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| bio | website | google.com/profiles/… |
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| location | London, United Kingdom | |
| age | 30 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 8 months |
| seen | 9 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 92 |
I love to cook and I love good quality food and drink. In particular red wine, cheese and good cake.
I'm just about up on US/UK food translation as I lived in Chicago for a while, but still find it interesting that there is such a gulf in how we cook.
Away from the kitchen I'm an IT project manager who loves to read and thinks ice hockey and rugby are awesome.
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May 10 |
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Why add breadcrumbs to meatballs? I agree with the above but wanted to add I prefer the taste too, without bread i find it's too meaty and I can only eat one or two. With bread I'd have maybe 5 with my spaghetti. |
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Mar 20 |
answered | Coloring colored ice-cream |
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Mar 19 |
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how to stretch white chocolate to make truffles? @LysineNation You say you want to make "softer, more luscious truffles" you've been told how (with cream) yet you're insisting on the answer being sugar margarine and oil which will make exactly what you say you don't want "fatty white-chocolate". And there is no such thing as REAL white chocolate, there is high quality white chocolate, which I assume is what you have, but it's sill mainly just fat and sugar which has been carefully mixed to taste. If you want to ruin that by adding fat and sugar it won't taste as nice. |
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Mar 18 |
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Pepper mill - which color and length? Only thing I would add is that for salt make sure the grinding parts are not metallic. Even stainless steel I've found rusted. Quite a few sets have one with plastic grinder for salt another for pepper. Plus the fact that the long ones are only really for showing off or where you'd have to refill any other length 10 times a night. |
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Mar 8 |
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Is there a different fruit very similar to oranges? The main small orange hybrids are Satsuma, Mandarin, Tangerine and Clementine. The full list is here, you might have more luck translating if you start with the scientific name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus#Hybrids_and_cultivars |
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Mar 4 |
answered | How to recognize that a hard cheese is mouldy? |
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Feb 25 |
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What causes chicken fat on the surface of soup, and does it add flavor to the dish? Removing skin and visible fat from chicken before making broth cuts down the work to get fat back out. Skin doesn't have much flavor and is best removed unless it's crispy. |
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Feb 4 |
answered | Why add pasta water to pasta sauce? |
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Jan 31 |
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How can I make my bread pudding firmer? What sort of bread pudding, there are a few types. That have completely different methods. |
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Jan 25 |
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How to thicken bleu cheese dressing? add punctuation |
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Jan 25 |
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Seasoning Chili for Young Children My mum did 1. when we were kids. She added the spices that are for flavor rather than heat then divided 1/3 off for the children and made the rest spicy. We then as we got older mixed the two to make a medium one until we all wanted the hot. |
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Jan 25 |
answered | How to thicken bleu cheese dressing? |
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Jan 24 |
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what happens when one mixes flour into batter? added 121 characters in body |
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Jan 24 |
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what happens when one mixes flour into batter? Is this another American/British thing? Batter to me in the UK doesn't have any (significant) fat in as @slim said pancake, waffle, yorkshire pudding, or batter for deep-frying. Cake before it's baked I'd call cake mixture..... The much higher viscosity and the fat means that the flour can be folded into these without clumping. |
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Jan 24 |
answered | Kosher salt vs. Table salt for rib eye steak |
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Jan 24 |
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what happens when one mixes flour into batter? I know this isn't as interesting as SAJ14SAJ's answer and isn't really looking at the science but there isn't really an issue if you do the whole thing the other way around. |
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Jan 24 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Jan 24 |
awarded | Informed |
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Jan 24 |
answered | what happens when one mixes flour into batter? |
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Jan 19 |
answered | Alcohol-optional desserts? |
