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The Starter’s Kitchen – Part 1

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The Starter's Kitchen

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The Starter’s Kitchen – Part 1

Some months ago I read an article somewhere that supposedly posted the definite list of items that you need to start a kitchen, and another one for cooks who are experts to upgrade their equipment. The list missed a lot of the basic essentials that I think most people should have at home, even those who do not do much cooking. A lot of the items on the basic list I had read were also superfluous, at least for most people who are starting up. Of course it all depends on personal choice, what type of cooking you prefer doing, and how much you are into cooking.

I personally tend to move from one extreme to another in what I use in the kitchen, from using a few basic tools for everything, to using specific tools for specific tasks. It all depends on my mood of the moment, and probably the phase of the moon too. These days I have been paying more attention to what I use daily in the kitchen, and I noticed that the basic tools that I employ the most are not very numerous. Everybody has their preferences, so what I say here should be taken with a grain of salt, as I am sure a lot of people out there could not life without their preferred gadgets or kitchen tools. The following list highlights the basic essentials that everybody interested in cooking should have in their kitchen, and it is based on my own experience. In subsequent posts I will list other items that I think should form the basis of a good kitchen. At a later date I will expand on each item on the various lists to explain my personal preferences.

Basic Essentials (Kitchen)

  • Solid smooth-bladed 8″ chef’s knife
  • 3″ smooth-bladed paring knife
  • Meat fork
  • Sharpening stone (or sharpening gadget that actually works)
  • Sharpening steel
  • Serrated blade bread knife
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Box grater
  • Manual can and bottle opener
  • 3 large kitchen spoons
  • Soup ladle
  • Slotted spoon
  • Potato masher
  • Metal spatula
  • Bamboo spatula
  • Plastic spatula
  • 3 X silicone rubber spatulas of various sizes
  • 2 X 2 cup measuring cups
  • 4 cup or larger measuring cup
  • Set of small measuring cups
  • Set of measuring spoons
  • Corkscrew
  • Wire whisk
  • Ice cream scoop
  • Lemon press
  • Colander
  • Meat tenderizer
  • Set 3 piece strainer
  • Salad spinner
  • Tongs
  • Synthetic prep cutting board
  • 2 x potholder

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Short Introduction

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Short Introduction

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Short Introduction

I have been deeply involved with food since my childhood. I remember, when I was 4-5 years old, sitting in my grandmother’s kitchen while she was cooking, and helping her in making cookies and other treats. Our family was from a small village on the Laurentian Mountains north of Montreal, Quebec, and, as with any good French family, food was an important part of our lives. I lived in Montreal with my parents and every weekend we would take the trip “Up-North” to my grandparent’s house and stay with them. You could get in the house, via the kitchen, at any hour of the day or night, and there would be something cooking on the stove or in the oven, and some industrial quantities of freshly prepared food in the refrigerator. I remember, when I was in my late teens, stopping at their place in the middle of the night after the clubs closed, and there was always a freshly baked ham in the refrigerator or some thick stew or soup slowly simmering on the stove. We would dig-in without waking up anyone and fill ourselves with great food before going out again for more revelry.

After my early childhood in my grandmother’s kitchen, my interest for cooking became more formal. In my early teens my mother was taking cooking lessons from one of the best French chefs in Montreal, and when she was returning home I would pour over her lessons and prepare the newly-learned recipes with her. By the time I was at university I was taking regular night classes in various forms of cooking, including many years of traditional Chinese cooking. From then on cooking and later wine became my passions and I have been involved professionally as a food consultant and wine buyer since the mid-eighties as one of my many business endeavors.

I lived in Quebec through my early twenties until I graduated from university, I then moved to Northern Ontario where I worked in private practice. I was involved with 3 careers through the eighties, first as a dentist, second as a food and wine consultant, and third as a computer consultant. By the early nineties I abandoned the first career completely to dedicate myself primarily to the computer business. I have been involved with numerous IT startups since then, and also consulting on IT and the food/wine business. All of this while traveling the world for both pleasure and business.

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Fruit Cake

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Fruit Cake

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Fruit Cake

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Fruit Cake

Fruit cake made with soaked unsweetened dried fruit. A festive, flavorful, and moist fruit cake to enjoy all holiday season. This family recipe will make you a fruit cake convert. A traditional moist fruit cake made with brandy soaked dried fruit, and candied ginger. The best fruit cake recipe you’ll ever make. It turns cynics into converts. This fruit cake recipe yields two loaves cakes.

