MikeCullimore / food

Notes on all things food: recipes, books, equipment, ...

Food

Notes on:

• Cooking
• Baking
• Recipes
• Methods (marinade! toast those spices then grind! turmeric in hot oil at start...)
• Equipment
• Books
• Ingredients

Recipes to write up

• Bhajis
• Naans
• Stock (beef and chicken)
• BIR base gravy
• Bourguignon
• Croissants
• Lasagne (Pasta Grannies with tweaks)
  • Add mozzarella (alla Mario!)
  • Or add scamorza affumicata
  • Try sundried tomatoes
• Madeleines
  • When covering the trays with butter and flour, use a sieve otherwise clumps of flour in madeleine base!
  • Must chill the batter in the fridge overnight. Tried skipping this: no nipples!
  • Some recipes call for a lower temperature in a second step to increase the rise: try it.
  • Try chilling the trays beforehand.
• Sourdough loaf adaptation
• Ravioli
  • Ham, scamorza and pea?
• Chocolate tart, adapted from Lorraine Pascal.
• Tarte au citron
• Baguettes
• Duck stock (Julia Child with tweaks e.g. chicken hearts: see Keep).
• Steak sauce with cognac and butter
• Pizza dough (needs work!)
  • Less yeast?
  • More water?
  • More olive oil!
• Dahi Murg (Chetna Makan)
• Simple batter (roast a whole chicken, shred it...)
• Barbecue (plan/shopping list and recipes)
  • Jan's burgers: beef mince, oats, honey, bacon, egg, red onion...?
• Curry: toast spices then grind, turmeric in hot oil, then garlic ginger onions chilli, ground spices at end: layering, cook hours before serving to let the spices work into the chicken. See when to add spices
• French onion soup:
  • Pete variant with ultimate stock.
  • Knorr rich beef stock pot cheat variant.

Books

• Lune
• Pasta Grannies
• Salt Fat Acid Heat
• Julia Child
• The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
• Baking School: The Bread Ahead Cookbook
• Escoffier

Equipment

• Instant Pot: what to do with it?
  • Sous vide
  • Yogurt: see recipe from Pete

Methods

• Bottled water for baking (because tap water so hard here).
• Steak: marinade in salt, pepper and olive oil the night before.

Ingredients

• Cheaper cuts of meat e.g. ham hocks (smoked from butcher in covered market)

TODO

• Links to all bookmarks in Chrome.
• Upload photos
• Capture recipe iterations: what have you tried? What happened? What worked? What didn't?
• Spell checker.