I don't see why not. It's a very popular thing to do in Seattle where I'm from. I know the proper snobby New England thing to do is to use a lobster cracker, but we're not snobs. We're practical.

Does anyone know of a restaurant that offers its diners a mallet and bib for cracking their crab or lobster open? It can be in RI, Western MA( not Boston), or Northern CT.

I stopped in to check this supposedly awesome cheese place out today. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!

For the most part their cheeses were over priced, the staff members were snobby and worst of all they were selling OUTDATED products. I'm not talking about a day or two. This goat cheese I bought was 2 weeks out of date!!!

This is something that MIGHT be acceptable from a grocery chain. I could understand it being overlooked there, but in a specialty cheese store..

That's easy. A little powdered bar keepers friend and just enough water to make a paste. Let it sit for a moment or 2 then scrub the rust off with a scrubber sponge. Shouldn't take more than 5 or 10 mins per pan.

Then reseason them with some shortening and a 400 degree oven the whole process should take about an hour.

My fiance and I went to Rasoi for dinner tonight because we had a $25 gift certificate from Restaurant.com- excellent site by the way. It was beyond mediocure!! The Poppadoms were delicious as well as the mango lassi. The rest of the food is on life support. I took most of my entree home with me to give it CPR. The duck is tender enough, but is covered in such a salty sauce it makes eating it impossible.

The lamb skewer appetizer was very spicy(heat spicy) and had little actual flavor.

The raita(cucumber and yogurt dipping sauce) was delicious. light and creamy.

My fiance had the stewed mutton over seasonal veggies. His mutton had more bone than meat and was cooked to the point where it was stringy and not enjoyable.

The masala potatoes were watery and bland. Tumeric was the only seasoning.

Dessert:

I had the warm carrot pudding with rose and almonds. It was too sweet, and more like a very loosely held together cake than a pudding. I'm speaking of course about american pudding.

My fiance had the dumplings in honey and spices- he said they were gummy and again lacking in discernible flavor. The honey sauce was just sitting at the bottom.

Overall I'm glad I had that gift certificate!

It's possible that the kitchen had an off night, but it seems to me that they are trying to go in too many directions with the food.