Posts by blanchtoque

You gotta be clean. You can't leave a mess, it will attract them into the appartment. Once you start keeping it clean spread a parimiter of boric acid powder around., under the sink, dust in to cracks, around the base board,...

It is my understanding that the reason Reuters and some of the other News Services have stopped using the word "terrorist" not because of political correctness but because they have corrispondents all over the world and using...

We poach Fish all the time. One of my favorites ways is in red wine. I think Poaching beef suffers from the boiled beef legends of British cooking. Does Posoli with pigs feet count as poaching???

I've done the Poached chicken, we called it, Half a boiled Chicken with Motzha Dumplings. I have never Poached Beef before except in a pot a feu (sp?). Now let me ask, Why the topic heading of "Is Braising a dead art?"

Its called Matzoh brei (sp?) and I think your pretty close in the details. At least that's how I remember my step mom making it. Sometimes she would add sauteed onion. Years later in one of my kitchen I would always have the prep cook...

Make an announcement over the PA system that the Holandaise Chef has gone to the emergency room and you will be out of holandaise for the rest of the night. This works with baked potatoes, rare prime rib, sour cream almost anything.

Heather Ho is listed as a suvivor in critical concition, on the Suvivor list for the WTC; http://www.ny.com/wtclist.html

An online report form Restaurant news concerning Windows on the World. "there were about 600 guests, 30 to 35 cooks and 35 servers on the premises when the building was hit" For the Full Report go to ...

Let's not forget that an interview is also a time to find out if your want to work at a place. If the GM is doing the hiring, how does the chef feel about it? Is it something she is going to resent? If the interviewer ask silly...

Many times its not the answer to the question that is important it's how the question is answered. When I am interviewing and I ask a question like "How do you figure food cost?", I am looking for the one right answer, but...