Posts by berndy

Thank you Ed for the tip. .A bit too late for me now. I could have used this way of making Potato Pancakes when I had my own place.It sure was a pain the you know whar when you have to make then little suckers in a busy restaurant...

In Germany ,right after the war , you could buy horse meat direct from the slaughterhouse once a week only.  Our Family never did buy it since my grandparents were raised on farms with horses.

In Restaurants we used  a vegetable oil and at home it was olive oil ( during lent only ) and bacon fat or goose fat (sometimes mixed together) for the rest of the year.

I grew up in Southern Germany and did my apprenticeship there too. Baking powder was never used in Potato Pankakes.

Besides  the baked potato bar you could also offer  a variety of stuffed potato skins. And an Ice Cream bar is always a hit

How about adding some pearl onions into your sauce along with a few orange segments?

Very similar situation while I was chef at an Officer's Club on a US Military base in Germany. We did buy our fresh eggs from the commissary and I was asked by some of the Mess Sergeants on base to save the egg-shells for...

Go for it and enjoy life while you can.I have been on over a dozen cruises from short 3 days to a bit longer 22 days and I never had any proplems at all exept that I put on a few extra pounds on every cruise Life...

I use a folded cotton towel under my 20x15 thick plastic cutting board and it  never moves nor slides.

I would go with nuts since it will give you a geater variety of baked goods to offer for your customers