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You're awesome. How old was she? I'll bet she never forgets thriftstoring with you.
(Yard sales are still my favorite shopping place.)
\Could I take custody of my daughter's oldest child.
You're awesome. How old was she? I'll bet she never forgets thriftstoring with you.
(Yard sales are still my favorite shopping place.)
I like to know "restaurant tricks". What do the guys/gals do behind the swinging doors?
Totally off topic, but I'd like to see a cooking show where the cook uses every day, cheap utensils like most people own. Not the expensive, top of the line stuff. I think a lot of these shows end up intimidating most people because they feel they couldn't accomplish some dishes because they lack the cool equipment. Show me a cook who roasts something on a cookie sheet, or flimsy pizza pan. Let's see somebody cook a perfect meal in a small apartment sized oven or Black and Decker toaster oven, like many regular fold own....
I listened. I am again adding pictures to the blog to go with the recipes and explanations of the techniques. Thanks everyone.
Right now, I'm teaching people to use common, inexpensive foods, and turn them into something elegant and tasty. In addition, I'm teaching them new techniques and why they work.
I believe that it will help people cook better if they understand what's going on with the food they are cooking.
Again, thanks for your input.
Seeeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
I like how you do things. Cooking can be overcomplicated and expensive, but it doesn't have to be. For me pretentiousness has no place in cooking.
I too try to keep my blog so that it isn't intimidating. I've received many compliments about how my pictures really helped keep them on track.
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Thanks. How do I get to your blog? Oops, silly me. I just saw the link at the bottom of your posts. I'm going to check it out.
Seeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
That's a good idea, Charlie, but it adds a lot of time to the recipe prep time. A recipe that takes 35 minutes can take a lot longer if you are shooting the "raw" ingredients, the prepped ingredients, action shots, and final plating. And, you end up with a lot more dishes. I know, I do this with a professional food photographer. Unless I know I'm developing a recipe, I don't follow recipes. I follow Michael Smith's approach, cooking without a recipe. First I write the recipe down, with estimated amounts (on the light side), then I do the mise-en-place, get all the equipment out, have the "recipe" ready to make adjustments, notations, etc. It takes a fair amount of time to develop a recipe that can be given to the test team to test drive it. Then it is back to the kitchen to test changes the test team might have recommended/suggested, and invite some friends over to taste test it. When working on a recipe, I take a picture of the final dish plated and highlight the other shots (colour coded--yellow for no action, blue for action shot, green for technique shots) in the recipe.Actually there is more we can do. Add the step by step picture to the recipe we post. That would be a huge help to many.
Simple things like that.
The question about restaurant cooks, was valid. I am not talking about gross stuff, but rather the technic (SP?) that is used by professionals, the cooking tricks we simple cooks do not know.
I like how you do things. Cooking can be overcomplicated and expensive, but it doesn't have to be. For me pretentiousness has no place in cooking.
I too try to keep my blog so that it isn't intimidating. I've received many compliments about how my pictures really helped keep them on track.
Bakechef, I took a look at the blog. Nice work. And I agree that the pictures are well done.
I wonder what it would be like if we combined our talents and turned our separate blogs into one. We both have enough difference in our skill-sets that I think we could make something more complete than either of us by ourselves. If you've looked through my blog, you can see that I can put nice pictures into it as well. If you're interested in a collaborative effort, let me know.
Seeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
It took me two hours today to format a recipe, mark where the pics should be, and send it off for testing. That didn't include cooking it!That's an interesting proposition.
I'll have to admit, that in the last year I've been very lazy with my blog. I enjoy doing it, but the process slows down a lot when you have to remember to stop and take pictures.
I pay for my blog, I pay a monthly fee for the server as well as fee every couple years for the www.bakingbetter.com url
That's an interesting proposition.
I'll have to admit, that in the last year I've been very lazy with my blog. I enjoy doing it, but the process slows down a lot when you have to remember to stop and take pictures.
I pay for my blog, I pay a monthly fee for the server as well as fee every couple years for the www.bakingbetter.com url
That's an interesting proposition.
I'll have to admit, that in the last year I've been very lazy with my blog. I enjoy doing it, but the process slows down a lot when you have to remember to stop and take pictures.
I pay for my blog, I pay a monthly fee for the server as well as fee every couple years for the www.bakingbetter.com url
I use Wordpress, and an app that lets me format my blog, and place pictures where I want. I wonder how we could set up a joint blog, that both of us can add to. Or maybe, we should just give links to each other's blog. That way, if the reader wants to choose one or the other of us, he/she has a choice. Whadaya think, link each other's blog?
Seeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
I too use wordpress for the blog, I just host it myself, my server host provides it with their service as an easy way to set up a blog.
I would love to add you to my blogroll, and I will right now!