Ingredient

1/4 cup Dried Peaches
1/4 cup Dried Apricots
1/4 cup Dried Pears
1/4 cup Dried Dark Raisins
1/4 cup Dried Candied Ginger
1/4 cup Dried Dried Fig
1/4 cup Dried Cherry
3/4 cup Walnuts
1 cup Brandy
2 cup Flour
1 tbsp Baking Powder
1 tbsp Baking Soda
2 tbsp Nutmeg
2 tbsp Cinnamon
2 tbsp Ginger
3/4 cup Olive Extra Virgin Oil
2 Eggs
2 tbsp Vanilla Extract
2 tbsp Maple Syrup
2 tbsp Honey
2 Apple Sauce
6 Maraschino Cherry
Syringe 1 ml
Brandy

Preparation

  • 1. Chopped Dried Fruits
  • 2. In a bowl, stir together the fruits, walnuts, and brandy.
  • 3. Cover and let soak for at least 4 hours or up to 24 hours, stirring a few times during the soak.
  • 4. Aluminum foil two loaves cakes.
  • 5. Preheat the oven to 300F.
  • 6. In a bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, spice, baking powder. Set aside.
  • 7. In a bowl, whisk together the olive extra virgin oil, vanilla extract, maple syrup, honey, apple sauce, eggs. Set aside.
  • 8. Bowl olive and dried fruits, whisk together.
  • 9. Bowl olive, dried fruits, and flour, whisk together.
  • 10. Divide the batter evenly among the two baking pans.
  • 11. Bake for 2 hours or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
  • 12. Let the cakes cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
  • 13. Run a knife around the cake to release it from the edges.
  • 14. Remove and place them on a cooling rack.
  • 15. Aluminum foil two loaves cakes.
  • 15. Generously syringe of the cakes with brandy.
  • 16. Maraschino Cherry.
  • 17. Aluminum foil for wrapping fruit cake.
  • 18. Store the cakes for up to 8 weeks.

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Food Culture (Mexico City 2006)

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Food Culture

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Food Culture

I have been reminded many times recently on the vast contrasts between population with and without food culture. The easiest definition of what is food culture, in my mind, is that populations or people who have food culture live to eat, and those who don’t eat to live. Reduce to its bare essentials this is the simplest definition.

Generally in the northern parts of North America, meaning Canada and the US, the majority of the people do not live to eat, they generally eat to live, thus the great popularity of fast food. The French influence in Quebec is prevalent, though it is moderated by the North American influence, thus the food culture is not uniformly distributed in all the population.

The current climate in North America that is dominated by gourmet food and all of those food channels on TV is not real food culture, as it is a recent fad, and like all fads it will probably fade in the long term. There is also an elitist aspect to that fad that is not part of what I consider food culture. The good thing with such fads is that it may penetrate part of the population and in the long term help establish food culture in some groups of the population.

Our recent trip to Veracruz reminded me of the prevalence of food in my life, and what I consider the tenets of food culture. Like in most regions of Mexico the general population has a much closer relationship with food than elsewhere in North America. It is a cultural thing and people of all classes take their time to eat and enjoy it, and food is an essential part of appreciating daily life.

You see it in the town as people goes out to eat in the middle of the day, and take the time to enjoy the food and relax while eating it. A lot of offices have a 2 hour lunch time, since people like to take the time to enjoy their food. While we were visiting Veracruz we went to various places where the locals congregate to enjoy specialties at various times of the day. On one morning we went to Las Anitas, a little place in the industrial neighborhood that specializes in “Gorditas” and “Picaditas”. We went a little late for breakfast but the place was still crowded and people were eating like there was no tomorrow. On the way out of town we stopped for breakfast at Las Farolitos which was completely full in the middle of the morning, and which specializes in “Tamales De Elote” and other local specialties.

We went to a few seafood restaurants that were both excellent and relatively cheap for the type of meal we could get there. We were in town only for a few days so we did not have a chance to drive a little bit out of the town and visit little fishing villages where supremely good fresh seafood cost less than a fast food meal. We will definitely go back there to visit as the both the food and the people are great and the atmosphere is inviting and relaxing.

