I have many interests, cooking being just the latest. Pursuing one of these I read J. Michael Straczynski’s The Complete Book of Scriptwriting . When discussing writing the television script, he explains the very strict time constraints of TV programs. It breaks every so many minutes and is a specific length. Then he said some [...]
Read ->Cooking
A Limited Palette
Wed December 29th, 2004 at 3:12 pmCooking
Puerco Pibil
Wed December 29th, 2004 at 2:42 pmCooking
Buzz at Sci-Fi Hi-Fi recently cooked Puerco Pibil from the DVD extras for Once Upon A Time in Mexico.
I’ve been meaning to cook this dish for months myself. I wrote down the recipe a while back - I don’t own the film. But I don’t know where that notebook is. I need to look for [...]
Read ->Blogroll Additions
Tue December 28th, 2004 at 2:20 pmCooking
When and looked at the food blog awards site and loaded all the nominees for Best Food Blog - Chef. I already had Burning My Fingers In Boston on my list, but found two more I liked.
One Toque Over The Line Despite the apparent in ability to create a paragraph, the rants here are very [...]
Read ->Applesauce
Tue December 28th, 2004 at 1:55 pmCooking
Just a quick post to point out you can replace the honey in the 10 minute applesauce with Splenda and it works fine. Truth be told you could probably leave the sweetener out all together.
I’m starting a new diet and trying to eat better. This will be the first time I’ve done a diet while [...]
Read ->Tomato Sauce
Wed December 22nd, 2004 at 1:23 pmCooking
Last night I made my first tomato sauce from scratch. Good Eats sometime last week was the pantry episode, and I’d bought the makings of mire poix a while back, but never made it.
I’m not posting a detailed recipe because I just kind of made it from memory of the show and what I had [...]
Read ->Chill The Dough
Mon December 20th, 2004 at 3:35 pmCooking
Made Chewy Chocolate Chip cookie dough on Sunday and learned a valuable lesson. Chilling the dough is very important. Observe these two pictures.
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The picture on the top is when I cooked the cookies right after I made the dough. Very flat.
Picture on the bottom is when I cooked them after they had been in the [...]
Read ->Whole Wheat Pizza Dough
Sat December 18th, 2004 at 8:13 pmCooking
As promised here is my recipe for Whole Wheat Pizza Dough.
And I had two hours to spare on my promise to get it posted this week.
It doesn’t have everything in my ultimate recipe formula, but it is getting there. And I just spent a couple of hours futzing with CSS to give it its look. [...]
Read ->Honey Tip
Wed December 15th, 2004 at 7:28 amCooking
I made 10 Minute Applesauce last night and in the process learned a couple of things.
It takes me about 15 minutes to peel, core and quarter 6 apples.
1 tablespoon of honey weights about 20 grams.
Honey is a pain to measure because it is so sticky. But it’s easy if you use weight because you can [...]
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