agreed, latindancer. :)

No one has tried Lindy and Grundy? (http://lindyandgrundy.com/)

Anyone know the best place in LA to look for pecans in their shells? I was at the Hollywood Farmer's Market on Sunday and if there were any there, I missed them. (Entirely likely.)

Thanks!

Trader Joe's Top 10 Wine List http://jasonswineblog.com/trader-joes-wines-top-10-wine-list/ (maybe about a year old, though); and Trader Joe's Classic Wines (standbys) http://jasonswineblog.com/trader-joes...

i like the walnut, almond paste, and raspberry jam coffee cake you can get at Gelson's. It's sold in the Bakery area, but not at the bakery. It's not much to look at--just a brown cake, but it's quite good. It's studded with walnuts and it has three layers: a thick one of cake, a thin one of jam, and a sort of crust/bottom layer of some sort of crumb. Wonderful with black coffee, natch.

i like just about anything that comes out of Proof Bakery. I think they're fantastic.

Yesterday we found Red Velvet Cake and Clusterfluff at the Silver Lake Gelson's, as Papuli had said. They also had Bonnaroo Buzz, a newer one.

We liked the Red Velvet, but the Clusterfluff was a bit disappointing. While I liked the marshmallow swirl, the peanuts in it were kind of soggy-tasting.

Thanks, cjla. And Charles, papuli, and servorg. :)

The Flavor Locator doesnt have the new flavors as an option yet. We went to the scoop shop in Burbank; they had Late Night Snack, but not the other two. We tried a taste, and it was not bad. But I guess we're really holding out for the Red Velvet & the GI dust bunnies.

Maybe they'll start turning up more places...

trying to locate any or all of the three new Ben & Jerry's flavors: Late Night Snack, Red Velvet, and Clusterfluff.

Has anyone spotted these at any supermarkets?

We've tried our Vons here in Highland Park/Eagle Rock. No go.

Anyone?

Desperately craving! :)

L'Absinthe! It's very good.
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i just want to say: think twice about adding Camilo's to your list. Any restaurant that serves bread that you can mold into balls a la Wonder Bread is a bad restaurant in my book.

But would like to second the Polka recommendation. :)

hmm. that could be it. Sea Harbour's had no powdered sugar on it. it was larger than the one shown in that pic. and more spiky. but i bet that's it. thanks, guys. :)

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Sea Harbour Seafood Restaurant
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and thank you, too, ipsedixit.

thank you, all. particularly maxzook. :) as it turned out, they were open only for takeout last night. a brother was getting married and they were holding the party there later. we ended up at J & J.

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J & J Cafe
509 N State St, Hemet, CA 92543

ok, been comparing the characters in carl chu's first book to the ones on the China Islamic menu. still not sure.

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China Islamic Restaurant
7727 Garvey Ave, Rosemead, CA 91770

oh, also, are the hand cut noodles in all of their noodle/lamb dishes? there are at least two lamb noodle soups. One says Homemade?

i was just looking at China Islamic's menu. Does anyone know which dish the Cumin Lamb is? There is no item in English saying Cumin lamb.

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China Islamic Restaurant
7727 Garvey Ave, Rosemead, CA 91770

now i can't remember where i found this but i think it may require more than just Crisco to re-create. Apparently something called hi-ratio shortening is important to the taste. I bought some at Surfas and will let you know. :)

thank you, bakemark! who knows, maybe i could somehow get my hands on some of that. :)

thank you, taiwanesesmalleats. i've seen those two, but, as monku says, i have a feeling they're not for sale.

it didn't seem to be glistening. nor did it remind me of a wonton skin. but it was twisty. i wish i'd taken a pic, but i only had my iphone with me and figured it wouldn't really come out.

ooh. rum raisin?! and, wait, lemon custard!

I don't think so, if only because it was such a large thing. Not small at all.

i think the Peels' responses (her blog post and her friends' comments and his comments on the LAist) are really kind of jaw-droppingly juvenile.

i enjoy the South Indian dishes at the India Sweets and Spices on Los Feliz in Atwater Village. More of a cafeteria, though, and less of a restaurant.

this makes me wonder if LA Chowhounds are discussing the Mark Peel-and-wife vs. blog review episode -- Lindsay William-Ross' review of Tar Pit's Happy Hour?
http://laist.com/2010/06/01/not_so_st...

I know what you mean. i check ingredients very carefully for guar gum. Trader Joe's used to have a ff Red Wine Vinaigrette (based on Annie's, i think--or maybe the exact same as) that had no guar gum stuff in it and didn't have that yucky faux-fat texture. It was not bad. I haven't bought it in a while, though, so can't be sure they still have it. Also, you may not be near a TJ's. If not, look for Annie's version.

An unasked-for suggestion: try a really good EV olive oil? A little goes a long way. :)

I mean, as in separately from a cake? Has anyone done this or thought of doing this?

It's a very guilty pleasure. But also a very pleasurable very guilty pleasure.

I've made frostings myself, of course, but they never compare to the mad sugar rush those frostings deliver.

Perhaps they also use Crisco instead of butter...?

If you're not too disgusted by this post, I'd love some advice. ;)

Also, i tried Sea Harbour for the first time about a month ago. Very good. Also, I liked the vibe of the room. It's a lot more festive and relaxed feeling than Elite.

But for some reason we just weren't in a dessert mood that day so i can't compare the egg custard.

[A bit of a tangent to the original post: might anyone be able to identify something we saw at SH on a mainly-sweets cart? It was a large and unwieldy-looking fried thing, kind of like a funnel cake that received so many steroids that it got mad and tried to jump out of itself. Do you know what I am talking about?

Heh. We asked the woman [wo-]manning the cart, and though she was clearly thinking hard about how best to explain it to us, the only thing she could come up with was, "Meat."

"Meat?"

"Meat."

For the rest of the meal we would both intermittently wonder aloud what kind of meat could be fried in the shape of the ball on a medieval flail. Anyone? :) ]

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Sea Harbour Seafood Restaurant
3939 N. Rosemead Blvd., Rosemead, CA 91770, USA

i'm glad to know that the egg custard still knocked all of your socks off. Your reactions are very similar to what my reaction was the first time i had it there. It's really amazing.

I would love it if they had carts instead of the menu... it's so much easier to try new things that way.