tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75227032371114287472012-02-16T01:23:18.759-05:00A bored Chef's diary of cooking and eating.ChefMichelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16608695304459946810noreply@blogger.comBlogger561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522703237111428747.post-17606329545047983132012-02-04T05:29:00.000-05:002012-02-04T05:29:58.439-05:00

Tommorow will be my last supper at home for a week or so. I am calling it my last supper for two reasons. First because I wont be cooking for a few weeks. Being as prepared and organized as I am, I have filled the freezer with some home cooking. I have cooked, packed, labeled and frozen as much as space would allow. We have 4 kinds of soup- Split Pea and Ham, Mushroom Barley, Minestrone base (

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It's been quite a while since I last posted here on my blog. It seems like Facebook has taken priority of my writings. I have a group on FB for Michele's Morsels and usually just post pictures and recipes there. I need to change that. I need to post here on my blog and share it on FB. The start of 2012 has brought some big changes into my life.....I am still slowly losing weight- 30lbs total at

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I know its been a while since my last blog....what can I say? I have been busy. Lifestyle changes and some medical issues took precedence. I am glad to be back. I will be leaving for Texas this coming Saturday ( 5 days ) for the month of April. I will be staying at my brother and sis-in-laws house and taking care of the kids, pets, house and cars for a couple of weeks while they celebrate their

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After several weeks of not paying close attention to my diet, unable to exercise due to pain, new pains arising, and the holidays....I started off the New Year vowing to myself I would do better! I know I can lose weight - because I have. I know I can like exercising - because I have.  I know I can do it because I have to. The holiday decorations are packed away, the house is back to normal.....

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Michele Renee Cecile Lessard, a little French eh? Since I am a child, I have always added the Canadian to the word French. I am not just French, I am French Canadian! Proud of my Canadian roots, my family, my name, the country and especially the food. Maple butter ( map-o-spread ), Crunchie bars,maple leaf cookies, maple syrup, Tortiere, Sugar pie, and snow candy as we called it,  just to name a

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Its time to start getting ready for the holidays. That means lots of cookie dough and baking. I decided last year to add a couple of new cookies to my list of Christmas baking. This year after a few Test Kitchen recipes, I finally got my new 2010 Christmas cookie. Although I wont only be making it for Christmas...its absolutely delicious and quite easy to make. Whoopieeeeeeeeeee! or should I say

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This is my Test Kitchen week......New Recipes, Old recipes revised and Final decisions made and produced. Tonite's Test Recipe is a recipe I found on The Joy of Baking site. It is for Cranberry Shortbread bars. As I absolutely LOVE cranberries, I decided to try this one out first. If it is successful, it will be a Christmas gift for several people as well as a new dessert. I have revised this

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Come Halloween, things start to get busier for some reason. With the holidays almost upon us, I guess its inevitable.  This is my favorite time of year. I love autumn and the flavors and smells that come with it. The crisp fresh air, the smell of the leaves falling from the trees, fire places starting to be used. Pumpkin spice lattes, Pumkin loaf, Cranberry this, Apple that..... I love getting

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The Soup Nazi I am not! I love soup. A few years ago, I was the Executive Chef at a college and ran the college cafe. We served 3 soups daily, one was an asian soup made by my Chinese cooks. The other two I made first thing in the morning when I got in. Since the college was a Health Professions school, the students and faculty wanted healthy food. I tried to make one of the soups a vegetarian or

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I havent been blogging much since my surgery a few weeks ago. Seems that my healing has been slowed down by ripping out more sutures. Good news is its not as bad as the last surgery AND I am trying to get a handle on eating right to lose weight and manage my Diabetes. I have been cooking lately because I have just been so bored, even though I have difficulty using my left arm. Trying to make new

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I recently discovered a new magazine called "Clean Eating". Improving your life one meal at a time is its catch phrase. Thought it sounded interesting so I bought it. I LOVE IT! Healthy, Green and Great food is what its all about. Tonite's dinner is a recipe I found inside. ( I actually asked for this magazine subscription for my a birthday gift ). Its Thai Tilapia with Basil and Pineapple

