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Dare To Cook Seasonal Italian Cuisine, Winter,w/ Chef Tom Small (Blu-ray)

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Dare To Cook Seasonal Italian Cuisine, Winter,w/ Chef Tom Small (Blu-ray)ANTIPASTI: Goat Cheese Torta Roasted Beet Salad; Red Wine Vinaigrette Warm Mussel Salad with Olives, Oranges, Fennel and Arugula Giardiniera with Cured Meats; Local Clams in Acqua Pazza PRIMI: Butternut Squash Lasagne; Bolognese Pappardelle SECONDI: Pork Tenderloin with Garlic and Sage on a bed of Roasted Cauliflower Braised Lemon Chicken DOLCI: Flourless Chocolate Cake Caramelized Apple Bread Pudding Executive Chef Tom Small's culinary expertise has

  • ANTIPASTI:
  • Goat Cheese Torta
  • Roasted Beet Salad; Red Wine Vinaigrette
  • Warm Mussel Salad with Olives, Oranges, Fennel and Arugula
  • Giardiniera with Cured Meats; Local Clams in Acqua Pazza
  • PRIMI: Butternut Squash Lasagne; Bolognese Pappardelle
  • SECONDI: Pork Tenderloin with Garlic and Sage on a bed of Roasted Cauliflower
  • Braised Lemon Chicken
  • DOLCI: Flourless Chocolate Cake
  • Caramelized Apple Bread Pudding

Executive Chef Tom Small's culinary expertise has been acquired at some of the finest restaurants in California including Smitty's Grill, TAPS Fish House and San Antonio Winery. He also spent several years cooking on private vintage rail cars traveling all over the country. Tom and his family moved to Washington State drawn by the warm community, beautiful landscape and amazing selection of local food products. Tom Small is currently Executive Chef of Armondo's in Renton, Washington.

Chef Small grew up in Southern California, where he received his inspiration for cooking from his mom. Originally, he pursued a piano performance degree and though he continues to play the piano and sing regularly, he was drawn into the restaurant business thru his love of food and a passion for entertaining. Tom has a diverse culinary background including education, development and journalism in addition to his management in the kitchen. He teaches a number of cooking classes and writes frequent culinary articles. He has a passion for local and seasonal products as well as a firm foundation in technique and classical cuisine. He enjoys food that is based on essential principles of Italian cooking: Simple treatment of food, seasonal and local ingredients and presentation that is clean and natural to the eye.

Tom takes great pleasure in showing you not only how to prepare Seasonal Italian Cuisine, but also demonstrates proper knife handling techniques, how to select the best ingredients, and all the little tricks, tips and techniques he's learned working in restaurants. 91 minutes

REVIEW: Video Librarian
Chef Tom Small is a soft-spoken, practical teacher (no gimmicks or catchphrases) who here offers effective step-by-step demonstrations of recipes that require no exotic ingredients or difficult techniques. A native Californian who's currently executive chef at a restaurant outside Seattle, Small prepares five antipasti (appetizers), two pasta dishes served as first courses, two entrees, and two desserts in a home-kitchen setting.

Recipes include giardiniera (vegetables pickled in water and vinegar), a beet salad, a mussel salad with olives and oranges, butternut squash lasagna, chicken with lemons and roasted vegetables, pork tenderloin with garlic and sage, flourless chocolate cake, and caramel apple bread pudding. Small also demonstrates simple tips for efficiently chopping vegetables, peeling fruits, and cutting up a whole chicken. Individual recipes may be selected from a menu, and ingredients are listed onscreen (as well as on a text paper insert). The other titles in the Dare to Cook-Seasonal Italian Cuisine series are Spring, Summer, and Fall. Highly recommended. Aud: P. (M. Puffer-Rothenberg) 3.5 of 4 star rating

REVIEW: Library Journal
Dare To Cook, Seasonal Italian Cuisine with Chef Tom Small. Washington State, based chef Tom Small has all the right ingredients to be an outstanding cooking coach: a graceful way of moving about in limited space and using standard equipment; mellow, unhurried speech; and a creative use of ingredients. He here prepares inspired Italian dishes in what looks like his home kitchen and on his outdoor deck.

