the continuing saga of putting together a commercial kitchen for rent..

I had my web site, my logo and really felt committed to this business. Now it was time to find a space to rent. I figured it would be easy - find some old restaurant for lease, get it, fix it up and open! No problem. At the time it was October and I thought I could be open in time for Christmas. I was so very wrong.

I started looking online. There is a web site called LoopNet that has commercial space...

This week, for Basic Cookery, we made two different stocks--white and brown. Really basic stuff. (I think I have made gallons and gallons of stock in my life at home.)

Even though some of the items that we are preparing in Basic are...well...basic, I do still end up learning something new. Sometimes the material covered seems a little too elementary. But again, I really do come out of each class with some new tips/techniques that I did not know previously.

As for garde...

An afternoon in Savannah, GA
We keep going back to Savannah, after all, when was the last time we have witnessed a city built in 1773!… Quite a few moons ago. Busy on the weekend, much nicer during the week and much easier to find any kind of parking space. Our stay on the coast here is nearing the end, we are still planning to sightsee Charleston tomorrow as the weather has been awesome. It should...

Hunting Island State Park, SC
It is a fine Park well worth visiting with a beautiful Lighthouse and beaches, so serene and peaceful, specially off season. A day trip from Tybee Island, it was just Spirit and I and the camera. Found a great BBQ joint in Bluffton where actually they took care of “us” real well thinking maybe we had not eaten in days! Maybe my diet is working… not on that day though after a couple...

today on cooking with food we ask the pressing question, "what is your earliest food memory?"

Tea with milk and sugar poured into the saucer to cool with crackers and peanut butter in my grandmothers Tide scented kitchen.