As I had previously mentioned in regards to my mother learning to be a kitchen hand, she has been taking classes during the week as part of the course, and of course, cooking.
She made a white soup yesterday and some kind of Italian soup that she forgot the name of. They were going to chuck out the leftovers from their cooking and tasting, so my mother brought it home.
Observations on the dishes. When you get a recipe, there is a kind of inherent reason why it is written like it is. Follow it to obtain close results to the desired effect. If you skimp on the ingredients, expect it to not taste the same. It called for 250g of butter (I don't know what the volume of it was in total, so 250g might not be that much in reality) but they used less than half. They also didn't add the egg yolks. This is because everyone used too many eggs earlier when they were learning about cooking eggs, including apparently some middle eastern woman who boiled and ate three of them for her own purpose, i.e. it was not related to what they were meant to be doing ~shakes head in disbelief~ Anyway, the white soup tasted ok but it was a bit bland. I think it might be because it was missing half the butter and the eggs.
The second soup, I think it might have been an attempt at minestrone. It's chunky vegetables with what appears to be a light tomato base, with rice. The problem with this one is, they put in too much rice, and well, eventually it turned into a wet risotto... It tastes okay but I think because of the rice, it loses the strength of the vegetable flavour.
Other than that, they were fairly standard and seem to be easy dishes to cook in my opinion.
She made a white soup yesterday and some kind of Italian soup that she forgot the name of. They were going to chuck out the leftovers from their cooking and tasting, so my mother brought it home.
Observations on the dishes. When you get a recipe, there is a kind of inherent reason why it is written like it is. Follow it to obtain close results to the desired effect. If you skimp on the ingredients, expect it to not taste the same. It called for 250g of butter (I don't know what the volume of it was in total, so 250g might not be that much in reality) but they used less than half. They also didn't add the egg yolks. This is because everyone used too many eggs earlier when they were learning about cooking eggs, including apparently some middle eastern woman who boiled and ate three of them for her own purpose, i.e. it was not related to what they were meant to be doing ~shakes head in disbelief~ Anyway, the white soup tasted ok but it was a bit bland. I think it might be because it was missing half the butter and the eggs.
The second soup, I think it might have been an attempt at minestrone. It's chunky vegetables with what appears to be a light tomato base, with rice. The problem with this one is, they put in too much rice, and well, eventually it turned into a wet risotto... It tastes okay but I think because of the rice, it loses the strength of the vegetable flavour.
Other than that, they were fairly standard and seem to be easy dishes to cook in my opinion.
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