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Why do restaurants put their hours and location under "contact info" on their websites?
This. Restaurants and any other business that expects their customers to physically come to them needs to have their hours & address clearly stated on the main page. And then they should make sure that the info's still easily accessible when using a smart phone. Even more so when you're in a city with lots of great places to eat and shop, I am not going to look that hard.
my beans are terrible- need help!
I've had good luck using a slow cooker, have you tried that? Last batch, I just threw some little dried black beans in without soaking, along with a quarter of an onion and a cut up carrot and a bit of thyme, cold water a couple inches above the beans, turned the slow cooker onto "auto" (high until it gets heated up, then down to low) and forgot about them for ~4 hours. They came out just perfect.
Very new to wines, one basic question.
I'm no expert on wine myself, but my dad (who used to make his own wine and be generally sort of serious about the stuff) would use a vacuum pump thing like these: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A284507%2Ck%3Awine%20bottle%20vacuum%20pump&page=1 on unfinished bottles of wine. I believe that you're trying to prevent the wine from oxidizing (i.e. chemically reacting with the oxygen in the air) more than keeping it from turning into vinegar (which shouldn't happen so quickly if you refrigerate the leftovers).
Is there really GOOD pizza in MSP???
It's a little ways from the metropolis, but I had some very lovely pizza at Roma over in White Bear Lake (http://www.roman-market.com/Menu.html). They've got the brick oven thin crust and some interesting toppings. I had the Balsalmico: "Candied figs, Gorgonzola, and prosciutto finished with an aged balsamic reduction, gourmet greens, and fig molasses". It was delicious. (And of course they have "regular" toppings as well.)