Even in Mexico City you see it in the outdoor markets where the food vendors are full of client from early morning to the end of the day, and you can barely move when it is lunch time. On Sunday morning everybody goes out to eat with the family and everywhere from nice restaurants to street vendors are full of clients. The same is true in the evenings where everybody goes out for an evening snack, and itinerant vendors shout their wares even in residential neighborhoods. From “Tamales” to “Sweet Breads”, to “Camotes”, everybody comes out to grab something to eat.

There is a complete obsession for food at all levels of society and traditional food are still king, and the penetration of most fast food place is not as great as other places due to a rich food culture that is shared by everybody. Of course the convenience of fast food is very attractive for the busy families, but a lot of people are more inclined in eating at local fast food concessions, thus in a way the food culture is still prevalent and tied to the local culture.

I will come back to the subject in the coming weeks, and drop me a note in the comments or via email on what is your relationship with food in your neck of the world and how does it compare to the local population.

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Pork Tenderloin Asian Nectarines and Cambray Onion Lucito (December 2017)

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Pork Tenderloin

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Pork Tenderloin

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Pork Tenderloin

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Ingredients

1 1/2 to 2 pounds pork tenderloin
6 nectarines, quartered and pitted
10 cambray onion
3 tbs Tequila
2 tbs Hoisin sauce
2 tbs soy sauce
2 tbs sesame oil
2 tbs grated ginger
2 cloves garlic
3 tbs roasted sesame seed

Preparation

1. In a small bowl, combine nectarines, cambray onion. Tequila, Hoisin sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger, garlic and roasted sesame seed.
2. Cut pork 1/2 lenght.
3. Place pork tenderloin in medium casserrole dish.
4. Coat with marinade. Cover casserolle dish with plastic wrap. Refrigated at least 2 hours.
5. Preheat oven to 400F (205C).
6. Remove pork, cambray onion and peaches from casserole dish. Retain marinade.
7. Place pork on oven rack over roasting pan.
8. Bake tenderloin 30 minutes, basting occasionally with reverved marinade.
9. Slice 1 inch thick to serve.

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Curriculum Vitae 2022

J. Luc Paquin 2022 – English & Español

Luc Paquin

Languages Spoken and Written: French, English and Spanish.

Citizenship: Canadian

Luc Paquin

https://www.jlpconsultants.com/luc/

English

https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPFoodWineCV2021Mk1c.pdf

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https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPComidaVinosCVMk2021b.pdf

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Lucito

Luc Paquin – Section 4

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Luc Paquin - Section 4

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Luc Paquin - Section 4

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Luc Paquin - Section 4

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My Philosophy

I started as a Gourmet, and over the years my love for the pleasures of good food and good drinks became bigger than my love of the rituals, rules and the complications normally associated with the Gourmet world. For the last 20 years I converted myself from a Gourmet to a Gourmand and I have been crusading worldwide to demystify and simplify the pleasures associated with good food and good drinks. My goal is to teach and help everyone who has an interest in good food and good drinks to appreciate this sensual subject. We have to remember that the pleasures of the table are the only ones that are essential for our survival as an individual. That is probably why that some consider them a sin!

Services Offered to the General Public

  • Introductory to advanced cooking classes and conferences
  • Introductory to advanced wine/spirits/beer classes and conferences
  • Introductory to advanced food and wine/spirits/beer matching classes
  • Wine/spirits/beer tastings
  • Food and wine/spirits/beer events for singles
  • Romantic food and wine/spirits/beer events for couples
  • Seminars on food/wine/spirits/beer/cigars/luxury items/etc… topics
  • Event planning and catering
  • Home kitchen design services
  • Wine cellar design services
  • Wine collection evaluation services
  • Wine investment consulting services
  • Motivational classes

Services Offered to the Food and Drink Industry

Sourcing Services

  • Fine wines from a variety of countries
  • Fine spirits from a variety of countries
  • Fine beers from a variety of countries
  • Non-perishable luxury/exotic food items
  • Cooking utensils and appliances
  • Fine tableware and crystal
  • Perishable luxury/exotic food items
  • Fine cigars
  • Other luxury items

IT services

  • Wine/Beer/Food/Cigar/Etc… education kiosks
  • Client reward programs
  • Branded cooking and other software
  • Food/Wine matching engine
  • Cutting edge web-portal
  • Cutting edge POS and management software
  • Multilingual food and wine blog

