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    Check that. It’s a website, not an app. My bad.
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    My wife is addicted to cookbooks. We started as getting one from wherever we traveled, often times from a restaurant where we’d eat. A lot of the restaurant purchased ones are autographed which is cool. It expanded though to ordering from Amazon as she gets into a certain type of cuisine and now books show up on our doorstep fairly frequently. My favorite to cook from is Donald Link’s “Real Cajun.” Got that one at Herbsaint the night we got engaged. She got an app called Eat Your Books and it allows you to upload your cookbooks to the app, houses all the recipes so if your wanting a shrimp dish for example it will pull all the shrimp recipes from your library. Pretty cool when meal planning and results in getting more use out of the books.
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    I pine for 2018 when all we had to do was boil water....
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    It’s still open. I drove by at Christmas. Another Martin Warrior here and will echo what everyone else has said. Parents still live there and the only upside to visiting them is that my wife’s parents live in Victoria. Talk about two shit options.
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    I saw this in the magazine. It says each of the 350 stores employs a tortilla maker. I’ve never seen them at the Far West location. I need to go up there and ask where they keep this lady. Far West HEB has Kosher options galore but I never see fresh tortillas.
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    I’m assuming you actually pulled that hand in your avatar. If so, bravo! I’ve only seen it happen live one time.
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    Commander's is the 'ditch' answer for me as well. Though we've ever only done brunch. I really do need to hit it up for lunch or dinner. For cocktails - my wife went on a cocktail walking tour once when I wasn't with her and she raved about it. They mixed up various cocktails, told stories and walked the quarter early in the evening I believe. Could be something to add to your list. Also, Arnaud's for the French 75 wasn't on your aforementioned list.
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    So my wife and I are going for my 40th in May. We can only manage a week there (excluding travel days) due to small children and other commitments. We have down for 3 days in Paris and 3 in Burgundy. Looking at possibly going to Epernay/Reims for the last day/night before flying out of CDG or going back to Paris for the final night. Either way, putting us closer to the airport vs. getting up super early in Beaune and stressing about making the flight. Sounds like the general consensus would be to hit up Reims vs. more time in Paris. Can you cover sufficient ground in 1 day in Reims?
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    If I recall, the Stanley was used for scenes in Dumb and Dumber as well...not sure if exterior, interior or both.
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    Not sure what you’re talking about. I got bombed there!
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    I use what is basically Donald Link’s recipe from his book Real Cajun. The trick I picked up from him was in cooking down the onions. In his recipe you sauté them in butter and oil until dry and then add a bit of stock and cook until dry, and repeat a couple more times, scraping up the brown bits from the bottom of the Dutch oven each time. Adds a lot of depth to the finished product.
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    I came here to post this. I'm 39 and have just figured out (majority of the time) the timing on when to bite into a peach. Got 3 at the store over the weekend, one was amazing yesterday, one was a little mushy today and I'll likely have to throw the 3rd out. Also, blackberries and cantaloupe. Both are fantastic if at peak ripeness but are pretty bad on either side of it.
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    I have the small Cuisinart and have been very happy with the results and easy of use. I got this book for my birthday Salt and Straw Cookbook and have made a few recipes, notably the Strawberry Honey Balsamic w/ Black Pepper, Pear and Blue Cheese and a couple more basic flavors. The book is designed for using home ice cream makers and I like how he sets you up with the base and then work from there. The base is pretty fool proof (re: no eggs to screw up). I typically make a triple batch of the base and then spread out the ice cream making.
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    Bar La Grassa. I've advocated it on the old site and this one. Not a new restaurant anymore I guess but still my favorite Italian restaurant in the country. My wife and I went back the 2nd time we went to MPLS with high expectations and were both concerned we'd built it up too much from our first trip. 2nd time was probably even better. Also enjoyed The Bachelor Farmer, Pizzeria Lola and Butcher and the Boar on our last trip. Butcher we ate outside after a Twins game (more casual/informal than the inside dining and good bourbon and beer selection).
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    Is her name Meike by any chance? If so, does she need a pen pal?
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    It's not worth waiting in line for but I typically stay nearby and it's a good go to for 1st breakfast. I wake up earlier than my group and there's never a line around 7am. I usually go get a blackened ham biscuit to start me off right for the day. Cheap, easy, delicious. But definitely not in the same category as a Commander's, Brennans, Herbsaint, Cochon, etc.
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    I saw a brand new Rolls Royce pulling into the Whataburger at Mopac and William Canon today at lunch. Previous owners now rolling in the dough but still need their Whatachikin and Apple Pie I guess.
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    I lived in RDU for a year and a half about 10 years ago. 100% agree on all who note the absence of Tex-Mex and BBQ. Sadly, I once went to Chili's for proper nachos when I lived there. Also, eat breakfast tacos and kolaches as much as possible before you leave. Every work breakfast will be bagels and smears. Biscuitville and Bojangles have their place but in no way can compete with breakfast tacos or kolaches. Other than food, I'd recommend walking around the UT campus one final time. For me, leaving was leaving Austin (thankfully I'm back now) but walking the 40 Acres was a good trip down memory lane.
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    Last time we went we planned our biggest day (4 wineries) where the furthest from our hotel was first and closest was last. We did 2 before lunch, a filling lunch at Gott's and 2 after lunch, ending with a winery very close to our hotel. Other days we only did 2-3 wineries and as spread out as the drinking was, and with lunch thrown in, it wasn't a concern for me to drive. That said, we're going again in 2 weeks and we're planning to drive to our morning tastings, go back to the hotel and park and then Uber to lunch and afternoon wineries. We're staying in Rutherford and doing the further out wineries in the morning and close by stuff in the afternoon. I've read and talked with a number of people that said Uber was prevalent if you're in the heart of everything but you're not likely to get a driver wanting to take you to/from the off the beaten path wineries.
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    Grabbed an OF 1920, a FR Single Barrel and a FR Small Batch. Small Batch doesn’t seem to be quite the deal it used to be at dollar days but I could be misremembering. Got about a case of mixed wine as well. Good haul overall.
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    For parents - Apparently at CFA if you order the fruit cup for your kids, you can specify what fruit you want/don't want. So if you have a young toddler who can't eat apples yet, you can get all blueberries and strawberries. Or you can do only oranges. I've never done it but it's come up in conversation with parents who have. But that shouldn't be a surprise, CFA really goes out of their way for you, especially if you have kids in tow. "My Pleasure..."
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    I came on here to post "Hell" but someone beat me to it.
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    I'm planning a Napa trip for May. Will be our 2nd time out there. I'm thinking of doing a day on Spring Mountain and a day on Howell Mountain. I've already noted Barnett and Pride on Spring from recs on this thread. Any others on Spring or Howell to add to the list?
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    I have one in the fridge too and have been meaning to drink it. Want to get my beer nerd friends together to share. I've got to think the $200/bottle value would be short lived right? I mean, it's not like a wine that could age for 20 years. We did a 5 year Abyss vertical a couple years ago and I thought the bell curve peaked at 3 years on that one.
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    After initially adding butter, I add stock, cook it off, add more stock, cook it off, repeat as needed. Gets them nice and brown.

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