01-The Changing Face of Homemade


Serves: 5

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When was the last time you made soup from scratch, or salad dressing, or cake? There's no need to apologize "homemade" has changed. Today, the everyday home cook needs a few shortcuts, and I'm not just talking about sauces made from condensed soup and packets of dried onion dip. They've been usurped by jars of bruschetta, pesto, and tapenade. They've been elevated by demi-glace concentrate and fig balsamic glaze, and internationalized with cans of coconut milk, Thai peanut paste, and curry cooking sauce.

This new crop of prepared ingredients is not just a way to get food on the table rather, they provide an opportunity for home cooks to rediscover the joy of cooking.

Let the naysayers decry the demise of homemade food. I say the future of home cooking is bright, for though we have less and less time to cook, we have more and more options. The tedious has become fun, the complicated has been demystified, and what used to take hours to prepare is now ready in minutes.

In these pages you will find more than three hundred inventive recipes that will jump-start the way you cook. With the help of carefully selected flavor-packed products combined with fresh ingredients, you
will learn to create the kind of food you never would have thought you could make at home. Smoked Salmon Carpaccio (Hors d'Oeuvres, Snacks & Other Small Plates), Dulce de Leche Banana Pie (Desserts & Treats), and Pork Chops with Chipotle Cherry Demi-Glace (Beef, Pork, Lamb & Veal) become effortless when you take advantage of the revolution that has transformed the food market into your own personal prep kitchen.

This phenomenon is not confined to individual ingredients-it's a new way to cook that streamlines the way we prepare everything, from soup to dessert. Our opportunities continue to expand. Salsas are being sweetened with fruit, and jams are being spiked with spices and herbs. Canned tomatoes and broths are preseasoned to make Mexican, Mediterranean, or Asian cuisines more accessible. There are whole-grain baking mixes, whole-wheat couscous, and quick-cooking brown rice.

We have seen the birth of all-natural and organic prepared sauces, condiments, and marinades. Major food manufacturers are marketing organic salsa, ketchup, and juice. There are organic brownie mixes, spice blends, and condensed soups. The phenomenon is twofold, illustrating on one hand how organics have tipped into the mainstream, but also showing us that cooking shortcuts are being embraced by all segments of the population. Even all-natural devotees, who at one time saw themselves as definitive from-scratch cooks, are now taking advantage of products that meet their standards for purity and also simplify the way they cook.

Home cooking is constantly evolving toward ease and speed. A century ago the availability of commercially cleaned chickens made the need for home cooks to pluck and gut their own poultry obsolete.
Now the notion of cutting a chicken into pieces or skinning and boning a breast seems hopelessly old-fashioned. Twenty years ago the 60-minute meal was promoted as fast since then the notion of speed has devolved from 30 minutes to 20 to 15 to instantaneous.

In the modern world there are countless ways to get dinner on the table, and just a few of them involve cooking, which means that the only reason to cook is if you want to. It is my hope that once you start cooking with shortcut recipes, the number of times you choose to cook will multiply. And the more you taste the exciting results and experience how little effort they take, the more cooking at home will
become an everyday pleasure that you won't want to miss.

This 01-The Changing Face of Homemade recipe is from the Homemade in a Hurry Cookbook. Download this Cookbook today.


More Recipes from the Homemade in a Hurry Cookbook:
01-The Changing Face of Homemade
02-What's Your Hurry?
03-The Ingredients
04-Organic and All-Natural Ingredients
05-Setting Up A Pantry
06-Using the Recipes
_Asian Quick-Soak Noodles
_Baby Carrots
_Buckwheat
_Buying And Storing Honey
_Buying Leafy Vegetables
_Canned Dairy
_Canned Pumpkin Is Better Than Fresh
_Canned Tomatoes
_Chai Concentrate
_Chiles-Too Hot To Handle
_Chimichurri
_Choosing Meat
_Cook Your Vegetables By Color
_Cooking With Salad Dressing
_Cooking Without Heat
_Cornbread Mixes
_Couscous
_Curry Paste
_Defining Fruit
_Don't Overlook (Seafood)
_Dried Wild Mushrooms
_Dry-Pack, Day-Boat, Unsoaked Scallops
_Edamame
_Endives
_Fennel, Celery, And Other Stem Vegetables
_Fish On The Bone
_Fishing For Broth
_Flavored Oils
_Flavored Salsa
_Food In A Tube
_Frozen Dough
_Frozen Potatoes
_Hanger Steak
_How Do You Know When The Fish Is Done?
_How Does A Slow-Cooker Work?
_Instant And Precooked Polenta
_Instant Polenta
_Judging Freshness
_Keep Your Skin On
_Lean Fish / Fat Fish
_Leftovers: Turkey Salad Reinvented
_Lemon Zest
_Making Substitutions For Cream
_Making Substitutions: Salsa And Dressing
_Meatless Protein
_Melting Cheese
_Mesquite Sauces
_Microwave Steaming
_Mole Paste
_Perfect Cheesecake
_Ponzu
_Pots And Pans
_Precut Produce
_Prepared Pie Crust
_Preservatives In Jarred Garlic
_Puff Pastry
_Quick Tomato Sauces
_Quick-Cooking Whole-Grain Rice
_Quinoa
_Quorn
_Ready-To-Serve Precooked Bacon
_Refried Beans
_Refrigerated Guacamole
_Restaurant-Style Stock And Sauce Concentrates
_Resting Lasagna (Or Any Casserole)
_Risotto
_Salting To Cook, Not Just For Flavor
_Seitan
_Shopping For Root Vegetables
_Speed-Baking Potatoes
_Sprouts: An Instant Salad
_Techniques For Cooking Vegetables
_The Allure Of Pouched Fish
_The Joy Of Soy
_The Sweet Side Of Pepper Spread
_The Theory Behind Slow-Roasting
_The Two Faces Of Veggie Burgers
_Tofu
_Tomatoes And Cream
_Tough Cuts Of Meat
_V8: A Garden In A Jar
_Vegetables That Are Fruit
_What Is Bruschetta?
_What Makes An Onion Sweet?
_White Beans
_You Say Tabbouleh, I Say Tabouli




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