yeh , decent article but they omitted the thousands of irish catholic families who starved to death as industrialists in ireland exported the harvests.
The PBS series "Victoria" showed what it was like.
I never had steak until i came here as an immigrant in 1969, we couldn't afford it,
150 yrs ago that would have been far more common.
The corned beef and cabbage associated with the irish is laughable, they couldn't afford tinned corned beef. Even today its not a dish even on St Pats, cabbage...
its all fun to me but if they put the jacket on ....
I used to crack 700 eggs into 5 gallon buckets for omelettes, cracking one at a time would have taken a while.
heres some useless information about whipped cream , use the highest fat content possible, don't use powdered sugar as it readily dissolves and causes the end product to be too soft for pastry decorating.
In france whipped cream is different from chantilly.
Chantilly is made using powder sugar...
over the decades i saw the networks try to hire my boss, he refused and they hired jacques pepin, they tried to hire me to assist "chef" Bernard, he had a tv show in the 1970's, in 1982 they tried to hire my partner to teach 'chef" Tell (this is the food i like to eat). She shot him down.
first...
any granny who had to cook for family has done something a few thousand times, they are expert at it, I can spot when someone has not been trained nor practiced doing it enough to get the knack. Because I worked in certain kitchens i got to meet a few tv chefs, most couldn't cook, they were...
i went to plumbing school, dropped out when i got an apprenticeship in a french pastry shop.
Today I do all my own plumbing at home, it was never about the money.
i know the same way an electrician, a butcher, plumber, baker knows when someone with no training is pretending to be competent, i know because i was trained in a 5 year apprenticeship starting in the sink. When someone puts that jacket on they should be minimally capable.
I put the bigger cheesecake out on the deck last nite, at 4F it semi froze.
no need for fiddly springform pans and alum foil.
The small one with cherry is for my farmer neighbor.
used a pie tin that had a Frey Bentos steak and kidney pie, they make nice baking tins after washing the pie remnants out.
cherry cheesecke. The brown border is ground pistaccios.
shrimp in america ,,,generally suck.
Its mostly farmed asian warm water shrimp, like tiger shrimp.
Maine atlantic shrimp are very good, pink, sweet and tender but seasonal.
The shrimp we get in europe are like maine shrimp, wild and not frozen.
my wife doesn't like cats, some people don't "get it".
bought a new car once, never again.
I do all my own work, save a ton of money and make them last 10 years usually.
I told my oncologist I wanted a cat but this cancer makes me hesitate, he said go ahead you'll live longer than a darn cat. So I did.
A year later it got killed by a car.
The doctor was right.
reminds me of our local cheese section, 23 varieties and they're all cheddar this and cheddar that. 9 varieties of flour no bread or cake flour, just all purpose.
We live in northern main, it gets polar cold here. Theres no reason to be cold.
The best options for heat are pellet stove, wood burning stove or kerosine.
All 3 are cheaper than an oil burning furnace, we spend $300 month on heating.
Neighbor only uses his oil burning furnace forced hot air and...
you can find used kitchenaid mixers used on craigslist, often brand new for $150.
Once you have the mixer , there are many pasta attachments for the mixer on amazon.
Theres also a metal meat grinder that fits the mixing machine which can also fill sausages.