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I make my own salad dressing, an herb vinaigrette that I keep in a flip-top glass bottle, about once a month, but you'll have to pry me away from the prewashed salad greens. I love them, and I don't care how much they cost! Every spring I put in a bed of mesclun and harvest it all summer, but it's a pain to clip and wash. By summer's end, I'm tired of dealing with it, and I'm all over those boxed greens.
I don't even mix dressing up in advance most of the time...I usually dress my salads with a drizzle of olive oil, a splash of either lemon juice or balsamic vinegar, and whatever herbs and spices I feel like, shook on top. Or, sometimes, I just dice up an avocado and toss that in...instantly dressed salad!
I would love to learn from people who can. I am a guy and have to see it visually. I cant just read a recipe and go about finding the ingredients and amounts unless someone shows me the first time at least. I can then do the same recipe after seeing them do it.
WTH does that even mean? I elevate the food I prepare to the best it can be - it will look great and taste great.
Who wants to be presented with an insipid, uninspiring boiled chicken breast on a paper plate?
Not everyone likes food all that much...to them an unreasoned broiled chicken is pretty much the same as a meal from The French Laundry. It's not...but not everyone is a foodie and that okay....the ability to enjoy food is not a moral issue.
I would love to learn from people who can. I am a guy and have to see it visually. I cant just read a recipe and go about finding the ingredients and amounts unless someone shows me the first time at least. I can then do the same recipe after seeing them do it.
I can teach you how to cook via email, a recipe is a guideline that you can change to your specific tastes if you want to.
There are a few key points that you need to remember when learning to cook something new (in my opinion) but they are easy to remember and easier to do.
If you are a visual person go to youtube or the food network or look up Fabio Viviani and watch videos of those who interest you.
i do well with cooking but my mother also showed me lots of things in the kitchen growing up
I actually taught myself how to cook and I read cookbooks like regular books.
I make the recipe exactly as written the first time then change it the second time and beyond.
After we got cable I watched several programs on the food network and learned some things but overall I taught myself how to cook with lots of error and lots of trial.
I actually taught myself how to cook and I read cookbooks like regular books.
I make the recipe exactly as written the first time then change it the second time and beyond.
After we got cable I watched several programs on the food network and learned some things but overall I taught myself how to cook with lots of error and lots of trial.
This is definitely a good way to go, as long as you pay some attention to the results of what you get and judge them critically. Just be sure to use whatever time is available to you to better understand why it worked, why it may have gone wrong, or how you can improve it. You can use cookbooks, advice from friends, and the internet to learn more. I'm continually trying different things by trial and error, but I do it as an informed process based on some research.
Using the example of cooking chicken I think it's great that someone is throwing a chicken in the oven. The next steps are to look at how to improve it. You can brine it to make it juicier. The legs and thighs are a different type of meat, that should be cooked at lower temps to higher finished temp to make them tender. The breasts shouldn't be overcooked to avoid drying them out. Both should be browned/crisped at some point in the process to improve the flavor. Those are the basics, and then you can start messing around with throwing some ginger, chile powder, garlic, soy....whatever, to get some different flavors. Unfortunately I think too many recipes concentrate on the ingredients before the cooking techniques, and you need to get the techniques figured out before messing around with the ingredients to flavor it.
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