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I love to make a simple irish soda bread. sometimes I put raisins in it. It's fairly quick and easy and tastes great with homemade strawberry jam.

The first time I tried baking bread, I misted it too much and it came out all hard crust and nothing soft inside. total mess.

honey mustard, swish cheese and coleslaw. yum.

my favorite bbq joint is an amish market in cockeysville, MD that makes amazing pork haugh wings and little roast baby potatoes. they also have great ribs and wings.

a nicely grilled very thin sliced flank

Andy Nelsons BBq and the Amish Market in Cockeysville, MD

Dim sum in chinatown, bagel w/ cream cheese and lox or veggie cream cheese. dumplings at Excellent Dumpling House on Lafayette St.

my favorite pork memory is eating carolina pulled pork sandwiches for the first time with my friends. I am from up north and was going to college in N Carolina and those sandwiches are amazing.

dim sum, dumplings at excellent dumpling house, bagels with cream cheese and lox or veggie cream cheese.

my fondest pork memory is having carolina bbq with my friends for the first time when I went away to college in NC. tasty stuff, nothing else compares.

we have an Andy Nelson's bbq here north of Baltimore, but there is also this really good amish market only open 3 days a week that has amazing bbq and wings and little roast potatoes. very good.

bialis with cream cheese and salmon or steamed dumplings from the Excellent Dumpling House in Chinatown. Best dumplings in the city.