She came up to me and told me she wants to be a chef, she also asked me to start getting her cookbooks to learn some recipes. She already makes her own cakes and brownies and makes the 2nd best chili I have ever had.
My 9 year old daughter made me proud yesterday
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Chili? Yes, yes, yes. Buy those cookbooks.
If you buy her cookbooks, tell her also that she don't need to follow the recipes, motivate her to alter the recipes as she likes.
Recipes are great, to get an Idea what you can make, but your own modifications to it make it unique.
Make shure you have a wide range of spices.
When i started Cooking i started by smelling and trying all the different spices by ther own, so i knew what they taste like and i was able to play around with them.
For me Cooking is like a Puzzle, and if you have memorised the taste of all the different spices it gets alot easier to solve.
yeah, I am going to teach her that cookbooks provide the basics, and to mot be afraid to experiment and tweak the recipes. she cooks by taste now, and its working pretty well for her.
Good deal!! Do you think she will let us use her recipe for TEST Chili?!?
Xian-Luc Picard
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But can she brew beer to go with the awesome chili?
I'm telling you, i met with a girl who learned to brew beer for a living, and It's a tough buisness to be a Woman in, but It's like magic when she explains you, how you have to drink your beer. Did you know, hat some guys have started to treat beer like wine?
Here an example:
Autenrieder Urtyp Dunkel ist filtriert und dunkelbraun mit einem Glanz von Bernstein. Die kleine, leicht gebräunte Schaumkrone ist nicht von großer Dauer. Im Geruch dunkles Malz, Karamell, Nuß und Pflaume. Im Antrunk malzig. Süßliches Malz mit milder Röstung und Schokolade bestimmen den Geschmack. Auch Nuß und Trockenpflaume finden sich in geringer Intensität im Geschmack wieder. Im Abgang angemessen gehopft, leicht malzbitter. Insgesamt gesehen ein gut abgerundetes Dunkles mit allen typischen Aromafacetten.
~Translation:
"Autenrieder Urtyp Dunkel" is filtered and dark brown with a shimmer of amber.
The small slightly brown whitecap dosen't stay long. It smells like dark malt, caramel, nut and plum.
It's malty in the first sip. sweet malt with mild roast and chocolate define it's taste. You will also find Nut and dryplum with low intesity in it's taste.
It finishes with a decent flavour of hop, slightly bitter and malty.
Overall a good dark beer with all typical aromatic facets.
she uses beer in her chili, similar to the recipe I use
Growing your own personal Chef is a great idea. Make sure she is expert at roasting, frying, baking, barbequing, preferably making cocktails too. That way you will grow old well and contented.
I don't want her to be a protégé or anything like that. but I learned to cook when I was her age, so I figure its good enough for her. If she does want to go to a culinary school, then I will make sure it happens. but for the mean time she will learn to be a redneck gourmet like her dad.
Reyalp CB4
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The Good eats cook books are awesome. Alton brown doesn't just make the cooking fun but also gets more into the science of why things do what they do. Thus teaching how to apply it generally
i think his stuff is great for kids to learn with
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Hes like the bill nye of food
i think his stuff is great for kids to learn with
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Hes like the bill nye of food
Xian-Luc Picard
Space Marshal
I love Good Eats. The show is just fantastic for explaining the how and why behind cooking.
I also agree with many of the posters above. Encourage her, don't force her. Give her cookbooks, but explain that cooking is an art and that substitutions, changes, and modifications can make things really good...or really bad. That said, please also explain that baking is a science, not an art. You can make substitutions, etc, but you have to know the reasons things are there to begin with, and why what are you doing won't hurt things. For instance, replacing buttermilk with regular milk or water will not turn out well if you don't modify your your leavening agent appropriately as well.
Finally, brewing is both a science and an art, but she should be 21 (if you live in the US, other locations vary on drinking age and legality of homebrewing) before she should experiment on her own with that.
I also agree with many of the posters above. Encourage her, don't force her. Give her cookbooks, but explain that cooking is an art and that substitutions, changes, and modifications can make things really good...or really bad. That said, please also explain that baking is a science, not an art. You can make substitutions, etc, but you have to know the reasons things are there to begin with, and why what are you doing won't hurt things. For instance, replacing buttermilk with regular milk or water will not turn out well if you don't modify your your leavening agent appropriately as well.
Finally, brewing is both a science and an art, but she should be 21 (if you live in the US, other locations vary on drinking age and legality of homebrewing) before she should experiment on her own with that.
she doesn't brew, lol. but she cooks her chili with beer. it flavors the meat and she uses a little extra with the grease from the meat to make a thickener for the chili.
its only her chili she uses beer with, cause no self respecting redneck would make chili without beer
I have had wonderful luck with the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook. I got my copy as a gift from my mother, who got a previous edition as a gift from her mother-in-law. The only difference between the old version and the new is a new chapter on grilling, and an expanded section on pasta. I wholeheartedly recommend it for core recipes to expand and alter later.