He is a chef who knows what he is doing and can convey it to others in an easy fashion. Each disc includes a variety of creative recipes for appetizers and salads, entrees, desserts, and drinks appropriate to the featured season as well as a demonstration of special skills. For example, on Summer, he shows how to debone a whole chicken; on Fall, how to make sausage without special equipment. From first to last, this reviewer, a dedicated amateur, wanted to go right to her kitchen to prepare some of his dishes and felt certain she could do so with only one more viewing. Small is a serious, straightforward, and knowledgeable professional and a splendid teacher. This series is highly recommended for academic cooking classes, high school and above, and for public library patrons wanting to expand their kitchen repertoire., Sheila S. Intner, Prof. Emerita, Simmons GSLIS at Mount Holyoke Coll., So. Hadley, MA DTC01

REVIEW: The Midwest Book Review
Chef Tom Small hosts Seasonal Italian Cuisine, a set of four high-definition DVDs featuring step-by-step walkthroughs of how to traditional Italian methods to create classic dishes. "Spring" (73 min.) includes recipes for Tricolor Salad, Pesto Pizze, Lamb Chops, and Spring Frittata; "Summer" (78 min.) includes Watermelon Sald with Feta and Mint, Turkey Burger with Provolone, Fusilli with Grilled Vegetables, and a special feature on how to de-bone a chicken; "Fall" (92 min.) includes Tuscan White Bean Soup, Stracotto, Biscotti, and special features on knives and how to make homemade sausage without special equipment; and "Winter" (91 min.) includes "Goat Cheese Torta", "Butternut Squash Lasagne", and "Bread Pudding - Caramelized Apple".

All of these superb, user-friendly DVDs are also available in Blu-ray and downloadable versions for the same price, and all are enthusiastically recommended for cooks of all skill and experience levels, as well as public library DVD collections.