Consulting

  • Food and beverage business planning
  • Business plan analysis
  • Restaurant analysis and consulting
  • Menu analysis and preparation
  • Wine list analysis and preparation
  • Professional classes (cooking, food prep, sanitation, wine, spirits, beer, sommelier, etc…)
  • Staff motivation seminars
  • Event planning and catering
  • Restaurant design
  • Franchising
  • Software and IT consulting
  • Software POS and management solutions
  • Vineyard Weather Monitoring
  • Vineyard automation and machine learning grapevines
  • Wine and viticulture consulting
  • Commercial kitchen design services
  • Wine cellar design services
  • Wine collection and cellar evaluation services
  • Wine investment consulting services
  • Staff and restaurant certification programs

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J. Luc Paquin 2021 – English & Español

Luc Paquin

Languages Spoken and Written: French, English and Spanish.

Citizenship: Canadian

Luc Paquin

https://www.jlpconsultants.com/luc/

English

https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPFoodWineCV2021Mk1c.pdf

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https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPComidaVinosCVMk2021b.pdf

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Luc Paquin – Section 3

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Luc Paquin - Section 3

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Luc Paquin - Section 3

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Over a period of 39 years various investors wanted Luc to open some restaurants in England and Canada, but since he wanted to keep his independent status and creative control of the process, the negotiations with those various groups fell through. To this day Luc still has some plans along those lines, but in a simpler way based on the “Private Kitchen” concept that is popular in Honk Kong. In this way he will be able to concentrate on his restaurant due to the nature of the concept and also have time for his other interests. He is currently looking for the proper place worldwide to settle down and open both a new cooking and wine school and run his “Private Kitchen” restaurant.

For more than 35 years Luc has been organizing events related to food and wine, giving classes, tastings and seminars to professional and the general public alike, designed technological solutions for the industry, offered his services as a professional consultant, gave motivational and other types of conferences, and generally participated in the food and wine business at many levels.

To this day food and wine form an important part of his life and he dedicates himself to teach people the joys of cooking, fine wines and other important pleasures of life. His informal style, great communication skills and passion for the subjects he teaches makes him an outstanding and entertaining lecturer that makes complex and foreboding subjects appear uncomplicated for the casual learner.

Luc describes himself as a “Gourmand” and has owned and managed a web site under the name www.igourmand.com for over 17 years. A “Gourmand” is a person that takes great pleasures with food and drinks. Different than the “Gourmet” who has a sophisticate palate, the “Gourmand” enjoys the pleasures given by great food and drinks, without the complications normally associated with the “Gourmet” world. Of course one does not excludes the other, but to Luc the pleasure part is the most important one.

Private Kitchen

In the fall of 2023-2024 we plan to open a restaurant base on the “Private Kitchen” concept that is popular in Honk Kong, but with a twist…

The private kitchens first started opening when amateur chefs decided to give restaurants a run for their money. Many operate out of office blocks or residential buildings and have little or no signage, you often only find the specific address when you make a booking. A Private Kitchen, sometimes known as a supper club or closed door restaurant, is a social dining restaurant operated out of someone’s home, generally bypassing local zoning and health-code regulations. They are usually advertised by word of mouth or unwanted advertising. Depending on the area’s law, the establishments may be illegal, even though they have been around for decades. They are becoming increasingly popular in the internationally.

Appeal

The attraction of the Private Kitchen for the customer varies. In some cases, it is the opportunity to sample new food, often at low cost outside the traditional restaurant experience. Guests of the Private Kitchen also cite one of the biggest reasons for enjoying the experience is the social interaction with strangers over food, something this would generally be frowned upon in a traditional restaurant setting. Private Kitchen have been described as “anti-restaurants” for the host, the benefit is to make money and experiment with cooking without being required to invest in restaurant property.

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J. Luc Paquin 2021 – English & Español

Luc Paquin

Languages Spoken and Written: French, English and Spanish.

Citizenship: Canadian

Luc Paquin

https://www.jlpconsultants.com/luc/

English

https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPFoodWineCV2021Mk1c.pdf

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https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPComidaVinosCVMk2021b.pdf

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Luc Paquin – Section 2

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Luc Paquin - Section 2

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Since Luc also had a profound interest in technology, he started studying the field of computer graphics that was in its infancy at the time. He invested heavily in computer hardware and software and was part of the beta testers of the first version of CorelDraw in 1988. At the time he became involved with clients worldwide as a professional designer of wine labels.

At the end of the eighties he was part of the negotiating that closed major wine production and exportation contracts with a large state run agricultural company in Yugoslavia (Agrokombinat “13. Jul” Titograd – Yugoslavia).

