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Raw Lamb Neck ..

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Lamb Neck Something must chefs really have not got in to it to often .. Or at all in there experience.. However some chef might cook it and call it short ribs because of the possibility of some one complaining that it is a neck and they don't eat neck. We Braised in pressure cookers would be good .. However I am looking to make a pancetta out of the neck. So if anyone has any recipes let me know otherwise you will probably here about it in a couple of months have it completed.. And also have a pretty nice recipe..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=andB2ejo4lk



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Valrona Manjari Dark Chocolate-64%

Demarquette Pure Wild 68% Dark Chocolate From Bolivia  

I came across a little development in some pastries questions.. Just throwing it out there to whoever may have the recipe.. down or Can easily snap one up and tell me how and give me any ideas or recipes using Bolivia and Valrhona Manjari Dark Chocolate I really enjoy Dark chocolate with just melted down and folding almonds in and putting them in the freezer just how my mom does it ..It I have alot available for use in the future and would like to see some really top of the line Recipes.. So today I used the Bolivia chocolate to make - Bouchon by Thomas Keller -Velvety chocolate terrine didn’t work so I was wondering why it broke every time I add the powder sugar .. SO, I am trying to figure out with kind of changes I have to do to get the same texture as using Valrhona Manjari .. Well I did alittle copy and pasting jazzing up Crap.. and this is what I found.. So I will be working on this recipe so let me.. Know what yap got.. Thanks..

Chocolate Terrine

Valrhona Manjari Dark Chocolate - 64% Cacao

Product DescriptionValrhona Grand Cru Manjari is an extraordinary bittersweet couverture chocolate made from a blend of the best Trinitarios cocoa beans from Madagascar. With a 64% cocoa content, Valrhona's Manjari is perfect for the bittersweet chocolate needs for home pastry chefs and professionals alike - it is the perfect compromise between the ultra dark bittersweet chocolate couvertures with 70% cocoa content and the often too sweet dark chocolate couvertures with less than 60% cocoa content. Manjari also has a higher than typical amount of cocoa butter to give your desserts and truffles a silky mouth finish. With the sweetness of the tropics, Manjari has an intense chocolate taste, sustained fullness with hints of dried fruit and grilled almonds with a woody base. It is suitable for pastry, chocolate fillings, molding, enrobing, and icing. The Valrhona "feves" are small oval disks that are easier to work with than large industrial size block. Valrhona in Tain l'Hermitage is considered by most pastry chefs and chocolatiers as the premier chocolate company in the world. Their focus is solely on their chocolate, and to ensure the highest quality, and optimum flavor, they grow their own cocoa beans, their own cane sugar, and their own vanilla on plantations all around the world - now that's quality control. Valrhona has finally begun to offer its professional products, cocoa and couvertures, packaged for the home pastry enthusiast, a palette of subtle flavors, to create and elaborate delicious chocolate preparations. Manjari is a couverture with 64% cocoa content (with 35% Sugar and 40.5% cocoa butter). It is a blend of Criollo and Trinitario cocoa beans from Madagascar. It has a characteristic, fresh, slightly acid chocolate taste, with intense hints of red fruits, and it would be perfect in most pastry applications calling for bittersweet couverture. It is especially good for fillings, and for pouring, dipping, and molding.\
Araguani Feves 72% Dark Chocolate

(1g less fat)

Noir 12.5 G Piece (1/8 Bar)

(7g less fat)

Grand Cru Noir Manjari

(4g less fat)

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1/2 bar (35g)

Amount per Serving

Calories 180 Calories from Fat 117

% Daily Value

Total Fat 13g 20%

Saturated Fat 8g 40%

Sodium 4mg 0%

Total Carbohydrate 19g 6%

Dietary Fiber 5g 20%

Sugars 13g

Protein 3g 6%

Est. Percent of Calories from:

Fat 65.0% Carbs 42.2%

Protein 6.7%

Demarquette Pure Wild 68% Dark Chocolate From Bolivia

There may not be many flavours competing for your attention as other bars might, but this bar just gives you fantastic chocolate hit as you might expect a caffeine rush from an espresso coffee.A slight acidic aroma exudes from the chocolate, but it’s soft and delicate and is replicate with the texture. It reminds me of a meadow of sweet pea in summer’s breeze. There’s nothing heroic, matcho or pretentious about this bar. It’s bar that is confident in itself. It doesn’t need trowel and a bag of expensive makeup. It is naturally gorgeous.
This natural, unadulterated simplicity of flavour comes from the fact that it’s the first chocolate of the modern era to be made with wild and undeveloped cocoa trees. There’s no mass produced, factory-line processed, intensive harvesting of these cocoa pods. And it tastes better for it.

The negative aspect of this bar, and all of their bars of this ilk is that there’s no nutritional information. The packaging states that it’s a 68% bar made with pure Bolivian cocoa, but there’s no information regarding suitability for vegetarians, vegans or for people with nut, or other allergies. I can’t see any information regarding the use of soya lecithin that might be useful.

But that’s all meaningless if you’re like me, you just love the taste of real chocolate well made. And that’s exactly what this bar is. I just wished the other bar I bought wasn’t the 64% Mexico, but the much darker 80% Uganda so I can get a feel for the more intense end of the Demarquette range. 
 

Ok,  Love to see what will come up thanks again ..
 Also remember dont eat dark chocolate Before bed you will have bad dreams.. Take my word or try it ! 

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Menu

Nov. 28 to Dec. 5th

Monday
Lunch
Beef Barley / Grilled Cheese / Oranges

Dinner 
Beet Salad / Blue Cheese / Yellow tomato / Cider Vin.


