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From Serious Eats: New York

Shameless Rumormongering: Leah and Hosea Both Taking Off

Maybe they'll open up a joint venture... after their secluded vacation.

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Tasting P.B. Loco's Wacky Line of Peanut Butters

I haven't heard of PB Loco this far up North, but White Chocolate Wonderful by PB&Co. is divine.

I second that! I can attest to the greatness of PB & B(acon). Peanut Butter and crispy bacon sandwiches are fantastic not only in taste but in texture. I'd buy it if it came jarred, but it's probably not difficult to make your own.

Weekend project mystery solved.

From Talk

Brioche For Burgers?

I won't order a burger if it comes on brioche, no matter how good the meat is. Brioche is just about the worst burger bun I can imagine, quickly followed by a baguette.

From Serious Eats

What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?

Four flat even small chipped almost underbakes chocolate chip cookies for 1$. The bakery that sells the batter to my old school caf sells them in their store... six of them in giant plate-sized portions for about 5$. I get them everytime I fly home.

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From Serious Eats: New York

Shameless Rumormongering: Leah and Hosea Both Taking Off

Maybe they'll open up a joint venture... after their secluded vacation.

From Serious Eats

Tasting P.B. Loco's Wacky Line of Peanut Butters

I haven't heard of PB Loco this far up North, but White Chocolate Wonderful by PB&Co. is divine.

I second that! I can attest to the greatness of PB & B(acon). Peanut Butter and crispy bacon sandwiches are fantastic not only in taste but in texture. I'd buy it if it came jarred, but it's probably not difficult to make your own.

Weekend project mystery solved.

From Talk

Brioche For Burgers?

I won't order a burger if it comes on brioche, no matter how good the meat is. Brioche is just about the worst burger bun I can imagine, quickly followed by a baguette.

From Serious Eats

What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?

Four flat even small chipped almost underbakes chocolate chip cookies for 1$. The bakery that sells the batter to my old school caf sells them in their store... six of them in giant plate-sized portions for about 5$. I get them everytime I fly home.

From A Hamburger Today

The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles

If this came in hardcover, I'd have to rest it on top of the Hamburger America book on my imaginary burger table.

From Serious Eats: New York

Best Burger in the World at The Little Owl?

I dunno.. sometimes "the best" burger is all about the environment and how far you've travelled and waited for it, to culminate in a sort of optimal hunger/anticipation to taste ratio.

The burger at Le Tub in Fort Lauderdale, after traveling 1600 miles, driving past it five times before seeing it and waiting an hour and a half during sunset was pretty darn worth the best burger award.

From A Hamburger Today

Are Pickles a Burger Condiment?

I wouldn't consider anything so vile to be a condiment. No offence to the cucumbers, it's the dill and vinegar combination that really churns my stomach.

But in all seriousness, spicy eggplants is not a condiment, saukraut is also not, so why would pickles be, simply because they are more widely used?

Not a condiment.

From Serious Eats

Tomatoes Are Evil

Love 'em. However..

All my ex-boyfriends have been tomato haters. Does that mean I'm a tomato-hater-lover?
Halp!

From Serious Eats

The Cereal Project, an Online Database of U.S. Cereals

If I had a go-back machine I'd get me some Strawberry Shortcake cereal!!!! Oh my! I remember the perfectly cereal-sweet strawberry flavor diluted in the milk, the way it turned a pinkish-hue, and how my grandmother forbade the other grandkids from eating my favorite cereal which she kept strictly for me, as my parents were granola-freaks of the natural sugar variety.

From Serious Eats

Any Bring-From-Home Snack Ideas?


Cut up fruit. Fruit gummies. Olives. Whatever I can get my hands on that's healthy because as people in the office know, my mouth is like a constant slow humming hoover vac.

(port as a snack! LOL!)

From Serious Eats

Snapshots from Greece: Souvlaki from O Thanasis in Athens

I've eaten there! I didn't know it was the best, nor have I had enough experience with Gyros to recognize that I was eating a good one, but it was tasty enough. That's saying a lot, I'm not typically a Gyros fan. :)

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Video: Room Covered in Melted Cheese

I've seen this before, though I'm fairly sure it was called "A Lactose Intolerant's Worst Nightmare".

From Serious Eats

In Videos: Barack Obama Doesn't Know What a Half-Smoke Is

I can vouch for the greatness of the half-smoke.

It was on our top-priority list of "must eat there" restaurants when we visited DC three years ago, after having read about it all over the blogosphere. Great atmosphere.

From Recipes

Cook the Book: Oven-'Fried' Sweet Potatoes

Have you tried dipping them in garlic mayo? What a supberb combination!

I mix a quarter cup of zero fat Miracle Whip with 1-2 grated/crushed cloves of garlic. Of course you could make aioli from scratch, but I get impatient when I smell the temptation of s.p.fries.

For spices, I use usually use 1/4 t. cinnamon, dash of cayenne, 1/2 t. cumin, 1/2 paprika, fine seat salt and pepper to taste.

I've tried most combinations of cinnamon/basil/rosemary/salt/pepper/chili/cumin/etc.. The fries are good on their own with the simple and flawless addition of salt and garlic mayo.

From Serious Eats

Keanu Reeves to Star in Chef Movie

That's just brilliant, at least he can regurgitate the same one-liners as his previous films:
-"I used to eat there. Really good noodles."
-"There is no spoon?"

From Talk

It's not worth it to make _______ when I could just buy it

Mayo! I'm one of the weird ones who prefers Miracle Whip over the real thing. Why waste a cup of olive oil for something that will go unfinished and perish at the end of the week, when you can buy a gigantic jar of fake-mayo that will last you months. (Or in my case....weeks.)

Miracle Whip is not entirely a purists' condiment, but even if I did prefer real mayo, I'd still buy it instead of painstakingly making it.

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