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Coriander Seed | Condiments, Spices and Simple Condiments. Basic Knife Cuts & Shapes: Photo Examples - Culinary Knife Skills. Cooking Conversion Tool - Cooking Measurement Conversion. Basil Cilantro Pesto Recipe. Pesto change-O: Basil isn't the only herb that can get sauced. By Nancy B. Hanst With sleight of hand and flight of imagination, almost any savory herb can be turned into a tasty, pasty pesto.

Basil, of course, has that old, green magic, but it isn't the only choice. Before it's available in midsummer abundance, there are arugula, oregano, parsley, mint, sorrel, sage, tarragon, lemon balm, cilantro, marjoram, what-have-you growing in your back yard. Members and guests of the Western Pennsylvania Unit of the Herb Society of America go to Mildred's Daughters Urban Farm in Stanton Heights to experience some delicious options, under the tutelage of the farm's owners -- each a daughter to a Mildred -- Randa Shannon and Barb Klein.

It's apparent that hocus-pocus works here in Pittsburgh. But Ms. Watching her concocting lemon balm and oregano pestos, two of the eight choices to be served later on thinly sliced baguette, the class gets lots of pointers. Test an herb's potency by blending a bit with oil and tasting. With the help of Ms. The Basic Dry Cure. Recipe The following basic dry cure can be used to make any kind of cured product, but it is especially fine with pork. You can use either what’s called the “salt box method,” which doesn’t require measuring, or measure out 2 ounces/50 grams of this mixture of each 5 pounds/2.25 kilograms meat. The salt box method means simply dredging the meat in plenty of dry cure on all sides, then gently shaking off the excess so that it has an even coating of dry cure. Brian and I refer to use dextrose, a refined corn sugar, rather than table sugar because it is less sweet and, because as the grains are very fine, it dissolves more easily and therefore has a more uniform distribution.

But granulated sugar is fine and well. Yield : About 3 ½ cups/725 grams if made with granulated sugar, 4 ½ cups/950 grams if made with dextrose Ingredients The Basic Dry Cure with Granulated Sugar: 1 pound/450 grams kosher salt8 ounces/225 grams sugar2 ounces/50 grams pink salt (10 teaspoons) Directions. Escoffier (9780470900277): Auguste Escoffier, H L Cracknell, R J Kaufmann. Grand Sauces. In French cuisine, the grand sauces, also referred to as the mother sauces, are an assemblage of fundamental sauces from which a plethora of secondary or derivative sauces are made.

This is not to say that the grand sauces cannot stand alone. They are frequently employed in their unadulterated state in a variety of dishes. Nevertheless they can just as readily be morphed into any number of spin-offs. The specific sauces included in this elite club have changed somewhat over the years and even to this day there is still some divergence of opinion.

To understand the codification of the grand sauces, we must look to French culinary history. In 1789 the French revolution began. Chefs who had worked for the wealthy had unlimited resources and staff. Marie-Antoine Carême (1784-1833), known as the “king of chefs” and considered the founder of grand cuisine, was a seminal figure in the emergence, proliferation, and systemization of classic French cooking. 2 oz. butter 2 oz. all-purpose flour. Mother Sauces. Sauce Tomat, better known as tomato sauce, is a French Mother Sauce based on tomatoes. This base can consist of fresh tomatoes cooked down into a liquid, canned tomatoes, tomato puree or even tomato paste. “Hey, wait a second now, how is tomato sauce a French Mother sauce when it’s clearly Italian?” Well, you do know it was the Italians that taught the French to cook right? But that’s a whole other post. Suffice it to say that just like all the other mother sauces, “Sauce Tomat” is an incredibly versatile base sauce that can have any number of variations.

But before we start playing around with tomato sauce, it is important to first understand the classic version. My favorite classical recipe for Sauce Tomat is Escoffier’s version. Escoffier’s Sauce Tomat Recipe 2-3 oz (56-84 g) Salt Pork. Modern Variations on Escoffier’s Sauce Tomat Other than that, the process is pretty much the same as discussed above. Basic Light Tomato Sauce. Recipe Broccoli and mushroom soup, Very Easy, Starter.

(3.50/5 - 4 votes) Recipe type: StarterNumber of serving: 3 servingsPreparation time: 70 minutesCook time: 25 minutesReady in: 1 h, 35 mDifficulty: Very Easy Ingredients: For the stock: 1 tbsp salted butter 2 sticks of celery - cut into pieces 1/2 ( about 80g) carrot - cut into pieces 1 large onion - quartered 1/2 liter of water Other ingredients: 300g broccoli - cut into florets 200g button mushrooms - sliced 5 garlic - chopped 5 shallots - chopped 2 spring onions - sliced 3 tbsp oil pepper and salt to taste Preparation: Step 1: Heat butter and fry all the ingredients for the stock for a couple of mins. Imprimer cette page Related recipes Related articles. Foyot Sauce Recipe - Bearnaise Sauce with Meat Glaze - Classic Foyot Sauce Recipe.