Modernist Cooking Made Easy: Party Foods

Modernist Cooking Made Easy: Party Foods

by Jason Logsdon
Modernist Cooking Made Easy: Party Foods

Modernist Cooking Made Easy: Party Foods

by Jason Logsdon

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Overview

Are you tired of serving the same bland and uninteresting foods when you have parties?



Do you want to delight and amaze your friends when they come over?



If you nodded your head "Yes" then this book was written for you!



Modernist cooking is a great way to easily create exceptional dishes that will blow your friends away! It's also a fun way to delight your senses with new flavors, textures, aromas, and compositions. Modernist Cooking Made Easy: Party Foods provides all the information you need to get started amazing your party guests with modernist cooking. It is all presented in an easy to understand format along with more than 100 recipes that can be applied immediately to your next party.



This book is written for adventurous home cooks, whether or not you have experience with modernist cooking. It steps you through the basics, including overviews of the most popular modernist techniques, equipment, and ingredients. These techniques can produce an amazing array of dishes that anyone can easily use to experience the joys of modernist cooking as well as to delight their guests!



Inside you'll find an extensive compilation of recipes for awesome party foods that provide a wide variety of delightful taste sensations including modernist deviled eggs, flavorful foams, spherified soups, fancy flatbreads, creamy cheeses, pressure cooked soups, kicked-up chicken wings, tasty gels, infused cocktails and more!



Whether you like to have sit-down dinner parties, walk-around cocktail parties, outdoor barbecues, or anything in between, you'll find great recipes that you can use. From fancy flatbreads and foamed dips to spherified cocktails and sous vided meats, modernist cooking can create food that plays with all of the senses. It is an awesome way to easily wow your family and friends!



Using the recipes and techniques presented in this book you'll be using all the best applications of modernist cooking and impressing your friends with some "WOW" recipes on those special occasions.



What You Get In This Book


� An overview of modernist cooking techniques including carbonating, foaming, gelling, infusing, emulsifying, pressure cooking, thickening, sous viding, and spherification.


� A look at the most popular modernist ingredients and how to use them, including agar, carrageenan, gelatin, lecithin, sodium alginate, sodium citrate, xanthan gum and many more.


� A detailed look at the equipment you need to get started with modernist cooking at home, all of which costs less than $100.


� More than 100 recipes providing a wide variety of dishes that will be the hit of your party, complete with large images in color on the Kindle and B&W in print. They include:

���� Crostini, pressure cooked soups, chicken wings and tenders

���� Chips and dips, flatbreads, infused alcohols and cocktails

���� Deviled eggs, cold soups, cheesy soups and dips

���� A wide variety of small plates using beef, pork, chicken, fish, and lobster


� A comprehensive sous vide time and temperature chart, as well as cooking-by-thickness times.


� Detailed summary charts with the different techniques for various ingredients and what ratios they should be used in.



If you want to use modernist cooking to delight your taste buds and amaze your friends then this is the book for you!


Product Details

BN ID: 2940150602229
Publisher: Primolicious, LLC
Publication date: 09/25/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 280
File size: 10 MB

About the Author

My name is Jason Logsdon and I'm a passionate home cook who loves to try new things, especially when it comes to cooking. However, I'm not the type of cook who enjoys trying out "experiments" just to see what works. I'd much rather take existing knowledge, distill it down to easy-to-follow concepts, and apply it successfully to my own cooking.

I find it quite rewarding to ease emerging cooking technologies from the realm of the professional chef into the kitchen of the cooking enthusiast. I accomplished this first with sous vide cooking where I created a website, CookingSousVide.com (Now integrated into ModernistCookingMadeEasy.com), and wrote four books that have assisted in bringing sous vide cooking into the kitchens of thousands of passionate cooks.

Next I addressed the increasingly popular developments in modernist cooking. Here I take the almost mystical technology of molecular gastronomy and present it in a manner that makes it easy for the adventurous cook to understand and execute. Once again I have created a website, ModernistCookingMadeEasy.com, and written a book, Modernist Cooking Made Easy: Getting Started, that doesn't attempt to explain the science of modernist cooking, but instead focuses on how these new techniques and ingredients can be employed to create dishes with completely new flavors, aromas, textures and visual appeal. The recipes range from ones that will amaze readers' friends to another that will simply make it quicker and easier to make flavorful traditional gravy.

In my writing I aim to simplify and my websites and books focus on explaining things in a way even my mother-in-law can understand. My dishes might not be as inventive as Grant Achatz's, but hopefully they will successfully illustrate the concepts that underpin modernist cooking, allowing you to gain the information you need to start using modernist techniques and ingredients more in your everyday cooking.
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