New link added – The Thairade

First of all, I’m a sucker for a well-turned phrase, double meaning, pun, or clever wordplay. So the name of this blog, The Thairade, would have attacted my attention on its face. But the producer of this blog had the good taste to praise my blog in a comment to a recent post, plus, I have [...]

New link added because of post that proves that “The customer isn’t always right”.

For those of you who subscribe to the trope, “The customer is always right”,  I give you counter example, Exhibit A: http://bitterwaiter.typepad.com/bitter_waiter/2009/04/unhappy-hour.html And the “punch line” is brilliant. Here’s the deal. The customer isn’t always right. It’s not right to touch or grab a server without permission, especially when at another table, make unwanted sexual advances [...]

Kitchen tool of the day – tabletop convection over/toaster

This is my exact model of convection oven/toaster. There are larger capacity “ovens” but I’ve got a pretty small kitchen, so I wanted a pretty small footprint. Also, I got a refurbished model from Amazon for around $30. These things are very handy. I still use a toaster for most of my bread slice toasting [...]

For Technorati users and others

If you use Technorati for blog searching, I am now registered there. Since I use a pre-packaged theme here at Word Press, I’m not sure if I can add a button for it (I’ll be checking soon). There’s no way for me to add code without going CSS, and I’m not quite prepared to do [...]

Cookbook of the day – The New Professional Chef

The New Professional Chef by The Culinary Institute of America   Publisher:Van Nostrand Reinhold; 6 Sub edition (November 7, 1995)   ISBN-10: 0471286796 ISBN-13: 978-0471286790   This is the basic textbook of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). It’s big and expensive. I don’t recommend buying it new, but you can sometimes find it at used bookstores [...]

A little code to Technorati

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Quick tip

Yesterday’s quick tip was about being careful to reprint checks. I can hear some of you newbies ask, “Why would you have to reprint a check up to three times if you print a check right before dessert? Wouldn’t the most you would have to reprint it is one time, assuming that they got dessert”? [...]