Our home is blessed with a young chef interested in healthy cooking, including ingredients such as kale and quinoa, fresh garden-grown herbs and berries in season, and anything from a farmer's market. A broad range of cooking styles includes Mediterranean, and spicy Mexican fare. Smoothies, including those made with almond milk or coconut milk may appear at any time of the day. Recipe substitutions are common, including substitutions for baking such as aquafaba for egg whites.
Some recipes are healthier versions of common foods, such as flourless black bean brownies.
Cookbooks like The Sneaky Chef, Deceptively Delicious, and those authored by Jamie Oliver have graced our kitchen.
Thank you for sharing your pretzel-coated chicken recipe. We will try it. Here is a link to another chicken recipe which we like and have made several times: Tyson's Orange Chicken Stir-Fry, http://www.tyson.com/recipes/orange-chicken-stir-fry
Not talented, per se, but definitely interested! I love cooking, and the enthusiasm seems to be catching with DS, both for the sheer gastronomy of it, as well as the inherent science.
Have you ever watched Heston Blumenthal's "In Search of Perfection". It's such a delight to watch:
Oh, and some favourite cookbook recommendations for the experimental cook: - Thomas Keller's French Laundry cookbook - Yotam Ottolenghi's eponymous cookbook- it introduces a fusion Middle Eastern palette that is often new to North Americans and has interesting social geography behind its origins, too - Modernist Cuisine's kitchen companion (the rest is pure pleasure reading; you may be able to save $500 and borrow it from the library, like I did). The techniques are impressive, often simple, and have stunning results.
You don't need fancy or expensive equipment to cook well, either. We've definitely rigged up a franken-sous-vide using cast iron pans, sous vide bags, and a good oven thermometer.
Glad someone brought this topic up - the missus and I love food and have very broad minded tastes and palates - I am thrilled to discover that DD loves it too.
Taking my DD to Neal's Yard dairy just around the corner from Covent Garden on a recent family holiday in England was an absolutely rapturous experience for us both! :-p She finally got to eat Brie de Meaux at the acme of ripeness and some great unpasteurized Caerphillys in addition to real Somerset Cheddars and phenomenal Stiltons. Just sitting on a street bench eating great cheese and chunks of fresh bread pulled from a good crusty loaf is one of the things I miss most from 'home' so it was memorable to show my DD the ropes, so to speak. She still waxes lyrical about the smells in that cheese shop too :-)
Work meeting coming up - to be continued...
Since her molars came in she is literally a lot more comfortable with eating meat - was painful for a while as they were coming in, apparently.
She has started to cook a bit - being tall enough to comfortably and safely use the stove is obviously a mandatory requirement along with actually wanting to cook.
