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Honeybells - Best Mail Order Source
I've used Cushman for several years after my then-Florida resident kid sent us some. We always order the small ones for us, and twice have had one that was bad. I emailed them immediately when it happened and they sent more as an apology. Will order from them again, too.
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Thanksgiving relish tray?
Rural eastern Missouri background. Yes, relish tray. I can remember it from being a wee kid in the Truman Adminsitration. Always was on the table rather than put out beforehand; My grandmother ran things with an iron hand and would have tolerated none of this eating between meals, which would have been how she defined nibbling on things before a meal. Pickles and olives and perhaps carrot sticks; in later years the items were expanded slightly in my mother's reign.
I am amazed by how many places this year I have heard people puzzling over the relish tray, being astonished over its very existence. My guess it was a note of gentility in a world that existed before onion dip was widespread.
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Most memorable cafeteria food
Oh, gosh, my husband tells stories about gathering at Garfield's while he was in high school in the '40's. Erasmus Hall forever, and all that.
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Oranges: California vs. Florida
I'm generally much happier with Florida oranges and the orange relatives. I mostly juice my oranges, and the navels just don't taste as good when you juice 'em. And a big fat yes to honeybells!
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Most memorable cafeteria food
When I was in nursing school in St. Louis, the hospital cafeteria made their own doughnuts and eating before we went on the floors at 6:45 a.m., a warm doughnut is almost enough to make the alarm clock less awful. But then there was the lunch that I picked up a dish that I thought was deep-fried scallops. Sat down to eat it and an upperclassman said, "Why are you salting that? It's pineapple!"
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Most memorable cafeteria food
My very first H&H visit as a kid from the boonies of Missouri was the 42nd and 3rd one. I was enchanted. Later married a Brookyn guy wo reminds me that their slogan when he was growing up was, "Less work for Mother", which I find absolutely endearing.
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Most memorable cafeteria food
The Forum was in St. Louis, too, with the upstairs and the tray-carriers. I learned to bone fish there, eating their jack salmon (which is actually whiting). Great biscuit shortcakes, too.
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Where to find fresh quince in St. Louis?
Sure. It was the one at I-170 and Ladue Road. Call first, but the produce people there won't look like a deer in the headlights. (Or sound like one, whatever that sounds like.)
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reading on line recipe reveiws
Well, you answered your own question from your personal viewpoint. Let me give mine.
What this can tell someone reading it is what substitutions work successfully and what don't, how flexible the recipe can be or whether it's only useful when it's done precisely as written.
Subjectively, I acknowledge I just like to hear/read folks talking about cooking, and if it's a recipe I was curious enough about to investigate the comments, so much the better. I get much more annoyed when someone writes in looking for a particular ingredient, say, and someone else responds, "That stuff is awful. Yecch. I hate it." What does THAT add?
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Where to find fresh quince in St. Louis?
I've bought them at Schnuck's, actually. Talk to the produce manager at your local one and ask about them. They're unusual, but not impossible to find. I'm thinking it's a little earlier than I bought mine last year. Don't they smell wonderful?
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Shopping trip to St,louis.
The sibling of Jay Asia is Global Foods on Kirkwood Road (which is what Lindbergh Boulevard is called as it goes through that suburb, between I-44 and I-64) and it is, IMHO, even better, more items and less cluttered. And the prices are very good. Open every day. Global Foods Market
421 N. Kirkwood Rd., Kirkwood
314-835-1112
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To All Restaurant Owners
How about having an up to date website? Twice recently we've gone out to eat and discovered that either the place no longer served the meal or was now closed on that night.
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Knives in St. Louis
A second vote for Bertarelli. I have nothing against the chains, but prefer local folks, and Bertarelli is a not just a kitchen store, it's a knife store. They're specialists. But if you don't want a chain and can't get to The Hill neighborhood, there's the Kitchen Conservatory on Clayton Road in Clayton. A slight hoof from a Metro stop, but workable.
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Farm Fresh Eggs in STL/Clayton
You can buy them at the farmers' markets - not that there are many of those left locally. Prairie Grass Farms, purveyors of first-rate lamb, also have eggs, for instance, and are at Clayton, Tower Grove and the Wednesday market at Schlafly. Wintertimes it becomes more difficult but there's a monthly market that I hope is continuing this winter at the Episcopal church on Arsenal just west of Grand. And you can find them there. In another post, someone has pointed out that they're also available at Soulard Market, although some of the vendors there - many of them, in fact - are re-sellers, not the actual farmers.
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are liverwurst and braunschweiger the same??
Yes, they're different - seasoning is not (quite) the same, but I can't be more specific than that. St. Louis is braunschweiger country, and we get comparatively little except the fabulous smoked liverwurst in natural casing from G&W.
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Blytheville, Arkansas
Ate there a few years ago for breakfast and it was swell.
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STL - looking for a tongue sandwich
Yes, Kopperman's, which is kosher-style, does have tongue; I saw it a few hours ago.
