Archive for June 2015
Home Food Delivered to you! From dishful.co">Home Food Delivered to you! From dishful.co
We're dishful.co A young experiment based in Palo Alto, CA, aimed at connecting home chefs to people who want to eat home cooked food. We hope to bring variety, convenience and more healthful choices to people everywhere. If you're interested in participating in this new community, visit dishful.co Read more
Dosa batter for the masses!">Dosa batter for the masses!
I have started making dosa on a large scale and am finding it tricky keeping up with the workload! I use a lovely 2 litre capacity tilting stone wet grinder but this takes about 2 hours to make dosa batter to serve 50 people. I am hoping to start serving Dosas for...
Read moreCooking Rice for 80">Cooking Rice for 80
I have a pretty nifty Buffalo Electric Rice Cooker that is designed to cook rice for 50 (though it often stretches to 80 odd servings). Every time I use it I have noticed that the top third's rice is divine, the second third is a bit compacted and the last third...
Read morechocolate ganache mixed with zabaglione">chocolate ganache mixed with zabaglione
As babette says, the ganache would not be hot enough, long enough, to cook the zabaione. Zaibaione can be served cold, as is. If you want to make crema di zabaione (as babette says with whipped cream or mascarpone), you do not need to stabilize the zabaione. Just make it, cool...
Read moreWedding Cake Ideas involving Passion Fruit?">Wedding Cake Ideas involving Passion Fruit?
So I was asked by my close friend to do the cake for her wedding. To avoid having to deal with what seems like it could be an architectural nightmare if I do a traditional tiered cake (which I've never done, and the dowels, etc., scare me), we decided we...
Read moreMcDonald’s Flirts with Flavored Coffees
via BurgerBusiness McDonald’s is looking at flavored McCafé hot coffee in its hunt for incremental customer traffic. The burger chain has served flavored iced McCafé coffees since 2007, a year after it introduced its Premium Roast coffee, and it offers French Vanilla and Hazelnut flavors in the bagged coffee it...
Read morewhat a beautiful dish it is !">what a beautiful dish it is !
i am a learner of cooking and really love delicious and healthy food .i want cook for my friends and my family . in my mind a good chef sometimes is a good artist as well ... Reading More May Cause Envy...
Read moreDual fuel range">Dual fuel range
Any thoughts on pro style dual fuel ranges. Have a Dacor and the temperature variation in the oven is +/- 50 degrees. Wife has nearly given up baking. Don't need or want lots of bells and whistles. In fact, the less electronics the better. Low simmer capable burners are a...
Read moremixing chocolate ganache with zabaglione together? ?">mixing chocolate ganache with zabaglione together? ?
I make a baked custard with 500ml thickened cream, 6 eggs or 12 egg yolks and a cup of sugar I heat up the cream and whip the eggs and sugar together and mix the cream with the eggs then I bake it for 45min I was wondering if I...
Read moreGranola Bars using Homemade Granola">Granola Bars using Homemade Granola
I have a recipe for homemade granola that is easy and delicious. Every time I eat it for breakfast with yogurt or milk, I think about how good it would be if packed into bar form (because, let's face it, the dairy products are just a nutritious conduit--all I really...
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I love food. Unfortunately, I can't cook worth a damn. I've been known to even burn water.
When I watch chefs and good cooks on tv, I'm so envious of their skills. This blog is the closest I get to cooking, other than the microwave ;)
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John, New Englander turned Cali dude