Recent content by JamesS

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In your shoes, the first thing I would do is check with the school to see what they recommend. It's kind of surprising that the school hasn't at the very least arranged for a discount set from a local supplier for it's students. When I went in the mid eighties, they gave us a pretty bizarre...

When I started cooking professionally, I felt obligated to step up my production. That meant using knives much quicker and more efficiently than I had been previously. Decades in the Boy Scouts, hobbies and rural living had me quite comfortable around razors and sharp knives, and had given me a...

There are a lot of conversations about it on the forums over at Single Serve Coffee. My own opinion is that the Keurig is about convenience. If I have to take the time to measure and fill my own cups, I had might as well use the drip machine which can make a cheaper and stronger cup out of...

It's funny how foods from our youth sometimes call to us. About thirty or forty years ago, Roy Rogers restaurants had a brownie. It was an odd brownie, in that it actually tasted a bit like chocolate and tobacco. I had been craving one for ages. Tried mostly unsuccessfully to reverse engineer...

Luzianne has been my tea of choice for iced tea lately too. I used to make it ahead and keep it in the refrigerator, but just can't seem to find room these days. I take a single (normal sized...not iced tea sized) bag and add hot water from the water cooler to it in a small coffee mug. Let...

That would be great for cubing bread for bread pudding.

That's pretty spiffy. How thick a slice can you get with it?

I cook for between one and three depending on the time of the year and the individual day. It's really just a matter of making things that can easily be done in single servings. For instance, I'm in bachelor mode today. I made a grilled chicken breast baked with pesto. Chicken breasts are...

You probably can if you have a really long lunch break. If you thaw it first, you can be eating fifteen minutes after you get home.

Take it down (just what you plan to use) from the freezer and put it in the fridge the day before. If it's still a little icy when you go to use it, run a little cool water over it. Pat dry with a paper towel and you're good to go. If you cover the skillet, it will steam. I prefer uncovered...

Ribeye steak sandwich with a Gruyere cheese sauce and arugula mayonnaise. It was on Tyler Florence's show a week or so back and thought I'd give it a shot. Overall, not a bad sandwich.

Exactly. It lets you watch their streaming content on your television. Unfortunately True Blood isn't an instant title, so you would have to get it via the DVD's. Having a Netflix unlimited account gets you both DVD's and streaming. You can choose DVD's from one at a time to six at a time (which...

I think 2 discs at a time and unlimited streaming is around $14 a month. Even in a rural area, if I put the discs in the mail on Monday, they get them Tuesday and I have replacements on Wednesday. If you have an Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, Series 3 TiVo or any of a dozen or so other devices that are...

I'll never understand how people can cook without seeing the flame. It would drive me insane. My fiance had never cooked over gas until recently and still isn't comfortable with it. Guess it's all what you're used to.