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  1. DameEdna
    Vanilla ice cream with cherry flavored cough syrup (the kind with codeine) for a sauce. I was probably 8 years old.
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    Now I have to listen to Barbara saying "You made me miss my plate of meat scraps!" I thought she was kidding, at first.
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    Oh sure, the server expects a tip just based on the service. How often do hear the server say: " No, no, I need to pay YOU ... those lies you were telling your date, they were very entertaining!" ("so there I am with fifty pounds of gold in my backpack, wondering how how to get home ... a limo pulls up, it's my buddy Donald Trump!") Restaurant employees have varying visions of reality, just like the general population ... we had a waiter who seemed to have enjoyed a joint before work ... very relaxed ... and cheerful! He brought me my steak and told my wife "You know that thing you ordered? We don't have any!" Did he get a good tip? I don't think so. At least with computer systems we rarely have to cope with "waiter arithmetic." Now that was often really embarassing.
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    This thread isn't going to end here, is it? Cooking for cats (rather than cooking of cats) --- I suggest the Chicken Liver Lyonnaise. Most cats love brewers yeast. Big cans of brewers yeast are sold in health food stores. It tastes so nasty, I don't even think Anthony Bourdain could eat more than two or three spoonsful. If a cat pukes, examine the ejecta -- if it contains hair the cat needs a hairball product, such as Petromalt. Put a glob of it on the cats paw, and watch the fun. (after the "Donner Party Cookbook" thread, I didn't think things could get any more ewww ... but now ...)
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    3500 calories = 1 pound
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    "Show us your half-smoke, dear ... um, ... not that."
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    Will not your presense add a little something ,um, special? Not that anyone can imagine that you will be (a long, long time in future) the old fart saying "Fun? You kids don't know anything about having fun. Why, I remember when the mayor showed up with two hookers ..."
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    When I was growing up, the days before Thanksgiving were fun , but Thanksgiving dinner was when family tensions rose to the surface. Even now, I get a little frisson of fear, thinking of the arguments heightened by close quarters and sharp knives close at hand. In more recent years, one time Barbara made Susan Stamberg's Cranberry Dressing (cranberry, horseradish, sour cream, and ?) . It looked exactly like Pepto-Bismol. Ewwww. Last year we had Thanksgiving at Corduroy. No one at our table ordered the traditional Thanksgiving dinner, so, after we got our entrees, Tom sent out a small plate of turkey and dressing. It was excellent!
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    How would they enforce this? Drop the doughnut ... Sir, drop the doughnut, and no one gets hurt ...
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    I thought that when Don got his own TV show, he would eitherbe behind a black curtain, or in disguise, maybe with a giant red stick-on nose. Now, I think it might be a hat in the manner of Arch Campbell, and camera angles that never reveal his identity. Really, who but Don goes into any restaurant with the idea that the kitchen must have at least one specialty that is really great?
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    Brag, resolution, or lament?
  12. DameEdna
    Off the leash tonight, in Adams-Morgan. The S.O. is at a Fine Dining Establishment. Dinner where? It could be the Jumbo Pizza slice. As some have said, (most of them women) "When I'm looking for something large and limp exciting, I go to Adams-Morgan". Instead, went to Angles Bar and Billiards. It is a AM bar attempting to be a dive bar, that has seriously left the dive bar tracks. Two televisions, one set to WETA. Gwen Ifill with no sound, but the captions activated. The music -- was that not Leon Russell? I had the BBQ pork, and a Spaten, And an Allegash White. The BBQ pork was good (the sign claimed it was smoked in-house), but the plate set up is definitely just the burger set-up with the smoked pork sandwich substituted. The menu? I didn't have the nads to order the "Duck breast with port-cherry sauce and truffle risotto" The bartender slid the specials, written out on a standard green diner order pad,in front of me. He didn't even attempt to read them. The large sign above the bar "La Petite Fontain" (sp?) attests to the connection with the restaurant downstairs, whose kitchen does the cooking. Most of the patrons (regulars?) looked to be on the beer and cigarette diet. Some of the regulars were busting the bartenders chops over how pink a medium-rare burger should be. The pool table was in use, but most of the serious players go to Bedrock Billiards. Or so I've heard. Next time, the burger.
