Oops Moments in the Kitchen ~ how to Salvage Cooking Disasters
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As you know I am dead keen on everyone in the Whole Wide World learning to cook (or at least those who have access to food, I’m afraid that many people have much bigger problems to cope with) and to that end I have written a book of over 500 handy tips containing all the useful information I could think of to help with every aspect of cooking including how to salvage cooking disasters.
While, obviously, I am not going to reproduce the entire book here I thought it would be useful, as a taster so to speak, to post some ways to salvage a tricky situation in the cooking department.
So – taken directly from 500+ Truly Useful Cooking Tips & Techniques (see end of post for details) and in no particular order here are my ideas on how to solve various cooking disasters:
Cheese Problems
Too Salty?
Lumpy Mash?
Dish too Spicy?
Dish too Garlicky!
Meat Overcooked?
Overdone Rice?
Cooked the Vegetables Too Long?
Sauce Split?
Instead of being smooth and creamy it is watery with bits of fat floating in it, sometimes known as curdled.
No Self Raising Flour?
Melted Chocolate has gone all strange and
lumpy aka has seized?
Sadly Sunken Cake?
Over-Whipped Cream?
500+ Truly Useful Cooking Tips & Techniques also contains absolutely essential information, good ideas you should do, things you MUST NOT DO, storage tips, kitchen equipment info, conversion charts and miscellaneous stuff such as how to separate eggs without resorting to the popular plastic bottle “hack”.
I even enclose one or two helpful suggestions from other people in the know, eg. …
Suzy Bowler
Having been a somewhat itinerant chef for over 30 years I was amazed, on my return to the UK, at the blatant food waste that now seems to be rife in the country; amazed and irritated. So much so that I decided to start a blog about spontaneous cooking from leftovers to show people that there are great alternatives to throwing food away.
