Tag: Featured
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Perfecting home cooking comes down to control and repetition more than talent. I focus on doing the basics the same way every time: I set up my ingredients first so I’m not scrambling, I preheat my pan properly so food sears instead of steaming, and I season in small layers while cooking rather than dumping…
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Exploring unique flavors in Southeast Asia is mainly about understanding how the region balances taste and aroma. Most dishes are built around the same core targets: salty/umami, sour, sweet, heat, aromatics, and fat. What changes from country to country is which ingredients deliver those targets and how they’re combined. Southeast Asian “uniqueness” often comes from…
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Mastery is not about guarding a secret recipe. It is about building a repeatable system that produces the same sensory result every single time, even when you change cooks, volume, or venue. If you treat your signature dish like a product with specs, controls, and training drills, you will own it. Start with a “Signature…
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I can trace most of my favourite recipes back to two places: my father’s kitchen and the province I call home. That is where my palate was trained long before I ever stepped into a professional kitchen, long before I learned the language of mise en place and service timing. My father cooked with instinct,…