vinegar and ginger dipping sauce. Kimchee and pulled lamb shoulder. Lontong (a kind of South East Asian rice cake) in one inch thick slices, fried, with a sambal dipping sauce. Salad of slivered daikon and scallions with a sesame dressing and toasted peanuts and pine nuts. Chicken wings with a (mirin sweetened) chile sauce. Cold Korean cucumber soup (oinaeng-guk). Welcome back, Wilfrid.

Hi, David. I seem to remember something about it being best not to decant most Italian red wines. And to pour out only a few tastes at a time. Could you please comment on this?

Saffy, I've seen this called "eggs Neptune" but I don't think that's its official name. I don't know if there is one.

When paired with the proteins in miso shiru, tofu, and shitake mushrooms both will become adequate. My packet of Uncle Ben's brown rice says it has 5g/serving... Whatever. The figures I've cited are from the "US Rice Foundation". (The link is on the first page for their chart.) 2, 3, 5, 7 are all insignificant values for human life. Basically folks, if grains are your main source of protein you need to eat a worm or an egg or something right now. You can process soy beans into tofu or miso later. Eat the worm. Now. Egad. Grains are only a meaningful source of protein when paired with legumes. And even so, you'd wind up with less protein from a huge bowl than from an egg. Eat rice because it tastes good. Eat a wide range of grains because they're great. Eat a wide range of greens and sources of proiteins because they're wonderful and available to you because you don't have to gnaw on a raw root while waiting for the next incursion to take out your village. Eating brown rice instead of white has no meaning unless it's delicious.

Well that's how they say it in Boston, at least. Wouldn't that be "CAH-rot TAHP"? Do go to bed, dear Steve, as Jason sayeth.

Really? I've never heard of eggs benedict as anyrhing other than poached chicken eggs, toasted "english" muffin (no relation), bacon made from pork loin such as Canadian, Wiltshire, or Irish, and hollandaise. Anything else, no matter how wonderful, is something else isn't it? But a rose by any other name...[still has thorns].

It's said "Cirit Tap"? I feel like such a fool.

That was on last week on Food Network Canada. There are several A Cook's Tour episodes deemed too grisly for U.S. audiences. It was just a short bit about the firing range place in Cambodia. Carrot Top lost. ediot: I guess that's pretty obvious since bourdain's posting.

Cor, pukkha!

Egad, bushey. That would just horrify me.

Basildog, I'm sorry, I wasn't clear in my question. I meant to ask what varities are available and how much throughout the year.

Nice. What is your mushroom supply like in Cornwall?

Ellen, another great photograph. I wish you would post more of them.

Basildog, what kind of mushrooms?