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Arianna
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★★★★★ 4
Not a great mop, but it is a great vacuum.
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The Roborock Q7 L5 has been a great addition to the cleaning arsenal of my home. I have a 1200sqft one story home with tile and laminate flooring, and it has essentially removed my need to vacuum every day, or even every week, and I have 6 cats. I have had it set to vacuum every night in the common areas of my home, and it is quiet enough that it does not disturb my husband and I when we are sleeping. I only have to empty it out once or twice a week. You MUST make sure your common areas are cleaned up of debris on the floor, and to set no-go zones where you cannot clean up clutter on the floor. It WILL eat cords, shoestrings, animal toys, etc. It WILL get stuck under things, which are where no-go zones come into play. It struggles with cleaning up litter, so I still have to sweep the floor around my cats litter boxes. However, it picks up the cat hair fairly well. It also crosses thresholds VERY well, and will vacuum my area rugs and shower mats that are not affixed to the floor with tape without sucking them up like a normal vacuum does. Some complaints I do have with this model... - It CANNOT be integrated into Home Assistant at this time, which was one of the things I was excited about. Something about a new firmware they started using that is not compatible with the integration starting around this model type. Unfortunate, but whatever. - The mopping function leaves more to be desired. If you put water in the unit, it WILL leak, even if you don't have the mop mount installed or are mopping, so sometimes you end up with little water drips on the floor. I also find that it does not do a very good job at mopping at all, even with wetting the cloth first, but for tile and laminate flooring, dry mopping is fine, so I have been leaving the mop mount installed without mopping to pick up dirt and dust that the vacuum part misses. - The filter was installed incorrectly from factory, and it took me a few weeks to realize that. I have no idea how much dust got sucked up into the motor, so definitely check that when you first get it. - The mop cloth is poorly sewn. It maybe lasted two uses before it started falling apart. Fortunately, I sew, so it can be easily fixed, but I would have hoped that these would have been a little more high quality. - Expect to buy more replacement parts. Especially mop cloths. You will need multiple mop cloths if you are using the roborock to mop with. Overall though, most of my complaints are with the mopping function of this machine. Since I don't mop very often anyway, due to damaged laminate flooring, it works fine for me. Not having to vacuum the entire house every day, or sweeping the kitchen manually every time after I cook is a huge time saver. If you need a robot vacuum, and not a mop, I feel like the Roborock Q7 L5 is a great purchase.
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Pawtucket, US
★★★★★ 5
Strong Vacuum Performance, Weak Mop Function
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The Roborock Q7 L5 delivers strong vacuum performance. The suction is powerful and picks up pet hair, dust, and debris with ease. Floors look clean after each run, and the dual anti‑tangle system helps keep the brush clear even in homes with heavy shedding. Navigation is smooth and efficient. It moves around furniture accurately, avoids obstacles well, and returns to the dock reliably when it needs to recharge. The mopping feature is quiet, which is a nice benefit. It operates with very low noise, but the cleaning action is minimal. The mop pad mostly drags behind the unit and offers only a light wipe, so it doesn’t replace a real mop. The vacuum itself is louder, which is expected from a machine with strong suction. It offers different suction levels, so you can adjust the noise and power depending on the room or flooring. What stands out: Excellent suction power Great at picking up pet hair Smart obstacle avoidance Quiet mop function Multiple suction levels Reliable self‑charging What could improve: Mop function is weak Vacuum noise increases at higher suction levels Overall, this is an excellent vacuum with strong cleaning performance and smart features. If vacuuming is your priority, it’s a great choice. The mop is more of a bonus than a true cleaning tool.
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Ian
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★★★★★ 5
Huge Upgrade to my trusty V1 Robot
We've had one of the first model robot vacuums from the og manufacturer which has been a workhorse for us for years! It's the drunk uncle of robots though, no bells and whistles, just your basic robot that runs into everything but gets the job done in some random chaotic pattern. Seeing this on sale and finally just going for it to see how good newer models have gotten (no more separate virtual wall lazers, a nice easy to use app, no more bumping around clumsily!, and more). Well, long story short, they have gotten soooo much better and I'm incredibly glad I gave this one a try. It's is running flawlessly, cleans very well, i love the ease of the app and setting up no-go zones, and pretty much everything else has been an upgrade. Looking forward to many years of our new bot and a cleaner, less noisy, less drunk uncle of a bot around the house. (Don't worry, drunk uncle is still getting his time in down in the basement. He's old reliable at this point and will go as long as he wants to.) This is a great vac that performs wonderfully with all the functions and conveniences I need (i haven't tried the mopping function yet but didn't really buy it for that) at an incredible price point, esp when on sale. If you're looking to upgrade like I did, it's well worth it. If you're looking at your first robot and are unsure if it's something you really need.... trust me, get it. It will save you time, knock one thing off your million item to-do list, and will soon become something you are unsure why it took so long to try.
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Charity F.
West Palm Beach, US
★★★★★ 2
Updated Review: error code and quit working after only 3 weeks.
Update! I absolutely loved this vacuum.....for about 3 weeks. I ran it every day. I loved loved loved the mapping feature that allowed me to select which rooms of my house I wanted it to clean. It did a pretty good job and I was so happy with it. I took good care of it and cleaned the filter and emptied it often. It was great ...until it didn't work anymore. Fan error: error 155 called for me to factory reset the vacuum which I did 3 times but it still wouldn't go more than about 30 seconds before stopping and giving me the internal error code again. After researching the code (because the website and help book on the app don't list this code in their troubleshooting guide) apparently this is a common thing for this particular model (the Q5 pro) to do. And most of the time it isn't fixable. We were still within the time frame to return it through Amazon so we decided to do that rather than contact customer service in hopes that they might fix it but not and then not be able to return it anymore. Sadly I won't be buying this brand again for a while. My previous vacuum (roomba) lasted me 5 years and still works, just has old technology. I was really hoping for another vacuum with newer technology like house mapping to last me a long time as well. I most likely will be returning to the Roomba brand. Which is sad because this seemed like a great vacuum with great features for a good price. I hope roborock improves their models and fixes these error issues and maybe one day I'll give them a try again. Maybe. Original review: I love this vacuum. I had another brand that was 5 year old technology and just caused more headache than help. This one is a huge improvement. I love how it initially mapped out my house and I was able to divide and name the rooms in the app. Now I can tell it to clean only certain rooms or the whole house and it does great and doing only the rooms I want it to do. I connected it to my Google speaker as well and now I can tell google to make my roborock clean my kitchen. I can also control it and monitor it from the app even when I'm not home. The mop feature isn't great. It really doesn't clean, more just puts water on the floor and leaves dirty streaks. But I didn't buy it for the mop function. If it does a great job vacuuming, which it does, I'm happy with it.
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Robot Vacuum
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Our robot vacuum is called Mildred and she works fine.
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