What's the funniest or worst restaurant experience you'd had so
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Mark D Hehehe! I can relate to those cooks! I had two guys come in one morning right...

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admire that! I was once at Chevy's, not known to be too authentic. I ordered their firecracker pork...

What's the funniest or worst restaurant experience you'd hadso
On 3 Dec 2005 21:20:13 -0600, "Bob Terwilliger" opined: This reminded me of a time the DH and I were in Chinatown in San Francisco and ate at a *great* Chinese place called...

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We went to this restaurant that had ribs as a theme ... not a rib joint, actually, but a restaurant. I don't remember what we ordered, that was some time ago, but I guess we...

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Several years ago, a few friends and I went into a diner in Philadelphia to eat dinner after we saw a movie. As our food was served, a waitress brought over a friend's chicken parmasian...

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My husband and I went to Portland Maine for a long weekend to get away for our birthdays ( we are born on the same day ) We decided to eat early so we...

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On Fri 25 Nov 2005 08:07:25p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Rob? This was a very strange and funny...

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The scene is yum cha at a cheap chinese restaurant (which I normally love BTW). 1) Despite booking ahead they had...

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Last summer we were away for the weekend and went looking for a restaurant for lunch...

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We live near the beach and there is a building right on the beach that houses 2 restaurants upstairs and...

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Me One of the worst experiences I've had was at a recently opened BBQ place. This was...

What's the funniest or worst restaurant experience you'd had so far LONG
The purpose of a restaurant is to make money. Food just happens to be the method. If you were a cab driver and were flagged...

What's the funniest or worst restaurant experience you'd had so far LONG
Edwin Pawlowski The purpose of a restaurant, or any business is to service the customer. If you don't take care of the customer, you don't make money and you go out of...

What's the funniest or worst restaurant experience you'd had so far LONG
We agree; as I said, it is all about money. In a restaurant, food and service is the medium, money is the...

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Pete C. Hmm, the world is all about you. What makes you think a restaurant should give up a table that...

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Sheldon Business is all about the customer. Without customers you have no business. First come, first serve. Smart restaurants insure that...

Festive Fruitcakecalls for dried fruit not that icky candied stuff 605
On 28 Oct 2005 18:54:25 +0200, Wayne Boatwright My recipe is completely overwhelming, too. I appreciate that people are posting smaller recipes. Maybe I'll have fruitcake...

Farmer's Almanac Apple Pie recipe confirmation please
This year I made my first applie pie from scratch. I found this Farmer's Almanac pie receipe and wanted to ask the...

Cranberry Sauce Idea
I tried something new with the standard cranberry sauce recipe on the bags of fresh cranberries. I've tried using orange juice in...

Cranberry Sauce Idea
snipped * This is my favorite way to make cranberries --and I don't do it the same way twice. I like to add dried fruits that I stew before adding the cranberries. For Thanksgiving it was...

Is it true about nonstickcephalon pans causing cancer 609
breathe - breathe - breathe - Well, after I finish my char-grilled steak, my fried alkoid-filled organic potatoes, and have my cigar and processed beer out...

Is it true about nonstickcephalon pans causing cancer 610
zxcvbob Mol Cell Biochem. 2005 Nov;279(1-2):17-23. Effect of stainless steel manual metal arc welding fume on free radical production, DNA damage, and apoptosis induction. Antonini JM, Leonard SS, Roberts JR, Solano-Lopez...

REC: Creamy ChestnutArugula Soup
I made this for Thanksgiving and it was very, very good. I *think* that the chestnut-arugula combination...

PreDinner Panic
We're having our big dinner tomorrow afternoon. I've got the cranberry-orange relish, the watergate salad, the sour cream apple pie, and the pumpkin pecan pie made. Darned apple pie drooled...

PreDinner Panic
On Tue 29 Nov 2005 10:31:04p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Damsel in dis Dress? Reminds of the year I was guilty of the other extreme. I used...

People who know what to do
are really welcome dinner guests at my house. Thursday, I was scrambling in the kitchen with 25 hungry guests milling about in the dining room. They...

People who know what to do... 615
OMG... Your T'day way more eventful than mine. I don't know why mine was so boring this year. Not a disaster in...

People who know what to do... 616
incidents and make them hilarious. Now, I want to know what to do about this new...

Is There a Liquid margarine for Frying and Baking 617
Not in all bakery products, in particular bread and cakes. Hmnn that was the idea before the advent of liquid shortening...but based on experience specialized liquid...

Is There a Liquid margarine for Frying and Baking 618
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Michael "Dog3" Lonergan There is a commercial product that seems to be butter-flavored oil. It looks like melted butter, but it never...

Make the money you need for cooking
What a deal, but this has to be a scam," I said to my self. As I checked into the topic, I found...

OT: NOT Just Fer Yer Dryer
And all this time you've just been putting Bounce in the dryer! It will chase ants away when you lay a...

