Recent content by chefsdreams

oh man, you're killing me with these shots! what a daily walk. wow. you're reminding me of a time in my life that i road in a bus along the pacific coast highway in southern california. there was a stretch that ran right along the beach. and riding home in the evening the only thing to see out...

all the vets around here are saying this year is gonna be one for the record books. lots of rain, unseasonably warm, big temperature shifts. i too have been hopelessly looking for something to deal with both fleas and ticks. i remember somebody else recommending Avon. i'll go and do some more...

Sumi, you remind me of something i heard on the cooking show "Jacques Pepin". he told a story about his father and how he didn't like to throw anything away. Jacques said that if his father ever had to throw out a piece of stale old bread, he would "kiss it goodbye". Then Jacques added in a...

I was gonna write about how i used an old egg carton to grow some herbs for the kitchen window sill. but, as usual, i see the things you guys do and i feel a little inadequate. . . (just kidding). it isn't only the things that get built, but the creativity! (with the possible exception of...

as a chef, allow me to suggest that if you are inviting a chef over to comment on his cooking, you first hide the knives! :D how you cook your onions is a very particular thing. good luck. your soup does look pretty yummy tho.

say hi to your mom for me. . . fellow traveler :\ biofeedback is an excellent technique. works for stress relief and other ailments. i have achieved yogi / guru status with this technique. my darling wife is just like you - she says "ow! i've got a terrible headache!" so she takes an aspirin...

i have gotten serious migrane headaches most of my adult life. i have tried everything from water to voodoo! so, i'm game for anything non-narcotic. i will try this on the next crusher. . . shouldn't be too long now. :( but some of the ideas in this thread are intriguing... gonna try several...

preserve eggs, chicken/turkey stock! man i learn something every time i come here. really. you guys are great! i can not even use store bought stock any more. seriously. :eek: i have been working on dashi lately.

that french onion soup looks fantastic! topped with gruyere... :drool oh man, i had forgotten how much i really like french onion soup.

all this talk of fishing has stirred up some old memories. this post may get a bit long, so i apologize. but i want to tell you a tall tale about fishing. when i was young and growing up in ohio, we'd fish mostly farm ponds for bluegill and bass. there were the worm bait guys and the artificial...

Arkansas... reminds me of the time my brother took me on a trip floating down the buffalo river. that was a really magical adventure. we floated and fished and camped. we caught small mouth bass. his girlfriend at the time was choctaw and she brought us to her granny's house for dinner. that...

i seem to have drawn us way off topic here. could we please go back to talking about pies? preferably blackberry? and ice cream? preferably home made? :drool :drool :drool

@sumi Hah, Hah! too funny. . . because it's true. trust me :( can i ask: 'where is the 'veld'?

i think i shared with y'all that my son is a wilderness ranger in the sierra nevada mtns. every year i visit him and we hike into the high country and he takes me to new places to fish. his girlfriend comes along when she can. and i learned very early on not to tease and just be grateful for...

i was looking at alternate power sources some time ago and came across this company from chicago that was beta test ing a new product. it had a couple of unique (at that time) features. first, the pvc was embedded into a gel, rather than laid flat. this had the benefit of dramatically increasing...