Culinary Arts
and various victuals
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
- put together a cook book
- friendcatchers
Next steps for culinary-arts ¶
- more resilient seasoning for the steel wok
- 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
- jams and preserves
Notes and thoughts around culinary-arts ¶
Useful conversions ¶
- 1 cup
- 240ml liquid
- 125g flour
- 200g sugar
- 1 dl
- 50g flour
- 85g sugar
- 1 tbsp
- 3 tsp
- 1 tsp
- 5g salt, baking soda, baking powder
- 4g sugar
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
Material desires related to 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 ¶
- 26Z - la cocotte
Resources related to culinary-arts ¶
- Vegan Recipes
- The Perfect Loaf - various bread recipes