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Mom went to Uncle Guiseppe's yesterday and picked up some Chicken Sausage. I have to check the nutritional information on it, but it has to be better than Pork Sausage. Going through the refrigerator and pantry I decided to make Mom's old Sausage and Onion Casserole, only Healthy style. Instead of the Pork Sausage I will be using chicken sausage. Instead of frying up the onions and peppers, they

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Tonight we are serving up some Tex-Mex Sloppy Joe's. Found the recipe on one of my many Diabetic E-News letters. Trying to limit my intake of Red meats, I decided to go with some ground Turkey. Ground Turkey a nice lean protein makes this a nice low fat meal. I am always looking for new ways to use ground turkey. Its a fairly inexpensive lean meat and very versatile. You can pretty much

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It's friday nite,  and I didnt put much thought into tonite's dinner. We recently made a trip to Trader Joe's and as always bought some very cool food items. We did purchase some frozen Mahi Mahi Burgers. The ingredient list was pretty natural and healthy. The Nutritional values were also good. One burger is 110 calories, 1 total carbohydrate, 0 sugars and only 5grams of  fat. I thought I would

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I have been doing alot of reading about Diabetes, Healthy Eating and Healthy Living.  I subscribed to a couple of really good Diabetic and Healthy Lifestyle websites to get daily newsletters. I purchased 2 amazing magazines that I am asking for subscriptions to for my birthday. Clean Eating and Diabetic Living. Cant wait to get them! Thanks Mom!! I even bought a Diabetic cookbook. To change my

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Rainy days and Mondays always get me down? Not today though. Its a cool, rainy 71degrees here in Hauppauge NY. Thats a pleasure for me since I have not really enjoyed our hot and sunny summer. No beach and no pool. I cant wait until Autumn is here and the weather warrants an open window and a sheet at night.  And,  upon weighing myself this morning after a week of watching what I was eating and

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Eating Healthy can be a little work. Flavorful foods and new ideas isnt always easy for anyone, including a chef. Planning ahead makes it a little less daunting. I will continue to stress organization and preparation is key in any kitchen. A well stocked freezer, pantry and refrigerator can be a big help. Nothing is easier than going into the freezer and chosing your meat or fish. Pantry items

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Yesterday I made the decision as to what I would be cooking for dinner tonite. Whole Chicken flattened, marinated and grilled. Mmmmmm. First I removed the backbone so I could lay the chicken flat. Its easy to do, you dont need to be a chef with knife skills. Take your  Chef's knife or a santoku ( preferably sharp) and run it down the side of the back bone of the chicken. Do this to both sides.

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Last Christmas I asked for a Cuisinart Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt maker. I have used it a few times, but not as often as I should have. Today I decided I was going to make a frozen treat for dessert. I had a large bag of frozen mixed berries in the freezer and last weekend when I went food shopping, I picked up some plain low fat yogurt thinking about making some frozen yogurt. Mixed Berry Frozen

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We dont have to sacrifice taste to eat healthier. We just need to be creative, improvise and add herbs or spices to add flavor. Mom mentioned she bought an Eggplant and mentioned she felt like having Eggplant Parmesan. So sunday morning I decided to prepare the pan of EP for monday nites dinner. I peeled and sliced the eggplant to about 1/4 inch slices. Drizzled with olive oil and went outside

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Whats better than Pizza? not much! Dont we ALL love pizza? and how many kinds of pizza are there? Thin crust, Chicago, Sicilian, Grandma's, square, sauce, no sauce, veggies, cheese...I could go on and on. I decided this morning to take the Boboli 100% whole wheat pizza shells out of the freezer. There was some fresh mozzarella, gorgeous garden tomatoes and a big pot of fresh Basil in the yard.

