Jump to content
  • Welcome to the eG Forums, a service of the eGullet Society for Culinary Arts & Letters. The Society is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the culinary arts. These advertising-free forums are provided free of charge through donations from Society members. Anyone may read the forums, but to post you must create a free account.

Chocdoc and Friends Munch Michigan


Recommended Posts

1A98D938-E7A5-41F3-873F-3CFBD5209139.thumb.jpeg.67b2a5194ec92650f4ab6f61eb459d3f.jpegB10F1EA1-B1DE-4E85-A0C8-7AAF25B1159B.thumb.jpeg.aa2aa1f604883360650ce0d5138fe14b.jpegACFD942A-361C-4A8B-81B2-1ED9F987EC71.thumb.jpeg.1ff0e21311647d326fd8e63a765fc54a.jpeg

Sorry for the delayed response, here’s my dinner from last night at Tosi’s. My entree was house-made bucatini, burrata cheese and arugula with a tomato basil cream sauce - heavenly!  Minestrone for soup course and arancini appetizer. And a lovely 2017 malbec. It was a satisfying meal. 

  • Like 12
  • Delicious 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

THANKS, Keri......

  • now I am trolling the Zingerman website.   And went back to the French Feast one from here in NJ …. and I have 5 lbs of Rancho Gordo beans to cook …….
  • DAMN YOU eGullet!!!!!!!!!
  • 🤧🤭
  • Haha 5

Nothing is better than frying in lard.

Nothing.  Do not quote me on this.

 

Linda Ellerbee

Take Big Bites

Link to comment
Share on other sites

26 minutes ago, YetiChocolates said:

Sorry for the delayed response,

I thought they had forgotten you! 

  • Like 1

Anna Nielsen aka "Anna N"

...I just let people know about something I made for supper that they might enjoy, too. That's all it is. (Nigel Slater)

"Cooking is about doing the best with what you have . . . and succeeding." John Thorne

Our 2012 (Kerry Beal and me) Blog

My 2004 eG Blog

Link to comment
Share on other sites

46AF5D26-0934-43B2-897F-7441BCEEB2D6.thumb.jpeg.323f5f04b24aa3bd6fb625b2179847f9.jpeg

 

13465E22-6FE5-4A5E-ABC6-61FCBAF1FCE0.thumb.jpeg.0bfcc3fde1ce53e787c5c867df52d438.jpeg

 

8CC88720-EB60-4DA8-B2AE-4C6704D9BEFC.thumb.jpeg.e529d267cdf55346eee081add47d34d1.jpeg

 

F0AF48A7-9CA2-4234-8067-C8227844F1A3.thumb.jpeg.004087b128e412745d14ead8c42288f5.jpeg

 

380AD18F-DF10-4856-BD17-80E67B541C1D.thumb.jpeg.73d741109ad610573c5c076467ccfe25.jpeg
 

23CF8E36-0BE9-4563-9B86-CD6CAD5C068C.thumb.jpeg.19fd8116e26816bb93dc1213c16a9b8f.jpeg
 

Lunch today was beef done with Ginger and some thing else that I have forgotten. Serve with cilantro and onions as well as a poblano salsa. Homemade corn tortillas.

 

 

  • Like 13
  • Delicious 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

4 hours ago, suzilightning said:

THANKS, Keri......

  • now I am trolling the Zingerman website.   And went back to the French Feast one from here in NJ …. and I have 5 lbs of Rancho Gordo beans to cook …….
  • DAMN YOU eGullet!!!!!!!!!
  • 🤧🤭

 

Only 5 lbs?

 

  • Haha 2

Cooking is cool.  And kitchen gear is even cooler.  -- Chad Ward

Whatever you crave, there's a dumpling for you. -- Hsiao-Ching Chou

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Few more pictures of the workspace with more in the spray closet.

 

IMG_0815.thumb.jpg.b766c60185ccbf794601585cb8ecdd90.jpg

 

Room on the level up with items for sale.

 

IMG_0817.thumb.jpg.e88fb8866eead16f7a4dfccbcc17a4cf.jpg

 

Dishpit, supplies and work in progress in proofer. Room with fridge and compressor behind.

 

IMG_0819.thumb.jpg.f719bf4b74dd6aad4ae8170242791ce6.jpg

 

heater for colored cocoa butter

 

 

 

IMG_0820.thumb.jpg.a61a416cbf4e4ac8cbefc25c35309a9c.jpg

IMG_0821.thumb.jpg.06a5c86dfcce92db280ed1078c8f4835.jpg

 

IMG_0823.thumb.jpg.3a7980ea48dc954e10c698481c7e98b4.jpg

 

IMG_0835.thumb.jpg.90476937645712117b6592a77f1ac0a9.jpg

 

Everyone needs a gilt drawer!

 

IMG_0838.thumb.jpg.0ad73f12c8842d93d7c3ba79929cd098.jpg

 

more work in progress.

 

  • Like 11
Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

Dinner tonight at Rye Belles.

