The best diet out there , that allows you to eat AYTHING ,is the "cooks diet",other wise known as GRAZZING. I have been out of the kitchen for about 4 months...
After a lengthy European training back in the early '80's, where EVERYTHING was finished with whole butter and heavy cream, my goal in the '90's, was to take...
I am following Chef Tom on this one... I had written a good article a few months back talking about the diet fads that currently present themselves to not only...
I am a pastry chef. All my recipes contain whole butter and most contain heavy cream. Only some of my breads are lean. For example, I start my ice cream with...
HOLA guys and girls, Well I am helping out with a little get together with some friends and they would like to have some fruit cups done so I said I would do ...
Jeez Sean...your friends must like having you around as the food guru! Either go au natural with their own sweetness (get good fruit) or.... a squeeze of lime...
... Hey thanks to all who replied to my last questions was very interesting reading. Tom, Hey they just know I like to cook. I love this stuff. I this the...
... Sean...perfect...the kids will eat the fruit and the adults won't have to worry about them because they'll all be sleeping! Just kidding..... My only other...
I had to post this one since we had this thread on diets. A guy came in for breakfast yesterday and said that he had a weird request...I was the opening...
Now that my closing on my soon to be restaurant is approaching and I have gotten most of my permits, I am starting on revamping the menu. I have always...
As 3x the cost of food is a general rule, the menu mix must be considered. While a cup of soup might be charged 6x the cost, a hamburger might be 2.75x cost....
I just placed an Excel plate cost spreadsheet in the "Files" folder here in the group. Check it out...it is an easy spreadsheet to use and may help you out...
I am finding it hard to belive at the trouble I am having finding a line cooks position,or a sous position ! I am actually at the point of frustration,and when...
... I'm just going to put my 2cents in about looking for work. Here in this town that I live in, when I got here in 2001, with all the experience that I had in...
You are so right about chemistry,in this buisness! But being in NW IND. opttion's are limited,so naturally I have been going into chicago to look for work ,...
Hello all I hope everyone is doing well I was wondering can anyone tell me what is Masa Harina? Is that a type of flour? I found a recipe for fried chicken...
... Masa Harina is typically used for corn tortillas or for tamales. It's made with sun-dried or fire-dried corn kernels that have been cooked in limewater...
No, it's ground finer than cornmeal...it's a bit more coarse than all purpose flour. Tom Dinardo CEC CCA Executive Chef Hilton Garden Inn/ Gateway Conference...
The texture of masa harina its that of a flour. Only not as fine. It's used for making tamale masa, corn tortillas, gorditas, and I even use it for thickening...
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could you use polenta , if you were to break it down further,with a food proc. ? Sandra Mason <sjmason@...> wrote:The texture of masa harina its that...
Polenta is a mush made using cornmeal...instant polenta would just give you polenta. Masa flour/masa harina is unique and can't really be substituted. You can...
I ask because there is this pizza joint ,and they put there pizza dough in cormeal before forming it ,and it does have a great taste,,so I am wondering if I...
Corn meal on a pizza/dough is done to keep the pizza dough from sticking to the pan or the pizza peel when sliding the finished dough with sauce and toppings...
Well its time for me to go back to work, and each School year my boss will ask me to make some treats for a staff meeting. I had this idea of taking a cookie...