I think you need to share a recipe....or can she ship me one???

My friend’s Italian mother (first gen.) makes a cheesecake similar to this but uses ricotta cheese. It’s very good. The texture is obviously different and it is more tangy than traditional NY style. No graham cracker crumbs, but it does have chocolate chips in it.

Another method that I recently experimented with was with the sous vide circulator. Had a bunch of people over a filled several mini mason jars with graham cracker on the bottom then filling. Sealed and cooked for a couple hours. Turned out much better than expected. Fluffy texture and topped it with fruit compote.…

Like movie critics, I don’t really listen to food critics either. They are strangers and I don’t know anything about their tastes. What makes their opinions more valid than anyone else’s? If a place looks good to me, I’m going to try it out. I’ve stopped reading yelp reviews and google reviews and I’ve had much better…

I slammed some of these down at 5am on Bourbon St in NOLA last week!

There is no better drunk food!

It wasn’t even a good joke. I’m really starting to hate the beer industry. So many self-important douches either running or patronizing these places. I recently heard someone describe a stout tasting like “English Leather”. Really? So you’ve tasted English Leather?? Wtf?!

It will boggle mind forever when a customer chooses a Subway when it is in close proximity to an actual deli/sub shop. I believe their bread is made of air and i’m not sure any of slimy substance is meat. One of the worst sandwiches you can buy.

I’m going to go to Applebees, sit at the bar, and plop down a $100 and say “let’s do this”.

Accounting for a 2-3% increase across many products isn’t all that difficult and can often times go unnoticed if done carefully. You don’t have to raise the price of all items equally.

Correct. I owned a restaurant for 3 years. All of these factors were taken into consideration. I’ve also never seen a credit card fee higher than 3%, so are they just taking an extra 1% just for the hell of it? Also, they might have already incorporated this into their prices and are just making extra money off of it.…

You already are paying for a lot of things that you don’t use. You’re paying for the utilities, wages, food cost, etc.. Credit card fees are something that businesses cannot get away without paying, so those get built into the cost also. You’re paying for those fees probably any place you go that has credit cards, if…

I do the same thing. I’m not a huge IPA fan, but I’ve come around a bit. Most places that I go to, their other beers are usually garbage. When I walk into a new brewery and 8 out of their 10 beers are IPAs I really consider the talent of the person making the beer. That and if they are “infusing” their beer with…

I’d love to! No one drank that at my school. They cheap drink of choice was Keystone or Miller Lite. Though I can’t really drink those anymore either.

Ohhhhh you beat me to it!!!!!!

I love the Lost Boys references!

I might be in the minority, but I really have trouble getting down a can of PBR.

Unfortunately, my DNA does not allow me to consume cilantro. This would taste like mayo and dish soap to me. Perhaps I could replace with chives and or dill.

Sniping is fine, quick scoping aggravates the hell out of me. Like an unlimited range shotgun!

I owned a small restaurant for 3 years and Yelp was probably the worst thing in the world. I had mostly 4-5 star reviews, but there were a couple negative ones thrown in there (some fake from competitors). The biggest issue is that people write these reviews like they are some high end food critic from the NYT.…