 

IMG_0865.thumb.jpg.3f1493672e8304722bfdec6b80410195.jpg

 

 

IMG_0865.thumb.jpg.3f1493672e8304722bfdec6b80410195.jpg

 

 

 

IMG_0866.thumb.jpg.5b131ade30193e6724fb9fc29516cff5.jpg

 

 

 

Negroni with something lacking

 

 

IMG_0870.thumb.jpg.49f3c4ef7032955419651bcfeb897146.jpg

 

 

 

The sweet vermouth that was lacking

 

IMG_0867.thumb.jpg.b6c3d00150ba4579c0a0634e6b873834.jpg\

 

Old Fashioned for @YetiChocolates

 

 

 

 IMG_0868.thumb.jpg.2977c1cd24235ba2a364c196b7642028.jpg

 

wine for @Gwbyls

 

IMG_0869.thumb.jpg.3a3fc8c358af7878f932450867e6a9a2.jpg

 

Cider for @jbates

 

IMG_0874.thumb.jpg.723674b1604ed23df4a4fa7024f2ea6b.jpg

 

IMG_0875.thumb.jpg.8fdef9c120171ec8fea49e949d623af1.jpg

 

IMG_0876.thumb.jpg.fc7ec8abe0d0b5cd6dbdd5c8305a8308.jpg

 

IMG_0878.thumb.jpg.bbc7ff345ca30a29043a60989338659d.jpg

 

IMG_0879.thumb.jpg.73487cea4947c1953cb655f4e4579bb3.jpg

 

IMG_0880.thumb.jpg.a80f75160993816c02fd51b206ec5979.jpg

 

IMG_0881.thumb.jpg.cdec9cff903d86a96fe115ee49569b1b.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMG_0864.jpg

Edited by Kerry Beal (log)
  • Like 16
Link to comment
Share on other sites

IMG_0952.thumb.jpg.f615a22d3cba0a173ffc2b281e883713.jpg

 

IMG_0955.thumb.jpg.763dbd9f61d037ba46525e434fe3d644.jpg

 

IMG_0959.thumb.jpg.dc0ca41576adbb52bad9937188f5ba49.jpg

 

IMG_0960.thumb.jpg.c2c6f32a38a95f7a929d62418df80adf.jpg

 

IMG_0961.thumb.jpg.7cfe62ae012320950a5662b566aa1bfe.jpg

 

IMG_0962.thumb.jpg.eb7664c17502c60eb524a371c66c4c71.jpg

 

IMG_0963.thumb.jpg.7689eb0ef86a4df2f66e9ac58d4c8123.jpg

 

IMG_0964.thumb.jpg.d97c4492fbdc6931b398074b7c6d5d6d.jpg

 

IMG_0966.thumb.jpg.da5ce4e366f567a0394a9d7e4a63e0df.jpg

 

IMG_0967.thumb.jpg.8bfb7369eca8f88e5abbd736828372b7.jpg

 

IMG_0968.thumb.jpg.cdce799054ccdd6d18fe98aabe081d5c.jpg

 

IMG_0969.thumb.jpg.41fe9771619a3de2b21d318216898ef8.jpg

 

IMG_0970.thumb.jpg.997ff0997e5e3aa71708f20334a2801b.jpg

 

IMG_0979.thumb.jpg.20ad9c08b8de5e3fbf6a4c95c920e47c.jpg

 

IMG_0982.thumb.jpg.402c631563f75445aa36f5fef7d4a5af.jpg

 

IMG_0985.thumb.jpg.7b353ea3e5cc5e41a7c7a84e337e4441.jpg

 

IMG_0987.thumb.jpg.fecff922536841f6a1ce75bfe956b594.jpg

 

IMG_0988.thumb.jpg.5360da2a5029d053c82ccc4bc973aeb7.jpg

 

IMG_0989.thumb.jpg.ffd7925f72a63dd3b28d530007c9c45e.jpg

 

IMG_0993.thumb.jpg.8c751865584b9b1e0755487bb560de57.jpg

 

IMG_0994.thumb.jpg.88858ce9a65c9ea3bbc16fb861c612c4.jpg

 

IMG_1006.thumb.jpg.85cf658b3ea01ba72dabec5d92770e6d.jpg

 

IMG_1011.thumb.jpg.7dc6b1c98849a859d3f7b6852000c75b.jpg

 

IMG_1016.thumb.jpg.ef8aa7378c460123a3a471a20f249688.jpg

 

IMG_1023.thumb.jpg.f41b0294acb2030fe979fab55381d1eb.jpg

 

IMG_1030.thumb.jpg.f1436fb572b01377649ac3abbd168205.jpg

 

May I just say that we all became so attached to this man and his family in the past 3 days that we were all pretty much in tears when we left. 

  • Like 20
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Dinner tonight at the Silver Harbour

 

IMG_1036.thumb.jpg.7081e21ddb34aec3dbdda7994e0ba664.jpg

 

Pretty respectable Old Fashioned.

