Recipe Courtesy of Josh “Shorty” Eden, owner-chef of Shorty’s .32, New York City - (Return to our Cook like a Man package.) Béchamel sauce: 3 cups milk 2 tbsp shallots, minced 3 tbsp butter 1 1/2 tbsp flour 1 tsp Dijon mustard white pepper, to taste Sweat shallots in butter until tender. Add flour, and allow roux to cook for 2-3 minutes. Begin to whisk milk [...]
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Return to the Cook Like a Man table of contents Manny Howard demonstrates the fine art of omelet perfection — while breaking only the required number of eggs.
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There is no more challenging single-ingredient meal than the omelet.
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The essential tools you need to cook like a man.
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Everything you should have in the fridge, freezer, cupboard, and spice rack.
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Seek uniform cuts at least an inch and a half thick whenever buying fillets from larger fish (halibut, striper, grouper).
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Too many of today’s cookbooks — afraid they’ll scare us away — understate the amount of butter you need to make a dish truly work.
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These days, fresh is way more important than organic, so buy vegetables that look like they are still attached to the earth.
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If you’re paying attention to what you’re doing — and you should be — the food will teach you about itself, but you have to use your hands.
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You can’t — and shouldn’t — cook everything at once.
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There are few dishes as evocative of what makes a meal memorable as a roasted piece of meat. Too bad, because the only cuts that roast well are the most expensive and least imaginative ones.
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The first thing you need to understand is that your kitchen is a workshop, and all good workshops have a standard operating procedure.
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Cooking is messy, complex, and a huge time suck — and that is as it should be. But learning a few fundamentals will make you a force in the kitchen.
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 26, 2009
What do you get when you put a top New York chef in a South Carolina swamp and a veteran boar hunter in the kitchen? A gut-churning adventure that ends with a gourmet feast.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
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