There’s no magic to great cooking, but there are some tricks of the trade that can help any cook improve their final dish. From applying high heat to using spices in layers, these are our favorite ways to boost flavor in your cooking
Flavor Boosties
In the wake of our episode on How to Cook Like a Restaurant Chef, in which we (spoiler alert!) warn that it’s not a particularly achievable goal, we wanted to explore easy ways to boost the flavor of home cooked meals. Because getting better flavor is always achievable. You just need to know about these flavor boosties!
Here Are a Few Things Mentioned in This Week’s Episode:
- Toasted Breadcrumbs
- Garlic Butter Breadcrumbs (instead of croutons!)
- The Ultimate Guide to Cooking with Fresh Herbs
- Everything You Should Know About Cooking With Spices
- Sweet and Sour Miso-Kombucha Sauce
- How to Make Kombucha at Home
- How to Caramelize Onions
- How to Microwave Steam Asparagus
- @CookSmarts on Instagram
- @ChiefSpiceMama on Instagram (TW: there is tons of great spice info and recipe content on this account, but there is also content that we feel enforces diet culture)
- Our Easy Refried Beans
Here Are the Products Mentioned in This Week’s Episode:
- Aleppo Pepper
- Dried Ancho Peppers
- Stubb’s Liquid Smoke
- Furikake
- Kombu
- Shrimp paste
- Brightland olive oils
- Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner cookbook
- The Flavor Biblecookbook
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