I finally got it!!!!! My very own Time Life "Foods of the World" collection!!! Ok for those wondering yes I have gone mad because this very hard to find cookbooks are a true treasure. 27 countries 54 cookbooks total! This was a collection from the late 60's to the early 70's from the long gone 'time life' publishers. The collection was never sold in stores and was only available to subscribers. All of the above makes it very hard to find...a true cookbook collectors joy! A true treasure even though it is old it contains and depicts world cuisines with such detail!

1. American Cooking
2. American Cooking: Creole & Acadican
3. American Cooking: The Eastern Heartland
4. American Cooking: The Great West
5. American Cooking: The Melting Pot
6. American Cooking:New England
7. American Cooking: The Northwest
8. American Cooking: Southern Style
9. The Cooking of the British Isles
10. The Cooking of the Caribbean Islands
11. The Cooking of China
12. The Cooking of Germany
13. The Cooking of India
14. The Cooking of Italy
15. The Cooking of Japan
16. The Cooking of Provincial France
17. The Cooking of Scandinavia
18. The Cooking of Spain & Portugal
19. The Cooking of Vienna 's Empire
20. African Cooking
21. Classic French Cooking
22. Russian Cooking
23. Latin American Cooking
24. Middle Eastern Cooking
25. Pacific & Southeast Asian Cooking
26. A Quintet of Cuisines
27. Wines and Spirits

YES!!!! we got a Belgian Waffle Maker!!! for thanksgiving!!! LOL ok it was at a great after thanksgiving price so we couldn't say no LOL it is WONDERFUL!!!! it makes a waffle like in 3 minutes!!!! and they come out so nice with a crunchy exterior and a moist donut like interior!!!

I am thankful for a very very blesses year. / Here is our HUGE! turkey which was a pain to handle in and out of the oven, not to mention the work it took prep it.

Hungry? LOL here is Fred Flinstone's plate!

"Wild Mushroom Soup" The picture doesn't do justice to this wonderful creamy-licious soup.

BEST SALAD EVER!!!!

DELICIOUS and fresh Ahhhh! what can I say so so many flavors at play here and they al marry so well!!! LOL The sallad is some Romain lettuce mixxed with bibb lettuce then comes: Bacon, avocado, pomegrante,granny smith apples, tangerine and ruby grapefruit slices. And to top it some Sour cream - yogurt dressing with a hint of curry!!!! MMM Magnificent!!!! First time ever I wanted seconds on a salad!!!!

Gravy, the real thing no envelope mixes here! LOL :) and the wonderful canned Cranberry Jelly sorry the can for this one is always better.... Look forward to it every year! LOL :)

"Gratin Dauphinoise" This petit homage to Julia Child. I tried there her first recipe on public TV for the 60's show "The French Chef" which BTW is availiable on DVD through Netflix! VIVA! Julia Child

Corn bread, Chestnut and Sausage Dressing MMM super!!

French green beans with scallions with lemon zest + almonds.

'Tarte Tatin' this french classic ended our thanksgiving meal. It was d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s! The caramel infused the apples with so so much flavor and it was quick to make.

Whole wheat pecan bread my mother made.

Chef Warner's Creation!!!! Caviar with a Lemon piggy a la "Jaques Pepin"... the garnish was Great but the caviar .... well not my thing...very salty!

Group 1: Swedish Meatballs, pg. 902

Group 2: Rumaki, pg. 903

Group 3: Stuffed wontons with Apricot Sauce / Aerial view of Crab Garnish by "Master Chef" Mitchell!!! Go Mitchell "Pepin"!

Group 3: Stuffed wontons with Apricot Sauce / Close up on Crab Garnish detail by Mitchell!!!!!!!!! Go Mitchell!!!!! It was all his idea! LOL

Group 3: Stuffed wontons with Apricot Sauce, pg. 904 / I decorated this one! LOL well tried to! Well thanks to all Mitchell, Joseph & Travis

Group 4: Stuffed Mushroom caps, pg. 917 MMM they where Good!

