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Good girl. Mustard's is a dump. Blech!

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I was looking up places to get fingerprinted (nothing bad!) and realized everything was on the south side. Then I noticed that one place is near Lem's BBQ, one place is near Original Rainbow Cone, this one's near Pleasant House, there's three near Chinatown...

Then I saw that there is one place that fingerprints in Skokie, but it held no interest for me.

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I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~ Jason Love
There is no pie in Nighthawks, which is why it's such a desolate image. ~ Happy Stomach
I can't go to Hollywood. I got biscuits to make. ~ Dwight Henry

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I'm looking for the button marked "Like" to push in support of Pie Lady!

Geo

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Sooo, you like wine and are looking for something good to read? Maybe *this* will do the trick!

In mentioning that you prefer celery salt on fries when at a hot dog stand, you begin to realize you lack celery salt in your home, but you do have Kosher salt, truffle salt, canning salt, Table salt,portugese saltcream, vulcan fire salt, smoked salt, and Tony Chahere's Creole Seasoning (seasoned salt).

How many different salts do you have?

Edited to add table salt.

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Ava-"If you get down and out, just get in the kitchen and bake a cake."- Jean Strickland

Horto In Urbs- Falling in love with Urban Vegetable Gardening

Last time I counted, 17. Let me see which I can remember (there are 4 or 5 new ones that were gifts):

1. Table salt
2. Diamond Crystal Kosher
3. Maldon
4. Smoked Maldon
5. Fleur de sel
6. Vulcan fire salt
7. Porcini salt
8. White truffle salt
9. Popcorn salt
10. Hawaiian black salt
11. Hawaiian red salt
12. Himalayan pink salt
13. Murray River flake salt (very much like maldon)
14. Alder smoked salt (crazily pungent, I've been afraid to use it).
15. Portuguese 'cream' sea salt
16. Another black sea salt I can't remember the name of
17. Another salt I don't remember the name of. Something grey maybe?

I think that's it... I'm leaving out the salt-based blends/rubs like back of the yards, etc, of course.

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Ed Fisher
my chicago food photos

RIP LTH.

Table salt, kosher salt and Greek sea salt....I'm more of a mustard collector.

Don't make me start counting mustards, too... that list might be even longer.

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Ed Fisher
my chicago food photos

RIP LTH.

Whoops, I forgot table salt.

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Ava-"If you get down and out, just get in the kitchen and bake a cake."- Jean Strickland

Horto In Urbs- Falling in love with Urban Vegetable Gardening

and I just realized I forgot penzey's szechuan pepper-salt. whoops.

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Ed Fisher
my chicago food photos

RIP LTH.

The funny thing is that I'm not someone who puts mustard on everything. But when I use it, I want the exact one to match what goes with whatever I'm eating.

Is there such thing as a sommelier for mustard?

Same. The Mustard Museum needs to start up a version of the butterball turkey hotline.

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Ed Fisher
my chicago food photos

RIP LTH.

File under:
Either ethakka appam
or what-have-I-done?

My personal banner quotation of the day.

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"I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."

Adorable & Priceless.

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Ava-"If you get down and out, just get in the kitchen and bake a cake."- Jean Strickland

Horto In Urbs- Falling in love with Urban Vegetable Gardening

I'd file under
Either cuter than one would think possible
or precious moments.

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Sauce on the side, always, implied, axiomatic..........never a doubt, BBQ sauce without.

Low & Slow

...you're driving near Elmhurst Rd. & Touhy when you see a white brick building with a sign that reads House of Smoke and you think, Ooo! A new rib joint!

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I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~ Jason Love
There is no pie in Nighthawks, which is why it's such a desolate image. ~ Happy Stomach
I can't go to Hollywood. I got biscuits to make. ~ Dwight Henry

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I agree. However, they sell cigarettes.

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"A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do."
-- P. J. O’Rourke"

It's a damn shame.

