Hey everybody.

Quick update I fly to Chicago tomorrow and while I am there I may not be able to upsdate this. So I want to leave you all with a quick challenge. Yesterday was my 30th Birthday. I want you all to tell me what your favorite birthday has been in your life so far?

Also what if any of your birthday wishes have come true?

Thanks for reading. I look forward to reading your responces when I get back.

Pizza and Champagne the perfect way to bring in 30. Going to be following this up with Red Velvet Cupcakes. Hell to the Ya!!!!

Just thought I would give you all a an update. I am going on vacation next week. So I am not going to be posting for a few days. You can check out my Vid on youtube for a bit of an explnation

Vid Here

But I am going to Chicago for an event called Gamesday. I play a game called Warhammer and the company that makes the game is hosting the event. I promise that when I get back I will post pics and vids.

In the mean time feel free to comment and ask me questions. I will me more then happy to answer them.

Thanks and I will miss you all until I get back

Hello all you wonderful people. After some conectivity issues I am back...


I am also pissed off at the State of California, its law makers and the animal righs groups. They have banned the sale of Fois Gras in restaurants. Legislation that was passed in 2004 and gave Chefs and restaurant owners 7 and 1/2 years to prepair for compliance. As of July 1st this year restaurants had to remove the item from their menus or be subject to a fine.

This bill was spearheaded by animal rights groups like PETA and the ALDF, the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Now let me just say that I am all for animal rights, and I think the animals that become or food should be treated humainly. Happy animals make good food. But it has been proven that animals don't register pain the way humans do, and that the geese do not have gag reflexes so the process of la gavage probably doesn't harm the animal, and I say probably because I am not a farmer, I do not raise geese.

But I do know that as geese prepair to migrate south, they eat, and fatten themselves up for their long hard journey. And I think that historically that is how we discovered the wonderfull, buttery, rich creamy-ness that is fois gras. In my reserch I have discovered producers of fois gras that allow their geese to eat what they want, when then want and it still produces amazing fois gras without gavage.

What upsets me most about this legislation is that insted of informing people, they have taken away a person's ability to choose for themselves. I am an adult, I should be able to, when I go out to eat, make the decision myself of what I want to eat. And people of California you have taken away MY right to choose, and not just mine, every other person who visits Califrornia from now until this legislation is taken off the books.


California you were once one of Americans culinary Mecca's now you are becomming a nanny state that deprives people of the freedom to choose.


People of California I urge you to get this legislation repealed so you can once again reclaim your place at the forefront of America's food culture. Please, Please, Please...


Also with a bit of reaserch I have found that France is fireing back and urgeing chefs and restaurants to take California wines off their menus as a show of solidarity for French producers of Fois Gras that will be hurt by California's legislation.Way to go France!!!!!


As Always here the link to my video rant.

Hello again people of the page.

I made home made pizza dough the other day and it came out awsome. The recipe is from a friend of mine from college. It actually has honey in the dough, insted of sugar like alot of other recipies I have come across. So here is the recipe:

2 1/2 cup All purpose flour(you may substitute whole wheat flour for 1 cup of the all-purpose )1 tablespoon honey
1 cup warm water
1 (1/4 ounce) packageactive dry yeast
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup warm water
1/2-1 tablespoonolive oil 
1 tablespoon cornmeal, plus more for sprinkling

Combine warm water, honey and yeast. Let stand for 10 minutes until foamy.
Combine flour, salt olive oil and cornmeal together in bowl and water and mix until combined and kneed until smooth and elastic, about 6 minutues by hand.
Let stand in a warm place until doubled in size, about 2 hours.
Punch down and divide the dough.
And you are all set to work with it.

Here is a link to my youtube channel with the video instructions

Pizza

I also used the second half of the dough to make Stromboli, and here is a picture of how that came out.

Also here is the link to my latest youtube vid. More to come so stick around

New Vid

Actually, I should probably just link you directly to my youtube channel as a whole insted of just indivdual videos. here is that link My Youtube Channel  That should make things a whole lot easier

Hey everyone. After spending a couple of days away from my computer, I am back. I spent the Tuesday July 3rd at Americas oldest Amusement park, Lake Compounce, with a friend of mine and let me tell you, It was a fat kid like me's dreay day. It was filled with fried food galore. For the first time I had, deep fried oreos, deep fried peanut butter cups, and a deep fried snickers bar. They were all awsome!!!! It was also the land of the supreme funnel cake. I had one drowning in Caramel sauce, whipped cream and M&M's. My mouth is watering again just thinking about it. There will be videos of my first responce to them comming later. I think I might even do a video showing you all how to make them. What do you all think? Would you like to see how to make Deep fried desserts and stuff at home?   Looking forward to hearing back from you all.

And for the time being here is a picture of the supreme funnel cake.

I just finished making the red velvet cupcakes, and everything in my kitchen now has a slighly pink to a red tint to it. I forgot how much food coloring goes into them. I didn't think about it this time until it was too late. But next time I will make sure and document the entire process for you and post the video to youtube and link it here. for now though I have pictures for you to look at and enjoy.

So I posted on my face book asking people if they could tell me what I had done wrong with The puff Pastry I made. I wanted to extent the offer here as well. Comment below, or on the youtube post itself and I will make a responce vid soon detailing what I did wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-T8MQB_Ng

Now I am off to make red velvet cake!!