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I decided to give my blog a new makeover. A fresh new look. Color and whimsy. Its a physical and mental makeover. New recipes, new ideas, new everything. Including me. I mentioned in my previous blog that I was having some health issues. Well I have all the results and fortunately I am blessed. Everything the doctor told me can be treated with diet and exercise. That being said, I have to change

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Its been quite a while since I posted anything on my blog. Health issues and some self pity prevented me from even wanting to cook or write. Thanks to some old friends from HS that I have reconnected with, and some awesome family members ( you know who you are CIL ), I think I'm back! LOL. The past couple of weeks I have been cooking alot. So far our summer has been pretty hot ( for NY ) so I am

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How many ways are there to cook chicken....I think enough to serve chicken every nite for a couple of years and not have the same thing twice....I am trying to eat a little lighter these days in hopes to lose a bit of that post summmer weight. Last week I thought about making that old comfort standby Chicken and Dumplings and decided that I needed a lighter fare. Chicken Marsala....one of my old

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Its been a couple of weeks since I last blogged. Christmas has come and gone..Its 2010. I have been sooo busy cooking, baking, visiting and basically just enjoying the time with family and friends. I was determined to not overwhelm myself with all the baking and shopping we normally go through in preparation of the holidays. Call me anal, but it serves its purpose. My Christmas shopping was

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Every Christmas since I am a young girl.....I can remember the women in my life baking. My Grandma spent days baking pies, cookies and other items. She would give me left over pie crust dough for me to roll out and sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on it. My aunt and my mom spent a couple days every year after Thanksgiving baking hundreds of cookies for the holidays. At some point I took over the

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Thanksgiving has come and gone. Too quickly if you ask me. We spend hours shopping, cooking for if we are lucky an hour at the most eating. Is it worth it? Probably not, but its tradition and memories. It has always been important to me to keep the traditions I grew up with. Certain things are meant to be kept the way they are. Holiday Dinners are one of them for me. Food is an important memory

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I love food! I love cooking! I love eating the food I cook! Most of all I love cooking for people I love and love them loving my food! These are definitely my favorite things. I decided to make this blog post in 2 parts. Hopefully as to not bore you.My fathers crepes are probably the most favorite thing that I cook, not only because it brings back all the best memories of my childhood but because

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I have just gotten back from my 2 week stay in Texas. My brother Scott calls it a working vacation for me, since I babysit the kids and cook for him. I call it Awesome! I get to spend time with the kids without "The Parents" around, which basically means Aunt Michele can spoil them,......AND...I get to cook for my brother. I have always loved cooking, especially people who like to eat and enjoy

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I am on my 2 week working vacation in Rowlett, Texas. My brother is going on a hunting trip so I get to babysit the kids while he and the wife are away. He arrived back from a duck hunt in Utah the same day I flew in to Dallas. He came home with some wild duck breasts from his hunt and some wild goose breast that his host gave to him. Tonite I am cooking the Goose! My first time cooking goose of

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Today was a crisp autumn day, in many ways...I figured I would help mom cook dinner tonite since I knew she wasnt feeling well. I whipped up some sausage and peppers ( I can prep alot faster than she can ) and decided since she had bought some nice apples to make an Apple Cranberry Crisp. I have made this dessert numerous times and change it up to suit my mood. Sometimes I use pears, sometimes

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I haven't posted in a while because I haven't been cooking anything worth writing about. I have been trying to get things together in the house before I go to Texas for 2 weeks. Tonite though, I made Turkey burgers with Homemade Oven Baked Steak Fries and a really big garden salad. Although I would have preferred an Angus burger, the turkey burger was pretty satisfying and definitely tasty.

