on the stove of the tea house... they had picked them in the morning..

Cooking the onions for onion gravy.

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Making heart shaped pancakes.

tool bought at Le Gourmet Chef, Gilroy, Ca.

Campbell, Ca.

February 2009

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The cooking process was fun. We're going to end up with a stack of these when they're all done.

Mai Home Saigon Culinary Arts Center (cooking class): Soup and fish dish ready to eat.

Some of the guides on a horse trek I took in Songpan, China. We couldn't communicate at all, but they always had a smile, loved to sing, and cooked some mean (and spicey!) sizuan food...

Cleaning up after cooking.

I took David, Radicaldreamer, and Tigerboy to a teen chocolate class at Viking Homechef, in Walnut Creek. They made two kinds of truffles (white chocolate rolled in oreo crumbs, and dark chocolate rolled in cocoa powder), chocolate hot lava cakes with praline sauce, and double chocolate dipped strawberries.

It was a blast!

my cooking demo at Excelsior Ipoh

Mmmmm... curry always tastes better the day after.

The recipes are at my blog: www.ampersandduck.blogspot.com

Otherwise, check the notes attached to the image.

Cooking

An Ikea kids cooking set, found at Frenchy's. P loves it!

The final plate, everything was quite delicious

Cooking Diner

Package looks good.

Day two of cooking class included crepes, and peach gallettes.

Cooking class in Firenze (Florence). March 2009.

Chef Athan Spanos, managing chef at Penn State Harrisburg, and Chef Skylar Diehl, Managing Chef at the Bryce Jordan Center at University Park, teamed up to showcase several molecular gastronomy techniques you can do while cooking. The title of their dish is called the “5 Flavors of Parmesan.”

Cooking three different kinds of rice cakes wrapped in banana leaves for Tet, Vietnamese New Year. The monks and nuns at Plum Village are (mostly) vegan (yeah! how awesome is that?!) and generally do not eat sugar, caffeine, etc. However the rules are relaxed the New Year, especially

Chris and I take a soba noodle cooking class offered by our host, Yasuhiro Kaji at Ars Locus, a community centre near our guest house.

From an anime, allegedly.

MIAM!

cooking in Poljica with Josipa

580EX Camera Right (Snoot)

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Olympus OMD E-M5

M.Zuiko 12-50

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Once the onion and pepper has softened add the rest of the vegetables and place the mackerel on top. The mackerel will cook through the veg.

Because the mackerel was unpeppered I added a little black pepper along each.

Go to another stage:

Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5

Mayan boy standing by typical fogon or cooking fire in kitchen of his house. Notice how easily family members can get burned.

I have previously blogged about my best friend giving me this quote: “We all need something to do, someone to love, something to look forward to.”

I am grateful for the work I do (like Minimonos, and cooking for a friend). I am grateful for the people who allow me to love them. I look forward to the future, and all the amazing things these incredible children of ours will do. I look forward to the gathering tomorrow, and the honor of being asked to serve.

What service will you provide today? What are you grateful for?