After many negotiation trips to Yugoslavia he was all packed up to go manage a huge vineyard (60,000 hectares) in Montenegro, then part of the old Yugoslavia, when the war broke in that part of the world. Luckily this happened before he had moved over there.

In 1990 Luc went to work in the south of England in a renowned vineyard that was famous for its white and sparkling wines (Carr-Taylor Vineyards, Hastings, United Kingdom). He learned a lot about vineyard management, viticulture, vinification and elaboration of fine wines.

When he returned to Canada Luc started to produce his own wines using frozen grape juice concentrate imported from various areas of France and later with fresh grapes. He continued producing his own wines until 2000. He was looking forward to the day that he could settle somewhere and manage his own vineyard, and produce his own wine.

In 1992 Luc was again ready to leave his country to spend over a year in South Africa working at various vineyards. He wanted to deepen his knowledge of winemaking, and the wine industry in general. As with his previous attempt to move to an area of the world that was politically unstable, the trip was cancelled at the last minute due to his sponsor’s concerns about his security as South Africa was in the last throws of Apartheid. Instead Luc spent the next many years traveling the world on short trips to various wine-producing regions to learn more about the wine business.

Since the mid-eighties Luc had been attending various prestigious wine events all over the world including the “Wine Spectator” events in New York and San Francisco. He continued doing so until the late 1990’s. Combined with his constant traveling all over the wine producing areas of the world, this permitted him to deepen his long list of contacts in the wine world.

In the first few years of the nineties Luc took a certification course in restaurant and hotel management. Over the years he has continued to be involved with both the professional and the ludic side of the food, beer and wine business. He also designed and programmed technological solutions for these industries. These includes point of sales solutions, eCommerce solutions, wine cellar management solutions, restaurant management solutions, point of profits solutions, food, beer and wine matching engines and databases, professional and consumer software, education kiosks, and much more.

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J. Luc Paquin 2021 – English & Español

Luc Paquin

Languages Spoken and Written: French, English and Spanish.

Citizenship: Canadian

Luc Paquin

https://www.jlpconsultants.com/luc/

English

https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPFoodWineCV2021Mk1c.pdf

Español

https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPComidaVinosCVMk2021b.pdf

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Lucito

Luc Paquin – Section 1

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Luc was born as the only child of a middle-class family of French descent in a small village famous for its ski resort north of Montréal, Québec, Canada. He has nurtured a lifelong interest in cooking that he developed since early childhood at the side of his mother and his grandmother who were consummate cooks. At an early age he studied French cooking with his mother while she was taking classes with one of the most renowned teachers in Montreal, “Professeur Bernard”

In the late 1970’s while studying at university he developed a great interest in wines. One day he decided to start learning more about wine and like everything else he does in his life he had to do it in great depth. Armed with a series of wine encyclopedias, he started to buy wines from all over the world and learned all that he could about them. By the mid-eighties he was a professional wine consultant and had amassed a collection of close to 5000 bottles of wine.

During that same period in the evenings after university he was taking Chinese cooking and painting classes with Dick Chen at the Chen School of Art. This lasted for over 4 years.

Later he was involved in the professional side of the wine and food business both as a consultant and a buyer for a variety of private concerns during the 1980’s and 1990’s. It permitted him to travel the world extensively.

A renowned British wine merchant was his business partner at the time, and he sponsored many of Luc’s business trips during that period and through various contacts in the wine business in Europe and other parts of the world Luc learned a lot about the wine industry in general and wine as an investment in particular.

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J. Luc Paquin 2021 – English & Español

Luc Paquin

Languages Spoken and Written: French, English and Spanish.

Citizenship: Canadian

Luc Paquin

https://www.jlpconsultants.com/luc/

English

https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPFoodWineCV2021Mk1c.pdf

Español

https://www.jlpconsultants.com/JLPComidaVinosCVMk2021b.pdf

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Happy Birthday Normita

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Happy Birthday Normita

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Happy Birthday Normita

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Happy Birthday Normita

Shrimps

  • -Shrimps 1 Kg
  • -Mushroom
  • -Oliver Oil
  • -Basil
  • -Oregano
  • -Chives
  • -Garlic Powder
  • -Onion Powder
  • -White Pepper

Mango Pudding Lucito

  • -White Flour
  • -Dark Brown Sugar
  • -Coconut oil
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