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Twitter Tuesday: #kitchenpetpeeves 31 January 2012 9:20 am

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So I just found out about the Twitter hashtag #kitchenpetpeeves and as @michaelnatkin (Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious.com) says:

If you are considering restaurant work, read this hashtag #kitchenpetpeeves – a hell of a lot of education in every 140 chars

I tell you, he only speaks the truth. After only a bit of scrolling, I found pretty much everything I might have tweeted myself (and they’re not all about terrible restaurant customers, either!) Here are some of my favorites (bonus: writing this post has distracted me from reading the whole thread and stopped me from retweeting all but a few of these):

Joshua Galliano @cookingkid
almost empty containers not consolidated into smaller ones RT @ad_it_up #kitchenpetpeeves empty containers in the walkin

This one drives me nuts even at home, even when I’m the one guilty of not bothering to free up fridge space! (more…)

A Thank You Thursday recipe 12 January 2012 8:12 pm

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Today I would like to thank my brother Piett for digging up the booklet of recipes that came with the Cuisinart ice cream machine which we recently passed on to him after replacing it with a KitchenAid attachment (yay more shelf space and a corrollary thank-you to our parents for both those gadgets, whee!) The recipes that came with the new toy look good, but kinda fancy: egg yolks and cookery and whatnot. None of them have quite the exquisite simplicity of the concoction which this post immortalizes for availability when and wherever I have intertweetplusface access, yay! Also, because this would hardly feel like a proper blog post without a bit of linkage, here’s what the New York Times food section had to say about eggless ice creams a year and a half ago (hint: good stuff, and I should try that berry recipe some time!) Ok, enough introduction, on with the treats! (more…)