Posts by monpetitchoux

The only chocolate chip cookie I bake and eat: Cream together: 8 oz (228 g) unsalted butter, room temp. 4.75 oz (135 g) granulated sugar 4.75 oz (135 g) light brown sugar Beat in: 1 large egg (about 50 g) 1 teaspoon vanilla...

Gotta have rice and rice seedlings Would this count as two?). How can I live without my staple? I can make noodles out of this, too. Wheat flour, for bread and cake and noodles. Since there is lots of humidity, there'll be some...

At the risk of blowing my anonymity: Winter fruit salad Segments of citrus fruits and mango, Vanilla and ginger consomme, Kaffir lime leaf gelee, gauva sorbet and tea-infused dates. I love this dessert because every spoonful offers...

My favorite way to shape a tuile is by using a template. I draw them on paper and then copy the design onto the the plastic snap lids of plastic tubs the restaurant buys for storing stock. Then comes the very dangerous and tedious part...

Fifth Floor Jardiniere (get a good table upstairs where it is less noisy and better ambience) Fleur de Lys (supposed to be a very romantic setting as well as very fine food) Boulevard (get a table that faces the Bay) La...

I love eggs. If I eat out at a diner, I usually ask for them overeasy with a very thin lacey brown edge (like a milano cookie). If someone I know is cooking them for me and I can eat it right away, I might ask them to make it scrambled...

An especially nice way to present soup may be tableside pitcher service. The solids are arranged on the bottom of a soup plate and the broth is in a pitcher. The server places the plate before the customer and then pours the broth over...

Joseph Schmidt, mostly known as a chocolatier, also works in chocolate as a medium. I went to see some of his work in a small little gallery in San Francisco two years ago. You could smell the chocolate as you walk up the stairs. But...

Although I didn't vote for him (and if I could, I would have voted against him), I hope he will not go down as America's favorite "pretzeldent." I think he should be eating broccoli (with cheese sauce) just so that he can...

1.fork 2.spoon 3.knife 4.plate 5.salt 6.pepper 7.vinegar 8.oil 1. Chaa 2. Chi gung 3. Dou 4. Deehp 5. Yihm 6. huck jieu (black pepper, that is) 7. Chouh 8. Yauh