Posts by MikeLM

Pollo'-   Can't offer recent experience; only restaurant I can remember  in Barcelona is Los Caracoles    http://www.lonelyplanet.com/spain/barcelona/restaurants/spanish/los-caracoles   It was...

Didn't quite get that last, BDL... until I realized "pork" is a verb.   Mike  

Ed, you're not very encouraging; this is what I'm afraid of.   Gotta keep hoping, though. I'm just tired of after-dark grilling.   Mike  

About the only way we use iceberg is in our old recipe for Garbage Salad-   chopped iceberg chopped romaine diced salami (or soppressata) diced parm artichoke hearts hearts of palm diced pepperoncini sliced black...

It depends - what do you plan to do with  it?    Cooking or making a bomb?   Mike  

My Grand Hall BBQ grill has finally worn out...after only about 17 years.  My condo association frowns on gas grills, and I'm tired of only grilling after dark so I'm looking for an electric. Won't be doing any large ...

Jim-   Thanks for the two very interesting recipe references.  I'm gonna try one or both as soon as I can.   Where are you in MO?  My father's family was from Jackson, a little town near Cape Girardeau, and...

You should get a Lee Valley catalog.  They mostly design and sell innovative and very sophisticated woodworking tools under the Veritas label, but they have some nifty kitchen tools, too.  It was founder Leonard Lee who, at...

Yeah, cute kid, Taylor, Did your wife have anything to do with this? Might be nice to give her a h/t in passing. Mike  

Our daughter and her family moved to Pittsburgh eight or nine years ago, and they all have loved every minute of it. It is a beautiful city - since they tore down the steel mills, you can breathe again - and we love to visit them every...