Culinary Arts
Purpose and vision for culinary-arts #
- health-and-fitness
- skills-and-resourcefulness
- be able to compose a meal out of nothing or around some theme
- be able to create a meal out of anything available
- e.g. not letting something go to waste that you had lying around
- learn versatile ingredients
- e.g. you can make 20 different pasta based dishes
- have a decent collection of recipes that I have mastered and could always rely on
- friendcatchers
Next steps for culinary-arts #
- seasoning the steel wok
- each time I fry bell peppers the seasoning is slowly coming off
- heating a wet wok to dry it off leaves an orange sheen
- is it the iron in the water or does it rust so quickly?
- figure out a a flow and water amounts for cooking various types of rice
- I used to be able to make perfect rice, then started cooking rice as part of a dish and now cannot consistently cook it on its own anymore
- use a much larger pot?
- 100g rice to 125g water is 1:1 by volume
- a basil plant on the windowsill
- organizing a dinner for 5 - 10 people
- make Medovik
- handmade pasta
Some future steps for culinary-arts #
- cook every single recipe in some well known cookbook
- claire saffitz’s dessert recipes
- making kombucha
Notes and thoughts around culinary-arts #
Useful conversions #
- 1 cup
- 240ml liquid
- 125g flour
- 200g sugar
- 1 dl
- 1 tbsp
- 1 tsp
- 5g salt, baking soda, baking powder
- 4g sugar
In progress #
Sourdough buns #
- todo: specify this recipe
- Ingredients:
- 700 grams of flour = ± 9 buns. Bread flour, high gluten content.
- 55% hydration - milk
- 10% sourdough
- 20% butter
- 10% sugar
- 2% salt
- 2% dry yeast or 6% fresh yeast
- 1 large egg per 600 grams of flour
- 1 egg yolk per 600 grams of flour
- notes
- made 350g flour into 6 buns
- 60g sourdough starter
- 50g butter
- no additional yeast
- 1 egg plus some milk for brushing before baking
Soups #
- cream of onion soup from 2-2.5kg of large sweet onions
- cream of tomato soup from 2.5kg of tomatoes
Decided once about culinary-arts #
- apple jam>strawberry
- crêpes any time I’d need to decide on a dessert
Project ideas for culinary-arts #
- a steel crêpe pan
- a french style single-piece rolling pin
- a honing rod
- titanium chopsticks
- thermometer
- has to be good for dough and ambient
- thermapen?
- kitchen tongs that look like tweezers—easier to clean
Aevum Linea #