Your favorite hot cocoa recipe
With winter approaching, I have an urge to get the perfect cup of hot cocoa. Swiss Miss won't cut it. I want something with real chocolate flavor and creamy texture. What's your recipe?
Golden syrup ginger cake
When I lived at home, it was probably chicken baked with wild rice, since my mom wasn't the greatest of cooks, but that she could manage alright.
White pepper doesn't taste the same as black pepper. It's a much more harsh and unpleasant flavor. All the old French guys use it (solely for appearance reasons), but I don't know any capable younger chefs who would even touch the stuff. It's gross.
The first cookbook I cooked out of was a thick spiral-bound, cover-less tome that my mom had had for years. No idea what it was actually called, but I used this from a very young age, mostly to bake a variety of cookies. That was by far the extent of my cooking abilities during my teenage years.
You're absolutely right...about bacon being "cliche and passé." As much as I enjoy bacon, the complete obsession so many "foodies" have for it is utterly tiresome.
While I usually enjoy reading SE, I grow weary of reading ridiculous posts that "make the cut" only because bacon is somehow involved (like this prime example).
Frankly, it's just not clever anymore. And it certainly hasn't just come about in 2008, which makes this post even more ridiculous. Yes, we all enjoy eating bacon and it can be used in infinite ways, but it's absurd to giggle like a six-year-old at the mere mention of it.
I can't believe it! My million dollar idea has been stolen from me!
My dad isn't a cook by any stretch. But I grew up practically living off of his iced tea. I still can't make it like he does.
A year or so out of culinary school, I realized that I had never actually roasted a whole chicken. I pulled out the Bouchon recipe and the end result was perfection. In fact, I might suggest that there is no happier moment in a kitchen than pulling a perfect roast chicken out of the oven.
Business dinner, try Restaurant Alma. The chef (Alex Roberts) was nominated for a James Beard award this year and puts out some incredible food, but in a casual atmosphere.
Unfortunately, I don't really have much for first-hand breakfast recommendations.
Heston Blumenthal's bacon-and-egg ice cream blew my mind! Loved it!
I'll braise anything and everything.
Actually, one of JGV's noddle dishes: shrimp with garlic, chile and star anise.
With winter approaching, I have an urge to get the perfect cup of hot cocoa. Swiss Miss won't cut it. I want something with real chocolate flavor and creamy texture. What's your recipe?
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