Now we are taking lucky guests all over the world. (Remember our recent Istanbul tour?) Recently Bil and Sil of Homerville, Ohio took advantage of our newest offering - de-I Sandia Outfitters Cooking Classes. After spouse Sil had booked five days at the five star de-I Towers, Bil, a life-long learner who had spent very little time in the kitchen during his many decades of life, decided to sign he and Sil up for the "Fill the Larder" cooking classes.
On the course agenda were:
Cooking via the Flavor Principle Cookbook way
Making a Fricassee of Chicken
Using different flavor principles to vary a Fricassee
Uses of the meat from a Fricassee as the basis for daily cooking
Learning to build a flavor base for braising vegetables
Using dry rubs as a marinade for thinner pieces of meat
Pan Frying meat and making a deglazing sauce
Roasting vegetables
Making a true French style omelet
Bil and Sil in action
No pansy ass cooking with chicken parts
No you will learn to breakdown a chicken
Bil showing off he got done first
Bil
"How come we are cooking so many chickens?"
de-I
"We need to stock up...I MEAN practice makes perfect
Keep chopping"
Bil and Sil ACTION SHOTS!
The key to making a good Eastern European style Fricassee is the squishing together of the chicken, onions, garlic and flavoring
To demonstrate how a basic technique can to modify to create very different results
We made two fricassees
One was the classic combination with only a lot of paprika added
But with the other I put in a big glob (a technical term - like two tablespoons, a half cup, a big glob) of my homemade Malay Curry Paste
I must say that both fricassee that were made turned out great
There were a few snarky comments about the overall volume of chicken being processed
Wife looks on happily as guests Bil and Sil vacuum pack nearly six months worth of chicken for us...of course learning valuable lessons themselves!
Bil
"What do you mean we have to put a testimonial on your site in order to get our id's back to get the heck out of here?"
Ah the joy of doing good work
Another happy (as in surviving) de-I Outfitter's customer
4 comments:
Di-I and wife will have meat to eat for many months. We may just come back to assist them. As an aside, de-I knows his stuff! The pressure is on for us to put the principles to work (and of course post pictures of it) It was great fun.
I bet that chicken will still be in the fridge when we eventually visit the US again in a couple years.
What a great business model! People pay YOU to fill your freezer with food. Plus, they don't die in the mountains!
Oh as usual the skeptics...why is it only the skeptics...Well not only because survivor...I mean guest...Bernice posted nicely...make comments. I will have skeptic one know that our freezer had been brought down to virtually no cooked chicken as a result of new freezer optimization protocols. And skeptic two, yes, no one died in the mountain...but honestly these visitors were not exactly laden with Rolex Watches and expensive jewelry so why go to the effort.
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