Originally Posted by
corky
and brush with oil and grill it...then put the dressing, shaved parm and croutons on the grilled romaine. Works best with the baby heads.
This is my favorite method too. It seems to bring it up to a slightly higher level...not transformational, but a little extra. I only do it when I'm grilling other items too.
Originally Posted by
corky
This
It is rare that I follow a recipe and get out the measuring spoons etc. Recipes to me are more like suggestions and I always mess with them. You get a feel for what flavors work with others. You should be fearless when you cook....what's the worst that could happen? The worst is that you won't like it and have to throw it out. It is highly unlikely that you will kill anyone with your cooking.
You can't do this with baking which is why I don't bake...too many rules to follow and having to be precise.
Same here. My wife, however, is a recipe follower. She's a very good cook, but occasionally her recipe-following has disastrous outcomes. She made a lasagna once. After it was in the oven, she joined me in the living room and said she thought it was odd that the recipe called for cinnamon. ???. You guessed it, we could taste cinnamon in every bite. I would have just seen it in the recipe and ignored it (and maybe questioned the whole thing).
Surprisingly, given her recipe following, neither of us are really bakers. Although if it must be done, she's the one who bakes.
Originally Posted by
bensyd
I also don't like baking. Too much patience and preciseness required. I've been pretty impressed with the home baking some guys are doing on here. I think I'd need to be at lockdown level 9 to really get into it.
I've been silently impressed too. And I'm with you, it would take a lot for me to get to that point. It's not so much the preciseness of the recipes, it's things like repeatedly kneading, or waiting hours for yeast to do something that drive me crazy. Definitely the patience part I guess. We have 2 ovens in our new house (2 months in). One has never been used, and the other has seen a few pizzas and some toasted sandwiches. Come fall, it will likely see some roasted meats and veggies, but not much else.