Ah, pierogi. If you’ve ever spent any time in any of the country’s Eastern European enclaves, you know, like Kelly Slade, just how delightful they can be. And her quest for fresh, handmade pierogi in potato-cheese flavor has been answered.
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Joan Adams is looking for large and small — but not Minute — tapioca, and readers have several recommendations.
Considering how addictive peppermint bark is, I can’t even imagine it in ice cream. But now Virginia Fergen and the rest of us can try it, thanks to sharp-eyed readers on both sides of the valley. Jan Pacini found it at Vons at 1940 Village Center Circle in Summerlin and Maureen McCoy at Albertsons at 201 S. Stephanie St. in Henderson. …
There’s something about food and the holidays. The season definitely seems to rekindle a desire to revive family traditions; hence the holiday-related requests this week. And, for those looking for help making gravy for their holiday dinners, responses to a request from reader Ray Fogarty.
As often happens, last week’s information about sources for homemade pizzelles brought more tips from Taste of the Town readers.
It’s definitely soup weather, although somehow lobster bisque doesn’t seem like soup but like something more — more luxurious, more satisfying. And available, for requesting reader David Ewart, who’s looking for it frozen or canned.
Sometimes it seems that restaurants keep getting more open and, consequently, noisier. No wonder Barbara Davis is looking for those with cozy, intimate spaces.
Mexican chorizo? Easy to find at just about any supermarket in town. Spanish cured chorizo? Not so much. But readers have local sources for Karen Clark.
Large-curd cottage cheese: Seems like such a simple thing. But after a request from Chuck Neverovich appeared in this column, Lois Kupec e-mailed that she searched for it for a few years before finding the house Great Value brand at Wal-Mart Supercenters and Wal-Mart Neighborhood Markets.