Online Chat with HeartDoc 120805 621
O'Hush It would be your choice to turn your back on the truth. If you truly are hearing...

Online Chat with HeartDoc 120805 622
Bob (this one)" In truth, you are not a real Everest climber. In truth, nuts contain very little water. In truth, the fuel required to melt 30 pounds of...

Different pie crust technique
The usual direction for making pie crust is to cut the shortening into the flour. That results in small flakes or mealiness (still acceptable) depending...

Different pie crust technique 624
Reviving an old thread; replying to no particular message. A memory from my childhood just floated to the...

Different pie crust technique 625
Dave Smith Has anyone tried using beef tallow for pastry? I have several pounds of it in the freezer; gotta try it...

what is Groviera Cheese
Michael "Dog3" Lonergan Now I understand your question better. Normally, vegetarian means someone who does NOT eat meat, poultry, fish or shellfish. Vegetarians normally DO eat grains...

Next Year: Thanksgiving
This year we had 18 people for Thanksgiving, Next year we will have 41 and...

Next Year: Thanksgiving 628
41 pan These are some of the things we have learned after some large Thansgiving dinners. This year we had nearly 60 people for Thanksgiving. It was hosted...

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Thanks Desert Rainbow, You have some great ideas and I love the idea of buying a refrigerator and then selling it. We were talking about buying one because it gets to be impossible with...

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The bbq was a charcoal 22" Weber Kettle. It's done by moving the ignited coals to each side of the grate and placing the turkey...

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Bronwyn, The worst time I've ever had entertaining was on the Saturday of the last July 4th weekend when we had our tennis group...

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Sheldon, I know lots of people like you. They are actually very nice people but they believe that this negative sense of humor is funny and sometimes it really is...

Grand Marnier Souffle
Reg replied to aem: OHFERCRISSAKE! HERE! Grand Marnier Souffle melted butter granulated sugar to coat the forms 2 oz...

Taking Thanksgiving dinner on the road Ping: Wayne
Thanksgiving out of town worked wonderfully! I know Wayne asked for a report on the precooked dinner in a cooler concept, so here's the details. My daughter was with her Dad, so...

Recipe For Tosh Reeb
First of all, this is not my recipe. Some things may be lost in translation. If I may make a recommendation, instead...

Preserving jam
Could it be you've kept the lids all in a bag, perhaps allowing some microscopic scrapes of the lid or sealant surface? Jam is an acidic product and a tiny scrape ould allow...

Binge nad purge
My sister in law was here for a visit for a few days and brought her newly...

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Peter Huebner The two dinners were things I had done before but had exceptionally good results this time...

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Dave Smith If a relative showed up on your doorstep who looked like she might be...

Binge and purge 640
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:09:56 -0500, Dave Smith Bulimics--and anorexics, they're effectively two edges of the same...

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Julia Altshuler Sounds good. The problem is that she is a 16 year old girl and newly acquired relative though an...

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Dave Smith I'm glad there were parts of your visit that were pleasant and neutral. They are, however, irrelevant to the mental illness. If mental illness could be "spoken" to by pointing out its...

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Right. I had a friend in college who had bulemia. She was pretty good at hiding it, but eventually, her closest group of friends caught on (I think it's one of those deals where deep...

Ping: Ophelia, sf
We've just finished eating a piece of Ophilia's recipe for Yorkshire Curd Cheesecake and proclaimed it *marvelous*! Both the flavor and texture were...

Ping: Ophelia, sf
On Mon 28 Nov 2005 03:37:45a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Ophelia? So sorry, Ophelia. Although I didn't e-mail you directly, this is verbatim what I posted: We've just...

SemiHomemade with Sandra Lee: Yule Be Sorry
We open with SLop dressed in mismatching red shirt and slacks on a sleigh that just crashed into a tree with what appears to be asbestos snow on it. She...

Cherry cream cheese cake
This is quite good. It's from the Nordic Ware cookbook I got with my Bundt pan. * Exported...

Gnocchi à la Parisienne from Thomas Keller's Bouchon A Report with recipe Longish
I gifted my sister with this cookbook last Christmas and everything that I have made from it has...

Tday #2
Well, my aunt, my cousin and I went to Mentor, OH, to my other cousin's house for T-day #1. Besides the fact that I like my stuffing way better and my...

Tday #2
connected the dots and ~Well, my aunt, my cousin and I went to Mentor, OH, to my other ~cousin's house for T-day #1. Besides the fact that I like...

messing about with masa harina suggestions welcome
There are quite a few Indian & Pakistani grocery stores down the West Road, along with a couple of African shops...

Minestrone Soup with ham bone and pig skin
A neapolitan friend of mine gave me this recipe some years ago. I liked it very much, so, in the winter, when outside the weather is very cold, I always make this very...

What we had for Tday #1
I hope everyone had a great T-day! Went to my cousin Karen's in Mentor, OH for T-day. I brought the rolls (my grandmother's crescent rolls). I tried something new this year...




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