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New weekly recipes newsletter
We just launched a new newsletter last week, it's a weekly roundup of great recipes. I want to make sure that it's getting to all the people who might want it!
So now we have two options for people who want fresh recipes delivered via newsletter. The Recipe of the Day sends one recipe, uh, daily. Pretty self-explanatory. (Other than the fact that "daily" means weekdays. But I'm splitting hairs.)
The new newsletter sends 7 recipes on Thursdays. So if you want great CHOW recipes but don't want them every single weekday, then 7 recipes in one fell swoop might work for you.
You can sign up in the newsletters tab in your profile.
http://www.chow.com/newsletters
Win $2000 for your best recipe using beer!
Thanks, Breadcrumbs. I added that note at the end.
New recipe contest: win $2000 for your best recipe using beer!
[cross-posting with home cooking board]
Calling all home cooks and beer lovers and home beer-cooking lovers: we've got a sponsored recipe contest starting today that calls for your best recipe using Blue Moon beer. Check it out: http://www.chow.com/contests/blue-moon-recipe-contest
The main exciting thing is that the contest winner will win $2000, and runners up (three of them) get $1000 each. Nothing to sneeze at.
The second exciting thing is that we've revamped our recipe upload tool, it's MUCH easier to use -- just three simple steps and then you're done. So try it out -- go to the contest page, upload your recipe, and tell us how you like it.
And good luck!
[edited to add: contest rules require that entrants are over 21 and live in the US, but not in California.]
Win $2000 for your best recipe using beer!
Calling all home cooks and beer lovers and home beer-cooking lovers: we've got a sponsored recipe contest starting today that calls for your best recipe using Blue Moon beer. Check it out: http://www.chow.com/contests/blue-moon-recipe-contest
The main exciting thing is that the contest winner will win $2000, and runners up (three of them) get $1000 each. Nothing to sneeze at.
The second exciting thing is that we've revamped our recipe upload tool, it's MUCH easier to use -- just three simple steps and then you're done. So try it out -- go to the contest page, upload your recipe, and tell us how you like it.
And good luck!
[edited to add: contest rules require that entrants are over 21 and live in the US, but not in California.]
"Ask the Expert" on topical boards
It's fair to say that every day on Chowhound is an ask-the-experts day. There will be times that outside experts who aren't normally on Chowhound may be asked to donate some of their expertise for hounds who want to participate, and ask questions of them. This doesn't denigrate the existing experts in any way.
Suggestion
HillJ -- every once in a while the people being profiled in the Obsessives might jump into the comments section, but we don't have anything formal in place.
But in general I love the idea of having expert threads. Bill and Nicolette Niman participated last year, too. And so did Michael Ruhlman. I'm glad people are bringing it up, it's definitely something we'd like to do again. And those are good suggestions, Hank Hanover.
Site needs more new content
Jacquilynne's right, we on the editorial side do read these boards, and thanks for the feedback. We're a small team, trying to get content out, and it's great to know that it's appreciated! Or not!
NO! I don't want to participate in the CHOW survey!
Yikes! Users with cookies enabled should never see a survey invite more than once. We had the sampling rate set at 1%, so only a small percentage should have seen it at all.
Our research manager looked into the problem and didn't see anything wrong in the way the survey was set up. If cookies are turned off, we have no way to control how many times users will see the offer.
Feedback Wanted on New Feature Coming Soon
I agree about the digest and I'm on a crusade to get it greater prominence in the right column or somewhere on the site.
Friday Night at Tendejon de la Calle - Hudson Street Winery - Healdsburg
Inside Scoop reports that Mateo Granados is opening a permanent space in Healdsburg, late July. http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/04/26/mateo-granados-to-open-latin-american-restaurant-in-healdsburg/
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Mateo Granados
399 Business Park Dr, Windsor, CA
Feedback Wanted on New Feature Coming Soon
That's actually really not what it's intended to do: we want it to encourage great information about food, not necessarily promote the people who are spreading that info. That's why we're attaching it to posts, not to posters.
Printing Recipes
We made the decision to not include the image on the print page because of the space and ink it requires. We found that most people prefer to not have to print the image.
Unwanted "Chow" link on my facebook profile page
What sort of link is it? Are CHOW posts showing on your wall, or is it a link to some activity you did on Chowhound?
You might have clicked a "Like" button here on the site, which would have made you a fan of the CHOW Facebook page, and would then feed the posts we put there onto your FB wall.
They don't make it obvious to unlike a page -- but if you look down at the bottom of the left column on our Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/Chow
You'll see a little "unlike" link.
CHOW Recipe Challenge: Your Best Muffin Recipe!
