Posts by markface

thank you for all the replies . i think i will go with most every ones suggestions and just get the ones i use . i really only use 3 for most occasions so i'll just look to get them for now . being as i've only been cooking professionaly...

well , i'm looking to buy a set of knives as a christmas present for myself this year . i dont have a lot of money to spend on them , but i would like to get something decent . i have always used whatever was on hand at home , and at...

well , i ended up using a recipee given to me by a friend of italian desent , or atleast thats what i started out doing . the problem i ran into was that once it was boiled i had basically rubber octopuss . it tasted real good , but it...

i picked up about 6 lbs of fresh octopus this morning at a local seafood shop . i need to find a good recipe to use it in . i've never worked with these critters before so i have no clue as to how it should be prepared . any help would...

I'm in the middle of "The Green Mile" by Stephen King. I saw the movie and liked it , and someone said the book followed the movie pretty close . Half way through the book and it's really surprising how close it is to the movie...

thanks yall , i think i'll go ahead and use my gamma's method , but i'll use the veggie oil instead . just wanted to make sure . i dont know if i could crack these critters with a sledge hammer , their the thickest iron skillets i've...

i was just recently given a set of 3 old iron skillets . they had been sitting in the attic of a friends parents house for god knows how long , and had a good bit of surface rust on them . i used steel wool and vegetable oil(and a lot of...

well , it looks like i can put the ole resume back in its file again . last monday(couple days before we got hit with isabel) my boss called me into his office after i had closed and cleaned up the kitchen . i figured i had done...

i live in virginia beach virginia , and isabel did not seem to be as bad as floyd was , but it did much more damage . we lost power about 1:30 pm est thursday , and just got it back about 12:30 am sunday(saturday night) . we lucked out ....

i also learned to cook by watching my gamma and mother , and to a certain extent my father . up until i started cooking profesionally i seldom used measuring utinsils except when baking . its only been in the last few months when i bring...