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    Rumors that DR purchased a "Super Slice" of pizza in Adams-Morgan, while sober ... It sounded like the top-of-the-line "Exxon Valdez". I don't if he needs a sympathy card or a medal. What he won't do for us (so we don't have to).
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    FYI: What does maple wine tast like? Alcohol infused pancake syrup.I did like the gouda cheese. Who says there is no agricultural production in D.C.? Question: How can you tell that JPW is playing dress-up? Answer: He's wearing a name badge:"Tom Sietsma" Peanut had enough fun for ten people.
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    Food-Related Films

    DameEdna replied to monavano's topic in Film

    Until I saw this movie, I thought I was the only one whose cooking was terrible when I was in a bad mood. Thanks for the link --- the food pics look great.
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    As Lorena Bobbitt once said: "Off with their heads!"
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    Great first post. Is that baby drool on your keyboard?
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    Many out-of-towners see Kramerbooks and think it will be really good/fun. It usually isn't.
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    I watch America's Test Kitchen just to hear the women get snarky. ATK is on the recommended list put out by The Center for the Easily Amused.
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    Dupont Circle Farmer's Market today ... less crowded than those days during the Summer. Got a tat soi, even though I have no idea what to do with it. They looked so beautiful. And some green beans. Many varieties of apples ... I will have to study up on the varieties, since the little description cards don't help much, especially since I, perversely, find a Granny Smith apple good eating just as it is. Turnips, beets, celeriac ... they are here, arriving a few more each week. I long for root vegetables now, a few treasures on a cold day. When I was a kid, my father would tell me how, growing up in South Dakota, the last months of winter, the only vegetable was parsnips, day after day. Maybe that is why parsnips (and turnips) were rare at our house. These beautiful days of Fall will not last long ... no, I should not have even said that.
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    The general theme of this article is that, with a little careful laboratory work, winemakers will be able to produce perfect wine: click My paranoid reading between the lines is that so many wines will taste like a "Robert Parker rates it a 100!" wine that even Robert Parker will be disgusted. Am I saying that we may some find ourselves "dreck wine" deprived? Maybe so.
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    Mostly, I'm fine with weird dining habits. Even if they want to hassle the waiter, OK. When the phobics wrest control of the restaurant choosing process, then I am miffed. And usually over-ruled. In family situations, anything can happen --- my wife's uncle once brought a can of his favorite gravy to a Thanksgiving dinner and demanded that it be heated up and served to him. It worked. A friend ordered a martini, no olive , It arrived with an olive. They took it back, then returned with a "new" martini. Was it a "new" martini?(good), or the same martini with the olive removed? (very bad). People who get in someone else's kitchen and mess with process (that roast beef needs at least 20 more minutes!)... don't get me started.
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    Lunch today from TJ's prepared foods section -- Mediteranean (sp?) Chicken Salad with spinach and figs on foccacia, not bad for prepared ahead food, light on the figs, big sticker "No Spinach! Lettuce Instead" Three girls (GWU?) "Does it have spinach? I don't want spinach! A woman in California ate the E. Coli, was, like, real sick ..." The checkout line reminded me of my undergrad days (some time in the last century), Simulation and Modelling ... one events queue and many servers (my geek-speak is very rusty ) (one line many cashiers). When will Safeway discover how well this works?
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    Will Jake be "managing" the swill-n-spit again this time?
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    I am looking for what to drink whilst reading Graham Greene --- he was known for his 11:00 A.M. bracer --- was it gin? Or, a single malt scotch sounds like a possibility --- or should that be reserved for reading the poetry of Robert Burns?
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