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Hot oatmeal with Vanilla Ice Cream!
Old friend of DH's has been doing this for decades. He explains it the same way you do. A good idea. I'm thinking butter pecan, strawberry or maybe peach?
What to expect at a "Tea"
Call it a champagne tea and pour bubbly with the sandwiches and sweets and several kinds of good tea.. Gives a good reason for raising the price. If they can do it at the Plaza Hotel, you can do it, too.
Baked spuds: To poke or not to poke?
Yes, they'll blow in a regular oven, too, so I use a paring knife that has a long, skinny point for it. We cook our potatoes a long time - DH says it's impossible to overcook a baked potato, and while he's not quite right, he's close. Crunchy skins are much-favored here, followed closely by chewy ones. So I don't find it's a question of how long they're baked, just, speaking from a science standpoint, lots of moisture and insufficient ventilation.
And I also think poking needs to be fairly deep, especially in a large potato. That's why I use a knife instead of a fork; it's just easier.
Weird/Bad Food Related Dates
I am of the older generation, old enough to have adolescent grandchildren. And most women friends my age who have been single again don't assume it either. If anything they'd prefer to pay their own way at first just to avoid any taint of "obligation". I think if you look over CH in general, women, if you can tell the gender of a CHer, mostly don't assume it.
I do know there are some cranky men out there who complain about it, but I think they're in the minority. As my mother began to say when she was in her 70s, "Get with it! This is the modern age!" And I think most of us are.
No, I don't think you're being rude, and I hope you understand I don't mean to be, either.
A week eating BBQ around IHOP, Kansas City, MO
Left KC when I was a year old, so I can't give you much answer, but pray tell, what is IHOP? Surely not the palace of pitiful pancakes?
WHERE DO YOU BUY COOKBOOKS?
I sure would like to be saying my local independent book store, but their selection has waned over recent years, or perhaps my interests are getting more specific. So the answer is lots of different places.
I don't find the chain bookstores good enough for browsing cookbooks. We have a good library system and I can obtain many books that I'm interested in, take them home, read them and decide if they're worth buying or not. And I save the price of the latte....
STL - can't miss spots downtown?
Oh, yeah. One of the great rooms in the United States.
STL - can't miss spots downtown?
Many differing opinions on Home Wine Kitchen; Google it.
Looking For A Recipe From A Former St. Louis County Restaurant
Google them, get a phone number and call. Leave a call-back message if they're not there. Call in between meal time, say 10:45 a.m. or after 1:30 p.m. until, say, 4:30 p.m.
Looking For A Recipe From A Former St. Louis County Restaurant
And have you talked to the Archers about the recipe?
Looking For A Recipe From A Former St. Louis County Restaurant
Have you e-mailed Judy Evans, the food editor at the Post-Dispatch? They do recipe searches.
Yuet Lee
Boy, am I glad to read this. Loved YL for years and visited whenever I was in SF, but the last couple of visits (the last about 18 months ago, maybe) it hasn't been nearly what it once was. What a pleasure. Will look for cheapo airfares just for that crab.
Curry Powder
It took me years to realize that the reason I thought I didn't like curry was the fenugreek. I've gotten over that, and cilantro and coconut as well, but my guess is if you like Indian curry and not Chinese, it's probably not the fenugreek. Fenugreek is what they use to make imitation maple flavor, so if you can locate some of that you can see if that's your culprit.
Weird/Bad Food Related Dates
...and we wonder why restaurants ask for CC#s....A double jerk.
Casual Date Night in STL?
I certainly think Wayno's post re HWK is an example of YMMV. So much of all this is about individual perception. Me, I'm really happy about the place's food. The same way w/ Salt; some folks love it and others say "What's the fuss about?"
Our old fall-back place was Duff's, casual, something on the menu for the cautious eater and the adventurous and the vegetarian. But I don't know how things are now that it's up for sale.
Weird/Bad Food Related Dates
Not sure if sheltered is the right word. Maybe "insular"? I have a friend who is now in her seventies. She has lived all her life in Cardiff, Wales, and she doesn't know any Jews except my husband, whom she met a few years ago, and didn't think there were any in Cardiff.... And this is a woman who's worked in the public schools and in a social service agency.
Restaurant near St Louis airport
Oceano is. Luciano's has just had a major pipe break this weekend and they're unsure about when they'll re-open.
Restaurant near St Louis airport
One of the old St. Louis Italian restos has an outlet near the airport, walking distance of a couple of the hotels. Too distracted by football to google it for you but it should be easy to find. There are also some good, inexpensive Mexican restaurants not far away but will call for your car. Either Los Tarascos or Las Palmas are family-owned and tasty, a little beyond the usual Mex-American, if you're up for that, but combination platters for the hesitant. They're on Woodson Rd., which runs north right into the airport.
What the hey, the lombardo's is on Natural Bridge Rd.; the website for them is lobardosrestaurants.com There's a 'que place nearby, Bandana's, which is sometimes okay and sometimes not. I'm sure you'll have more suggestions from others.
Restaurant near St Louis airport
Give us a little more idea of what bright and early means. Is this a 7 a.m. flight? Will you have a car?
Is there a reason why
Saw them as a kid in the Midwest----but it was at Howard Johnson's with those EXOTIC fried clams! Loved the butter toasting.
Equal of Patricia Well's Food Lovers Guide to Paris for the 21st century????
Ooh, good catch. We used to be on her publisher's pr list; must have been dropped. Thanks for the info. (Hoping for an android one as well....)
Coconut Layer Cake - Kpaul's kitchen
Well, the recipe looks good, if labor intensive. But why on earth are they calling the liquid inside the coconut "coconut milk"? This from what one assumes is a professional chef or food editor?
Need Great Cannolis in St Louis
Viviano's is a grocery store - they may sell shells, but I surely don't recall them selling baked goods.(But their frozen ravioli are often killer.)
Paula Deen's may have "type 2" (aka lifestyle) diabetes - surprise, surprise, surprise!
I am not fond of PD either. But NIDDM is not solely a lifestyle disease, despite what some websites say. I was a nurse for 30 years, and have seen rail-thin folks with it, although it was called Adult Onset Diabetes Mellitus back then in, oh, the Hoover Administration.
Hunted Deer
And as to marinades: whatever else I use, some juniper berries go in it. Before I could buy those, I used gin....
Need Great Cannolis in St Louis
Gotta tell you, better even than the cannolis are sfogliatelle, which looks like a shell the size of a 4th grader's fist, made of puff pastry and filled with a custard filling. Seasonal; can't remember which season. Not Easter, but....
Peruvian Chicken in St. Louis
Familiar w/ Peruvian chix from family in the DC area. Nope, nothing.
Need Great Cannolis in St Louis
Mo Baking west side of its street, has a parking lot right next to it, and I believe no awning. Vitale east side of its street, and an awning.
