Are you up to the challenge? Cook 90 - Epicurious editor is cooking scratch every meal in January.

I saw lots of recipes that use bread crumbs or panko. I guess I

think of anything that goes through the flour, egg and then either bread or flour as breaded. Anyway, It looks like many people interpret the way they are done how they see it. All of the recipes that I looked at pretty much agreed on the sauce they are coated in though. I think I should go and get some just to see for myself.

 
The deep bed of chopped lettuce is key - at least for us smileys/wink.gif

- to mitigate the spicy! 2 Bangs with Bonefish's amazing loaf of ciabatta bread (w/olive oil and spice) is usually dinner for us. But we do love to try their seasonal specials and excellent desserts - TDF coconut custard pie! We go for the Wednesday $6 Bang, Bang deal and sit in the bar at one of the hightops, side by side, enjoying Guy Fiero's "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" - we don't have cable. Colleen

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That is exactly what we do when we go out also. We are just more

comfortable in the bar normally and 9 times out of 10 will just share appetizers. I just looked at the bonefish website that is by me and it doesn't look like the bang, bang is on the lunch menu. Only dinner. Do you know? We tend to like to eat earlier than a dinner time. We'd probably like to go around 2. Do you know if they would have them available at that time?

 
While I like the concept this challenge wouldn't work for me. I love

cooking from scratch but I also love going out occasionally to the really great restaurants around us...like for Pho (the best I ever had is 6 blocks away at a hole in the wall place), and amazing pizza and Thai and Chinese and Sushi and Japanese and Mexican and Italian and Vietnamese and smoked/bbq ribs and fresh seafood (I could go on and on). Not to mention going out for breakfast at least once a week with hubby or girlfriends to have things like really delicious crab and avocado benedicts, dim sum, huevos rancheros, carnitas scrambles, breakfast burritos, crepes and more. We're surrounded by restaurants that make their respective ethnic foods sooooo much better than I ever could (and often at less cost than if I were to buy all the necessary ingredients). So we enjoy a mixture of dining in and dining out.

 
Orchid, I have seen this made with cauliflower too, but

I have never made it. The sauce on the shrimp is the kicker.

 
If I didn't love you, girlfriend, I'd hate you right now. Just got back from mediocre fried fish

sandwich served smack dab on the Intracoastal. The BEST part of the meal were the manatee and dolphin spotting a few yards away.

 
I am another that really liked the shrimp. Didn't go at lunch but they were only on the apps menu.

Call them and ask?

 
Yes, I'll call them. I really want to try them and we can go for

an early dinner if they don't have it on the lunch menu.

 
I can't even comprehend the array of good restaurants you have around you Pat

We have a lot of mediocre restaurants here on the island, all way too expensive and disappointing. There is a handful of bright spots but not enough to get me and DH out for dinner much. So I cook but that is not a chore for me.

 
We are blessed to have such variety here. There's alot of mediocre

as well but thanks to online review programs like Yelp and TripAdvisor it's easy to find decent restaurants and learn what foods they do well and which items are best to avoid.

Cooking is not a chore for me either -- in fact, I get ALOT of joy from being in the kitchen cooking my lil heart out, lol. But occasionally, especially after being on my feet all day cooking in a prep kitchen or at a catering job, the last thing I want to do is come home and do more cooking. That's when it's a pleasure to go out (or bring in) pho or pizza or Chinese, or ribs, etc., all the while being inspired by the cuisines in my own home cooking.

 
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