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Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Cooking #11

  • You can be friends for over 20 years and never know there’s one person in the group who doesn’t like cabbage.
  • Everyone does not collect cookbooks (but they should).
  • When you enjoy cooking and get good at it people assume you know more than you do.
  • I was asked how to prepare turnips. I’ve never cooked a turnip in my entire life.
  • People don’t know who Jacques Pépin is. Seriously?
  • Fresh parsley is cheap. Fresh chives are not cheap (time to grow some at home).
  • Every now and then, take your dinner guests outside of their comfort zones. Make a chicken dish from a French chef who learned how to make the dish from his Mother. Make them drink something other than a massively fruit forward California red.

Memo to Self – For this dish one boneless chicken breast feeds two people. Jacques says this in the video but I didn’t believe him.

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Lessons From a Lifetime of Cooking #6 – Persillade

Persillade? First I had to learn how to pronounce this.

This thing started because I had some leftover fresh parsley from making Papa’s Corn Salad. Then I found Jacques’ recipe for:

Simple. Easy. Quick. Definitely going into the rotation.

Growing up the green stuff on the side of your main course to me was merely a garnish.

I didn’t know what I didn’t know.

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