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^Oh my...that sounds outrageously good. I usually just flatten the scraps into cookies and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, but what you posted sounds much tastier.

My diet consists of nothing natural or healthy. I haven't tried it with natural peanut butter, but I can't imagine the dough or the cookies turning out horrible--maybe just add an extra bit of sugar?

In the mass of paper that UBC gives you when you're a student there, I once read that "The Pit" and "The Pendulum" - another eatery in the SUB were derived from the writings of one Edgar Allen Poe... not exactly fine dining... but clever enough for university chow. ← Yup, I've eaten at both "The Pit" and "The Pendulum". The new-ish sushi place down in the SUB is called "Honour Roll". I like that.

Yesterday: roast lobster with tomato, white wine, and garlic over spaghetti (cooked with the pan juices from the lobster) at a restaurant called Amarcord Today: scarfed a bunch of Korova cookies and peanut butter cookies before I hit the sack at 6am

What about "Sushi Bang" on W. Broadway?

I guess it's because I can speak both Cantonese and English, but I think Ho Tak Kee is a pretty funny name ("Ho" in Cantonese sounds like the word for "very"...so I think "Very Tacky" Restaurant). Or what about "The Pit" at UBC...

Saturday, 2:30 a.m. After a rough night of drinking at Plush, we headed over to Kim Penh Xe Lua (24/7 pho place on W. Broadway) for a much-needed MSG pick-me-up. The boy had the steak pho, and I had the steak and tendon pho. We ordered the pork banh mi too, which came when he went out for a cigarette. The sandwich had mysteriously disappeared by the time he came back to the table... (I shoud not that this is was my first banh mi ever, and although I'm sure it's not the best you can get in the city, it was a pretty darn tasty sandwich.) Sunday, 8:30 p.m. I had dinner with the boy at Amarcord in Yaletown. Was pretty excited about dinner, considering the praise I've heard about the food. We had the antipasto platter for two to start, and then we both got the roast lobster (with garlic, white wine, chunks of roast tomato)--he had it with risotto, and I had it with the spaghetti. I ordered a bottle of Sumac Ridge Gewurztraminer--light, fruity, and paired well with the lobster. No time for dessert, as we were running late, but we did manage to down a few shots of amaretto and sambucca before we split. 11:00 p.m. Next, we hit up Tatlow's for his second going-away away party. I drank a Shiraz-Cabernet and made a big dent in the huge pile of nachos. 1:00 a.m. We went to Crush nightclub. I had a Scotch and soda, and then we went to a private room with a bunch of friends. We finished a few bottles of Alize and a 1996 bottle of Dom Perignon (the big bottle...1.5L?). I remember asking a girl, "Did you enjoy the champagne?" And she just shrugged and said, "It's OK. Just champagne, right?" And here's the kicker--the last of the champagne was used to douse the dying embers in glass filled with cigarette butts on the table. 3:30 a.m. Kim Penh Xe Lua--yes, AGAIN! Nothing like pho and another pork banh mi to sop up some of the alcohol, right? I hazily remember picking apart my banh mi and trying to taste each of the components separately, thinking, "Is there pate in here? Nope. Is there anchovy in the mayo? Think so...The julienned carrots and daikon are lightly pickled and quite sweet. Crusty baguette...mmm...Must include this in my Egullet post."

Well, this isn't really a "law", but I never wait until my eggs are at room temp. before beating. Apparently, you're supposed to get more volume out of egg whites when they're at room temp., but I've never noticed a difference.

Older Asian women are wily wily wily - if you don't play Mah-Johg, then its off to a major shoe sale (ie Nordstrom's). Everything in that greed-spendiness-sneakiness continum will be be revealed. "HA! You will never make a good wife for my son! Too many open toe shoes means you are immodest. Bad Girl!" Sorry - this is so off topic. Just go to the Olive Garden and end it quickly. ← Omigod, call me ridiculously old-fashioned, but I never wear open-toed shoes when meeting parents for the first time, for precisely this reason. No wonder someone called me a "conservative prude" yesterday.

The Olive Garden...I remember once telling my hairdresser that I enjoyed cooking and dining out very much, and she said that she went to an amazing Italian place for her anniversary the week before. "Have you been there? The Olive Garden?" she said breathlessly. "Uhh...no." I think she took my reply to mean I'd never heard of the restaurant, so she told me all about the great food there, and how romantic the whole experience was. I really try not to judge people based on their food preferences, but I still get labelled as a 'food snob' by some of my friends. I try to explain that I still enjoy a good bowl of pho or steamed dumplings, but I would rather get those dishes at certain restaurants that do them well, as opposed to any ol' Asian restaurant in the city. I was hitting up the liquor store with some friends a few days ago and one of them asked what I liked to drink. The guy I'm dating goes: "Don't you know Lorna usually only drinks wine--WITH DINNER??!!!" as if it was the most unnatural thing he's ever heard. The same guy also refers to sashimi as "fish jello" and thinks it's disgusting that I enjoy it. We were talking about foie gras dish I had the other day, and he said, "Why would you want to eat diseased duck liver?" I didn't really know what to say, so I replied: "Err..I prefer describing it as engorged."