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My brother Scott and his family live just outside of Dallas, Texas. I will be visiting them the beginning of November for a couple of weeks. My brother is an avid hunter and fisherman. Although we consider him still a New Yorker, he has most definitely acclimated to living in Texas. The last time I was there, we feasted upon most of his game. Venison, Wild Hog, and Halibut. He was out of stock of

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The other day, my mother mentioned she felt like having my Beef or Mushroom Barley Soup. Whenever mom brings up soup, I always think about my Papa John ( my grandfather on my mothers side) as he always made the BEST soups. He was a great cook for an Irishman. I would like to think mine is as good as his. Not knowing what I felt like cooking this morning, I contemplated going to the market and

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Last nights dinner was reminiscent of my summer, cooking on Fire Island. The fun part of working on Fire Island this season was that I got to change up the menu. We are not a fine dining restaurant and needed to change some of the menu to better reflect our vision. I added lighter and healthier fare such as wraps and paninis, and a few vegetarian items for those more health conscious. One of my

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The culinary definition of an Amuse Bouche...is a single, bite-sized hors d’œuvre. Amuse-bouche are different from appetizers in that they are not ordered from a menu by patrons, but, when served, are according to the chef's selection alone. These are served as an excitement of taste buds to both prepare the guest for the meal and to offer a glimpse into the chef's approach to cooking. That is

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To start off, I have to say, that working a 10 1/2 hour day 5 days a week, had definitely kept me from posting any new blogs. Thats over. I was recently let go from my job and now I spend a few hours each day, job searching, networking, and posting resumes online. The economy is, as we all know, bad. I will not be homeless, I will never be hungry, and I have anything I truly need. So I am

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Its really quite amusing when you sit and think about it. When we were kids, we would listen to our parents ( and that generation ) speak about things, saying to us " wait until you're our age" and we would laugh. Guess what? I am that age now. I am 47 and quite proud of it. I dont think I look as old as I am, I definitely enjoy life more at this age, and I dont think of myself as 47. In my daily

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Wow! All the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and in a blink of an eye its gone. Christmas has come and gone and I am sad to see it go, yet somewhat relieved. I attended a party at my cousin Karens, which was alot of fun. I got to see her brother Bruce, my son and his gf came and I drank a few Chocolate Martinis. Bruce and I slept over so we didnt have to drive home which was a blast!! A

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my true love gave to me.....5 lbs of mexican white tiger shrimp, 4 - 1/2 cups of rum, 3 kinds of mushrooms, 2 lbs of chorrizo, and a pound of jumbo lump crabmeat. OK so my true love didnt give it to me. Its only part of the many foods I am prepping for Christmas Eve at my moms house. I worked about 10 hours today at work, stopped at the supermarket for a few herbs and some salmon roe, hit

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Only 1 week til Christmas!! whohoooo. I am ready or as ready as someone so anally organized as me can be. The gifts are under the tree, the cookies are all baked, the packages that need to be mailed are at the UPS store and the post office and I am exhausted. All thats left to do is go to a couple parties and cook for Christmas Eve and a few things to bring to Christmas dinner. I was inspired by

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Put your knives down....oh wait thats Top Chef. Just a quick update for all my supporters out here in blog land. I guess I didnt make it to Hell's Kitchen. The last I heard was that we would be hearing from the producers in LA if we made the next cut. They would give us a call and fly us out to LA for one last audition. I should have heard by the end of the second week of December. I just

ChefMichelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16608695304459946810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522703237111428747.post-54593026435051602272008-11-30T20:11:00.003-05:002008-11-30T20:32:50.406-05:00

Here I am, back to the future. At least my future anyway. I am once again gainfully employed. I am now the Sous Chef for a major food service company. I wont mention any names here but we are one of the largest in the country ( revenue wise that is ). I have been trying to get a job with this company since I moved back to NY from FL three years ago. I have always wanted a corporate position and

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On friday Oct 17, I went into Manhattan with my brother Marc ( he was along for the support ) to audition for Hell's Kitchen Tv Series. It all started with my cousin Jill emailing me a link for applying for the show. That was a week or so before I went to Texas. While I was in Texas I received a call from the Casting Director for the show. I was a bit hesitant about the validity of the call, but

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Summer is officially over for me. Upon my return from vacationing in Texas, I have given in. The leaves are changing , the weather is getting cooler and summer clothes are being packed up for the season. Back to the grind as they say. I decided to go to Rowlett and visit my brother Scott and his family after my summer on FI. What would have normally been only a weeks vacation turned into 12 days.

