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From time to time, we all need a co-pilot, a sous chef and sometimes a chemist to help us sort out the culinary mysteries we run into as we navigate our way through the kitchen – whether it be a tool, a method, a recipe or an unfamiliar ingredient. It’s all about having the knowledge – which leads to having the power, I feel a song coming on –

So as a result, here you will find an ever-growing collection of basic recipes & methods (as I think of them) that are essential to master and then make your own. Ace the basic methods and be led straight to the promised land! You will soon discover that all great cooks and chefs master the basics which gives them the freedom to play. So get your GED in the basics and you will soon be cooking like you know what you’re doing – and do you know why? Because you do!

And for the more adventuresome cooks there are also a few classics like beef wellington, steak diane, crispy salmon or chicken marsala – not to mention passion fruit & banana soufflé. Sounds impressive? It is. Sounds beyond you? Not a chance.