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May 2018

Foods

How to Make Soups that Suit your Taste

Many of us love soups. They are a delicious and simple meal which can have nearly any flavors. Also, soups can be tailored to nearly any season. While you want to search for recipes when making soups, you can actually come up with your own blends. Next time to wish to make one, consider the following:

 

Pick your Kind of Fat

When it comes to soup, you want a kind of fat in it such as olive oil or butter. This can help in sautéing any root veggies and other flavors. Choose what you have on hand to mesh well with your flavors.

Make your Own Base

Do you have fish, chick or pork stock on hand? Do you want cream or milk? What about tomato puree? Pick a base or two. Stock mixed with milk or tomato puree is mouth-watering. You are free to pick your desired flavors.

Pick the Right Meat

Are you looking to prepare a chicken soup? Do you want to mix in steak or fish? Pick whatever you want and whatever you have. Using chicken stock in place of beef stock can provide awesome results, especially when you add tomato to it.

Select your Kind of Veggies

In terms of vegetables for soups, onions are quite standard as the share so much flavor. Celery, carrots and garlic are great too. Also, you can try your sup with spinach, potatoes, corn and beans.

Don’t Go Easy on Spices

Black pepper and sea salt are quite basic in soups. For chicken soups, try celery, sage, parsley, and thyme. For beef, consider rosemary, marjoram, and thyme. You can make the best cream soups when you put a dash of thyme or parsley. Tomato-based soups are perfect with basil, fennel, or oregano. These are common spice options but you can use any combinations you like. Just taste and adjust until you can achieve the taste that suits your   preference.

Making soups doesn’t have to be expensive and intricate. You can use whatever ingredients you have on hand, as long as you like them. There is no need to browse through website pages for soup recipes. But, this doesn’t mean you cannot use available recipes online. In fact, you can use them to get some ideas to help you come up with your own recipe. With your soup maker guide, you can add or eliminate some ingredients and make a delicious soup that you can enjoy.

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Chef

How to Build the Perfect Restaurant Kitchen

For those just entering the restaurant business, building or renovating to create the perfect kitchen can be an overwhelming task. It seems easy to make all kinds of mistakes. This blog can help you avoid many common mistakes and create a perfect kitchen for your restaurant.

   Assembling A Team Building the perfect kitchen for you restaurant is only a solo task for the most talented of cooking builders. For most people, they will require a team of well-trained professionals to create a perfect kitchen. It’s important to know and have an idea of who this team should consist of. Your kitchen creation team should include obviously a plumber, electrician, builders and a designer, but also may be less obviously your chef, the one who will actually be spending all their time in the space. Also a trip to your local restaurant supply store can give you an idea of how much space different items and chef supplies will take up for the designing process.

    Deciding On Size Obviously a little cafe with twenty seats needs a significantly smaller kitchen than a restaurant with room for a hundred inside with seating for thirty more outside. The rule of thumb is that every seat in the restaurant equals five square feet in the kitchen, meaning that a diner that seats thirty would have a one hundred and fifty square foot kitchen minimum.

    Venting An important part of your kitchen design must be ventilation. How will steam and smoke get out of the kitchen and fresh air come in, keeping the kitchen safe not only for employees, but also for customers in the dining area.

    Inspection It’s a given that your kitchen will have to meet certain health and safety standards. It can be a good idea to try and meet with your local and state inspectors prior to beginning building so that they can see your plans for your kitchen design and inform you of any potential major problems

   Working Zones and Flexibility Many restaurant kitchens have specific areas set aside for particular actions or processes like food cleaning, cooking, baking or cutting. This can allow many people to work on multiple elements of a dish at the same time as well as minimizing collision and chaos. Restaurant trends and food items are always changing. It’s important to design and implement a kitchen that can easily change to meet new demands.

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