Posts by American_Suisse

I made some doughnuts the other day. When I made the glaze for them something went wrong. Granted I was trying to do it from memory but still! I ended up with something more like frosting. The glaze never hardened like it would when my...

Reminds me of what my neighbors in FL use to say when I was learning to bake bread. "Don't worry, we eat mistakes!" and did they ever!

I don't think Perlman is all that great, prefering the likes of Oistrakh, Menuhin, or even Nesbitt but that's another opinion. The rest of the quote above does make sense based on the way you have posted on this subject, or at least the...

No, it isn't fair. Some people have a natural gift with music and others don't. Saying that someone needs a nudge would be like me saying sure, you can sing in the same range as Caruso, Domingo, Carreras, or Pavarotti if you just...

Like most kids from my generation, I suffered thru piano lessons. From there organ followed. Then came trumpet and coronet, mellowphone, sousaphone, and tuba. I've never been able to play any stringed instruments very well. Mary Had A...

Buddy Hackett once said "My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it." (Bet he got that from my mom!) And - "If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us...

Don't know if this will help but this is a recipe I got from my friend Jean-Pierre who owns a B&B in the Juras. I had Clafouti for the first time while visiting them once and really liked it. Jean-Pierre told me that the...

Just read this on MSN - don't think I'll be visiting any of these places. The World?s Rudest Restaurants - MSN Travel Articles

[QUOTE=boar_d_laze;278833]Most important of all (for me), each of the two people who taught me to make biscuits used that pinch of baking powder, so I do too./QUOTE] Reminds me of an old story - A little girl was watching her mother...

Sorry, it is corn starch. I'm starting to mix my languages!