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I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~ Jason Love
There is no pie in Nighthawks, which is why it's such a desolate image. ~ Happy Stomach
I can't go to Hollywood. I got biscuits to make. ~ Dwight Henry

Late-Nite Eats Database

...an unexpectedly good week goes like this:

- your neighbors go on vacation to Wisconsin and e-mail you saying they'll come back through Elburn, and would be happy to bring you anything from Ream's.

- in addition to your order, they bring back a smoked sausage stick for your son, not really a food explorer, who loves it.

- your wife suggests you all go back there the following weekend.

...you put leftover buttercream in your oatmeal.

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I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~ Jason Love
There is no pie in Nighthawks, which is why it's such a desolate image. ~ Happy Stomach
I can't go to Hollywood. I got biscuits to make. ~ Dwight Henry

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I vote we extend honorary LTH membership to Brandon Jennings of the Milwaukee Bucks, whose new tattoo honors his hometown favorite, Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles. See it here.

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Man : I can't understand how a poet like you can eat that stuff.
T. S. Eliot: Ah, but you're not a poet.

While watching the news of a demonstration going up Halsted Street near a police station. I piped up this was very likely across from Ed's Potsticker House.

My Mom said, "Of course, you would know which restaurant was nearby."

What can I say ...

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Cathy2

"You'll be remembered long after you're dead if you make good gravy, mashed potatoes and biscuits." -- Nathalie Dupree
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I'm the same way. I'm directionally challenged, but when someone clarifies by saying "it's near x bakery" I remember right away.

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I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~ Jason Love
There is no pie in Nighthawks, which is why it's such a desolate image. ~ Happy Stomach
I can't go to Hollywood. I got biscuits to make. ~ Dwight Henry

Late-Nite Eats Database

Your proudest moment in weeks was when you figured out how to take pre-poached (and ice-water cooled) eggs to work and rewarm them in hot water and Styrofoam cup (usually used for tea). Runny yolk at the work cafeteria? Yes.

HAH! Before the salt fad I used to smoke my own using kosher salt. I was lax in starting up a company but it was funny that I sent a few jars to my father's church when he lived in another state and ended up selling 500 jars of two different flavors two years later.
Now I just get some at a store

I was eating a stack of pancakes the other day and thought how nice it would be if I had some eggs to go with it. But then I wouldn't have enough to make a pie.

It's now two days later and I realized that since I didn't have time to bake anyway, and now I can't decide between two pies, I guess I'll buy more eggs and make both.

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I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~ Jason Love
There is no pie in Nighthawks, which is why it's such a desolate image. ~ Happy Stomach
I can't go to Hollywood. I got biscuits to make. ~ Dwight Henry

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...you think you might try to squeeze in a trip to the state fair during an already busy weekend just to try a deep-fried chocolate mint cookie.

Come on, doesn't it sound great?

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I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~ Jason Love
There is no pie in Nighthawks, which is why it's such a desolate image. ~ Happy Stomach
I can't go to Hollywood. I got biscuits to make. ~ Dwight Henry

Late-Nite Eats Database

I just made chicken stir fry with red and orange peppers, white onion, zucchini, chicken thigh chunks, sesame oil, oyster sauce, ponzu, fresh garlic, chili garlic sauce...

all fried up in leftover bacon drippings.

And it was AWESOME.

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We cannot be friends if you do not know the difference between Mayo and Miracle Whip.

When your 80 year old neighbor asks for a ride to the beauty parlor and you try and be nice by seeing if she wants to grocery shop on the way back. You end up spending the next five hours taking her to many ethnic groceries and produce places that "she never knew existed even having lived in the town for 80 years". As well as being told by your wife an hour after you got home that the three of you are doing a longer trip in a couple of days to some places a little further away.

You are an enthusiast, which accounts for just about everyone here!

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Cathy2

"You'll be remembered long after you're dead if you make good gravy, mashed potatoes and biscuits." -- Nathalie Dupree
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