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Food ingredient
selection and preparation is important, but so
is "timing".
There is nothing worse that eating a
dinner at a close friends where the meat
is undercooked, the vegetables mush, the
salad limp and the dessert is doughnuts.
What went wrong here?
An important element in meal service
- as opposed to preparation - is
delivery and timing.
You have to consider the likely
cooking time for each element in your
menu and work backwards, so that
everything is ready at about the same
time.
There are a few ways to make this
happen:
- remember your friends the
microwave and the oven. If
something is already completely
cooked and you have not even started
the salad yet simply turn off the
heat or keep it warm by turning it
down to 200 and covering it.
- Do all your chopping and
"prep" before you start
cooking the main dish. Cut all
your onions, salad, everything
before you cook; you are not
scrambling for time later.
- Kick back and have a glass of wine
or something else while it's all
coming together. Food is about
having fun and enjoying life too;
you don't make it just to look at
it.
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