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    What's Your Favorite Vanilla?

    Yeah I alway scrape out the tiny black seeds then add the rest of the bean. Actually the pod has more flavor in it than the bean. The only thing I have ever actually side by side compared extract vr real bean to in tasting was creme brulee and man it is completely different. Eating the real...
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    What's Your Favorite Vanilla?

    Hmm I don't know...I buy them from cosco lol...I hear they can get pretty expensive online though...
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    What's Your Favorite Vanilla?

    Im guessing since you mentioned alcohol your talking about vanilla extract. If that is the case then I second the Watkins vote..but I only use real vanilla bean...once you've had vanilla bean there is no going back to extract.
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    The most challenging thing you've ever cooked

    I used to work at a small resort, and one day we were doing catering for 650 people. It was real old school french cuisine as well. Straight out of TDB (We refer to Escoffier's as "That Damed Book") Anyway it was just me and another guy in the kitchen, and of course he cuts his finger with a...
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    Melt In Your Mouth Meat Loaf Recipe

    Awesome, I was planning on making some meatloaf this week and was looking around for a recipe, I'll defiantly be using this one tonight!
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    Free Masons

    Nope women can't join Masonry. It is a "fraternity" after all :) What the program was probably talking about was some of the appendant bodies of masonry that are for women. Those are not free masons.
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    Spices/Herbs - rules for which/where?

    Very true, I'm just biased against it..lol I love nouvelle cooking and don't use mother sauces very often. But then again I still own the book :) I do defiantly recommend for every cook to read it!
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    Spices/Herbs - rules for which/where?

    Only problem with that book is it only covers classical french cuisine. Plus it is quite a read think mine is near 1k pages. For Escoffier everything starts and stops with "perfect stock" everything in french cuisine is taken from that. If your serious about increasing your knowledge of...
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    Spices/Herbs - rules for which/where?

    Hey man, I would check out the book Culinary Artistry It is all about pairing foods with complimentary foods...what seasoning go with what ect.
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    Free Masons

    Haha gotcha didn't know you were a girl sorry :) And as far as the origins of freemasonry, that is up for debate nobody is certain. Though there are several theories. Here are a couple: 1) Masonry was started in the middle ages i europe when the stone masons (actually stone builders) formed...
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    Free Masons

    Well said Uncle Bob, Also if anyone is that interested in the meaning of masonry symbols, then go buy the book morals and dogma by albert pike. This is the scottish rite book, and the symbolic meanings are those of Albert Pike but it will give you an insight. Oh and good luck getting through...
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    Free Masons

    Where the ring on a chain if you want. Though don't try and pass your self off as a mason we will be able to tell if you are lying almost instantly. But just like any frat in the world if I see another member that i recognize to be a mason of course I would help him out..we are brothers. As...
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    Free Masons

    No problem :)
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    Free Masons

    Well the thing about ll the TV programs "uncovering the masons" "world domination" all that crap is just a way to get people to watch. People say we are some global mega power bent on world domination but they only say that because many powerful and influential men have been members of masonry...
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    New Member

    Hey everyone. Names Steve, I'm 20 years old going to Georgia Southern University and the onto the CIA for an AOS in Culinary Arts. Great to be here, and looking forward to other food lovin people!!
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    Free Masons

    Hey everyone, and hello to you brothers in this thread. I am a Mason as well Lodge #235 in Georgia. Just to clear up some things there are no levels above a 3rd degree master mason. The higher numbered ranks (4-33) are earned by masons who chose to join the Scottish Rite which is an...
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