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Ratatouille – Brined Chicken – Digital Cooking Scale – Cook Books

March 9, 2010

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Brining Chicken – Chicken Roast a la Thomas Keller

March 8, 2010

Forget roasting bags to keep your birds from drying out when you want to roast them! Brine them in a salty liquid with spices, garlic and lemons for poultry before you roast it.  It works!
My post yesterday was telling you about brining a chicken. Last night I prepared the brine. Today I [...]

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Thomas Keller Roast Chicken-Chocolate Cake-David Lebovitz Website

March 7, 2010

Winter doesn’t want to retire:  around 6 cm of snow and -1C today.  The crocuses just started to peep up and now they’re all covered with snow.
Two books from Thomas Keller arrived last week: “Bouchon” and “Ad hoc at home“.  Demain, I’m going to make a roast chicken a la Thomas Keller.
Simple?  Normally yes, but [...]

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Passport Office – iPhone – Crocs – Mussels for Dinner – Death of a Department Store

March 5, 2010

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Winter – Vino Cheapo – Beautiful Sky – Travel

March 3, 2010

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Dentist – Celery – Just a Bad Day

March 3, 2010

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First Anniversary – Alain Ducasse Chicken with Citrus Fruit and Couscous

February 27, 2010

It has been such a beautiful day:  11 Celsius and Spring is in the air. We’ve had a difficult winter this year. CNN said it was a 60 year cycle that affected the polar jet stream and allowed lots of cold arctic air to cover the northern hemisphere affecting North America, Europe and [...]

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Under the Weather – Chef Knives – Brownies

February 27, 2010

I‘m not feeling 100% today so I’ll keep this shorter than usual.
Chef Knives
Since we’ve canceled the Berti Knife order, we wrote to Berti in Italy but they haven’t replied. I’m not sure if they want the sale or not. So I’m looking at alternative knives. I found this knife: http://www.japanesechefsknife.com/HDSeries.html
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David Lebovitz, our Local Butcher, and German Cuisine

February 25, 2010

Nothing much going on today except my seven weekly trip to the hair dresser, the “coiffeuse” in Landstuhl.
I do not like hair dressers, or waiting rooms, until …
I’m almost finished Michael Booth  ”Sacre Cordon Bleu” with not enough pages left to read to kill my time at  the “salon”.    So I took my next [...]

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American Burgers on the Grill – Dark Brownies with Pecan Nuts Recipe – Pulled Muscle

February 24, 2010

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