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General cooking tips and rumination

Noël 2017

Ingredient

2 sweet potatoes
1/8 cup crème fraîche
2 tbsp maple syrup
2 tbsp chipotles sauces Lucito
1 tsp ground cinnamon
Paprika ground
Salt

Preparation

1. Place potatoes pricking the potato with a fork allows steam to escape during the cooking process.
2. Put microwave oven. Place potatoes on large baking sheet the potato, bake until soft, 7 to 10 minutes.
3. Put wrapping in aluminium foil potatoes.
3. Meanwhile, combite maple, crème fraîche, chipotles sauces, cinnamon and salt in a small bowl. Whisp until smooth.
4. When potatoes are tender, remove from oven, slice in 1/5 skin. Bake their potatoes and then scoop out the interior, leaving the skin as a shell.
5. This mixture is then spooned back into the skin shells and they are replaced in the oven to warm through.
6. Paprika.

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Lee Valley: 27W02.12

This rasp has been the subject of articles in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), and dozens of other newspapers. It can be seen regularly on TV cooking shows and is enthusiastically praised by leading chefs. For a tool that started life as a lowly wood rasp, this is high living.

Fame in the food world came about when a Lee Valley woodworker’s wife discovered that her husband’s new wood rasp would zest oranges. This discovery rapidly led to expanded uses such as zesting lemons, grating nuts and ginger, reducing a clove of garlic to near liquid in seconds, etc.

The single most spectacular and practical use was with hard cheese for use on pasta or in salads. Because it actually cuts the cheese into gossamer-thin shavings rather than grating it into small chunks, it is possible to use much less cheese for equivalent flavor impact when compared with grated cheese. Rasp is stainless steel, 12″ long.

All of this utility has been enhanced by our patented design of a stainless-steel base that makes the rasp easier to hold and also contains the zested material.

Rasp made in USA, zester holder made in Canada.

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Measures for Pans and Dishes
InchesCentimeters
9 by 13 inches baking dish22 by 33 centimeter baking dish
8 by 8 inches baking dish20 by 20 centimeter baking dish
9 by 5 inches loaf pan (8 cups in capacity)23 by 12 centimeter loaf pan (2 liters in capacity)
10 inch tart or cake pan25 centimeter tart or cake pan
9 inch cake pan22 centimeter cake pan

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OXO: # 23081V2

Overview

The OXO Good Grips Mini Santoku Knife functions like a Santoku with the ease of a parer and is perfect for chopping, dicing and mincing herbs and vegetables. The sharp, stainless steel blades glides easily through foods and the soft, non-slip handle is shaped for a comfortable grip that won’t slip, even when wet.

Features & Benefits

  1. The 4″ Santoku Knife is an Asian-style chef’s knife with blade indentations to reduce drag during chopping and mincing
  2. Fully forged blade, bolster and tang for superior balance, strength and durability
  3. German stainless steel with high carbon content for lasting sharpness and edge retention
  4. Contoured handle provides optimal control while chopping, cutting or slicing
  5. Curved bolster supports thumb and forefinger for a comfortable, chef’s style grip

Dimensions: 9″ x 1.75″ x 1″
Weight: 3 oz.

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New Year 2018

Ingredient

9 giant shrimp
3 cloves garlic
1 sweet potato
2 zucchini
Curry
Olive oil

Preparation

1. Zucchinis 4 cut lengthwise.
2. Sweet potato cut rounds of thickness.
3. Garlic chopped.
4. Giant shrimp towels.
5. Sweet potato, olive oil fried skillet.
6. Zucchini, olive oil fried skillet.
7. Giant shrimp, olive oil fried wok.

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Oven Temperature Conversions
FahrenheitCelsiusGas Mark
275F140CGas Mark 1 – Cool
300F150CGas Mark 2
325F165CGas Mark 3 - Very Moderate
350F180CGas Mark 4 – Moderate
375F190CGas Mark 5
400F200CGas Mark 6 - Moderately Hot
425F220CGas Mark 7 - Hot
450F230CGas Mark 9
475F240CGas Mark 10 - Very Hot

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Lee Valley: EV149

The broad, flat side of these bowls makes collecting ingredients directly from a cutting board a snap. The bevelled edge rests flush on the cutting board to ensure ingredients go into the bowl, not under the lip, and you can use one of the corners as a pouring spout.

Comes as a set of three nesting bowls (1/2 cup, 1 cup and 2 cups) with Imperial and metric graduations marked on the inside. Made of hard ABS plastic, they are BPA free and dishwasher safe in the top rack. Not microwaveable. A practical improvement over regular prep bowls.

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Ratios for Selected Foods
MeasureEquivalents
Butter
1 stick4 oz = 113 grams8 tbs1/2 cup
4 sticks16 oz = 452 grams32 tbs2 cups
Lemon
1 lemon1 to 3 tbs juice, 1 to 1? tsp grated zest
4 large lemons1 cup juice1/4 cup grated zest
Chocolate
1 oz1/4 cup grated = 40 grams
6 oz chips1 cup chips = 160 grams
cocoa powder1 cup = 115 grams
Creams
Half and Half1/2 Milk 1/2 Cream10.5-18% Butterfat
Light Cream18% Butterfat
Light Whipping Cream26-30% Butterfat
Heavy creamWhipping Cream36% or More Butterfat
Double CreamExtra-Thick Double Cream,
Clotted or Devonshire
42% Butterfat

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