You bad girl! ← I just ate a good amount of the peanut butter cookie dough that I mentioned in this thread http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=71797...you know, just to make sure I still like the Korova cookie dough more.

^Yes, I've seen the flourless peanut butter cookie recipes but I've never tried them. Are they good? Chufi: I didn't have any cookies leftover, but the link says that they will keep at room temp for 3 days.

Yesterday: probably the banh mi and pho since I was starving after a late night at a club Today: Korova cookie dough...this stuff is crack.

I ate a batch of cookie dough yesterday. I guess I should feel bad about that...but I'm eating my second batch right now.

I'm glad to have saved you from that. If it makes you feel any better, I ate the batch I made yesterday and I'm working on batch #2 at the moment. I prefer this dough at room temp rather than frozen, perhaps because it's not too sweet to begin with.

^No Kraft brand peanut butter where you live? Maybe it's a Canadian thing. Here's the recipe. It calls for proportionally more peanut butter than many recipes I've seen. 1 1/4 cup peanut butter 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup granulated sugar 3/4 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 2 tsp vanilla 1 cup flour 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking soda Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 min. until centers are still soft. (The recipe doesn't contain much flour, and I find that they bake up much better when the dough is frozen...less spreading. Or sometimes I add an extra 1/4 cup of flour to the recipe.)

Andrew, I've tried to PM you a few times but it says you don't have use of your PM service? As for non-related food details, I've yet to master the art of spicing up my reviews with a double-entendre here and there. Must ask Mr. Chatters for some help with that. He can turn a pretty phrase or two...and is dastardly good-looking, to boot.

Yes, I've been to the Winjjammer...it was probably about 2 months ago. The pieces of fish are quite generous. I felt that the fish was a bit under-salted, or under-seasoned... I enjoyed the fish and chips at Go Fish more. But if you're interested in seeing how much grease you can eat, go to Winjammer and order the Mega Platter for 2. I have a friend who's convinced he can finish that monstrosity.... Here's a pic: http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b209/str.../winjjammer.jpg Trust me, the oysters to the left are the size of hockey pucks, so you can imagine how enormous this platter is, not to mention the moutain of fries hidden under all that fish.

^Full report for Waiterblog to come.

Wednesday night: Stopped by for a drink at Viva in Richmond (omigod...why am I here again?!! ) The guy I'm dating introduced me to DJ Wax, who apparently is the top turntable DJ in the world. I met some of the same misguided Asian youth I hung out with the week before. Drank Chivas. My liver hates me. Thursday, 4:30a.m: Consumed slices of microwaved, take-out "Deluxe" pizza bought earlier in the day from a place in Broadmoor while playing Earthbound, a Nintendo game from '95 on his new laptop. Everything about this smacks of elementary school "dating" (well, except for the decidedly more adult activities that took place earlier on. ) Thursday, 1:00p.m.: A lovely lunch with a friend at Le Crocodile. We ordered 2 of the daily specials: a foie gras dish with potato galette, topped with seared scallop. A few cantaloupe balls surrounded the foie gras, but I'm not sure they contributed much to the dish, although I don't mind foie with fruit. Friend ordered the lobster bisque and another special--the double-cut veal chop with porcini cream sauce. It came with 2 kinds of pommes frites (regular, and shoestring). I had the Alsacian onion tart (a sizeable portion of quiche with a fine dice of smoked ham, with a small salad and quail egg) and also the roast quail stuffed with sweetbreads. Beautiful presentation on a bed of wilted spinach, atop a thin slice of potato gratin anchored by a mound of whipped potato. Tonight will no doubt be another night of drunken debauchery at a club, followed by early-morning dining at a greasy spoon. (I promise I will revert to my former civilized self when this guy leaves for Japan in a few days.)

Oh come on, I know I'm not the only one... Do you have a cookie dough recipe that's so good, it gets eaten before even making it to the Silpat? Right now, I'm loving the Korova cookies recipe (by Dorie Greenspan, adapted from Pierre Herme's Paris Sweets: Great Desserts from the City's Best Pastry Shops). I'm a sucker for anything chocolate with a bit of salty bite. Here's the recipe: http://www.leitesculinaria.com/recipes/cookbook/korova.html My second favourite cookie dough to eat is the peanut butter cookie recipe from the back of the Kraft peanut butter jar. It's especially good when frozen.

^I've used Scharffen Berger chocolate and Baker's chocolate in the same recipe (not together). I can definitely tell the difference even when the Scharffen Berger goods are baking in the oven--the aroma is so fragrant. Whether they are "4x better" is debatable though.

Did he have sauce dribbling down his chin?

Roasted quail, stuffed with sweetbreads, on a bed of wilted spinach, and a small wedge of scalloped potato on whipped potato

I'm having lunch tomorrow at Le Crocodile...will report back. The dinner menu sounds even more delicious though...