Gourmet cooking recipes
What is gourmet cooking recipes compared to normal cooking? Gourmet cooking is where you get a slice of heaven each time you take a bite of you food. Thats what makes gourmet cooking recipes a fun and easy thing to exercise just remember that the food is about sharing happiness.
Most struggling cooks can improve immensely if they keep three things in mind.
First keep your focus!
Minimize distractions TV, radio, phone, etc… maybe put on some nice music that make you relax. Be physically comfortable. Dress comfortably. Sleeves that keep rolling down are your worst enemy in the kitchen. Keep you sleeves clean and have a good apron on.
When you’re gourmet cooking, don’t think about anything other than what you’re cooking. Empty your mind. Only when it’s empty will new ideas come in.
Secondly be aware of the timing.
Every gourmet cooking recipe involves careful timing to ensure that some things are done before others, some things are prepared in anticipation for something else, and some things are cooked to the right degree in relation to others.
There’s the timing of each component of a gourmet cooking recipe (marinating a meat to be used later with something else, for example), there’s the timing that allows those components to come together at the same time to create a dish, and then there’s the more subtle timing that orchestrates all your movements throughout the cooking process.
Trust yourself.
Thirdly respect you ingredients.
Gourmet cooking starts with the ingredients, which need to be cherished, handled carefully and lovingly, and respected. You’re not the one acting on the ingredients. The ingredients are the ones acting on you. You are merely the facilitator that takes the ingredients from their raw, untouched state to a human mouth.
When gourmet cooking you need to treat each ingredient the way it wants and needs to be treated. Don’t dump those apples onto the counter; you’ll bruise them. Take them out one by one. Don’t slice that roast with any old knife; a less-than-razor-sharp blade will ruin the grain, even if only on the microscopic level. Don’t ever mix aged and fresh ingredients; if you want to save the slightly aged one for a specific use, keep it separate. To put it simply
Remember to have a nice glass of wine while gourmet cooking.
Have fun with you gourmet cooking!
