What does not not kill you, only lets you marinate that much longer.....

My Pastry Chef made this for a friend of mine's boyfriend......it is a butter cake....Julia Child would be proud.

 

 

Show plates to impress a client.....we got the account.

 

 

part of the grain bar we do...

Lobster Bisque in Shot Glasses...I am nutters for using shot glasses ...everything is better in a shot glass

Making Spatzel

With a Squirt Bottle

Smokey Gazpacho with Creme Fraiche and Sourdough Cruton...mmmmm

More and More and More FOOOOOOD PORNNNNN!!!

Kosher Turkey with roasted peaches and cranberry glaze

Smoked Salmon Platters...mmmmmm

This actually looks and tastes amazing...though not so here...

Chicken Florentine with herb wild rice blend pilaf and butternut squash with wild flower honey and butter.

Paul being silly....as usual!

Bittersweet Chocolate Wafer Cake...i still have some in my fridge.

Seafood Cerviche in English Cucumber Cups

Lemon Meringue Tart Bits

Trio of desserts>Black Forest Terrine, Fresh Peach and Almond Tart and Fresh Berry Trifle

Turkish Salad Mix

Dinner Menu

It's still fall and it has snowed already.

close up of delish cake

 

More Food Songs...cause i have a memory that comes and goes.

Tart Tart
Judge Fudge>>>>>Happy Mondays
Jellybean


Candy> Morphine
Fried Chicken> Ice -T
I want a little sugar in my bowl> Nina Simone
Honey> Moby
Orange Crush> REM
White Chocolate Space Egg - Liz Phair
Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos
Constant Craving - k.d. lang

 

Pills, Thrills and many Bellyaches later.........

Step by step of me making Butternut Squash,Sage and Roasted Shallot Raviolis in Brown Butter

And the finished product...for a wedding


If you have the time...do them this way. So easy and soooooo yummy

I should have been a pastry chef like all little girls want to be

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/fbh/1402551779.html


job posting was brought to my attention by a friend.

why don't the Germans need a highly educated female chef to teach them how to cook american comfort food?
because they don't want to get chubby probably.....lol

Though I am not sure Europe is ready for a 1/2 breed of American traditional food done the way I like to do it( not with the traditional twist bullshit but better with multicultural influences and "styles"...whatever that Rachael Ray word means..) Hell I am still trying to figure out what  I mean by that.....

They shoot horses don't they....

So Conde made the great descision to close the doors on one of the few food magazines that is ,while a bit pretenious, is a rather good read. There are really only a few food magazines:
Food and Wine
Bon Appetite
Saveur
Cooks

That are any good, though i dare say Bon is a housewives wet dream for cooking better, Food and Wine for people looking to seem they know what they are talking about when it comes to food, Saveur  and Cooks are the ones i do like because of the tone of magazines.

Gourmet is sort of like Vogue for cooks... a bit flashie, showie and some of the articles probably even make Jacques Pepin shake his head.

But to close it after all these years....shameful. Pick on some other crap magazine CONDE...you own enough of them...like ...Bon Appetite!!!! and Teen Vogue...lol


What will probably come of this is some "chef" will think they have brillant ideas that need to be heard by the masses and will try to start their own magazine....


.......huh, not a half bad idea;)

I wonder what kind of sauce goes with a rainbow?

Had an Idea to gather all the songs i knew that had food or were food related in the title.

All I have is EAT IT....must think about this more.

ok, so here we go:

Eat for Two: 10,000 Maniacs

Sushi Bar : Shonen Knife

Mayonnaise: Smashing Pumpkins

Quiche Lorraine: B 52's

Hot Cakes: Carley Simon

Egg Man: Beastie Boys

The Egss of Satan: Tool

Spam: Monty Python

Pulling mussles from a shell" -Squeeze

Soup is Good Food- Dead Kennedys

Satan Gave me a Taco- Beck

Chicken- The Cramps

Pork Soda- Primus

 Chocolate Jesus- Tom Waits

Hot Sauce- Thomas Dolby

Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard

Peaches-Stranglers

Lemon" - U2

Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles

"Raspberry Beret - Prince

Cinnamon Girl" - Neil Young

I want Candy- Bow Wow Wow

American Pie Don McLean

Brown Sugar The Rolling Stones

thats all i got right now as I am very tired and need to sleep some before work....