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Summer has come and passed....the tired has barely last, Wake me up when Sept ends. My summer on FI has ended. Whoohooo. All good things must come to an end at some point right? It was time. I made it thru Labor Day weekend and man were we slammed hard. Tumbleweed tuesday is the day after Laborday as the town becomes a ghost town. I was sick in bed for those 2 days off and slept away most of it.

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The Lessard's came to Ocean Beach!! On tuesday, almost all of my family trekked out to Ocean Beach. Scoot, Ama, Cassie, JP and Jill, Nat and CC, Amanda and Jeanine all ferried over to see me and spend the day. We walked th 2 1/2 blocks to the beach, fortunately it was low tide and set up the chairs, blanket, umbrellas and paraphenalia. The kids immediately ran to the water. Jellyfish and sealice

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They told me the summer would pass in the blink of an eye. It must have since Santa was here on Fire Island last weekend. The restaurant was packed, band was playing and it was standing room only. When all of a sudden, I heard bells. In walked about 15 people ( maybe elves ) with Christmas Hawaiian shirts on and Santa hats. Then all of a sudden I heard the infamous.. HO HO HO, and what to my eyes

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Well another weekend has past, I cant believe I am here on Fire Island 13 weeks already. They told me it would fly by. They were right. Yesterday was my day off, and my brother Marc trekked over to visit me and spend the day. It was raining on the mainland and he was already not in a good mood coming over by ferry. It had rained briefly here and the sky was clearing up. I gave him a tour of Ocean

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I survived 4th of July weekend here on Fire Island. Everyone was warning me how busy we would be, I believe to encourage me both mentally and physically. The weather was great, people were arriving by the boat load, and we were prepped to the max. The town has a parade every year and the floats are made up by the community from their wagons. The kids had a ball, the adults drank alot of Rocket

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Where to start? On June 12 Kathy and I attended the Jimmy Buffet concert at Madison Square Garden. It was my second time seeing Jimmy, and I was ready this time. Hawaiian shirts and lei's and all, I was totally prepared. I dont consider myself a ParrotHead like some of his fans, but I have to say, he is one of the most down to earth, fun preformers I have seen. We danced at our seats for over 2 1

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Its my day off, unofficially. I am going to be off on thursday this week, as Kathy and I are going to the Jimmy Buffet concert at MSG. I started my day off this morning with a long walk on the beach. It was hot already and absolutely beautiful. I put in a good 2 miles walking in the sand, worked up a good sweat, and came back to finish off with a healthy breakfast of fresh fruit and an iced

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The picture I have posted is what I get to see everyday. I took a few minutes this evening, from prepping for the upcoming weekend, to go down to the dock and watch the sunset. I was alone, sitting on the dock of the bay, wasting time with my camera. The sun was a huge ball of orange, the waters were calm, the small wakes were slapping against the dock. I sat there for maybe all of 7 minutes

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You would think by the title of this post I have gotten quite tan, but this week that isnt the case. You see Memorial day weekend is opening weekend on Fire Island. The ferry must be standing room only, the streets are bustling with people carrying suitcases and pulling wagons ( Little Red flyer wagons are the carry on suitcase around here ), and vintage bicycles ( Phat Cycles ) are being ridden

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Well I am finally getting to check emails and post another blog. Been working 13-16 hours a day getting ready for opening weekend on Fire Island. The Island is bustling with workers all day long and at nite it gets as quiet as a ghost town. Until tommorow. I am told I am in for an awakening, as I have never spent a holiday or any other day here on FI. Thousands of people from what we Fire

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I have decided that this family needs another UNCENSORED blog. Banding up with the rest of my siblings and cousins will hopefully help the fight against Censorship in the Lessard family, and possibly help rid the world of it for good!! I have given the name of Michele's Mumblings to my blog, I thought it creative and probably true to form. I will promise to try not to ramble on with pointless

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