This has turned into a perfect storm of legal confusion and holiday goofs. The upshot: you will be able to submit recipes until May 16! I've edited the original post to reflect the new dates. So if you're not feeling muffin-friendly this week, perhaps you will the week after, or even the week after that?
"Ask the Expert" on topical boards
I'm happy to help facilitate expert threads. Feel free to suggest people and/or topics and I can look into who's available and willing.
CHOW Recipe Challenge: Your Best Muffin Recipe!
We are indeed sorry about the Passover oversight. This solidifies my status as a bad Jew and tunnel-visioned lover of muffins. Our legal team says that we can't extend the challenge once it's already started. So creative, unleavened muffin recipes will be heartily accepted and if we don't get enough submissions we'll do the contest over.
Sonoma - how to fit it all in?
If you're sticking around the Russian River area for winetasting on Saturday, Iron Horse has a beautiful tasting room (not really a room -- it's an outdoor bar). And for food, barndiva is somewhat of a trek unless you're going to taste up Westside Rd in Healdsburg or something. I like the Underwood in Graton for lunch (and bocce ball).
Where should I eat my first big guilty free meal after losing 30 lbs ?
I suspect you could ingest a lot of calories at Suppenkuche, or the new Austrian place Leopold's. But for pure fat and carbs, Perbacco is a good choice. Though Barbacco is a more fun atmosphere (and cheaper).
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Perbacco
230 California St, San Francisco, CA 94111
Suppenkuche
525 Laguna St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Barbacco
230 California St, San Francisco, CA 94111
Dal Porto Ranch Lamb
Anyone know any contact info for Dal Porto? All I can find is a horse ranch in Brentwood -- not the same place, right?
Zare at Fly Trap open for weekday lunch
It's a bit of a thrill to have a new lunch option near the office, especially one that is touted as healthy, and extra-especially one that's different from the mobbed (mobd) Mixt Greens.
You order at the counter and can either take food to go or eat there. I had the azeri bulgur salad with skirt steak, and the steak seemed cooked to order, medium rare, warm, and juicy. The bulgur had cherry tomatoes, garbanzos, peas, and slivers of almond. No sign of the favas that were promised on the menu but delicious nonetheless. And a piece of grilled mango. It was $12, so more expensive than a basic Mixt greens salad but also a very welcome change.
They also have wraps and soups on the menu. More of the menu on SFGate: http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/03/23/zare-at-fly-trap-ready-to-roll-his-new-lunch-concept-zares-grill-and-grain/
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Zare at Fly Trap
606 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Mixt Greens
114 Sansome St Ste 120, San Francisco, CA 94104
"Chowdown" Craft Cocktail Hour Tonight (4/12) at Burritt Room
I really enjoyed both my cocktails, and was sad I had to rush off early for a date. But happy that I had 1.5 cocktails in me while watching No Exit. ("Hell is other people"!!)
I wrote down the names of my cocktails, but unfortunately not the rather baroque sets of ingredients. I believe both of them had sherry in them, because sherry cocktails are a current obsession.
My first drink was the Salvatore's Flip, which pane and I agreed looked a bit like a bad cappuccino. But tasted delicious: smooth and creamy from the egg, not too alcoholic (deceptively so, perhaps).
The Rocinante was slow and steady, like its namesake. I know that it had blanco tequila and manzanilla sherry, but my memory ends there. It too came with a little sidecar flask on ice, which I would have loved to carry off with me when I left, but I hope that it was enjoyed by the others!
Overhead Page of SF Bay Area Digest Won't Open
It's fixed, thanks for the heads-up!
http://www.chow.com/digest/77889/overheard-on-the-san-francisco-bay-area-board-39/
Overhead Page of SF Bay Area Digest Won't Open
It looks like something's wrong with that link -- since overheards always have the same title, normally the URL will have a number at the end of it. I'll try to figure it out. Sorry about the inconvenience!
CHOW Tour Oakland, Your Thoughts On Where To Go?
Blake and Roxanne just wrapped up the Oakland portion of the tour, and here are the videos and posts, with many of your suggestions: http://www.chow.com/food-news/chow-tour-handmade/oakland/
Next up: Portland.
BEST RESTAURANTS IN PALM SPRINGS
I had a date shake at Shield's today -- the atmosphere is certainly old-timey and charming, but the shakes may have lost their charm. They weren't making them fresh, just pulling them out of a freezer. And there was definitely a not-fresh taste, like they were using commercial ice cream (or, if they make their own, using additives/stabilizers?).
Next-page button in recipes
Hi Zerbulon,
Sorry I didn't see this post earlier! We had a bug with those pages, but it was fixed last week. You should now be able to see as many healthy recipes as you desire.
