I am a culinarian. I love to cook, I love to eat, and I love to learn new magical ways food can be prepared. It took me to culinary school and I'm pleased to pass some of my knowledge and experience on! If nothing more, I'd like to introduce people to some new gastronomic ideas and hope that you might attempt to be creative in your future meals! :) Here's a little culinary trivia for you:
A Creole dish with chicken, sausage, and seafood, often with tomato and rice.
A Japanese soup stock usually made from kelp and bonito, and forming the base for Miso soup.
A very light Italian custard made with egg yolks, sugar and sweet wine. (Italian spelling)
A dried, unripe fruit spice used heavily in Caribbean cuisine and often used in American desserts and gives Cincinnati chili its distinctive flavor. (mmmm, Skyline Chili)
This French chef modernized traditional French cuisine, developed structure to kitchens and their staff called the “brigade de cuisine system.” (Last name)
The number of French Mother Sauces. (+1)
Written by Montagne, this encyclopedia is long considered the “bible” of authentic contemporary French cuisine.
A popular Italian method of starch cooking, usually Arborio rice, involving a slow cooking process of adding stock or broth a little at a time to make a creamy dish.
One of the French mother sauces made with white or chicken stock and thickened with roux. It can be used to make a delicious pot pie or chicken stew.
One of the French mother sauces made with scalded milk, nutmeg and roux. Used in Mornay sauce and Moussaka.
Another French mother sauce, well known in the U.S., made with egg yolks and butter.
Beef Wellington is made from a cut of beef tenderloin, topped with pate and duxelles, wrapped in puff pastry, and baked. What is the primary ingredient in duxelles?
The pleats on a chef’s “toque blanche” is commonly thought to signify the number of ways these can be cooked.
A spread or dip made from an emulsion of garlic, egg yolk, and oil. Basically, it’s spicy garlic mayonnaise.
A traditional Provencal stew made from a variety of fish and other seafood and seasoned with olive oil, garlic, tomatoes and saffron.
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