Had plain roast hen pheasant for lunch today simply covered with fat streakey bacon and roasted for just 40 mins in a very hot oven . acompanied with roast...

I'm making pasta tonight. Looking to find something yummy to have on the side. Am tired of the traditional salad, or if not having salad usually have green...

I'm finally back up here. :) I know you all missed me terribly ("Siobhan who?"). I've bought some venison for our holiday dinner. I was wondering what...

"skai" wrote in message ... Does anyone have the Cooks Illustrated crescent...

Co-worker asked my why the 5 lb of rock salt. My best guess was to keep the juice from boiling in the bottom of the pan and steaming the meat vice...

They sure got a lotta nerve charging $11 for four buns and $14 for their caramel pecan rolls.....couldn't believe it. I just went home and made some. of course...

This is not *spam*, you can seriously make $1,000s of dollars. You can make loads of money, and all it costs is $6 and a little bit of your time. I am not an...

First time ham maker here.. Do the regular bone in ham that most groceries sell have a rind on them? If so how do you remove it? All the 'recipes' I want to...

I evidently live in a really lame area of the country (which I knew already) and I cannot seem to find dried posole corn or dried hominy in any supermarket or...

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Is there a George Forman style contact grill with a timer that turns off the grill when the timer ends so it is no longer cooking ? So the food will not...

I am cooking a smoked turkey for the office Christmas luncheon tomorrow. Is it okay to brine a smoked turkey? What, if anything, would I...

Rona Yuthasastrakosol wrote: "Kate ......" wrote in message ... I have three left over...

Hi, Until recently my wife had a small griddle pan that she really loved. It was square, and no more than 7x7. It was the perfect size for making a single...

I made something we haven't had in years--my husband's grandmother's braised pork chops. Everyone loved them. I found chops at Costco this weekend that were...

dogsnus wrote: What exactly is the desired consistency of the dough supposed to end up as? Bread-like or more sugar cookie like? I ended up putting...

This Italian restaurant, used to be right next to the Italian bakery, they served my favorite tiramisu. Unfortunately, both my subsequent attempts have...

I need a cake to serve for dessert at Christmas. I usually serve pies for dessert at Christmas but I preparing a different meal. Here is the menu for the...

Now this was a surprise. Sakana, my neighborhood sushi place, which has always been good but never great, must have got a new sous chef, because they put this...

They have this chipotle pepper/oil/onion/garlic all sauteed with medium shrimp thing that is unbelievably good. It's on the menu only as a shrimp-and-steak...

Well, since I'll be buying rum anyway, I thought I'd make a rum cake. The Italian restaurant I mentioned as having closed, also had a rum cake that was quite...

I want to make the Good Eats version of "City Ham" for Christmas. Only thing is, I seem to be having difficulty finding hams that haven't been injected with...

I just opened a bottle of the tomato wine that I made last September. I couldn't use the oranges that the recipe called for. A five gallon brewers bucket just...

It seems to me that Christmas dinner -- or any other holiday feast -- is a time to toss "good nutrition" out the kitchen window in favor of...

Considering I've read a little about trailors and hillbillies in here..;-) http://www.toonedin.com/movies/WhiteTrashXmas.html -- blue