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Alright, there are a couple weeks before the regular NFL season kicks in. Who do you think is going to with Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans this year and why? Would anyone be interested in BBQ Central Forum Fantasy Football League?

We will be doing some work on the servers tonight started around 9:00 pm CST (GMT -6 hours). We will be closing the site down during this work so you will see a site down message while it's going on. The downtime could up to 4-6 hours but we hope it will be much shorter. We apologize in advance...

Sorry for the downtime today. It appears we had some technical issues that caused some improper page redirecting. It was a bit harder to line up the resources to find and fix the problem as it's the Saturday before Christmas. By mid-day we had our team in place and they worked as fast as...

It's time for our seasonal newsletter beautifully put together by LPBeier. In this issue: “’TIS THE SEASON” WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE FALL/WINTER FOOD? OUR FEATURED CHEF HARVEST TRIVIA FEASTING ACROSS THE MILES TERMS & TECHNIQUES: Braising FAMILY & FEASTING MA’s CHRISTMAS EVE IS IT SOUP YET...

Here is a recipe which was provided to us by French's, for our member's benefit. Zesty Beef Stir-Fry Prep time: 10 min. Cook time: 15 min. Servings: 6 1 1/2 lbs. flank steak, cut in half lengthwise 2 tbsp. vegetable oil 4 cups cut-up vegetables...

Here is a recipe which was provided to us by French's, for our member's benefit. Teriyaki Steak with Crunchy Onions & Peppers Prep time: 10 min. Cook time: 25 min. Servings: 4 4 (1 inch) thick boneless top loin steaks 3/4 cup low sodium teriyaki...

I just wanted to let everyone know that French's has provided us with some recipes to post in our site for everyone to enjoy. This http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/f15/sweet-skillet-chicken-60524.html recipe is one of them provided. We will be posting between 20-50 of these recipes over the...

Here is a recipe which was provided to us by French's, for our member's benefit. Sweet Skillet Chicken Prep time: 10 min. Cook time: 15 min. Servings: 6 1 tbsp. vegetable oil 6 (5 oz.) boneless skinless chicken breasts 1 large onion, sliced 1 (10...

“SUMMERTIME, AND THE LIVIN' IS EASY” Ahh, the summer! Time to relax, kick back, and enjoy life. This issue of the newsletter highlights many aspects of the season basically revolving around food. This IS a Discuss Cooking Newsletter after all! So grab a pitcher of lemonade or Ice Tea and enjoy...

It's with great pleasure to let all our wonderful members know that Paula Deen has chosen our community to host her online community blog. She's working a with a firm called EQAL on this cool new format and we are one of just a handful of high quality sites where you can keep up with her blog...

It has been brought to our attention that our community has been featured on KillerStartups.com. Let's vote for Discuss Cooking and show them how much we love the site. Please vote for "Survive" since we know that will happen and we don't really want any of the other options to come true...

Well they just had the finale of Top Chef - Season 5. I won't spoil it in case you have not seen the winner yet. I just wanted to start this thread to find out what others think of Top Chef. I personally like the show and my girlfriend LOVES it.

We are please to announce the opening of a new section of our site where we can discuss all the fantastic cooking shows that are currently running on TV. The goal of this forum is to create a place for friendly discussions, not negative debates, that must adhere to our Community Rules. Although...

Dear Community, I wanted to post an announcement to keep you all in the loop about a setting change that was made to protect our community. As some of you know (or may not) we have recently had some issues with some disgruntled members who's access to DC was terminated after they continually...

I wanted to let you know that I got the update in place so you can disable the right column that was recently added to the site. To do so, simple go to the UserCP >> Edit Options settings (link) scroll all the way to the bottom and you can now turn off the right column (see attachment).

Dear Members, It's with great honor that I present to you the new masterpiece from the Discuss Cooking coding kitchen. As you can see I have just rolled out a new look/feel for our community. This is still a work in progress and I am going to need your feedback to really dial things in. One...

I wanted to post and let you all know what the issue was and apologize for the inconvenience. Late last night I asked the server admins to perform some routing maintenance on the database. This was done very late at night when traffic to the site is at it's lowest. Although we experienced a...

Sorry for the late notice but I wanted to let you know I will be working on some exciting new stuff for Discuss Cooking tonight. I'll have to close the site for a while and will open it back up as soon as possible. I'll start my work at 7:00 pm CST time. Andy

I know many of you don't like added toolbars to your browser so this post is not for you. For those of you who want to have some fun and see if we can help Discuss Cooking rank higher, please keep reading. Alexa.com is a site owned by Amazon.com which uses a toolbar to gather data about what...

We're doing some server maintenance over the next few hours. You may experience difficulty loading attachments during this time and/or receive error messages when trying to attach pictures. My apologies for the inconvenience - but hopefully this will be straightened out quickly.

I wanted to let you all know that I will be switching the site to a new network today. The old provider has been giving some members very slow connection speeds for the last couple of weeks (read more about this issue here). We will be moving to a more sophisticated network with more backbone...

I just wanted to post an update about reports of super slow page loads at our site. I was able to speak with some members and get some trace route info that helped identify the problem. The server admins looked into the results and they found an issue between our servers and some members. The...

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to have to turn off the site for up to a couple of hours tonight while the server admins turn on replication on our database servers. I know the servers have been spotty a few times in the last couple of weeks with the 500 Errors. I am...

We are now running on a new server. Please post any strange errors you find here... Note: This server is going to be running at maximum capacity until the other servers arrive from the old data center tomorrow via UPS. Please be patient while I get the old servers setup so I can then offload...

I just wanted to let you know that I am going to move DC tomorrow night around 11:00 pm EST. I estimate downtime to be less then an hour. Just to be safe, please plan on it taking all night in case I run into some unexpected issues. I will post more to this thread after the move and solicit...