Posts by Jolly Roger

I'm a bit of a pure-ist so it may come as no surprise that I would recomend avoiding canned "broth" or "stock". Making a vegetarian soup? Start with a basic mirepoix and roast it in the oven until you get some nice...

Here's my M.O....I give 15% if the service sucked. 15% to me is like saying to the server: "I understand that this is customary and you could have earned 30%, but you choose to not care enough to make my dining experience mediocre...

Crash...good flick. I just watched it again after it won for best movie last Sunday.

Shroom...Do tell of your saucy extravegancies (Is that a word, or did I just make that up? Quick! Somebody call Steven Colbert!). Did you come up with anything that did not involve a buerre blanc? I've been acustom to use sweet wine...

I can't help it, I think I'm turning into a TV junkie since I got cable...Anyone here sit all the way through the premire of the chef show on Bravo last night? When my girlfriend told me about my reaction was something like: "I...

Yeah, it's Ted Turner's restaurant chain. My next thought is, if you had millions of dollars at your disposal, would you sanction a mediocre restaurant chain to represent your "empire". My experience at "Ted's" tells...

Part of what set me apart from other cooks when I was "coming up", was that even though there was someone higher than me signing my check, I always negotiated my pay and did so on a performance basis because I knew I could...

C.S.I. was around long before man began to roam this planet. Sometimes when I get home at night, my cat makes a B-line for my clogs...even though I made attempt to "clean" them at work. There's sh*t under your finger nails,...

Shroomgirl...Let's go back to basics...the fried chicken things are for KIDS, right? Fry them before you go and keep'em hot in hot boxes you can rent if you don't allready have them. Maybe layer them with parchmentment paper so they...

This thread likely will offer little useful information, but yet render an opportunity to vent, release, and otherwise "let go". Twenty years ago, the only cooking shows widely known in the U.S. were anything with Julia Child...