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While I enjoy the cajeta as well, the Café de Olla does it for me. -
They have excellent tuna burgers as well. That, some fries, and a 1/2 bottle of Storybook Zin make a great lunch when in wine country!
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Maybe you and Mr. Mktye can show us your moves at the picnic!
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I am planning on bringing a Porchetta alla Nonna. Unfortunately not a whole young pig, but just a butt or two. If I can get the time I will also make some sort of dessert.
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We going to see any new faces this week?
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This available on the lounge menu?
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Not really. I figure we will do the tastings while we are fresh and save the majority of the food for the pasta feast at the end. Plus with all of us rolling out pasta there is not going to be much room for food on the tables and counter tops.
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21P works for me. The usual time of 6pm?
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mktye and I will be bringing all the canned tomatoes and sauces in generic similar containers for the blind tasting. Once we come up with a list of the selected brands we will post it here. What you all can start to think about is what side dishes you would like to bring as I am sure we will all be getting bored with pasta and tomato sauce.
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In looking at my schedule the best days for me are either Saturday June 4th or 11th. Email or PM me with your preference. I have no idea about time yet so chime in with suggestions or preferences. Also if I do not have your email address please send it to me so that we can keep the coordination minutiea out of the thread. I will update the thread with information on how we plan to do the taste test and so forth so everyone can see and comment.
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YES!
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And why would you never get there? And I agree that we need an explanation. So which one is it JG? I need to know if I need to bring a change of clothes to work. I don't want to spoil anyone's dining if we go to Marcel's and I am wearing jeans.
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Welcome Edhead707! Maybe this deserves to be a new topic, but what is the fascination with softshell crabs? To me it seems that people go a bit crazy to get them. Is is the limited availability? Are they really so good that people? I enjoy them when available, but do not find them that so good as to go out of my way. That being said, I would love to see what Chef Power is doing with them. Hmmm, tomorrow night???
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I no longer stand alone, unless of course I forget to shower...
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50. Post away!
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Hello my name is Mike and I am a Palena-holic. I made my second trip in a week (3 in the last 2 1/2 weeks) tonight and had the crayfish bisque followed by the hot dog. That bisque was wonderful and I enjoyed the highlight of spinach flan that was placed atop the soup.
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I think we will get the purity of the tomato with the 'raw' out of the can tasting. The basic sauce will be to see how the different brands compare when used in a typical manner. This is the basic test that Cook's Illustrated performed and I think they do a pretty good job of testing. Stay tuned to this channel for more info...
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Of course it should include garlic, but we really want to taste the tomato with as little additional influence as possible. The Batali recipe has carrots and thyme, but that will probably affect the flavor too much.
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I know I am in the minority, but you are not missing much.
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Uh oh, here we go with the Northern versus Southern Italian way to make sauce. mktye have been going back and forth on butter versus olive oil in sauces for fresh versus dried pasta. To keep from going a bit off topic I will keep my thoughts to myself at the moment.
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I am working with mktye to have the sauces made in advance as this is a tasting not cooking exercise. Between our combined experimental scientific backgrounds each one will be made in exactly the same way on the same stove. Besides we will have enough to do between making pasta, blind tasting sauces, and tasting wines.
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Sure. Somewhere new this week?
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Well so far it looks like we have a good deal of interest which is great. I will post 2 possible dates later this week for people to comment on. Found this info on the wines suggested by brendanc. I will surely need people to bring their pasta machines if they have one. I only have 1 hand crank plus a chitarra.
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You ate a hot dog, cheeseburger, and roasted chicken in one sitting?! You are my new hero!
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That should not be too hard, but this is quickly turning into an all day affair. Not that a full day of food, wine, and friends is a bad thing!