Tongue is more distinctive when prepared Jewish deli-style: just poached with a few root vegetables, sliced thin and served with mustard on rye. I'd say it's in the same semi-offal neighborhood as chicken gizzards. It's a muscle, so it's meat, but it's a different sort of muscle so the texture and flavor are just a…

Carla's pot pie recipe
It's at http://www.bravotv.com/food…. Looks pretty doable, although you'll have to adjust the cooking times if you aren't using a pressure cooker.

Last season on Next Iron Chef, they had the contestants judge each-other for all of their quickfire-equivalents. I thought it worked well to keep most of the chefs honest and respectful of each-others' abilities. And it worked even better to spotlight the moment when the pressure broke them and they started to scheme…

Tre's recipe is here: http://www.bravotv.com/food…
Looks like a full day's worth of prep, but the sauce itself is pretty simple.

Continuity errors
The plot of a Doctor trying to induce a favor by changing someone's past and making them nicer is a reworking of Moffat's first Doctor Who work, Continuity Errors, a short story in the Decalogue 3 collection. It's well worth reading if you can track it down.

The Doctor Who novels had a Doctor/Sherlock crossover—All Consuming Fire by Andy Lane. There's some Lovecraftian eldritch horrors thrown in there too. Holmes is entirely out of his element and he turns rather mopey about it. The book becomes more of a Doctor/Watson crossover once they leave Earth as Watson's…

I've read a bit on this subject, but it was a while ago…
Let's see what I can remember. To pick the fastest line:
1. A line full of men moves faster than a line full of women as men just want to get the hell out of there.
2. A basket that has a dozen each of a few items will check through faster than one with just one…

Tom took Jen's word last week that her dish wouldn't have been any different with Jamie there. If she hadn't gone into hyper-defensive mode and admitted that Jamie had some culpability by leaving Jen hanging, then I could see them booting them as a set.

The taxi was part of this season's metropolitan ambiance. Hailing a cab is an essential part of a fancy night out in NYC.

For those who want more John Oliver voice acting work, he'll be playing Vanity Smurf in the Smurf movie.

If they're going to pull out a novelty act for nationals and they're actually filming in New York, they really ought to get the PS22 Chorus to appear.
Watch this, http://www.youtube.com/watc… , and you'll agree.

The worst part of the daughter's plot was that didn't give her substantially more information than she got from just talking to people. Cut out the telepathy and the only difference is that the story would be ten seconds shorter.

The concept of this episode is similar to Ted Chiang's pretty good story Understand (which you can read http://www.infinityplus.co….. There are a couple of reasons that make it implausible—chaos (small differences in starting conditions leading to large differences in results) and the true randomness of quantum…

I've only spent one day there (layover on a trip to India), but it was brutally open-oven-door hot. I'd compare that January day there to a typical August day in Miami.

Next season I want it to be Top Chef Featureless Void. Don't give the producers anything to work with.

On the other hand, from the kids' perspective, a spaceship that gets shot at and taken over by Data and preyed upon by freaky aliens and plunges into wormholes on a weekly basis would be a pretty cool place to grow up (assuming you survived, of course).

Was she at Whole Foods or the restaurant supply shop for the supply run? If someone else bought her grass fed beef thinking they were doing her a favor, this fiasco wasn't entirely her fault. She didn't know she was going cooking on a finicky wood-fired grill either.

I'd think Matthew could easily find a receptive audience for his nerd-rock stylings in 1998 New York. Do we have any evidence in the show that he doesn't have a successful performing career on the side?

Comic-Con hypnosis
I'm probably posting this too late for anyone to read, but since nobody else has commented on it, I wanted to confirm that Comic-Con does have the weird power to make you enthusiastic about whatever crap is being promoted. I can still remember coming away from the Mortal Kombat panel back in '95…

Naming the detective agency
I don't see why Wesley, Cordelia and Gunn are having such trouble naming their agency when they all have perfectly good private dick names. Isn't chasing someone with a gun for a price kind of private detective work in a nutshell?