Showing posts with label Juniors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Juniors. Show all posts

Sunday, 26 September 2010

Colonial Cooking - A History of American Cuisine

Cooking in the colonies depended greatly on your economic condition. The upper classes hired European-trained chef, who called the lower classes of the hostess to prepare a dinner plate. What was in all classes was similar, however, which was prepared in the kitchen only what was in season. Colonial cooks had to be very careful with food, a chicken for dinner could not be killed if they ate breakfast atand lunch. For food waste was not an option. Especially with the new and ever-changing seasons of the Americas, the cooks had to save the best of what they could get their hands on and to keep and what they could, as could make the winters brutal.

As the chef of the house was not as easy as turning a knob on the stove, as it is now. A chicken for dinner meant going out in the morning and killing himself, plucking and gutting it. Fires andgo on all day. The organs of each animal were cooked as a delicacy fruit, and vegetables always, never first. The drinks were very sweet, and the punch was plenty of alcohol. The meat was often at the table with the head and feet still bound forever, and the rolls for sopping the sauce served juices. Cooking is hard, every day of work in colonial America and was a good cook sometimes worth weightGold.

The Governor's Palace always supported the best chefs in Europe. While they were like slaves, were paid the highest in the budget. The building itself was a series of cooks in the kitchen at a time like everyone had a specialty. Many of these chefs had experience in French cuisine, a thin layer of time has been considered. These cooks also had the best tools for cooking, including many copper pots.

The men offered the second best in the colonial kitchen, while the French were not trained, often cook their meals were modeled after the traditional English. Meat and sweets were standard at every meal, and while these households used slaves for their chefs, many have been so good, they were often able to earn their capacity for freedom on the basis of their kitchen.

The middle class were among the nobility in the colonial kitchen. While she tries to fit the kitchen of the nobility on special occasions, every day> The food was much easier. Many of these houses still in the kitchen is based on a slave to do, while some leave home only on the talents of Lady des

The lower classes offer the most basic of the colonial kitchen. These families do not use slaves, and almost every meal was a one pot meal. Porridge and soup were very popular, and the cornmeal is more widespread, which is based on corn, sausages, vegetables and salt. The food was the meat with the accompanyingcould get my hands on that many times, it was not.

Friday, 20 August 2010

Welcome to Junior's! Remembering Brooklyn With Recipes and Memories from Its Favorite Restaurant

Welcome to Junior's! Remembering Brooklyn With Recipes and Memories from Its Favorite Restaurant








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Welcome to Junior's! is a nostalgic tour of Brooklyn from the 1930s to the 1990s with reminiscences and recipes from the legendary restaurant renowned for its rich and creamy cheesecake. Junior's holds a special place in Brooklyn, also home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge. As well as a decade-by-decade history of the golden age of Brooklyn with wonderful photographs from the past fifty years, scattered throughout are memories and stories of how Junior's grew from its modest beginnings to its success today.

From the very first day Junior's opened its doors in 1950 on the corner of DeKalb and Flatbush Avenue Extension in downtown Brooklyn, three generations of the Rosen family have worked hand in hand to build their restaurant into one of the most popular eateries in the borough today. First Harry Rosen, then his sons, Marvin and Walter, and now his grandsons, Kevin and Alan, have worked tirelessly to create and continue a famous Brooklyn neighborhood tradition -- a family restaurant that commands loyalty from its customers, and one to which they return day after day.

Going to junior's is an event. It is a place that has become a home-away-from-home for Brooklynites over the years and is a popular destination for people from the entire New York metropolitan area. Today, just as on the day it opened, Junior's remains a quintessential Brooklyn phenomenon. It even looks remarkably like it did in the fifties -- bright orange booths that seat nearly four hundred, a glistening counter surrounded with diners, a busy soda fountain, and, of course, the bakery, brimming with all kinds of cheesecakes, homemade pies, towering layer cakes, and buttery pastries. Not only does Junior's stand for the best of ethnic, down-home fare but it also serves the best cheesecake in New York -- at the last count over four million slices each year.

Welcome to Junior's! is not only a memory book to treasure but a cookbook with over one hundred favorite recipes. From Junior's signature cornbread, matzoh ball soup, crisp fried chicken, cheese blintzes, and baked stuffed shrimp to its legendary desserts -- Junior's famous #1 pure cream cheesecake, lemon meringue pie, strawberry shortcake, chocolate fudge layer cake, and ice-cream sundaes -- these recipes allow you to re-create a small slice of Junior's right in your own home kitchen.







Baking quite possibly the best cheesecakes in the universe, Junior's Restaurant is a legend in its own right. Located in downtown Brooklyn, this home away from home has been wooing New Yorkers since it first opened its doors on Election Day, 1950. Three generations of the Rosen family have served up not only cheesecakes, but also a wealth of other diner delicacies, from Brisket Melt to out-of-this-world ice-cream sodas. Written by the sons of founder Harry Rosen, Welcome to Junior's combines slices of Brooklyn's history and culture with fascinating stories, and, thankfully for us, more than 100 recipes, including 7 for cheesecake. Of course, the real cheesecake recipes are a closely guarded secret, but the Rosens share a similar blueprint with us that ensures "you'll soon be experiencing the taste of ecstasy." There are no soggy graham-cracker bases here--just a lovely layer of light sponge-cake, which can be prepared in the home kitchen in five simple steps. Then, a bounty of cheesecake toppings are yours, including fresh blueberries, juicy pineapple, decadent chocolate swirl, and even pumpkin. Lest we forget what else Junior's has to offer, the Rosens share recipes for, among others, Baked Meat Loaf with Mushroom Sauce, French Fried Onion Rings, even Matzoh Ball Soup.

Junior's is much more than a diner; it is an experience, an urban retreat where good old-fashioned service still exists, where fantastic food is a guarantee, and where regulars and newcomers are all welcome. If you can't make it there in person, let Welcome to Junior's transport you there with words. --Naomi Gesinger


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Sunday, 11 July 2010

Simply Salads: More than 100 Delicious Creative Recipes Made from Prepackaged Greens and a Few Easy-to-Find Ingredients

Simply Salads: More than 100 Delicious Creative Recipes Made from Prepackaged Greens and a Few Easy-to-Find Ingredients








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Long gone are the days when people created their salads by purchasing a head of iceberg lettuce and a head or romaine, cutting up a tomato and a boiled egg and adding some wishbone dressing. Today anyone can create a delicious gourmet salad by picking up one of the hundreds of bagged salad mixes available and adding ingredients to create masterpieces such as:

  • Mandarin Chicken Salad with Toasted Sesame Vinaigrette
  • Classic Caesar Salad with Herb Croutons
  • Spinach Salad with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

Each salad has dressing recommendations and recipes, menu ideas, and nutritional information. The book contains recipes for more than 100 salads and dressings.










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Fabulous Salad recipes and ideas - S. Duin - Portland, OR USA
I had picked up a copy of this salad cookbook at Tuesday morning a few years ago. It has amazing recipes that look like 5 star restaurant salads. The blue cheese dressing recipe is incredible and everyone who eats it at our house wants the recipe. I enjoyed it so much that I mailed a copy from Amazon to my sister-in-law. Best you'll ever spend.



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