Productivity Tips for Bananas

July 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

It seems people don’t tend to peel bananas in the most efficient way. If you want to get to your banana quickly you should be peeling from the bottom the way monkeys do it, not from the top.

This tip was revealed today on lifehacker.com, thanks guys.

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Mother, you didn't peel that banana efficiently!

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Chef makes great scrambled eggs

May 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Just in case you have a need for more Gordon Ramsay now that his loud and disturbing  ”Hells Kitchen” reality TV show is over, or you’d like to observe that the total dick Chef,  is a persona and Ramsay can appear fairly human — or just want to make great scramble eggs for tomorrow’s breakfast take a look at this short video.

Here are Chef’s  high points:

  • Whisk the eggs in the pan, don’t mix them before
  • Salt and pepper the eggs in the pan
  • Don’t let them overcook, keep taking the pan on and off the stove
  • Treat them like risotto as in make them creamy and fluffy

Enquiring Mimes scrambled egg pointers

  • He adds chives — green onions work, too
  • Add a splash of hot sauce to the eggs in the pan while whisking for a little zing , Tabasco or Thai  Sriracha

Yes, Chef!

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French Fry Hack

April 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I’m still working on making the perfect, at home, French Fries.

As I’ve written before, here are my 9 basic steps to making great shoestrings.

The basic steps in making French Fries are:

  1. Cut the potatoes – your choice on size and method, I’m fancy-shmancy so I use a mandoline and cut them to .5 cm (it measures in metric) – feel free to use a plain old knife and cut them to .25 inch.
  2. Soak cut potatoes in cold water for 10 to 15 minutes.
  3. Drain and dry well
  4. Cook the first time – around 360F until cooked by haven’t changed color (5 min-ish)
  5. Cool on paper towels
  6. Cook the second time around 365F until crisp (2- 3 mins)
  7. Dry on paper towels
  8. Salt to taste (if fancy-shmancy use sea salt)
  9. Eat, feed to baby, wife, corgi, parrots

I have trouble getting the cut potatoes dry enough after they been soaking in step 3.  Last night the science fair project continued.  I used a hair dryer to give the potatoes a final dry before throwing them in the oil.

Results?

Pretty darn good!

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Photo Credit: Sandra Chow

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Life Changing Decisions: Going Vegan – Guest Post

March 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

vegan-libfre-logoWe’re going to start something new here at Enquiring Mimes, I am inviting some of the people who I find most interesting on the web to write a post for Enquiring Mimes once or so a week.

Today’s post is written by Leo Reiter who amongst his other achievements writes the Vegan Libre site about his adventures and discoveries as he makes the transition from a meat-atarian life style to that of a Vegan.  While I’m not a vegan and  still fairly far from one, Leo’s posts tempt me everyday. Leo is always a pleasure to read because of quick wit and sharp mind and sometimes quirky point of view (I mention that because we tend to be 180 degrees apart on matters of politics and people that don’t agree with me are quirky).

Full disclosure, Leo is a close friend and a fellow principal in Virtual Bridges, our enterprise software company.

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French Fries 101 – How to make them at home

March 4, 2009 By 1 Comment

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Call them French Fries or chips — I’m on a personal campaign to make perfect ones. To be exact, the ones I want to make are the really skinny ones, shoestring or matchstick.   I’ve done the research for you, so here’s what you need to know.

The basic steps in making French Fries are:

  1. Cut the potatoes – your choice on size and method, I’m fancy-shmancy so I use a mandoline and cut them to .5 cm (it measures in metric) – feel free to use a plain old knife and cut them to .25 inch.
  2. Soak cut potatoes in cold water for 10 to 15 minutes.
  3. Drain and dry well
  4. Cook the first time – around 360F until cooked by haven’t changed color (5 min-ish)
  5. Cool on paper towels
  6. Cook the second time around 365F until crisp (2- 3 mins)
  7. Dry on paper towels
  8. Salt to taste (if fancy-shmancy use sea salt)
  9. Eat, feed to baby, wife, corgi, parrots

Favorite places to get Fries? Belgo’s, London and Les Halles, NYC

Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Fries from Scrumptious Street

75px-Gordon_Ramsay[1] Whether you like or hate TV’s reality chef and bad guy, Gordon Ramsay, here’s  his recipe for Matchstick chips recipe

If you prefer guys with British accents show you how to make fries (chips), here’s a BBC food video that makes it look pretty simple  – How to make the perfect chips video

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