The Eco-Urban Cooking Show
From the category archives:
Bouquet Garni or Cheese cloth sachet… A french seasoning blend of aromatic ingredients tied in a cheesecloth bag and used to flavor stocks, sauces, soups, and stews; a standard sachet consist of parsley stems, cracked peppercorns, dried thyme, cloves and sometimes garlic. Used in a conversation? Dude: Hey boss I need to throw some herbs [...]
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LEADING SAUCES? Also known as mother sauces, the foundation for the entire classic repertoire of hot sauces. The 5 leading sauces béchamel, veloute, espagnole, also known as brown, tomato and hollandaise are distinguished by the liquids and thickeners used to make them; they can be seasoned and garnished to create a wide variety of small [...]
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PHYTOCHEMICAL… A chemical found in plants believed to help prevent some cancers and promote others… Used in a sentence: I don’t think so!
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REDUCE: To cook a liquid mixture, often a sauce, until the quality decreases through evaporation; typically done to concentrate flavors and thicken liquids. Cooking with Ed?
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LIAISON: ( lee-yeh-son ) A mixture of egg yolks and heavy cream used to thicken and enrich sauces. Used in a sentence: Wow, we have everything we need to make the Mac and Cheese now lets get some heavy cream and egg yolks to make our liaison.
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FOOT: You have a right one and a left one, each with 5 toes. But the meaning of foot in culinary terms is: A tasting term describing an extra-ordinary taste of unknown origin. Used in a sentence: Damn this e’touffe’e is good than a mofo. You put your FOOT in this. I know, I can [...]
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BLAND: A tasting term for a food that is flat, dull and lacks flavor and/or finesse. Used in a sentence: What the hell? This tomato soup taste like water soup. It lacks flavor and seasoning it really taste Bland. COOKING WITH ED?
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CHEF? A person in charge of the kitchen or a department of a kitchen… CHEF DE CUISINE? A French term meaning “head of the kitchen.” The cook who runs the stove department of the kitchen and to whom the meat chef and the pastry chef report. Also known as cuisinier. Used in a sentence… COOKING [...]
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