These are things I’ve tried to put into practice in order to work faster in the kitchen: 1. prep before starting (mise en place) Cutting all the ingredients ahead of time, prepping herbs sachets, portioning birds, meats, peeling fruit, anything thats basically prep work and can be done ahead of time, measuring of ingredients, sharpening […]
Trenzas de Brioche
I’ve been posting way too many fails lately, I have been trying way too many new things too, so not feeling terrible about it….yet! The best thing about failing in the kitchen is… knowing i dont own a restaurant. This trenzas de brioche recipe is one delicious thing I remember eating back in Venezuela, of […]
basic french bread II … fail!
Thought I’d log a few new things when making this bread! which ended up in disaster (I’ve made many French bread loaves following what I had learned and had no problems, but changed a few variables around….I guess I will have to figure out what went wrong ), or go check out a successful recipe […]
empanada gallega
In the search for the original empanada, the mom of all empanadas!, I turned to this Galician dish, something I had when i was like 5 and I can still remember the experience, yes, an awesome one i meant. It’s like this baked steak sandwich (or tuna or chicken or just bell peppers, in either […]
cheese whiz!
this recipe yields a silky and smooth cheese sauce of your favorite cheddar cheese, or goat cheese, or pretty much any cheese…. or does it? experimentation should help us determine that, but this is a pretty good start: 140g cheddar 130g whole milk 5.5g sodium citrate Tried this from the mac&cheese recipe posted on the […]
stock clarification part I
This one is fun to do. I started by digging through my freezer and found some old frozen carcasses of chicken, some roasted, some uncooked, I figured I’d make stock. Found some veggies in my fridge, onion, some carrots, celery, 5 cloves of garlic, I chopped these very coarsely, actually, onion only in half, carrots […]
brioche part II
So I didn’t give up, and it paid off this time. Last time the result was not a total disaster, but it needed a huge improvement, specially in the texture of it, too dense, crust too hard, so I’m giving it another go here with a much lighter recipe, only 10:1 flour to butter, not […]
brioche… fail!
Brioche = Intimidating!!! tons of steps and this and that, seems crazy! I happen to have all the ingredients at hand today and not much to do, but best of all, it is Saturday, I can forget about this dough in the fridge overnight and get back to it in the am (which some famous […]
fettuccine, sun dried tomatoes, roasted pine nuts and feta
Here’s a quick one: Eyeballed ingredients: 2 tbsp chives chopped finely 3 tbsp sun dried tomatoes, chopped coarsely 3 tbsp feta crumbs 2 tbsp roasted pine nuts ( roast to taste) 250g fetuccini pasta made al dente in salty water (ocean salty) done! Wanna get more sous-vide cooking guides and cool cooking how-to’s in your […]
sponge cake… you guessed it, fail
I have learned that if I prep everything in advance, this baking business is not a messy experience and it’s actually rather quick to get something ready for the oven. So “mise en place” is as always the way to go. I’m trying something a bit different this time. I’m prepping all the ingredients by […]