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  1. TheMatt
    I use my pressure cooker (a Kuhn Rikon 8-qt hotel) to make cheesecakes. Quite often, really. I suppose it's a mix of the ease of putting together cheesecake and the fact that it cooks in 20-30 minutes. In fact, it was for cheesecakes (and ribs, I suppose) that I waited to get that cooker (via eBay). It is low-and-wide rather than tall-and-deep and so can accommodate a 9" springform pan or a flat piece of meat easily. I'll have to try flan soon...
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    I was thinking about it, but apparently singles aren't allowed? At least OpenTable doesn't seem to want to give "1 Person" a table. "2 People" can get one, though...is this a known OpenTable bug?
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    Woo hoo! The new shop location sounds good! Add in more parking and near Metro...nice! And you are tempting me with the new experiments, might have to drop by. Though I really wish it was open house day. I still have dreams about the open house.
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    I'd be up for a class there as well!
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    The last one is Shilla Bakery which is quite good. My weak will isn't helped by it being a quarter-mile or so from my library (just down LRT). I'm still trying to decide, though, who has the better Korean-twist-donut-whose-name-I-don't-know: Shilla Bakery or Le Matin de Paris.
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    has set his status. (I am not plural, thank you.)

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    I'm sorry.I like a lot of food, but shellfish is one of the few things I don't like. Start with a familial trait of being (deathly) allergic to shellfish and then add in the fact that that allergy develops late in life. Then the fact that most shellfish tastes like, well, texture+sauce to me (e.g., lobster in butter tastes like butter with a bit of texture). But I do keep trying every now and again and hope people will tolerate me.
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    I don't really like crab...yet I really like Chef Seth's food. Hmm...this is mighty tempting.
  9. TheMatt
    Welp, no rye bread from me. I thought I'd try a recipe...and I now have a brick of bread perma-welded to a nonstick loaf pan! Oh well, get to buy a new loaf pan!
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    I am not the best cook, so I might go garde manger and bring a chickpea and black bean salad. And I'm thinking maybe a dessert?
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    Well, on Google Maps, "Fort Hunt Park, Alexandria, VA 22308" actually puts a pointer right near the picnic area. The latitude-longitude is 38.714258,-77.053806 in case your GPS doesn't have Ft Hunt Park in its database (which would be odd). (That link is actually pointing at a parking area near the picnic area, I think.)
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    If you do want shelled peas, it's probably best to head out there a bit later than when it opens at 9. I think they shell them after they get there, so they need a bit of time.The yummy honey crisp apples, though, need no prep. Yum!
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    There were peas (shelled) at West End Farmers Market last week. I'm heading down there now...come, join!
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    I *will* make it this Sunday, dang it! The last two seem to have had their mornings filled with activities...and usually I'm searching for things to do on a Sunday!
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    I might be there. The next day I start my new job, so it all depends on whether I feel up to it or the stress and fear overwhelms me.
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    Yeah, with Han Gang this might end up a $30 Thursday. Or a $40 Friday.
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    Also, only about 20% of the puffer fish out there are super-deadly. The usual puffer fish you find here on the East Coast, the northern puffer, has never had a recorded death due to its consumption. So, if Han Gang were to get it or one of its essentially non-venomous brethren, wouldn't really matter. (I say essentially because I think eating an Atlantic northern puffer's innards will make you "not well", but it won't kill you like the Japanese variety.) Now monkfish/angler fish? They are all ugly. ETA: Huh, apparently you are more likely to get saxitoxin poisoning from an Atlantic northern puffer than tetrodotoxin poisoning. If they eat infected clams down in Florida, they can accumulate it.
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    And, I suppose, make sure the kimchi doesn't have fish or shellfish in it as some I've seen do.And I saw that blowfish part of the menu and was thankful they didn't list prices. Eek! I really want to try their monkfish or codfish dishes as well. Atlantic Northern Puffer is usually, what, $20-25 a pound? Or it was the last time I saw one (which was a while ago...).
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    I too am interested in Han Gang. The main reason is that it might finally be a rare Korean place in Annandale to which I can take my vegetarian sister and father! Their menus seem to have a few dishes that look vegetarian, at least, although I don't know if they use meat stock in them.
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    Welcome!
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    Yep. It's right next to the gas/service station that is open about 5 minutes a day...randomly. Since I live about a mile or two from it, I figure I'll be giving it a shot when it opens.
  22. TheMatt
    Perhaps he is just dutifully following the USDA recommendation that ground beef be cooked to an internal temperature that, I believe, corresponds to medium well to well-done. That is how a President should behave, no?
  23. TheMatt
    Good Lord, what is Ray's going to be like *now*? And what is Michael going to be like?
  24. TheMatt
    And, sadly, my afternoon yesterday just blew up. Nuts! Oh, well, I'll keep trying!
  25. TheMatt
    If you were in Alexandria/Annandale, I could tell you exactly where to go, the Shoppers at Little River Turnpike and Beauregard. They have cremas that represent all of Central America. Same for cheeses.
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