Cal and Christa DeMercurioAs I watched Chef Husband prepare our Chef Salads last night, I learned a new trick that he said was old school. A quick way to prep the meat and cheese for the salad is …
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Boiling Eggs
Lots of lettuce on hand begs for the making of a big chef salad for dinner. Let’s “pick up some Thousand Island” turns into let’s “make some homemade Thousand Island.” Thus a big storage container …
Recipes Recipes Everywhere
Part of the end goal of this year is to go through all of Chef Husband’s (and a few of my own) recipes stashed here and there and everywhere, on recipe cards, in file folders, …
Boiling Bagels
Interestingly, I dove into a first stab at bagel making. I narrowed down my internet research to 3 recipes and ultimately chose the one that looked to take the least amount of time (i.e. hours …
Slurry vs Roux
Chef Husband is a master at making soup from scratch. He taught Soups, Stocks and Sauces at Shasta College for oodles of years and the necessity of developing a Soup du Jour on a daily …
Sunday Reading – Bagels
While I wait for the starter to ferment for making English Muffins (tonight I fed my “liquid levain” more four and water), I was curious about another breakfast bread, bagels. As I didn’t see anything …
Flour and Water
After painstakingly reading the Bouchon Bakery bread chapter, flip-flopping back and forth between which yeast bread to attempt first, we’ve landed on the English Muffin. Starting tonight, for the next four days, we begin the …
Simple Palate Cleanser
Tonight was our wine group gathering. Three couples, four courses, eight wines. Each couple brought the makings for a dinner course to pair with their wine selections. We started off the evening with some bubbly …
