Simple can be good.
I like to cook kind of simply.If I have a roast I think it should be thrown in the oven with just salt and pepper and olive oil. I never cook things that require you seperate the yolk from the eggwhite–so I’d be thrown out of most high fallutin cooking circles right away. The simple way of cooking has never failed me.All that bell and whistle shit just makes it more possible for things to go wrong in my opinion.
For instance: roasting a chicken. I just put it in the oven after I rinse it with cold water, rub it with olive oil and salt and pepper and stuff it with some herbs and a bit of butter,no basting.
The chicken always turns out perfect.
I have a cook friend,Lou.He makes his living cooking in restaurants.He eats for crap when he’s home but he is a very good cook. He cooked for me and a few friends a while ago and I was expecting him to show up with a cuisinart or something.But he made do with my pathetic knives and pots and pans and the meal was delicious.
I tried to stay in the kitchen to watch but at the time my kitchen was as big as a bathroom so I didn’t want to crowd him.But I did pick up a few tips.
One: searing the meat before you roast it is important.
Two: you can fry greenbeans in oil and they will turn out fantastic.
Three: garlic roasted in the oven in it’s skin turns it liquid and sweet.You can use it as a condiment for the meal when it’s done.
Four:You need a good set of pots and pans!
Five: you need some proper knives!