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08-15-2008, 12:29 PM
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| | What is your specialty? What is your specialty? | 
08-15-2008, 12:34 PM
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| | Transforming leftovers into completely new dishes.
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08-15-2008, 12:55 PM
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| | I haven't been cooking long enough to have a "real" specialty, but I've got a pretty good handle on Braised short ribs
turkey chili too. | 
08-15-2008, 01:34 PM
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| | My widely known specialty is that I'm a "not-so-lean, mean, eating machine"! But usually, egocetnrically, only my own cooking! (just joking  )
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08-15-2008, 03:35 PM
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Transforming leftovers into completely new dishes.
| Suzanne, we used to kid that our mom could make fruit salad out of leftover chicken! She really was an inventive cook- still is when she gets a yen to cook again.
I'd have to say chicken: roast, sauteed, braised, rendered fat (schmaltz), soup.
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08-15-2008, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by abefroman What is your specialty? | Keeping customers, staff and employer happy, at same time good food cost.
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08-15-2008, 08:05 PM
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| | Artisan chocolates, pastries, and confections.... | 
08-15-2008, 10:16 PM
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| | BBQ but thats kind of obvious | 
08-15-2008, 10:32 PM
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| | Saw the light. New answer below.
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08-15-2008, 10:57 PM
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| | My best work is basically cooking a decent dinner for my wife and I. Nothing that I cook I can really claim as a signature dish, my wife's favorites are chicken parm, enchiladas of various types and soups based on homemade stock [ Roast Garlic Tomato Soup ] A number of folks are impressed with my chicken habanero chili and my seafood quiche.
I don't mean to sound like an arrogant bragger, but I did get a nice little ego boost at a party a few months ago. I sauntered in with a warm, fragrant seafood quiche in a 9 x 13 pan, made room for it on the main table. The host and I went into the kitchen to get a serving utensil ( which I usually bring myself, but forgot) and the first glass of wine for myself. We were in the kitchen maybe 4 - 5 minutes yakking about stuff, pouring wine, came out with suitable utensils, the quiche was already 80% gone. The only thing that disappeared faster was this one fellow's flan - incredibly rich, creamy, sweet - good stuff!
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08-15-2008, 11:25 PM
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| | teamfat showed me the Tao of cooking. I'm changing my answer and going along with his. "[C]ooking a decent dinner
for my ... incredibly rich, creamy, sweet" wife.
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08-16-2008, 02:03 PM
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| | I became well-known (well, a few houses up and down our street) for my Greek rolled pork loin roast. We were given the recipe by the lady in a mom-and-pop taverna on the island of Corfu quite a few years aqgo.
You pierce the roast and insert spears of garlic all over (as many as you have the patience for - it can't be overdone.) Then rub all over with a thick slurry of garlic, EVOO and Kefalotiri (or Kasseri) cheese. I grind these together in a Mini-Prep.
Wrap in plastic, overnight in fridge, then cook on rotisserie until up to temp and nice golden crust. Rest and slice, not too thin.
f you happen to have dried grapevine for smoke, it's authentic. Otherwise, I like mesquite.
Greek sides and Rodytis (if you have the stomach for it.)
Mike
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08-16-2008, 03:28 PM
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| | Eating
(Software says that answer is too short....)
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08-16-2008, 05:07 PM
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| | Work-wise there is our whole Indian range. At famiy do's it's the same. ( I had a good teacher, and total kudos to her)
I also make genuine hangover soup Doesnt matter what kind. Maybe I'm just magic???
Seriously, it's Thai green curry. Apart from Pakoras and Samosas it's my most requested
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08-16-2008, 05:42 PM
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| | Cookies.
I'm a baker and pretty good all-around cook, but cookies are the first thing I learned to cook when I was a kid, they're still what I love to make, and definitely what I do best. |  | |
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