Tag: cooking techniques
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How To Easily Dice Celery
I love learning new ways to slice and dice. Here is a fun and quick way to both fine and rough dice celery stalks. Lay the stalk like this. Slice 3 slices along the stalk for rough chop and 5 for finely diced. Note how I stopped slicing before I hit the base of the…
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What Does The Cooking Term Maceration Mean?
Maceration is the technique of soaking fruit or vegetables in a liquid. This liquid is聽 often their own juices that are drawn out using salt and or sugar.聽 聽The聽 goal聽 of maceration is to enhance flavour, improve texture and aid in digestion. A good聽 example is Friggione, an Italian slow cooked tomato and onion relish…
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Basic Kitchen Skills: Broiling And Grilling
Broiling and grilling refer to very similar processes in the kitchen or outdoor cooking scenario. Both involve placing food near strong heat sources and turning the food to cook one side at a time. Both methods cook the food relatively quickly and are considered somewhat healthy as the fats and juices drain away. So what’s…
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What Does Mise en Place Mean?
Mise en Place is a lovely French cooking term for getting ourselves organised before we cook. We all do it in varying degrees. I like to prepare all of the ingredients ahead of time, it makes me less stressed in the kitchen.聽 馃檪 I even get all the utensils, pans, bowls etc out that I…
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What Are Amuse-Bouches?
‘Amuse-bouche’ is a lovely French cooking term meaning ‘mouth amuser’. They are creative little morsels that are not on the menu, instead they are offered free by a chef or cook to excite guests for the coming feast. If you are thinking ‘appetisers’ then you are on the right track. I like to make little…
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What Are Soups, Stock, Broths And Stews?
Is it just semantics or is there a real difference between soups, broths, stews and stocks? If you do a search online you will find a lot of conflicting definitions and see that the terms are used interchangeably. So I am going to throw in my two cents too. 馃檪 I believe it is all about…
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