Cooking Basics
Baking
- All About Sourdough
- Cake Mix Extenders
- How to Blind Bake a Pie Crust
- How to Make an Angel Food Cake
- How to Make Cake Flour
- How to Make Marzipan Roses
- How to Make Perfect Cream Puffs
- How to Make Vanilla Sugar
- How to Measure Flour
- Quick Mix Method for Rapid-Rise Yeast
- Ribboning
- Royal Icing…in 3 Consistencies
- Secrets for Making the Perfect Pie Crust
- Self-Rising Flour
- Superfine Sugar (Caster Sugar)
- The Perfect Layer Cake
- Tips for the Perfect Cheesecake
- Using Dry Active Yeast
Beef
Bouquet Garni
Butter
Chicken
Crock Pot
Dessert
Dulce de Leche (Caramel Sauce – Cajeta)
Eggs
Equipment
Fish & Seafood
- Blackening
- Cooking on a Seasoned Plank
- How to Boil Lobster
- How to Cook and Eat Crayfish
- How to Eat Lobster
- How to Prepare and Cook Alaska King Crab
- How to Peel and Devein Shrimp
- How to Select and Prepare Shrimp
- Selecting and Preparing Oysters
Fruit
- How to Crack a Coconut
- How to Freeze Peaches
- How to Select and Prepare Pineapple
- How to Tint Coconut
Grilling and Smoking
Nuts and Seeds
Pancakes and Waffles
Pasta, Rice and Beans
Pork
Rice
Roux
Sauces, Marinades, Gravies and Slurries
- Five Mother Sauces
- How to Make and Use Cornstarch Slurry
- How to Prepare Soft (Stirred) Custard Sauce
- Marinade Formula