I know that putting dressing on a salad sounds like a pretty simple thing, and you’re right it is. But there are a couple of things that you can do to make that salad just right.
Category: Cooking Advice
Do It Like a Chef: Butter Garlic and Herb Basting
The technique imparts the flavor of fresh herbs, garlic and the nuttiness of brown butter to the surface of beef, poultry and fish.
Season Like a Chef
Use coarse salt when seasoning with just salt and pepper. Coarse salt is better for seasoning by hand because it’s easier to see and you can feel the grains pass through your fingers.
Creamy Mashed Potato Technique
In my twenty years in the professional kitchen I’ve never seen a recipe for mashed potatoes. It might have been shoved into a cramped office space somewhere but nobody ever broke it out.