toolprincess

We have a dumpling truck here called Chirba Chirba, it's quite good. There is also a truck called porchetta that sells toasted pork sandwiches and a grilled cheese truck. The main issue here is the trucks serve a huge area and often aren't convenient to get to at lunchtime.

Also it is within walking distance of the convention center.

There's a southern restaurant that we had a group dinner at when I was there for a conference it's called pittypat's porch. I don't remember the food being spectacular but it wasnt bad and it was a fun experience.

Glad you're enjoying it. Don't know about sorrel, but its certainly worth a try. U Iactually used mache (lamb's lettuce) in mine because water cress is hard to find here. Lamb's lettuce probably difficult in the states Busy making a fish pie for dinner. Full report and post later. After we've eaten it that is. Trader joes here in the States used to have mâché.

Tonight I made tie-dye cupcakes.

A friend just gave me a food steamer that she had earmarked for Goodwill but since I'm a sucker for kitchen items... Anyone have any novel or ingenious uses? Or can point me to such discussion on eg?

Just got the fearless flyer yesterday and it has all things pumpkin you can imagine and more. Also saw the phyllo dough listed. And a very intriguing slicing Brie which is a genius rectangle of Brie.

thanks! Now I feel less trepidation!

Try to keep your spears sheathed - I make my baked beans using Bush's baked beans. 2 large cans of Bush's (one original and one with onions). Brown 1lb of bulk sausage with the onions, I use Jesse James sausage with sage. Drain and add to the beans. Add 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, and 1/2 cup light brown sugar. A tsp of dry mustard and a squirt of yellow mustard. For certain audiences I might throw in a few jalapenos bu this is optional. Stir and cover with foil. Bake at 200 degrees for three to four hours stirring occassionally. These beans always get rave reviews at cookouts.

Has anyone had dried spicy squid? My friends gifted me a package from the Asian market but I haven't tried it yet.

That is genius! I usually get 3-4 ketchup cups but I think with this method I can use less. (because I hate trying to "scrape" ketchup out of the cup)

Hot toddy- I'm fighting a cold.

After reading through this thread I decided tonight to try an amalgam of the ideas and made this combination: Can of tuna packed in olive oil (drained excess oil off) Enough Duke's mayo to hold it all together 2 chopped spanish olives stuffed with pimento 2 cripps pink apple slices peeled and chopped 1/4 of a cup or so of shredded lettuce Mixed it all together and ate as sandwich on wheat bread. Not bad, the only change I would make in the future was to use granny smith apples as they have more tartness.

My husband is extremely picky and so is my stepson. Although I don't short order cook to their wishes obviously making something that they won't eat would be pointless. Therefore, we eat a lot of very basic meals--- hotdogs, Tater tots and salad; steak simply marinated and baked potato, Mac n cheese, pasta, grilled cheese, chicken, etc. I try to work in a new dish very now and then abd I also try to do 'homemade' versions of the boxed/fast food faves such as chicken fingers, fish fingers, etc. I even 'amazed' my stepson this summer with homemade croutons since croutons are one of his favorite things. Hopefully, he's learning that you can make whatever kind of food you love at home and cheaper better for you than fast food or processed.

So far the overwhelming vote is for savory. Interesting as I said I always think of cottage cheese as something to mix more with something sweet. Today I had some cottage cheese with pineapple tidbits and juice mixed in.

How do you store your hot sauces? I keep my sriracha in the fridge but everything else (El yucateo, Tabasco, Texas Pete, Cholula) - I just keep in the cabinet.

I like my cottage cheese sweet - with fruit or sometimes jello. I also can eat it plain or mixed in with a salad. My friend prefers her cottage cheese savory - with salt and pepper. How about you? how do you eat cottage cheese?

What do you serve on the side? For me it is sliced tomato, a bit of bacon, and cucumber/onion salad. I love field peas cooked with some red pepper added and then when I eat them I mix in some chowchow. Cool zippy chow chow with slightly spicy field peas. YUMYUM.

My cousin always makes Pear salads for Christmas eve dinner! My dad was also quite fond of the pineapple ring salad. I have eaten potato chips on sandwiches and fries on hamburgers (Mcdonalds hamburger and small fry - place as many fries as possible on burger and eat). My dad was southern (and not affluent) growing up and he continued to eat that way as an adult. A brief list of my childhood: "Treet" (like Spam but cheaper) grilled cheese sandwiches Souse with vinegar and pepper on saltine crackers Fried baloney on white bread with yellow mustard Hot dogs stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bacon Pork Neck bones and a pot of navy beans Fried chicken livers Banana sandwiches with mayo and sugar Ham sandwiches with Dukes sandwich relish Bottle of Pepsi with a small bag of salty roasted peanuts and the list could go on....

Liver pudding fried on white bread with mustard. I'm with ScottyBoy - grew up fairly poor (although I didn't know it) and many of the foods that people consider "trashy" or "junk" were what we subsisted on.

Can you share your frying method? I can't seem to get it right so the plaintains are soft and delcious. Mine always come out hard more lie for tostones... Fried plantains: ‘nuff said

My husband adores pizza of any sort. He generally orders Papa Johns or sometimes he will pick up a Little Caesar's take and carry. I used to be a fan of pizza Hut pan pizza and their breadsticks but there isn't a PH near us for delivery and my last few experiences were that it is very greasy -- I guess it was good in my much younger days but can't handle it now. We had Papa Murphy's recently and it wasn't bad. I am just finicky about crust. I would prefer to get thin but my husband prefers more substantial chewy crust. I used to love the Domino's pepperoni just because they cook it so the pepperoni's would curl up and get crispy on the pizza. We have 1 good local place but it's about double what Papa John's will cost us (of course you get what you pay for) - they are fairly close but don't deliver. I harbor a (not so) secret love of Mr. P.'s pepperoni which has been discontinued form my grocery store. But I think it's some childhood taste memory of the cafeteria pizza cause I am fully aware that at 1.00 per Mr. P. it's got to be absolute dreck. Probably best for my health that those have become harder to find!

Just tossed 2 unopened jars of mayonaise that expired in 2010 and 2011. I just couldn't bring myself to eat them. I have a Nutella (unopened) that expired 4 months ago. Still undecided about that. I have some tomatoes I canned 3 years ago. Can't bring myself to eat them. Don't trust my canning skills. At my mother-in-laws I've now been presented with 2 salad dressings as choices for dinner - one that expired in 2008 and one that expired in 2010. Last night we had dinner with them and she offered me A1 for my steak until she realized that it expired in 2004. Yeah I always check her stuff! In college I often babysat for a family who I called stomachs of steel family. They would eat anything that was in the fridge with no concern for expiration dates as long as it "seemed" fine. They also had no timeline for getting rid of leftovers, so I rarely ate anything out of their fridge (leftover wise) unless the kids could vouch that it was from a recent meal.

Lunch and dinner - kale, sausage and bean soup with a shot of yucateo hot sauce and corn bread crumbled on top.

Thank you so much! I needed that kind of laugh!!!