Posts by Pete

What you describe in your last post makes it sound very likely to be low blood sugar.  Of course, I am no doctor, but it sounds like what I used to experience occasionally, and it was often associated with long hours and very...

I understand that the company you bought sandwiches from gave them a shelf life of 7 days, but, if you are making them yourself, why would you want to do that?  Quality suffers to greatly.  Bread becomes soggy and/or dry and...

In many places that I worked we were required to purchase and care for our own chef coats, just like our knives.

It will be hard to find this online as there are a lot of variables.  Some places don't require documented servsafe training (although these places are becoming fewer and fewer) some places require standard servsafe training and...

I always add just a bit of water to my crock pot when cooking.  Usually only 1/2-1 cup of liquid, a bit more if I have a lot of vegetables in with the meat.  One big thing I have found though is, I feel that most slow cooker...

Ice, look again, he does have both roasted pork and deli ham in it.  For my cubanos, I don't usually add onion or tomato, and while one slice of bread gets the mustard treatment, the other gets mayo, but either way, you can't go...

X86BSD couldn't have said it any better.  I find it an honor and privilege when someone asks me for my recipe.  Personally, I always respond to such an inquiry and can't understand chefs that want to keep their recipes a...

While I generally prefer fresh herbs over dried there are times that I'd rather reach for the dried.  Sorry, but pizza sauce requires dried oregano not fresh.  I'm sure it is due to the pizza I ate growing up, but I don't...

How about Sopes?  They can be filled with a variety of items, from the mundane to the exotic.  A few ideas would be chorizo and potatoes, chicken in mole, carnitas, mashed plantains with crema, Americanized ground beef (taco...

Although restaurants with very limited menus can be found, and are popular, around the world, I think it would be hard sell here in  the US.  Americans seem to feel that a large choice=quality.  They feel it is their...