Some folks love them and others would rather endure an ice bath in winter than eat leftovers. This should be an interesting discussion.
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Famous Family Story #1 – Aunt Shirley’s Holiday Cream Puffs
Dateline: Somewhere in the 1960’s My Aunt Shirley makes a few dozen of her legendary Cream Puffs for a holiday dinner she is hosting. She tents the several dozen puffs with aluminum foil and sets them on her kitchen counter to rest until dessert. My Uncle Bill arrives and surreptitiously reaches under the aluminum foil…
My Beloved Weber Q
If you’ve spent any time at the Chef Hacker Kitchen website or YouTube page you may know that I have an early model Ducane Grill that I absolutely love. I bought it in 1997 and I’ve been using it several times a week, winter and summer, for the last 25 plus years! But what I…
Your Server Will Not Be Right Over
I had lunch at a local diner yesterday. I’ve been there before. In fact, I’ve been there many times over a period of almost 30 years. On my first visit to the property I dined in a traditional looking diner car that may have served as the artist’s model for a Rockwell painting. Several years…
I AM a Chef AND I Play One On TV
Yes, that IS me being man-handled by Donnie Wahlberg in an episode of CBS’ TV show “Blue Bloods”. So how does something like this happen? Well, if you live in or near New York City and you want to be on Blue Bloods or several other NY area productions you can sign up with Central…