those cheesesteak pictures are making me very hungry right now....I need to scrounge up some pictures of my local faves and get them posted. I am hooked on a BLT pizza from one of our local pizza joints at the moment. It has a normal crust with sauce, cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato(which I omit..not a fan of tomato), then it is topped with another crust that has a layer of Mayo on it. It makes it a pizza sandwich of sorts. I feel like I should get my heart checked after eating it, but man is it good.

Man that looks good. I just had breakfast, but that is making me hungry. I'm such a ceviche nut too.
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Speaking of When Harry Met Sally....we can't talk about great fodo without mentioning Katz Deli, LES, NYC.

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Pastrami on Rye with pickles and a lemonade. I love their mustard too, put it on anything. I ususally get fries to share sround the table too.

Whatever you do....don"t Loose your ticket!!!!

That looks gobsmacking yummy. They actually put some spare pieces on a plate? Now that's a deli.

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The crabcake sammich at Backfin, Williamsburg, VA. It is very good.

I'll have to keep that in mind, thanks :)

I like to cut my own sashimi, when I have the opportunity. Places serve so little for such a price, and I can get a huge amount for fish without the cost this way. I just need a sharper knife :paranoid:

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And my wife...love her to death, but she can't get avocado off the seed with any kind of photogenic quality...lol
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Tell her to thwack the seed with a fairly heavy knife and once the knife is in the seed enough twist. Works great for me and they have this nifty tool my mom loves that peels and slices the avocado all at once.

how about this: http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...halonknife.jpg


Calphalon Katana 5" Santoku Knife
This Asian-style knife is perfect for cutting meat, fish and vegetables. The knife is also designed with a Damascus style blade, clad with 33 stainless steel layers for distinctive style, exceptional rigidity and rust resistance.

$59.99

Calphalon Culinary Center - Cutlery


I''m kinda partial to this Rick Bayless avacado scoop/masher ... great for making guac:

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Personally I've found that all a person needs to get an avocado out of the peel effectively is a large tablespoon with a fine edge. Remove the seed using Starkizzer's method, then run the tablespoon between the peel and the fruit. It should pop right out. You can also use a knife beforehand to cut the avocado while it's still in the peel (don't cut through the peel), then run the tablespoon through and depending on how you sliced it, end up with neat slices or cubes.

Now I'm hungry for an avocado. Might have to get one for lunch.

That looks like the lunch I had the afternoon after the Artie's breakfast.
Except the lemonade was an Anchor Steam. and I had mustard.
That pastrami was the best I'd ever had.

My Angie's Subs Sweet Teddy T straight in the middle of the tropical storm. it was a must-have.

Roast beef, turkey, provolone, bacon that i pulled off, lettuce, tomato and Peruvian Sauce.
With extra sauce in the ramekin.
Heaven enough to drive out in 35 mph winds over a bridge with rain so hard you couldn't see.
It's that good.

I did take a bite before I remembered this thread. :lol:

Man, I should have eaten more earlier....that campechana extra from Goode's looks great. I've never eaten at their seafood place but I'll definitely eat there next time I'm in Houston. Every time I go to Houston I get some of Goode's BBQ Hall of Flame, the one on Kirby....usually a combo platter with some of everything. I think I recall seeing their seafood place across the street.

ribs

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loaded potato

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Skyline Chili! I haven't had it in a year and a half since I had moved away from Cincinnati... here it is in all of it's rich tastey goodness glory!

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Interesting scooper thingy. She still wouldn't use it, trust me when I say that :lol:

I however have no issues. I do it by hand in halves or quarters, and the avocado looks like a piece of green art when I'm done.

Maybe I can get that knife for christmas, thanks for the link ;)

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A muffuletta from Central Grocery in New Orleans.

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Chopped pork from Bubba's BBQ in Eureka Springs, AK. Best damned barbecue you'll ever have. Pies are good too.

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Enchiladas from El Paragua in Espanola, New Mexico. Best southwestern food you'll find anywhere. The stuff in the cup on the right is posole - hominy stew. They make it differently than a lot of people - they don't use red chiles, but it's still very, very good. The things on the left are sopapillas. Fried flatbread, then you drizzle honey in them. Tastes great, and cuts the spice from whatever you just had for dinner.

looks good

I wonder if you could get extra mayo with this??