 

IMG_1038.thumb.jpg.bfe0190a5c4272f24b98c6c8e533316d.jpg

 

Cheese curds

 

IMG_1039.thumb.jpg.7bfef25d29db95bca00258469723cfe0.jpg

 

Waffle fry nachos - didn't make much of a dent,

 

IMG_1040.thumb.jpg.d124b9b7f15a5c2cf9e852a6f2091749.jpg

 

Fish and waffle chips for @Gwbyls

  • Like 13
Link to comment
Share on other sites

"Spectacular" doesn't begin to describe it. As a fan of art deco, I especially love the pieces in the third and fourth pictures. You got to take your work back home, yes?

  • Like 3

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

Link to comment
Share on other sites

8 hours ago, Alex said:

"Spectacular" doesn't begin to describe it. As a fan of art deco, I especially love the pieces in the third and fourth pictures. You got to take your work back home, yes?

Yes - divided up - some pieces remain back with Luis who has plans for some of them!

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

47785BE1-FBBA-432C-A66D-BE1F0E70AFF7.thumb.jpeg.06593dc618ada0d43938e4091c15a6cf.jpeg24A58841-04F3-4ADC-A49B-0C6C3164262B.thumb.jpeg.1529ad52e43d08d25bd0abd20d824c9b.jpeg
 

Here was my dinner and drinks - fish n chips and a beer flight. Would definitely recommend Silver Harbor beers, especially their strawberry rhubarb sour and imperial stout. Fish and chips were good, although admittedly I ate so many chocolates at Luis’s place I didn’t eat much for dinner...

 

  • Like 8
Link to comment
Share on other sites

9 hours ago, Kerry Beal said:

IMG_0952.thumb.jpg.f615a22d3cba0a173ffc2b281e883713.jpg

 

IMG_0955.thumb.jpg.763dbd9f61d037ba46525e434fe3d644.jpg

 

IMG_0959.thumb.jpg.dc0ca41576adbb52bad9937188f5ba49.jpg

 

IMG_0960.thumb.jpg.c2c6f32a38a95f7a929d62418df80adf.jpg

 

IMG_0961.thumb.jpg.7cfe62ae012320950a5662b566aa1bfe.jpg

 

IMG_0962.thumb.jpg.eb7664c17502c60eb524a371c66c4c71.jpg

 

IMG_0963.thumb.jpg.7689eb0ef86a4df2f66e9ac58d4c8123.jpg

 

IMG_0964.thumb.jpg.d97c4492fbdc6931b398074b7c6d5d6d.jpg

 

IMG_0966.thumb.jpg.da5ce4e366f567a0394a9d7e4a63e0df.jpg

 

IMG_0967.thumb.jpg.8bfb7369eca8f88e5abbd736828372b7.jpg

 

IMG_0968.thumb.jpg.cdce799054ccdd6d18fe98aabe081d5c.jpg

 

IMG_0969.thumb.jpg.41fe9771619a3de2b21d318216898ef8.jpg

 

IMG_0970.thumb.jpg.997ff0997e5e3aa71708f20334a2801b.jpg

 

IMG_0979.thumb.jpg.20ad9c08b8de5e3fbf6a4c95c920e47c.jpg

 

IMG_0982.thumb.jpg.402c631563f75445aa36f5fef7d4a5af.jpg

 

IMG_0985.thumb.jpg.7b353ea3e5cc5e41a7c7a84e337e4441.jpg

 

IMG_0987.thumb.jpg.fecff922536841f6a1ce75bfe956b594.jpg

 

IMG_0988.thumb.jpg.5360da2a5029d053c82ccc4bc973aeb7.jpg

 

IMG_0989.thumb.jpg.ffd7925f72a63dd3b28d530007c9c45e.jpg

 

IMG_0993.thumb.jpg.8c751865584b9b1e0755487bb560de57.jpg

 

IMG_0994.thumb.jpg.88858ce9a65c9ea3bbc16fb861c612c4.jpg

 

IMG_1006.thumb.jpg.85cf658b3ea01ba72dabec5d92770e6d.jpg

 

IMG_1011.thumb.jpg.7dc6b1c98849a859d3f7b6852000c75b.jpg

 

IMG_1016.thumb.jpg.ef8aa7378c460123a3a471a20f249688.jpg

 

IMG_1023.thumb.jpg.f41b0294acb2030fe979fab55381d1eb.jpg

 

IMG_1030.thumb.jpg.f1436fb572b01377649ac3abbd168205.jpg

 

May I just say that we all became so attached to this man and his family in the past 3 days that we were all pretty much in tears when we left. 


I was definitely in tears, it was an amazing three days. Luis has such a good soul. 

  • Like 5
Link to comment
Share on other sites

This is great! Thanks a lot for sharing.

 

I was in contact with Luis about his lessons, and he mentioned some three day class where you only were 3-4 people. I guess this is it? Tempting to go for one of these.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

×
×
  • Create New...