Posted in Christmas, French, Recipe, Recipes, baking, chestnuts, cognac, cream, custard, dessert, easy, holiday, nuts, pastry, pie, sugar, vanilla on Jan 15th, 2008
During the cook-a-thon that was the weekend before Christmas, in which my wife and I got our first real glimpse of just how hard professional chefs have to work, I turned out something of a rarity for me, and thus far, unique to this blog - a dessert. Touring the food blogosphere (hmm, starting to […]
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Posted in Christmas, Food Network, Recipe, Recipes, alcoholic drink, cinnamon, drink, food, ginger ale, holiday on Dec 28th, 2007
Although we are still recovering from our 14-hour cooking fest that was Christmas Eve, we had an absolute blast and were proud of ourselves for successfully producing 6 courses for 11 people. It was EXHAUSTING, make no friggin’ mistake. We cooked from about noon till 7PM on Sunday and from 10AM till 5 on Christmas […]
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**picture from http://feastofthesevenfishes.com/
So, this Christmas we decided to take the lead and cook for all 11 people at my parent’s house this year. Are we crazy? Making a mistake? Time will tell, folks! We’ll let you know how it went on the 26th! We are even bucking tradition by not cooking my […]
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