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(Credit where credit is due, this isn't my own photo. I don't usually take a camera to restaurants.)[/QUOTE]

That reminds me of a little mexican place in Sandusky, OH that has a great Coktel de Camaron (Shrimp cocktail). The Mexican version with cocktail sauce that also has lime juice, serrano pcs., onions and cilantro. Also, a little hole-in-the-wall restraunt we went to in Pto. Vallarta, Mexico last yr has got to be one of my fave. I got some awesome Mole' (That is a chicken dish made with a dark brown sauce-chocolate, almonds, chiles, etc... - that is awesome) Wish I had taken pictures, but ate it too fast;)~

you could try. . . .but you might get laughed out of town ;)

Chicago Deep Dish Pizza
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Giordano's

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Pizzaria Uno

tasty looking pizza

If may I distinguish between photos of favorite foods, and favorite photos of foods...this one fits the latter: that savory cock-a-leekie soup..yum!!!

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...k-a-leekie.jpg


...and for that well balanced lunch, you can have a cock-a-leekie soup with a bimbo sandwich

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In the words of Alton Brown... what else does it do?

This thread is responsible for the tightness in my chest.

I keep thinking, "that's the best thing ever!" and then another pic comes along.

Deena dear took me to one of the best joints in Alexandria this past weekend.

http://www.hanksdc.com/images/fried_shrimps.jpg
The calamari and shrimp basket at Hank's Oyster Bar.

I feel strongly that sea creatures are evil and I must eat them to deter their takeover of the world. This allows my vegetarianism to co-exist with devouring the ocean.

I also find from time to time that pork barbecue is uppity.

pastrami sandwich from Katz's Deli in the Lower East Side of NYC.

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Cyth, that is so freakin' gorgeous
it makes me want to come back as a Katz's pastrami on rye
after I die


I'm far from a vegetarian, but this one place in Philly has sparked my appetite and imagination. It's Maoz, see below...the "imagination" part is I think a franchise of this place in my little town where I live would be a huge success. If any of you showed up, free maoz for everybody.

Maoz vegetarian

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Whole roast pig in Ipoh, Malaysia. And yes, I did eat the face.

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this is a new street vendor favorite of mine... hong kong pancakes from chinatown street vendor.

Made this a while ago. I had to go get my camera after it came out of the oven.
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A much-younger SabrinaFair with the first lasagna she ever made....I love this picture because 1) It was a really friggin' good lasagna and 2) It's a very "me" picture--I'm often seen in a kerchief and apron making a good meal!

Salteñas

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A very authentic Bolivian/Peruvian food, it is quite rapidly being assimilated into "pockets" of the U.S. cuisine in certain areas, stretching from Wyoming, to Florida, to even the Washington D.C. area. Salteñas are savory pastries filled with beef, pork or chicken mixed in a sweet, slightly spicy or very spicy sauce, and sometimes also containing peas, potatoes, olives and other ingredients. To those who have little knowledge of what it can be likened to, a popular radio personality actually had his 30th birthday party at his parents' house in which he still resided to air live on the radio, and he classified the delicacy as a "Bolivian hot pocket". In the instances I've encountered the food, I thought of it as a soup or broth within the shell of a pita pocket, somewhat similar to an English pot pie. One of my college professors actually recalled to me a story of how he was once travelling cross-country and after he packed all his belongings, charted his destination, right before he left, he had to go to the local bakery of his town and order a big bag of salteñas for the long road trip. This was perhaps 20 years ago in Michigan, and I was surprised at how much feeling and good memories he portrayed in his account of the pastry he has loved for most of his adult life. I, too, now share the great sensation whenever I treat myself to the mid-morning meal.


From where I'm staying currently, I know of a little shop near D.C., in Falls Church's Bailey's Crossroads, called My Bakery, which sells the tasty tart.

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Cheeseburger "All the Way" from Five Guys. People like to compare and contrast this chain with In N Out, but I say there's plenty of room for great burger places.

An oldie, but a goody. Sushi for Beginners:


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