lovely couple of weeks.lots of strange people.had one lady who ordered room service,ordered a creme brulee.now we make a great creme brulee. so she calls back and is furious. she wants said dessert taken off her bill because as she was eating it and got near the bottom she encountered a black substance that she insisted was cigarette ash.we tried ( Read more... )

happy happy happy happy happy happy (insert the Chicken Dance here)

my mexican friends called this queso fresco, sanjeev said it was paneer. it certainly is lovely. i am going to run it as a weekend dessert special:Fresh Ricotta with Pistachios in a green cardamom and tangerine syrup. by the way, where did you get the nice thermometer? i want one. dana

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wow...where does the time go?so lets see...we adopted two cats, one a kitten(what WERE we thinking?) the katrina cat,tillie is sweet but independent.she brought me the worst case of poison oak that i have ever had. the little guy,zumi,is a holy terror.he is also a siamese.Shades of mochi.now if they'll just stop eating my birds and shitting in my ( Read more... )

So, I started the new year out with a bang, as in two root canals and surgery to remove my beloved big toenail.Ouch. However I have been released from disability and have rejoined the human race. I am so pleased, even if it is rather masochistic ( Read more... )

after 20 years of working every holiday except three, my fondness for them in general has waned.i work my ass off,always stressed over money,WANT TO FALL OFF THE PLANET,to no avail.my pastry chef has quit(no big loss,but it IS the holidays)and i will lose a third of my kitchen to vacations and long term leaves ( Read more... )

thought i would update,although i talk to k for great wads of time every night. have been trying to go back to work full time but still get tired really easy. still better than it was. but meanwhile control of my kitchen is slipping away.my guys on the line have erected a wall and won't listen to any of the front of the house managers. i have to ( Read more... )

everything is ok.big sigh. i managed to find a roomate i could tolerate,although she is poorer than i thought. she is 30ish and after getting her degree has been (in what i can't remember)trying to figure out what she likes to do.she is currently teaching yoga and wants her own studio ( Read more... )

the third entry i have made just disapeared don't have the patience to post again.