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chefdavidrusso, are you being serious? Wafflehouse is the quintessential grease w/ grease w/ extra grease on the side, 24 hour breakfast diner chain. If you've never been there, you must go. If you have been there, you know better, but eventually you will go again anyhow, because there's no place else like it. Waffle House website

I find it very hard to beleive that this is a result of BST (bovine- somatotropin, cow growth hormone.) Not that I'm a big fan of the stuff. BST has strong potential for drastically increasin health risks to cows. I've watched healthy milking 3 year olds producing 150 pounds of milk a day disentigrate to walking skeletons on the stuff. Not to mention the extra stress on the udder and resulting higher incidence of mastitis (mammary gland infection, imagine a whole quarter of the udder slowly turning into one giant pimple and essentially rotting away if untreated. The farm supplement program is not the brightest idea in the world. There is no reason for millions of gallons of milk to be dumped down the drain daily. However, milk prices do need to supplemented somehow. On scale, few businesses require the capitol that a dairy farm does. This has been acerbated by farmers turning to BST. The cows do produce more milk overall, even if overall health declines. However, this also results in a greater supply of milk, dropping the prices that the farmer recieves from the milk (which has a very weak corrolation to what you pay in the general market). Not all dairy farmers are blind to this spiral, however, and a number of milk sales cooperatives have banned the use of BST on participating farms. Thus, "BST free" milk (all cow milk does have a certain level of BST naturally present) is pretty widely available. The difficulties that small dairy farmers have rise more from loss of production due to heat, high feed costs, and incresing real estate taxes (though many localities are trying to address this last issue through legislation). My point is mandated milk pricing is not really the problem here. In fact you can probably thank supplemented prices for the fact that there are still as many small dairy farms as there are. Otherwise, the forces of the larger economy would have probably wiped most small farms our long ago. Note the comment in the article that larger farms were unable to expand to fill the gap caused by the demise of smaller farms. Difficult conditions affect them too, making them unable to purchase the cattle being disposed of by the small farmer. Thus we just end up with a lot of bad hamburger, and a smaller milk supply. (please excuse the rambling manner, fighting flu right now)

My hand mixer also gets used for whipping cream, and whipping egg whites. Doesn't get used for much else, but I'd hate to be without it for these tasks.

roasted garlic, cheap smoked salmon, and balsamic on toasted white fluff (Hey, you asked!)

tryska, Your blackberries do sound like blackberries to me, just on young plants. Especially in heavily shaded areas, the plants tend to be much sparser, and never seem to get the great bushy effect that they do out in the sun.

Our first New Year's eve while we were dating. (Prepped in the dorm kitchen at college) Boneless Skinless chicken breast stuffed with Stovetop w/ chopped button mushrooms added Button mushrooms stuffed with aforementioned adjusted stovetop Button mushrooms poached in chicken bullion sugar peas stir fried in butter Served with some kind of peach wine, probably Boone's Mills or something like that. dessert, Tapioca pudding with too much peach schnapps added (I still liked it though) Haute cuisine it weren't but much nobler that most of my previous efforts (dwelling in the kippered herring and cream cheese on hard roll range). In all honesty, however, it was a meal built towards her taste preferences (chicken, mushrooms, peaches, snow peas), and she enjoyed it much more than more educated but less successful efforts since.

Breakfast is one are where my wife and I definitely do not agree. An extreme breakfast for her is to put milk on the cereal before she eats it. My preference is towards, scrambled eggs, sausage, toast, black coffee, etc. Whenever I make a fruit pie, I know to expect that look of disapproval the next morning, as I sit down with a slice. What is there more perfect in the world to open the day with? But to judge by my wifes reaction, you would think I was committing some henious crime. However, to tell the truth, what do I have for breakfast most mornings? Grab the bowl, reach for the cereal, pour the milk. yawn...

To find info on Ramp Festivals: http://www.callwva.com/travelplanner/calendar.asp Search here for keyword "ramp" Most of them seem to be at the end of April. edited for clarity's sake

Are the bird peppers were referring to tepins or chilepiquins? I'm seeing both called "bird pepper." For reference I am looking at the tomatogrowers.com website now. Edited for fumblefingers Edited again to correct misconceptions and assumptions

Does the cubanelle possibly go by another name? Never mind! I found it; forgot that it was asweet pepper.

Jason, my wife won't approve of my spending a minimum of $40 on pepper plants. So that means chileplants.com is out. Unfortunately she doesn't enjoy them half as much as I do. Where would you recommend purchasing seeds from? I'm becoming concerned about complaints against reimerseeds that I've seen online. Edited to say that i'm checking out tomatogrowers.com right now, thanks mabelline

Fimbul, The Fatalii sounds exactly like the type of pepper I am looking for. Where did you get your plants/seeds? Thank you for the advice on the rainbows, Jason. Thats all I need to hear to know their not the direction I want to go.

In terms of the bird peppers, is there any particular variety you would recommend? I'm tempted to go for some of the more colorful "rainbow" varieties, but I don't want to end up sacrificing flavor. After all, I've yet to see a pepper garden that wasn't a thing of beauty regardless of what peppers were in it.

I've heard of the peter pepper, and frankly am surprised to hear that it is so good. I had discarded it as a mere novelty for its shape with little other value. This is all great information everyone! Thank you, and please keep it coming!

memesuze, After a google, I'm guessing you're refering to Corno di toro. Can you describe this pepper a little bit? Google wasn't very helpful except to indicate that this is a sweet pepper.

I'm located in middle Ohio, just north of Dayton. Is there any particular variety of cayenne you prefer? I'm looking at placing an order at Reimer seeds.

The crocuses are starting to pop out of the ground and I am starting to plan my pepper garden for the coming year. Last year I had jalapenos, cherries, habaneros, serranos, and bannanas. I enjoyed those, but this year I'd like to explore a little more. Are there any unusual peppers you would recommend? Peppers with distinct flavors, unusual aromas, or just plain awe inspiringly good peppers?

Ellen, Those pictures are incredible. Is there someplace offsite where we could see the rest of them?

'ey! if we's gonna milk elephants, why not mice? Cheaper to feed and house, and less danger pay for the milkers!

Can I have some more?

Calling Half-smokes DC's dish is like calling french fries New York's dish. There's no connect.

My wife loves raw potatoes. I've tried it. Certainly edible, may have some little explored culinary potential, but nothing exciting in and of itself in my opinion. edited for spelling

low carb= 2 pancakes instead of 4

Sausage.

It would scarcely be surprising for Penn Dutch and Ohio products to be similar. Both areas are anabaptist strongholds (Anabaptists including Mennonites, Amish, Brethren and others). Penn Dutch is usually a reference to the culture of the Pennsylvania anabaptist communities most famously centered around Lancaster County. Lebanon is county and town just north of Lancaster County.