No Knead Bread!!!
If you can recall, there is a limited amount of bread and pastry making on Top Chef. It is not that we do not enjoy eating, using, and cooking them of course. Quite honestly, there isn’t really time to bake bread. But, of course, I serve it in my restaurant. I LOVE bread. The biggest problem I see with baking bread at home is the kneading, the proofing, the waiting. I like the idea of wanting fresh baked bread and actually getting to eat it in the next couple of hours. …Read on…
Old Family Recipes
Is it me? Or did this past week’s show play a love/hate role with me? I was on the edge of my seat and I know what happens! At the end, I couldn’t tell what in the hell was about to transpire. The chef’s families commenting and the judges in love with everything as if they were at a war time peace rally- or better yet, Woodstock! The chef’s have come a long way, and they are actually looking pretty good mentally healthy and ready for anything. Too much love and not enough competing! Though I am proud of the way they support one another and want each other to succeed. That is the way I would want it to be if I were still in the competition. But, secretly, aren’t you waiting for that very moment when one of them is going to snap?? …Read on…