Archive for April, 2007
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Lovers of real Cheddar cheese from real England will turn a somersault over Somerset, England's West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers in Shepton Mallet. They've finally given us the transparency we so sorely need at cheddarvision.tv.
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
You should have known that it was only a matter of short time before I cooked a sea creature with tentacles. If you can find me a land creature with tentacles, I'll be happy to come up with something for you.
Tentacly speaking, you may know how difficult it is to ...
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Sunday, April 8th, 2007
Where else will you find a cartoonish rabbit ice sculpture but at an Easter brunch in America? We had 600 guests at the club today, and they ran our asses off. Four solid hours of nonstop bacon-egg-sausage-waffle hustle. What did we run out of first? No, not prime rib or ...
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Friday, April 6th, 2007
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
I put the heel of my right palm through the julienne teeth of the mandoline yesterday while prepping Veg O'Day (that's technical jargon for the vegetables of the day). Carrots. The fat ones - and we have fat ones - occasionally jam midway through the blades, requiring a little surge ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
If you're in or near Berkeley, California, you might be interested in checking out a four-course wine tasting dinner at Caffe Venezia on Thursday. Good labels, to be sure, and great accompanying dishes. I'm tempted to go just for the lamb braised in paprika and tarragon.
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Bakalar and Blitva - salt ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Since running Zagrebački Odrezak as a Sunday brunch item a couple of weeks ago, I've had a pow'rful hankering for Wiener schnitzel. I only got around to shopping for the veal last night and, as luck had it, the supermarket had none to offer. So I bought some inexpensive pork ...
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