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Liberty Mediterranian Yogurt, baby. It's 10%M.F. and it's wonderful.

I don't know how many other cities have it, but here in Madison we have a joint called Noodles (yes, i know it's a chain)

three dishes are phenominal.

Penne Rosa
Pesto Cavatappi
Pasta Fresca

i order each with feta and beef. with a rustic roll on the side.

best part about the place is that i don't feel too bad about eating there cuz it's fairly healthy.

due to the whole spinich thing, i've been replacing it with broccoli. still happy.
had it for lunch today.

best food ever:

anything chinese or tacos or chinese tacos or um...

chocolate.

chocolate chinese tacos?

best food ever:

anything chinese or tacos or chinese tacos or um...

chocolate.

I dunno... chinamen tend to be rather thin, so i imagine that they would be sorta stringy and too tough to chew...

chocolate.

fair trade, 70% cocoa.

maybe with some coffee beans in it.

oooohhhhhh YESSSSSS!

Once I had a $10 cup of hot chocolate in NYC... it was so ridiculously good, even now 9 years later I still think of it.

I miss Norwegian rice porridge, with butter and cinnamon on top... mmm.....

disco fries.

Red bean bubble tea slushie with pearls.

Shanghai noodles (done properly, no mushrooms or shrimp).

A really good, hot Japanese curry.

Poutine (done properly).

porcini rissotto

kurobuta porkchop

a heavily marbeled rare to medium rare grilled ribeye steak.

raw, all-grassfed butter (wow!!)

ivars on the pier clam chowder (seattle)! and their fresh salmon

breyers double churned mint chocolate chip icecream

freshly caught and cleaned goggleeye (rock bass) pan fried in cornmeal.

panfried freshwater roe

red cow parmigianno reggiano cheese

old quebec four year cheddar

a varietal chocolate bar I can't remember the name of and that whole foods stopped carrying two years ago

dagoba xocotal chocolate bar

homemade saurkraut
homemade kimchi
homemade threeday (no vinegar) pickles
20-30 hour kefir

Bolognose sauce Marcella Hazan style (takes a day to make)

homemade threeday (no vinegar) pickles

How do you make the pickles? I would like to try that.

And i was also wondering what marbled means in relation to steak, and what kefir is?

Pickles soaked in tabasco sauce. (then placed in a Bloody Mary with extra tabasco.)

Or, you take a brick of cream cheese, you melt it in the microwave, and you dip chips in it.

marbled means veined with fat. you want to see fat running through your steak because it will be more tender juicy and tasty. if it looks 98% red it won't be as good.

kefir is a fermented milk product (like yogurt and cheese) made with a master seed/mother culture called kefir grains or granules

there's a ton of info here

to make pickles you need:
bay leaf
fresh dill
mustard seed
peppercorns
sea salt
whey
water.
pickling cucumbers (no more than four-five inches long, split in half lengthwise)

dissolve four tablespoons of salt in four cups of water

pack the cucumbers tightly in a quart mason jar. put in 1-3 sprigs of dill around the sides pour a tablespoon of peppercorns in, a teaspoon of mustard seed a bay leaf and if you want to give them a spicy kick a small dried chilipod

add one 1/4 cup of whey, then pour the salt water in to fill the jar until the pickles are completely covered in liquid, leave about an inch of space between the top of the jar and the lid. Put in a warm dry spot for three days then move to refrigeration. Your pickles are ready after three days but they get better as they age in the refrigerator.

the salt water controls the fermentation and the whey acts as a starter culture, creating a faster fermentation and lowering the pH of the solution so that pathogenic bacteria cannot survive.

Currant Scones topped with sugar with Devonshire cream and raspberry jam.

...and Bubble Tea.

Poutine (done properly).

I know what that is! A friend of mine who moved here from Canada was just telling me about it. I've never had it yet tho...

I really do enjoy it... chips and gravey are good as is, let alone adding cheese to the mixture.

true, poutine done right is quite the yummy dish.

Ooh... homemade cloudberry and blueberry jams, and Prim -- spreadable goat's cheese.

Can you tell my culinary bias?...

Poutine is awesome.
For all you Ontarians - Prme Rib from Milestones'

For all you Americans, Panera Bread

For all you with a Scadanavian background - Lingonberries!!!!!!!! (no, I don't have a scandanavian background :-p)

For anyone with taste buds, C-Plus Orange pop for the win!

Yeah, I'm a dork.

Currant Scones topped with sugar with Devonshire cream and raspberry jam.

...and Bubble Tea.

oohooh, actually...

Plain scones topped with Strawberry jam and Devonshire cream.
with (loose leaf) Earl Grey tea on the side.

Loose Leaf Earl Gray.

chocolate-covered espresso beans

For all you with a Scadanavian background - Lingonberries!!!!!!!! (no, I don't have a scandanavian background :-p)

Ugh. Even some scandinavians recognize that lingonberries are horrible.

For anyone from the Philly area - Rita's Water Ice (pronounced "wooder ice" ), especially the Mango Misto.

chocolate-covered espresso beans

*drools uncontrollably*

Mashed Idahoan potatoes with gravy. (Scalloped potatoes are also excellent).

Banana bread

Vanilla ice cream with Nesquik and graham crackers

Skippers clam chowder

Japanese curry on rice.

chocolate-covered espresso beans

*drools uncontrollably*

I know, right? 70% cocoa dark chocolate on espresso beans should be illegal because of the caffeine rush!

chocolate-covered espresso beans

*drools uncontrollably*

I know, right? 70% cocoa dark chocolate on espresso beans should be illegal because of the caffeine rush!

for the first two years of college when i was an english major before i switched to writing, we used to pop those f****** like pills during brit lit. smillner (that's one thing i loved about ithaca, no one went by their real name. everyone was given either hacked up versions of their real name, or ironic or symbolic nicknames. it was lovely) used to bring in BUCKETS of the things, and we'd haul it across the room, cramming handfuls into our mouths and waxing intellectual about chaucer.



...i did actually have some good times in college.





to keep with the theme of the thread: tortilla chips and queso. yum.

Brownies, hands down

Thanks guys. I almost drooled on my keyboard reading this. Great.


But yes, 70% dark chocolate covered coffee beans are just about the best thing ever.

My mom's homemade chocolate chip cookies. Specifically her's because they're better than other people's homemade cookies and you don't have to be related to her to think that.

Any meat cooked on a barbeque using charcoal or preferably wood is going to taste a lot better than it's equivalent on a gas grill. That's usually associated with ribs and steaks, but even something as simple as hamburgers and hotdogs tastes better when properly cooked.

My mom's homemade chocolate chip cookies. Specifically her's because they're better than other people's homemade cookies and you don't have to be related to her to think that.

I have to say the same thing about my mother's homemade chocolate chip cookies. They are to die for. My friends actually admit that they are better than their mother's cookies (and they are even in their mother's presence when they say this). That has to mean something....

Pineapple side-up cake!