Gate, too, and I would love to state for the record that Alton Brown was wrong when he said, “If you really want great Buffalo chicken wings, you don’t go to frickin’ Buffalo.”

Nope. Taconite is a low grade iron ore. Tons of it in the Iron Range up by Duluth.

I’ve been in the Cities for about 7 years, but lived just over the St. Croix in Wisconsin for an additional 8. Hot Dish is still just sort of a hard-pass for me. I just can’t do that much cream of something soup, and I’m ambivalent about tater tots at the best of times.

My favorite all-you-can-eat food bar is the salad bar - oh, excuse me, it’s now called the Farmer’s Bar - at a Chart House.

Thanks so much for ruining the concept in the title of your review - which is on the main page of the TV Club - that there IS a surprise cameo.

How hard is it to NOT spoil people who don’t get a chance to watch the show until a day or two later? I came here to look for the review of this past weekend’s SNL and was hit…

She apparently doxxed herself. She didn’t just post it on Craigslist, but the exact same ad on FB. Which matched her Instagram handle. The ad went down and her social media went private shortly thereafter.

I’ll stick to the Mapo Tofu Fries.

There is an excellent new restaurant here is St. Paul that wedged itself into a space that used to be a fairly narrow store-front. Tables are tight, and on a busy night, normal conversation levels are so loud, my server admitted he got my appetizer order wrong. (This was just after the soft-open - the server admitted…

Yep.  Sometimes you’re just looking to shake up your recipe box, and they have some great stuff.

I just had to look that up.  Excellent.

A quick-version for dinner can be found here - a lot less dairy, but still quite good.

My Registered Dietitian is married to a Cordon-Bleu trained French chef.  She does all the cooking at home because, as she likes to say, you put that much salt, butter, and cream in food, OF COURSE it tastes awesome.

I’ll stick with it. They only had a half-hour to set up two different locations - the ship itself and the command center - as well as the split between crew and passengers on the ship. It might have been better served with a 1 hour pilot to give it some breathing room.

Mostly I’m just pissed this is taking bandwidth away from the cluster-fuck going on in the Senate. That is more important than Hillary and her inability to just sit back and enjoy her well-funded retirement.

Oh that’s like a Smith Island Cake!

My namesake apparently made the best chocolate cupcakes ever. The entire family spent years trying to recreate them and failed.

No, this was potato filling.  But it was cheesy and oniony and there were herbs and I cannot replicate it for the life of me.  I’m sure there’s some trick, but even my husband - who grew up in a family where there were two little Polish grandmothers constantly trying to outcook each other - admitted my Mom’s were the…

Getting quantified recipes from my late mother - who was an intuitive cook and learned at the hands of my great grandmother who wrote nothing down - was always a bear. I’ve written some of them down, but it’s always a bit of guess-work.

This recipe is excellent.

No one seems to make rye bagels - with rye flour, not just topped with caraway seeds - anymore.  Those were always my favorite.