Group 5: Kalamata Olives ans Asiago Crostini
= Now that is some Granished Crostini!!!!! = Go Jose!

Crostini detail... see the tomato bunnies? and the lil'cherry tomato bunny!

Crostini - Detail [See the Red tomato bunny! and under ir there is a black olive bunny!!!!] WOW Vive! Jaques Pepin LOL

Lemon Poopy Seed Cookies ... not a big fan of lemon but this cookies tasted MMM!!!

Biscotti from Advisory Committee Dinner, 11/3/05

Hi Jeff! or is it Waldo? J/K here is Jeff acting all un-conspicuous as he guards our dishes right before presentation time.

Everybody was running around since we where running out of time for our in class presentations.

Hurry! Hurry!! Hurry!!! Its presentation time!Here we have Mitchell and Tu right before the BIG "taco stand explosion" that made our beloved kitchen burst with a paprika dust trail and slices of chicken and avocado that could be traced a couple of miles from the campus. don't worry all found pieces are edible they where wearing gloves!!!!!!!!! LOL : )

HEY!!!!!!!!! Andrew and Jose Grilling the amazing REUBENS!!!!!!!!!

A la Carte Class / Group 1: Monte Cristo Sandwich with green goddess dressing. I got to work on this group for this week's class assignment. The Monte Cristos where nice but all of that fat/oil was too much for me, really the Rubens where better and Delicious! done by Andrew and Jose and...? anyhow they where super good! Greetings to ALL specially my buddies Erika and Jose... see you next Thursday!

A la Carte Class / Group 1: side for monte cristo sandwich / Fried oakra battered in almond flour by ever creative of the far side: Travis

A la Carte Class / Group 1: Fruit salad (Dew Melon,orange,grapefruit and almond filberts topped with brown sugar)

A la Carte Class / Group 2: side for: Kentucky hot brown sandwich / Chips and Salsa

A la Carte Class / Group 2: Kentucky hot brown sandwich

A la Carte Class / Group 3: Southwestern grilled chicken wraps in the making

A la Carte Class / Group 3: Southwestern grilled chicken wrap and southwestern coleslaw

A la Carte Class / Group 4: Club sandwich and potato salad

A la Carte Class / Group 5: Reuben Sandwich

A la Carte Class / Group 5: Reuben Sandwich

Andrew and Mitchell the "Flambe Duo"
So I was about my business hands in biscuit dough when I hear "Evelyn, Evelyn come take a picture of this!" and alas here it is Mitchell and Andrew masters of mischief setting some onions I think, on fire!!!!!!!!

WOW!!!!!!!!!!! now this is life mark event here we have it the flame of chef's glory in the hands of Mitchell... a perfect tall glorious flame [[[CLICK to enlarge and relive this magical moment!]]] LOL :)

Andrew doing is signature pose

Ok so I ask Andrew take a picture! take a picture! so i can be famous too and alas here it is blury! LOL :)

Finally!!!!!!! the awaited exclusive copyrighted release of a very,very exclusive picture of......... Chef Katrina Warner and Chef Denise Woods!!! They had proved elusive to the camera until this exclusive paparazzi pictures caught them just before Tom Perini was introduced.

TOM PERINI visited TCC/SE campus on 10/20/05 and spoke to Faculty and Culinary students about chuck wagon cooking (cowboy). He had so many interesting historic notes he shared with us regarding the early Texan food. * For more info on him and to see his restaurant web visit: http://www.periniranch.com

Tom Perini demonstrating the Dutch Oven cooking method.

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! greetings class buddies LOL here we have Mitchell, Andrew and Katie posing with the chuck wagon

Inside the "Chuckwagon" (food wagon) that Texas Cowboys used in the mid 1800's. The big pot is a "Dutch oven" which we where told was used for doing corn bread and other biscuit type breads. Very interesting I want to get one and use it!!! set the back yard on fire!!!!!!!!!!

This was the sample chuckwagon food for the after speech presentation of Tom Perini