Since this is my blog and the chance of anyone reading it is slim, I can express my hopes and dreams in the land of cooking. One day, I want my own Cooking/Travelling Show. I have had TV producers interested in my concept before, but then they want to change it to their concept, of me on a cooking show-that's it. I don't cook everything, I cook whatever I'm in the mood for. Though I can be a little flexible, the type of show I want someday will be held in different cities of the U.S. each week. I will find some restaurants (possibly 2 per 30 minute show), find out what the specialities of these restaurants are and then have the chefs show me and the audience how to make it. I was asked for an example of what I meant and the TV producers were located in Palm Springs, CA, so I started with restaurants in Palm Springs. What I came up with was Sherman's Deli & Bakery, in business since 1953. For this restaurant, since it is a kosher restaurant and I'm not jewish, I thought they could show me how to make Beef'n Latkas and also how to make Passover Honey Cake. The other Chef I was interested in was actually a local caterer, who was well known for his Malayasian appetizers-Chef Heng Ngooi-he could do various appetizers in his commercial kitchen for me.
Right now I'm in my pie baking phase, testing pie recipes for my pie cookbook that I am writing. If anyone has a pie recipe to forward to me and I use it, you will get credit for it. So the other night I made a pear pie, but the topping wasn't quite right. It was supposed to be a crumble topping, but a friend had suggested I melt the butter, before mixing it with the flour & brown sugar. What a mistake, it was good to taste, but gooey and wouldn't cover the whole top of the pie. This time I will cut the butter into the crumble topping and it should work out better. I had never had a pear pie before, but the price was right for a bag of pears, so I decided to try it. Firm pears take alot longer to cook, then soft going to mush pears-more cooking time needed for this recipe. And pears when cooked actually taste alot like apples.
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