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Originally Posted by ruffryder

If you're near St Augustine. Go to Carmelo's Marketplace and Pizzeria. NY Style Brick Oven made with deli fresh meats and cheeses! Mmmm Hoping to get down there around Christmas time so I can enjoy some!

Hey ruff, you are lucky to have a good pizza place over there. Never been to St Augustine but maybe one day. I have family down there.

Originally Posted by Okiebug61

These are by far the best freaking breadsticks on the planet earth and the local restaurant that made them just up and quit one day. No warning, no offers to sell the place. Pinocchios was an icon for the entire town. Alas though someone has gotten ahold of the receipe and if you follow the directions excatly you can't tell the difference. Yummy!


http://students.ou.edu/C/Inger.C.Cob...readsticks.swf

Hey Okie, wow that is so sad that a well loved place would just close like that. Sorry to hear that. Wonder what happened. Check Dept of Health rating online, its all public info. If by any chance someone became ill from the food that could have caused a sudden shut down.

Originally Posted by ruffryder

There it is.. a pic of my enchiladas.

I'll be making these again tonight!

Nice work ruff! It would be nice if we could have a cooking event at the reunion, I would love to sample whatever it is that you all specialize in.

Originally Posted by JustLovelyJenn

What an amazing morning read... Oysters, pizza, bagels, and sweets... I think I have gone to foodie heaven...

You all brought on a series of wonderful pleasant memories for me today. The caramel is something my family has been making for years, but would you believe I never put it together with dulce de leche? How strange. I really want to play with cooking times right now... but I have to finish off the 4 cans in the fridge first... We make it because it is a corn syrup free alternative for my daughters allergies. Thank you for the amazing article Ursy.

There is an oyster farm here, headed out to the ocean. They have fantastic bumper stickers that are all over town... "shuck me, suck me, eat me raw" my mother hates these, and I love them. BUT, what I think of most often when I think of oysters farms is the piles and piles of oyster shells that are by that place. I think its just beautiful to see them all spread over the ground... I will have to take some pictures.

I want pizza. Good pizza. I know that I am really missing out on that. Right after high school I spent some time working at a pizza place. I learned how to toss crusts and its probably still my favorite way to have them done. There is something so different in the texture of a hand tossed crust that makes the pizza perfect to me.

I am going to be daydreaming about food all day long. Thanks everyone!!

Hi Jenn,

I had to crack up laughing over that bumper sticker. They are very popular in oyster towns, and I have seen many. Its been a while.

On the oyster farming, are they using natural beds that are part of a bay or inlet, or have they created artificial beds? Just curious. Some really amazing oysters come from WA and they are super pricey by the time they get to the east coast. A little more accessible in CA.

Did you make pizza? I need a pizza stone but am considering just getting terra cotta tiles (untreated) at the hardware store and winging it.

Originally Posted by Nadeest

That is one thing that I plan on doing, on my winter break between classes. Learn how to temper chocolate, and to do it well. I've helped do it in class a couple of times, but I would not say that I am good at it, right now.

Hi Nadeest,

Practice, practice, practice. Make a lot of truffles. You will find a big difference in the timing and melting point when you go from a commercial kitchen to a home kitchen. Unless you have a similar sized pipe bringing in the gas to the similar gas stove. We can get so much heat so quickly in a commercial stove top.

Let us know your tempering goes!

Originally Posted by Kat_Fl

Being from NY I have yet to find pizza that's like back home .... I miss home now I'm wanting ny pizza ..thanks guys .. lol

Hi Kat, Amazing how that works huh? We just read about a food that we love and poof, we want it. Do you by any chance have Trader Joes down there? They have a pizza that is a good sub for a NY pizza. Hand tossed and made for Trader Joes in Italy. For under $5. This is one of the most mind boggling things that I have ever seen. How they do this, I do not know. So while you may not get to NY for pizza you can make a side trip to Rome.