Posts by spikezoe

Well, unfortunately all we had were a few small bottles of Piper. I was so disgusted with the stuff that I fired off an email to the company at about 12:01 am. It was like one of those strange Japanese candies....

Thanks for the replies...that gives me a little more direction. The chain with the onsite bottle oil is Bravo in Ohio. Very decent take on 90's italian-lite (wood fired this, spinach sundried tomato that) and always a good fall back...

thanks for the tip...this sounds even better than the addictive stuff that I'm trying to replicate

I'm trying to reverse engineer a dipping oil from a favorite italian restaurant to no avail...the kitchen folk will gladly provide me with their oily crack for a king's ransom. I'm having a hard time with proportions and short of going...

Our family gathering have featured a significant jump in quality and quantity in recent years. I have hazy memories of Cold Duck and Blue Nun as a child. But now we've been successful enough the last few years that the crew will gamely...

I seem to remember Rabbit Ridge's zin being particularly "jammy" and very affordable. Actually the silly rule of thumb I've discovered for the $5-10 bottles of zin is that anything with an animal in the brand name or on the...

Well, that solves another food mystery. I've been casually trying to find these little buggers in all the usual places for the last year or so, but to no avail. Barbara Tropp has a good method of making a roasted szechuan peppercorn...

I realize that this may be a bit of a stale topic (Bittman's How to Cook Everything has been out for a while now) but in saw a recent thread dissing a book that I find myself turning to again and again for last minute dinner ideas. I...

Growing up the beach always meant exotic fast food (well exotic in that we didn't have that particular footlong hot dog stand which introduced our family to deep fried whole turkey back in the 80's, but that's another thread) and...

I recently moved to NC and am pleasantly surprised with beer choices at the local watering holes, grocery stores, etc. The growing Latin community here has had a nice influence on the beer cooler (Polar must be Spanish for Blatz)....