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When is thanksgiving?
For years my grandmother did a capon for her holiday bird because she didn't want copious leftovers and there would only be 4 adults and me at her table. And the arguments about what "goes with" are, as you can see, endless. Most folks want mashed potatoes as well as the dressing/stuffing and the sweet potatoes/yams. My mother said "Too much starch!" and nixed the mashers.
So cook whatever you feel like doing, find a picture or a little statue of a turkey or a horn of plenty and put it on the table and call it Thanksgiving. (But the more, the merrier is always true.)
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Cold Stone Creamery -- bleh
Another poster here agreeing with the awful mouth feel. I don't like feeling like I need to chew my ice cream. Flavors are certainly nothing remarkable. I'd rather have Dairy Queen than this, frankly. We have Maggie Moo here, and DH likes it a lot; I think it's okay but not fabulous.
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Canned pumpkin shortage [moved from Boston board]
I can only speak for France, as I was there for Halloween two years ago. No jack o'lanterns, but lots of pumpkins for decor, often sprayed with a little silver or gold paint to vaguely suggest frost. Quite handsome, surprisingly. But what I really like is the French pumpkin soup.
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MS Gulf Coast Chow?
Business trip in early October involving stay at one of the casino hotels, where I definitely do not want to eat most of my meals. I want local food, probably not fancy. Any good breakfast spots? Seafood joints? Give me some hope beyond chains and hotel restaurants, please!
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St. Louis Steakhouse - Downtown - Father and Son!
You might take a look at Mike Shannon's downtown - don't have website, but if you google it.... The others downtown are chains, not bad, but not local, either. Tucker's is pleasant, but not quite so upscale, located in an old building, and with meat that's often not quite as high a grade.
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Cookbook lovers--How do you organize/keep track of recipes you want to try?
I know book-ophiles get hysterical about dogearing books. DH gets upset when I put a book face down, for goodness sakes. But I dogear and I write in cookbooks with notes about the recipe. ("Excellent" "Omitted parsley", "Too much salt", that stuff.) What I once did was use a snazzy spiral bound desk calendar for a totally different purpose, noting recipes I wanted to try, by category, recipe name, book and page #. Remarks if I'd tried it and a line through if it was a flop. Didn't use it for reference as much as I thought I did, but if I was still working at the hospital, I might. Now I work at home and it's easier to go rummaging cookbooks or my own recipe scrapbooks (photo albums with sticky pages) for stuff.
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When I went to school my mom packed .....for lunch. Happy/Sad school lunch stories.
Cold pork chops from the night before on Wonder Bread with peanut butter. Took a lot of milk to wash that down.
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STL - any experience at Sage in Soulard?
There are better places between Sage and downtown, like Franco. And you're not far from Niche, which is excellent, Sidney Street Cafe, which has many very loyal fans, and Frazer's, also reliable.,
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How do you freeze your stock?
Pretty much the same way. I just figure I'm gonna sacrifice the plastic bag, and I never defrost anything that has liquid right on the counter, anyway; lots of things leak.
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NFL City's Foods
And of course St. Louis' classic toasted ravioli, which has recipes online or can be shipped in. Anheuser-Busch products, perhaps? Provel cheese if you're curious. Ted Drewe's Frozen Custard doesn't ship, as I recall. And you could barbecue pork steaks, which are slices of a pork butt or shoulder, anywhere from a half-inch to an inch thick.
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How do you freeze your stock?
Exactly. Once they're frozen solid I take them out of the 8x8 pan I've put them in, and store them standing up. AND I LABEL THEM FIRST. Very important, that.
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Harvest (St. Louis) - anyone been?
Consistently good-to-excellent spot, perhaps a little noisy but the sort of place where the chef is always there, not off running four other kitchens, a good hand with local ingredients, and a changing menu. You should have a good time. It can be noisy, but then these days, who isn't?
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One Week at the Marriott Union Station in St. Louis - need a couple of recommendations..
I was single for 20 years after my divorce before I remarried, and lived in St. Louis the whole time. There are very few places in town that will make a single diner of either gender feel unappreciated, and most of those fall into the category of more-for-the-party-than-the-food. If you're into food, waiters don't tend to give you attitude, and if they do, it's them and not a management policy. Call in advance, even if it's only an hour beforehand, although I think they've spoken about waaay in advance for Niche, and I concur.
When I was single, I sometimes would make a reservation for two and then arrive to announce my friend wouldn't be able to make it. These days, as I've gotten older and bolder, I might call in advance, ask for a manager or owner, say I was a woman dining alone and would that be a problem at their establishment. The answer will surely be "no", but it might garner a little more attention of the positive sort from the house.
Cabs in St. Louis need to be called, for the most part, although there's a cab stand in front of the hotel. The Tap Room is walking distance in the daytime. I hope you have a good time here. It's a good food town.
And if I may plug our website, it's www.stlouiseats.typepad.com, a blog with food, wine, theater and film. If you google our names and the name of the restaurant, you can get more info.
