Saturday 13 September 2014

100 Thing I have Cooked With........


I was just thinking today after having a chat about food, with a good friend. And i wonderer if i could randomly name a few thing. I have to say, i feel very privileged to have known a wide variety of ingredients and used them on a daily basis. I mean this list could have gone on and on and never stop. But Its also shocking!!


1-lard
2-butter
3-olive oil
4-grape oil
5-salt,pepper,
6-white sugar, brown sugar, cane sugar, icing sugar
7-pistachio paste
8-food coloring
9-herbs-basil, chives, chervil, dill, sorrel, parsley(flat and curly) mint, tarragon, lavender, rosemary, Thai basil, galangal, thyme, lemon thyme, bay leaves
10-garlic
11-honey
12-truffles-both white & black
13-vanillar
14-stocks I have made-( chicken, fish , vegetable, beefveal, shell fish, lamb, duck stock)
15-meat-(veal, venison, partridge, guinefowl, quail, wood pigeons, goose, lamb(all cuts), beef (all cuts), pork all (cuts), oxtail, duck, wild boar, goat, baby chicken , rabbit, kangaroo, organic chicken)
16-foi gras
17-black caviar
18-salmon eggs
19-fish-(salmon, sole, dove sole, turbot, halibut, sea bass, John Dory, mackerel, monk fish, cod, fresh haddock, smoked haddock , wild salmon, trout, herring, dogfish, tuna(blue fin) butter fish, catfish, red and black bream, hake, king fish, mullet, mahi mahi, anchovies, perch, place, sardines, tilapia, zander, swordfish , snapper )
20-plain flour
21-self-rise flour
22-00 pasta flour
23-wholemeal, white ground, bread flours
24-saffron
25-eggs-(chicken,duck and quail eggs)
26-corn
27-corn syrup
28-polenta
29-gnocchii
30-fresh pasta (all sort)
31-fresh tortellini,
32-fresh ravioli
35-mushrooms- (morels, flat, Portobello, oyster, shiitaki, shimeji, st.georges, trumpet royal, chanterelle, winecap, yellow foot, black trumpet , blewit, chestnut, cinnamon cap, clampshell, enoki and gamboni mushrooms )
36-raisins
37-baking powder
38-ginger
39-water(a must)
40-tamarine
41-chilli(most types)
42-milk( most type including UHT)
43-cream
44-cous cous
45-lentals (Most type)
46-kidney beans
47-chick peas
48-gungo peas
49-green peas
50-black beans
51-bean sprouts
52-crab (most type)
53-Scotish langoustines( very divine)
54-tiger prawns (and most prawns)
55-mussels-(all type)
56-clams-(all type)
57-scallops( divers are the best)
58-frog legs
59-snals
60-chicken livers
62-bi-carbonte soda
63-lobsters
64-puple potatoes (and all types of potatoes )
65-most fruits exotic and rear
66-panchetta
67-parma ham
68-cream cheese
69-chocolate (most types and flavoured)
70-berries- (all type common and wild)
71-rocket (and most types of salads name it)
72-parmesan( and most cheese that you may know)
73-avocado
74l-eeks, butternuts quash, aubergines (and really a vast vegetable selection)
76-maple syrup
77-golden syrup
78-corn floor
79-tomato paste
80-tined tomatoes
81-bone marrow( not widely use but really good)
82-fresh pestos
83-olives
84-olive tapenade
85-Aubergines pesto
86-risotto rice
87-long grain rice
88-wild rice
89-lemon grass
90-rose water
91-coconut
92-coconut milk
93-fennel seeds
94-cumin ground and seeds
95-tumiric
96-orange blossom water
97-shrimps
98-cherries
99-lime leaves
100- love !!