Posts by tigerwoman

you can have an electric proofer cabinet built into a mobile kitchen.    There are many routes to go in mobile kitchens from having them professionally kitted to creating your own out of a box truck and \equipment....

as Pete said the way to keep broccoli and stringbeans for that matter crisp and green is to steam or boil then shock with ice water to STOP the cooking process.  For that reason for drop offs/delivery orders I try to recommend a...

Just a thought but an old trick I learned years ago for holding and reheating a hollandaise sauce was to add sour cream to the mixture.  Wonder if that would work with the cream sauce ???

if you go to Lowes or Home Depot - look in the plumbing department and you can find ceramic drains that have slots that will fit the mini tacos - then create tiered displays   but I would worry about the tacos getting soggy if...

a bit late to the party but here's a fabulous tomato chutney posted on egullet years ago by Suvir Saran   http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?/topic/9924-tomato-chutney/      

Chris - love the sound of this    was wondering if you ever tried to make it cutting the pineapple into thin rings and leaving the core   although the core is woody it also has a nice taste and offers a different...

dippers   marshmellows rice krispie treats cookies = hard ones not crumbly avoid cake - except perhaps angel food cake - too crumbly otherwise pretzel sticks fresh fruit like strawberries, bananas,  grapes if...

in a word - you are crazy to even think about doing this on your own and it's insulting to the professionals no  less.  The advice you got above from Bubba is correct and outlines just a few of the issues you would have to...

but the testament to your abilities as a caterer is that you did figure it out and got through it and other than high  blood pressure and big bar bill were none worse for the wear.  That's what they pay us for not just the...

developing accurate recipes that scale is definitely a challenge - and one that caterers face all the time.   was wondering what method you used to measure and keep notes.   I have heard for example that if one is...