Posted by Dee on 10/30/2007, 2:45 pm, in reply to "Re: That's True.... "
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I unlike you.. am not a professional chef. And honestly have to follow a recipe. I'm stuck making my normal average meals. But man.. I can follow a recipe.
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: I, like you, cook for summer camp. That's
: one of many reasons I enjoy your blog.
: Consistency can often be a problem and
: improvising a must depending on what's on
: hand. Actually I never had the prawns
: covered with the hot bacon dressing it just
: sounded really good at the time. I was just
: kinda having some fun with Debbie about her
: new chafer's Camp Neosa .
: --Previous Message--
: Thanks for the kind comments toward dad and
: the blog, Stan.
:
: I still think that we all use recipes,
: whether recorded or not. Most dishes can be
: reduced to some kind of basic formula. The
: cook does need to adjust cetain ingredients
: to taste, especially those ingedients that
: add flavor to the dish. Of course, this
: boils down to your understanding of how the
: different ingredients behave with each
: other.
:
: If you're the chef in a restaurant, what
: happens when your artistic vision produces a
: dish that you want to replicate? How do you
: communicate that vision to the line cooks?
:
: How do you communicate your vision to Dee?
: When you said, "Fill one to the top
: with broiled prawns and scallops with a hot
: bacon dressing drizzled over top and served
: with a side of Italian flat bread," you
: wrote a recipe.
:
: It's a very basic and is not writen for the
: novice cook. It's missing key recipe
: components like ingredient amounts, cooking
: instructions, etc. And it depend on the
: cook's knowledge to put it all together. But
: it's still a recipe.
:
: In most restaurants that I aware of, the
: cooks have to follow the chef's vision of
: how he wants the food to be cooked. That
: vision is communicated through a written
: recipe or hands-on training or cook's notes,
: etc. (or all three).
:
: Anyway, keep those suggestions cokking. I
: may use one or two,
:
: Steve
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