I found a long hair in my food at a Chinese restaurant in high school and when I complained the manager she told me it was my hair and I planted it there. It couldn't possibly belong to anyone who worked there because it was "maroon" not black. I was wearing a hat so I pulled it off and showed her my mostly shaved…

My job as a server, bartender, is to make as much money as I can per customer. Not per table, per every butt in the seats. I'm pushing the salmon left and right. Whatever small monetary compensation you could offer to eat at a table in my restaurant pales in comparison with what I could make from a person who ordered…

OK, ill address some of your points: Seating preference- as a host, you seat according to where is available, who you expect, through expereince, to come in during the paticular period, any bookings that have been made and who is looking after the paticular area. If I seat someone at a paticular table and they say…

You don't get to go to the theater and hand people your own script.

Please let Vineyard Vines be the next label to have a Target collection.

Hot take: Lilly Pulitzer's clothes are tacky and horrible.

I guess where you come from, it's in vogue to be a dunce and illiterate.

Plum kuchen is my favorite dessert to make and uses up old fruit (you don't have to use plums) so well. It's a lot of passive cooking, so don't be intimidated by the prep time. You do some stirring and waiting and plop it all in a pan. :)

Sweet potato, Granny apple, Bacon and cheese ravioli

This is my laziest dinner (as evidenced by the fact that I made it earlier this week when dying from the flu and was questioning my will to live)...Hawaiian Dump Chicken - put chicken breasts in a Crock Pot. Cover with a bunch of salsa (either a jar or half a jar, depending on size) and top with a package of frozen…

these right here. I usually go cheap and use ground beef instead of lamb. they are delicious. http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/b…

Ponderosa Cake. It's a dessert they make at my old alma mater, and it's a fantastic cake for all occasions. Great with coffee in the morning and kids love it too. http://inmahkitchen.blogspot.ca/2013/01/ubc-po…

I make a lot of recipes for meals from the Pioneer Woman, and Joy the Baker is my favourite sweets-blog.

Broiled chicken's usually my go to dinner. You can marinate the chicken in just about anything as long as it's even mildly acidic (and there are a lot of acids out there to choose from, including carbonic, which is in pretty much every soda, and citrus in lots of fruits), then just cook it for 8 minutes on each side.…

They're both really great and easy, I make one or the other every week. Mr Parade grew up in Italy, so I could make pasta every day and he'd be thrilled. I also a lot of minced anchovy+garlic+oil, or pasta carbonara. Neither are that healthy, but through some lemon and olive oil on bag salad and it's fairly…

Here's the recipe, from Cuisine Magazine:

Mango chickpea curry in a slow cooker.

Not exactly a hash, but I once cubed the potatoes and roasted them, and then mixed everything together gently. It was great.

I love it! I've started cooking Indian dishes in my slow cooker (bought a book) and everyone raves! It's nearly fail proof and so easy!

toad in the hole and Turkey bacon

Also, weekday breakfast: dollop of plain greek yogurt, plus jam of your choice, chia seeds, and some rolled oats (fresh fruit + nuts if you're fancy) is filling and delicious.