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Cook with love...
for ourselves, for the food, for the purpose! We eat to nourish our bodies. Enjoying full flavor, rich, good tasting foods is a privileged that comes from either eating from world renown chefs or from getting in the kitchen ourselves and practicing, daily. We cannot eat healthy if we do not spend time in the kitchen, the most important room in our homes, each and every day. We must learn to love standing at the stove, hovering over the sink, the heat of the oven.
Here are a few cooking terminologies for us to become familiar with. (These are my particular definitions. If you come across one of these terms in a recipe, this is what it is asking you to do.)
Roasting - is generally coating the food with olive/coconut oil, either cut or whole and placing it on a baking dish in the oven at 350-400 usually for about 30-50 minutes, depending on what we are cooking.
Saute - is "flash" cooking vegetables in a skillet with some type of oil product; butter, olive oil, coconut oil etc. We normally want to saute veggies with garlic and onions that are heated with the oil, before we add the veggies, until the onion slices are translucent and the garlic is fragrant.
Chop - is to cut the veggies/fruit in larger chunks.
Mince - is to cut the veggies/fruit into very small pieces.
Steaming - is cooking the food (meat, veggies, etc) in the heat of hot water, without the food touching the water.
Process/blend - is mixing the food in the food processor or blender
Reducing - is cooking the liquid, normally a sauce of some type, on the stove on medium low with the top off. This method cooks off the water from the sauce and concentrates the flavor.
The below links are for recipes that have been tried over and over again. They are not your typical chef's recipes with specific measurements. They are cooked by taste and sight. They are meant to inspire our creative side in the kitchen. Take a recipe and make it your own!
There are more recipe ideas under Our Online Friends tab. Browse the many recipes available on the web. Search for your own. If you have a couple of ingredients at home that you want to cook with, search recipes with those ingredients. For example, you have cherry tomatoes, couscous rice and blue cheese. Google couscous tomato blue cheese recipes. Once you find one that sounds like you would enjoy it, take the ingredients and try and create your own dish. This will help you become more confident and creative. Or check out this website! You enter the ingredients you have at home and it will bring together the recipes found online with those specific ingredients! http://www.supercook.com/
If you really need the specifics of a recipe, please post a comment under the Conversations tab, in the recipes forum.
Here are a few cooking terminologies for us to become familiar with. (These are my particular definitions. If you come across one of these terms in a recipe, this is what it is asking you to do.)
Roasting - is generally coating the food with olive/coconut oil, either cut or whole and placing it on a baking dish in the oven at 350-400 usually for about 30-50 minutes, depending on what we are cooking.
Saute - is "flash" cooking vegetables in a skillet with some type of oil product; butter, olive oil, coconut oil etc. We normally want to saute veggies with garlic and onions that are heated with the oil, before we add the veggies, until the onion slices are translucent and the garlic is fragrant.
Chop - is to cut the veggies/fruit in larger chunks.
Mince - is to cut the veggies/fruit into very small pieces.
Steaming - is cooking the food (meat, veggies, etc) in the heat of hot water, without the food touching the water.
Process/blend - is mixing the food in the food processor or blender
Reducing - is cooking the liquid, normally a sauce of some type, on the stove on medium low with the top off. This method cooks off the water from the sauce and concentrates the flavor.
The below links are for recipes that have been tried over and over again. They are not your typical chef's recipes with specific measurements. They are cooked by taste and sight. They are meant to inspire our creative side in the kitchen. Take a recipe and make it your own!
There are more recipe ideas under Our Online Friends tab. Browse the many recipes available on the web. Search for your own. If you have a couple of ingredients at home that you want to cook with, search recipes with those ingredients. For example, you have cherry tomatoes, couscous rice and blue cheese. Google couscous tomato blue cheese recipes. Once you find one that sounds like you would enjoy it, take the ingredients and try and create your own dish. This will help you become more confident and creative. Or check out this website! You enter the ingredients you have at home and it will bring together the recipes found online with those specific ingredients! http://www.supercook.com/
If you really need the specifics of a recipe, please post a comment under the Conversations tab, in the recipes forum.