Marriage Based On Bad Foods Novelly Taught By Bears
Marina and John Bear, long-time culinary disaster enthusiasts, co authored How to Repair Food a first aid guide to undo culinary missteps. Their four year research drew from 2500 cookbooks and features playful tips like overcooked cauliflower as a white sauce substitute and blowing on pots to delay boiling. They share playful anecdotes from a life of experimenting with failed meals and offer quirky recipe ideas and expert reactions from Jim Stuart and Wolfgang Puck.
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Kitchen Hacks for Salvaging Dishes and Fixing Flavors
A compact guide offers practical fixes for almost spoiled meals. It covers avocado use in salads and dips, salinity remedies in soups, methods to handle burned butter and cakes, keeping cookies from burning, repurposing overcooked eggs, drying oily fish, boosting bland gravies with herbs and extracts, brightening bland oranges, and converting dumplings failed in pot into baked dumplings with a simple bake and optional sauce.
Rescue recipes to save cooking disasters by the Bears
Marina and John Bear offer rescue recipes for wilted greens overcooked carrots fallen cake and overcooked Brussels sprouts plus a hot Uruguayan steak sauce. Each dish uses basic ingredients to salvage a meal and protect reputations with simple steps and practical tips.
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