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    Have to learn to make Pasta

    Understand , I'm done in this place. Adios.
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    Sausage type question

    yeh , decent article but they omitted the thousands of irish catholic families who starved to death as industrialists in ireland exported the harvests. The PBS series "Victoria" showed what it was like.
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    Sausage type question

    I never had steak until i came here as an immigrant in 1969, we couldn't afford it, 150 yrs ago that would have been far more common. The corned beef and cabbage associated with the irish is laughable, they couldn't afford tinned corned beef. Even today its not a dish even on St Pats, cabbage...
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    Have to learn to make Pasta

    its all fun to me but if they put the jacket on .... I used to crack 700 eggs into 5 gallon buckets for omelettes, cracking one at a time would have taken a while.
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    I wanna make some sundae ice cream. Will store bought whipped cream be a good idea or is it very low quality?

    heres some useless information about whipped cream , use the highest fat content possible, don't use powdered sugar as it readily dissolves and causes the end product to be too soft for pastry decorating. In france whipped cream is different from chantilly. Chantilly is made using powder sugar...
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    Have to learn to make Pasta

    over the decades i saw the networks try to hire my boss, he refused and they hired jacques pepin, they tried to hire me to assist "chef" Bernard, he had a tv show in the 1970's, in 1982 they tried to hire my partner to teach 'chef" Tell (this is the food i like to eat). She shot him down. first...
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    Have to learn to make Pasta

    any granny who had to cook for family has done something a few thousand times, they are expert at it, I can spot when someone has not been trained nor practiced doing it enough to get the knack. Because I worked in certain kitchens i got to meet a few tv chefs, most couldn't cook, they were...
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    TIL... (today I learned)

    i went to plumbing school, dropped out when i got an apprenticeship in a french pastry shop. Today I do all my own plumbing at home, it was never about the money.
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    Have to learn to make Pasta

    i know the same way an electrician, a butcher, plumber, baker knows when someone with no training is pretending to be competent, i know because i was trained in a 5 year apprenticeship starting in the sink. When someone puts that jacket on they should be minimally capable.
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    Have to learn to make Pasta

    it isn't cooking right, he has no discernable skill other than a face for the camera.
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    2024 Edition - What are you baking?

    I put the bigger cheesecake out on the deck last nite, at 4F it semi froze. no need for fiddly springform pans and alum foil. The small one with cherry is for my farmer neighbor.
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    2024 Edition - What are you baking?

    used a pie tin that had a Frey Bentos steak and kidney pie, they make nice baking tins after washing the pie remnants out. cherry cheesecke. The brown border is ground pistaccios.
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    Kirkland Shrimp from India

    patagonia cold water shrimp, they've gotta be good.
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    Sausage type question

    boudin blanc. I put lobster meat in mine and ground chicken and panade. Poached in milk then fried in butter.
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    Kirkland Shrimp from India

    shrimp in america ,,,generally suck. Its mostly farmed asian warm water shrimp, like tiger shrimp. Maine atlantic shrimp are very good, pink, sweet and tender but seasonal. The shrimp we get in europe are like maine shrimp, wild and not frozen.
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