Culinary Clinician Gifts

Doctor uses thermometer to check chicken.

'Put an egg in the bowl and beat it with the whisk.'

"Your food didn't melt, young man... this is the soup course."

Come dine with me!

Counting ribs

'..and we thank thee for these bio-engineered vegetables..'

On August 14, 2011 at app. 2:00 p, Derek Winslow made scientific history by converting an item of the animal kingdom into an item of the plant kingdom.

"I know you didn't order the snails, sir. They're complimentary with the salad."

"And the cheese in your omelette? Cheddar, Brie, aged Gouda, Morbier, Torta del Casar, Double Gloucester, Époisses, Shropshire blue, or American?"

"And which regional cuisine would you be interested in this evening—Northwester, Southwestern, Southeastern, or Northeastern?"

6 Brothers Falafel

"You're the lid to my pot."

"I have no idea what, hic, went wrong. I did everything, hic, Mario Batali said."

Soup of the month.

"Rump roast?"

As you like it - 'Waiter, chicken with watercress please' 'I'm sorry sir we haven't any chicken left ... but if you wish I bring you a larger portion of watercress...'

'He's trying to put some magic into my recipes.'

"Tonight, perhaps Mrs. Lewis would prefer this quiet little table for two from which to send back her entrée?"

"You say your crème needs more Brulée?"

"I'm so proud - she's already learning her shapes."

Picking pastries.

"First cook the cake, then apply icing sugar and candles..."

Cookbooks

"You're lost. This is Mom's apple pie."

'I started out washing dishes, but when the dishwater tasted better than the soup...'

Garden.

'Waiter...my entrée fell over.'

"It's the sequel to 'Cooking for One'."

Peter Pan, the Utensil that Never Grew Up

"All the butter was gone. There was no way out. The puff pastry had to be made with margarine... from a tub."

"Mom, does the Russian borscht you made for dinner give me foreign-policy experience?"

"I've never heard of it, either, but nothing ventured, nothing gained, I always say!"

"Mommy's going to teach you how to make a hamburger."

"'TSP' stands for 'teaspoon' not 'two solid pounds'!"

Too much cilantro