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theminx

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  • Birthday 11/17/1965

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    food, cooking, dining, restaurants...you get the drift.

    I'm also a free-lance graphic designer and I make bead jewelry.

    Follow me on Twitter: @daminxy1
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  1. Dawg - I've never heard of Pioneer, so thanks for that. Ktmoomau - what do you love most about Jimmy's? Keep in mind that my hubby and I are just two people with two mouths! We live in Towson and work downtown, so we tend to be most familiar with places in the north-south corridor. We're also big on cooking at home (my blog features far more recipes than it does restaurant reviews) so we don't eat out that much. Because of those reasons, there are probably TONS of restaurants out there that we don't know about, particularly in the East and West sides of Baltimore County. We're eating out 3-4 times a week now. This project will probably give us gout.
  2. Thanks! Guess nobody else around here goes to Baltimore restaurants.
  3. Hey all, I put this here because I'm not sure how many folks regularly look at the help needed section. I'm sure someone will move the thread if necessary. My husband Neal and I are writing the Food Lover's Guide to Baltimore, to be published by Globe Pequot Press later this year. We're just getting started and have compiled a nice list of restaurants to include, but we need more. I would like you all to please just shout out (err...type) your favorite places in and around Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Fancy or dive, as long as they have good, fresh, chow, they're eligible. We're also doing a section on restaurants that are worth the drive. HowChowBlog has already offered some great suggestions for Howard County, but we're looking for great places in Anne Arundel, Carroll, and Harford as well. Thanks in advance for your help! -theminx
  4. Based on your recommendation, we went to Choyhona and tried both the lamb rib and the delicatessen kabobs, plus the "jiz biz." It was all good, especially the ribs. The baklava pastry reminded me of a French millefeuille.
  5. Yeah, I miss Purim Oak. I like Kyodai Rotating Sushi Bar and always order their tuna tartare (big cubes of tuna with a spicy sesame oil and soy dressing, a fairly large portion for $6) and the squid salad. The Stony River steakhouse in the mall has pretty good burgers. There's also Thai One On/San Sushi Too, DiPasquale's/Sweet Lela's, and Kathmandu Kitchen. I can't speak for the latter, since it's been a long time since I've eaten there, but a friend was there recently and seemed to like it just fine.
  6. I love Restaurant Week because it gives me an excuse to try a couple of new-to-me restaurants. On Saturday we went to The Chameleon Cafe and had a pretty decent dinner. (More here.) Tomorrow we're scheduled to try Jack's Bistro, where I plan to have my first taste of durian. Has anyone else participated in Summer Restaurant Week?
  7. My mom used to like to go to Mo's Fisherman's Exchange on Joppa Road in Parkville. The prices are probably better than the ones downtown and the portions are always generous. Honestly, I've never had a bad meal there.
  8. Hubby and I went to B&O for the first time last week. Had the pork belly with the bananas and lentils and a duck flatbread for our apps, and the "Buffalo" duck and bacon-wrapped amberjack entrees. We were pretty happy with the food, but I felt the restaurant itself was a bit gloomy. It seems that every course had either corn or cherries or both in it. Is it cherry season?
  9. I hear Dick's has opened at the Power Plant. I've been to the one in Chicago a couple of times (back in the dark days before I became a foodie). From my memories, it's amusing and maybe slightly offensive, and I don't recall the food being all that great. Yet another place for the tourists. Has anyone tried this one yet?
  10. Has anyone attended any of the contests? I'm acting as judge on August 2nd.
  11. If the Earl of Sandwich had been born in Central Eurasia, he likely would have called for his meat to be placed within the confines of lavash, creating a wrap. And now we'd be arguing if slapping something between two pieces of bread would be a proper "sandwich" or if it was really a "slab."
  12. Has anyone been to the Bel-Loc recently? We were heading to Beltway Liquors last night and hadn't eaten dinner yet so I suggested the diner. It probably would have been safest to stick to breakfast items, but I decided to get the hot meatloaf sandwich with fries. Mistake. While the fries were nicely crispy on the outside/soft on the inside, the meatloaf was mostly cold and it tasted like it had mint in it. Lots of mint, and lots of salt. Mint in lamb loaf with a bit of tomato sauce would have been ok, but it was completely incongruous in a slab of cold ground beef slathered in that weird translucent gravy that diners serve. My husband had a lasagna special and that tasted nice and home-made. Not as good as mine, but not half bad. I'm not sure I'll ever be desperate enough to eat there again.
  13. Is a hot dog a sandwich, being that it is nestled within a single unit of bread rather than "sandwiched" between two pieces?
  14. Funny, I recently was "friended" by Sabatino's chef on Facebook. I personally haven't eaten there in probably 25 years. When I do eat in Lil' Illy, I usually go to Della Notte. Sometimes to Germano's. Boccaccio was decent before it closed.
  15. Ah, so are open-faced sandwiches still sandwiches if there is only one piece of bread? The first wraps I ever encountered were on lavash, which is a bread, not a tortilla. So to me, that made them sandwiches.
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