Posts by kuan

My home oven is probably not that powerful though.  They might have used a more powerful one.

Nope, I don't get a smooth crust.  It kinda burns and there is residual grainy sugar. And no, the cream didn't boil.

Yes, you raise the rack to the top, leave the oven open and move it around.

I agree.  You can add a bit more to the items.   Arugula salad with something something, Salmon Wellington with some kind of vegetable preparation, Panna Cotta with a sauce of some kind?

Tell us what you have first.  You leave it open ended so someone might jump in and say oh yeah, sure, I have a great chipped beef and white toast with gravy apetizer.  I'm assuming you don't want that right?

Starts with a half a pail of potatoes.  This is from the Ecuador chapter in "Hungry Planet:  What the World Eats."      

Ah yes.  It snowed 10" last night in the Twincities.  :)

Just go work in a good pastry shop. 

Heh.  You know when I used to make stock a lot I liked to dig the marrow out of the bones and eat it on white toast.  Salt and cracked pepper.

You cannot control other people. Do not fault others for seeming not to care, they care, they might just care about different things.  Step outside the kitchen and their lives are probably radically different from yours.