BBQ Ribs / Bake Beans / Tea Carrots


Apple & Apricot / Turnover



Tuesday

Lunch
Ham&Cheese / Pasta Salad / Roasted Pears

Dinner 
Shrimp / Cocktail / Papaya Sauce

Pompano / Fennel & Zucchini Fratta/ Tomato-Corn Relish

Creme Brulee



Wednesday

Lunch
Hot Dog / Condiments / Chips / Apple Sauce



Thursday

Dinner
Heart of Palm / Peppers / Citrus Salad


Hanger Steak / Beet & Turnip Puree / White Asparagus


Choc. Dome Cake



Friday

Lunch
Cucumber Sandwich / Tomato soup

Dinner
Tomato / Roasted Parsnips Salad


Bay Scallops / Fresh Pasta


Short Bread Cookies / Tahiti Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

Saturday
Lunch
Cauliflower Soup / Mix Greens Salad



Sunday

Dinner
Belgium Endive / Goat Cheese Salad


Crab Stuffed / Silver dollar Mushroom / Champagne Sauce / Asparagus


Coffee Glazed Zeppole

First Entry-- Wow seems like yesturday

Yea , Lots have things have changed .. But i will continue a where i left off.
And I will tell it exactly how it went..

After relizing my life has been full filled with nothin but responsibility from the day i left my parents house My senior year of high school .. I have only concentrated on what is right. All the advice i have taken from everyone i trust. Was the right thing to do.. I lisoned And worked hard and focus on what is best for me.. Throught all my journey i have been threw i accomplish a great deal of thing for a 25year old .. Now i am coming out of a relationship of 6 years and a marriage of 3 years. Nothin but good things have came from my marrige and all the hard times that come with that way life no (regrets).
From the outside looking in my life to others may have seemed like a dream come true. Great job (Chef at a Ritz) no money problems desent marrige and great family and tons of good people around me... I Relized that all i have cared about my hole life is the drive to get to the next step in my industry.. During that i have lost my marrige and agreat part of my personality.. As well as forgot who iam really am.. After my seperation with my wife i was left ot really care about just my self threw this i couldnt get a grip on finding my self cuz i was use to always haveign something to work for like my wife and trying to become the best i can be for her or a family that could have had .. After a quick sluty rebound relation ship that tied me over till i could walk on my own. I spiked my self in to one of the worst times in my life.. I hated my job adn just plan hated life in genral and really felt like there was any reason to get out of bed .. But all this is pretty normal at this stage of peoples lives.. Everyone i talk to that is around the same age is me.. Is surching for the same shit rather it is accomplishments or finding a career even maybe a relationship that they never had.. My advice to people that are going threw this stage is to get up and stop bitching around and put everything on the line to find what you are looking for.. Dont let money or peoples oppinons stand in the way.. just lison to yourself and go for it.. Cuz nothing is going to come out of it by sitting around and bitching about it. The way i dealed with it is the same way alot of people do it (Drinking) Its worst then drugs cuz it is legle and you can do it anytime. I started Drinking my self to a happy sober state of mine.. Which was great cuz it got me out of bed and helped me enjoying life. Realizing after 2months of ving drinking and having enoght stupid stories that made up for my boring past 6years of my life . I would like to say that my vacation brought me to a new sence of life during this time i found myself threw doing what ever i wanted.. it sounds kinda cheezy but when you have no one telling what you should do and what they want to do or telling how i should do things and not having to compormise anything but just lisonign to myself .. As many people may be used to this , but for me I will tell you what that was my first time ever being able to do that and it was the most natral high i have ever had.. As all my closest friend know that i always have something to do or some where to be even if i dont want to.

Well enoght about all that shit..it is over no more wife,Corporate stuff, work that seems endless with no sasticfacation and just doing shit cuz that is what you are supposed to do..It only took one trip of finding myself to relize i am living a life that is not for me.. Throwing everything a way and not thinking of consequences and not taking any advice from anyone. I have lisoned to everyone before and this time i just lisoned to me and me only and did whatever i want. July23, Flue up to NJ to meet my long time friend from naples.. (who also has a understanding that it is time for change.) He picked me up from the airport in the AM it was nice to be out of Otown and in to the country towns of NJ.. Driving threw little towns and seeing all the beautful trees and stores reminded me of michiagan witch ihave not been back there in years.. It made me kind a miss the weather and the diffrent style of life ... Of course He had to take me to the place in town town where the best NJ sandwiches are served..( By the way sanwiches are my favorit Food to eat.) And boy can that deli serve a sandwich. Roast Beef Joe -Tripple decker Rye bread
-House seasoned thin Roast beef
- House coleslaw
-Jersey Tomatoes
-Russian dressing ..
(Best pared with Joes peachTea)

No disaponitment it was clear that chris and his family have probly been living off these sandwiches more then twice a week for years... After all detour stuff we made it to his house and i finished my change of adress stuff and some last financal crap.. We said good bye to his folks and took off to are flight to belgium at about 6:45. Saying my last couple of good byes after knowing i cut my phone off and i will not talk to anyone unless it is online.. I relize who is most important in this time in my life.. Thing were already getting better NO MORE PHONE. We had a 8 hour flight to belgium for are lay over.. We were soo hungry waiting and waiting to eat are flight dinner..

I took a pain killer to help easy my pain of being on the plane.. Kind intrusting when you mix it with a couple of drinks Never really did that before and probly wont again.. I was dizzy and sleepy it took me about a hour to eat my meal when it finally came.. I would take a couple of bites and pass out then wake up chugg some water take a couple of bits and repeat this till my meal was gone.. It was really entertaineng to the rest of the people on the flight i new they were starring and wounder what the hell was going on .. .