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I love sablée cookies. They’re not too sweet, have a great texture and are a great base for making into different flavor combinations. This cookie has a soft, crumbly texture. For this recipe I chose to flavor it with fresh orange zest and tahitian vanilla bean seeds but you cold choose a variety of flavors [...]

In re-reading my post Fall into Winter with Pears, I realized I neglected to add this to the Pear Tart post.
Chai Tea Ice Cream:
.75l Milk
10g Chai Tea blend
1 tahitian vanilla bean, scraped
175g sugar
200g egg yolk
50g Inverted sugar
75ml heavy cream
Place the tea, vanilla and milk in a heavy sauce pot. Heat to a scald. [...]

I’m a huge fan of chocolate and lemon together. I had a friend who was looking for a nice, smooth and intensely flavored tart for a new menu and we came up with this.
The shell is made with a pate sucrée, one of the most incredible crusts in the world in my opinion. The filling [...]

Call me strange, but I really don’t care for the flavor of apples as much as I like the flavor of pears. And thankfully, even in my neck of the woods, there are numerous varieties of them to choose from nowadays. Thinking back to my days making classic restaurant apple tarts and tart tatin, I [...]

There are flavors that classically are intertwined. Those include things like: chocolate and raspberries, balsamic vinegar and strawberries and blueberries with lemon. One of my personal favorites is coffee and bananas.For this dessert I’ve also added two other primary flavors which blend with the others very well. Those are chocolate and Sambuca.
My ideal makeup for [...]

Since I’ve decided to abandon my Range Rover as a platform for travel and stick with the Cherokee, I’m taking all opportunities to strengthen her up. Adding a winch to the front isn’t the easiest of things with the unibody Cherokee. Since there’s no frame, the only way to add one is on an aftermarket [...]

Well, it’s been awhile. Been doing a bunch of commuting to NJ/NYC area that’s taken up a bunch of energy. I’ve finally managed to get the tub and frame to where I’d like them to be and mounted. I still have to complete a real tailgate, plus there are quite a few accessories I’d like [...]

I almost always have a sweet risotto on my menus. I have always had a love for rice puddings… As I’ve grown I’ve taken to elaborating more and more on the flavor combinations I can explore, and they really are the epitome of my dessert mantra. They have warm, sweetened rice, cold sorbet or ice [...]

So, I’ve been able to start the tear down process of my trailerI have found some pleasant suprise in the process, and some not so pleasant suprises. one of the best things I’ve found is that the flaking from the bottom of the floor that I *thought* was metal disentegrating, was actually a rust proofing [...]

I’ve been looking for a military style trailer for a while now to use as an expedition/camping trailer. Although I’d have preferred a m101 canadian style trailer, I did happen accross a m416 that was for sale in vermont. It’s been repainted a few times (poorly, I might add) and has been butchered a bit, [...]