ChefBill's Profile
With Gourmet discontinued by Conde Nast, what's your favorite cooking mag?
delicious. Australian food magazine, packed with recipes and very little filler.
help: has anyone cooked Vitameal?
Saute carrots, onions, and celery add vitameal chicken stock, add s&p to taste.
It would take curry well - but would that work with the soup kitchen?
How to use a meat thermometer?
Here's a thermometer that always works: your lip (body temp is 98º). Cook the piece of meat for the appropriate amount of time (google it), insert a metal probe into the meat, wait 15 seconds, pull it out and put it against your lip: still cold? It isn't done yet. Just warm - nearly there. If it's hot, let it rest on a rack under foil for 5 - 10 mins then slice it up.
NOTE: Please do not use this one for a candy or deep fat frying solution.
Is it me or my meat thermometer?
Here's a thermometer that always works: your lip (body temp is 98º). Cook the piece of meat for the appropriate amount of time (google it), insert a metal probe into the meat, wait 15 seconds, pull it out and put it against your lip: still cold? It isn't done yet. Just warm - nearly there. If it's hot, let it rest on a rack under foil for 5 - 10 mins then slice it up.
Help Me Love My Le Creuset Grill Pan
Give up trying to love a pan... it will never love you back: no birthday hugs, forget it helping you through a difficult time in your life, it's just a tool, and use it as such.
Go with the kosher salt method, and remember, just because it say's it's preseasoned, doesn't mean you're off the hook, go ahead and season it again, and again, and again.
Cast Iron Seasoning Woes
1. clean pan.
2. heat pan.
3. add vegetable oil to a reasonable level in the pan.
4. heat to smoking
5. pour out smoking oil.
6. wipe to a thin layer allow to cool
7. heat
8 repeat steps 3 - 7 as many times as you'd like, four should do for the first time and then do it again whenever you remember. I have had similar issues using the oven :. eliminate the oven from the situation.
How do I sharpen a sharpening steel?
Clean using the towel and salt method or using a piece of butcher twine on a regular basis. Yes, dsheldt, if it has ridges it is a file, and yes if you have the patience of Job and correct technique you can technically sharpen a knife with a steel, or you could go for the whole hog and grab this puppy http://www.nortonstones.com/Data/Element/Node/ProductLine/Product_line_edit.asp?ele_ch_id=L0000000000000005644&Lang=US it is one of the finest sharpening systems out there, and then finish it off with the steel, which, although technically a file, should be used strictly for honing the edge.
Tacos Mexico Rico (Vancouver, Mexican Taco, Pictures)
A little known fact is breakfast is now served at Mexico Rico. Mexican eggs - scrambled with onions peppers and tomatoes, fresh cream and beans with a side of tortillas. $6.50 Dollar more for coffee.
Whats the best kind of mustard you've ever tried?
http://www.splendidpalate.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=POMMEA%2DMUSTARD%2DMEAUX&PhotoNumber=3#largerphoto
Whats the best kind of mustard you've ever tried?
Amen, Meaux Pommery Moutard is my absolute favourite.
best pizza in calgary?
I went for a pizza at Pucinella's this evening and it was nothing short of spectacular. Beautiful light airy crust, I found the sauce to be just right and had no need to ask for salt or pepper as others have, I had the Porcini pizza and to be fair mushrooms contain natural MSG so perhaps that helped the flavour out. Not a cheap pie, but a wonderful dining experience.
