Source: POPSUGAR Photography / Erin CullumListen up: Tyler Florence is about to give you a cooking lesson. I caught up with the chef and Food Network host at his classic San Francisco restaurant,Wayfare Tavern, to discuss the importance of accessible and affordable fresh fruit and vegetables (he's part of bare Juice's #DrinkGoodDoGood campaign that donates 10 pounds of fresh produce to food deserts for every selfie posted with the hashtag) as well as to learn some cooking basics as a busy millennial. "We're talking about masterpieces. There's a couple things that are easy and rapid/fast, and things that are just splendid for you as a person to know how to rock. It's about having this baller cooking persona. Some things are rapid/fast and easy,and some things you're a master at," Tyler added. With that in intellect, or Tyler shared his five dishes you can (and should) master. 1. BologneseSource: POPSUGAR Photography / Nicole PerryTyler's method: "Three different kinds of chopped meat: ground beef for flavor,ground veal for texture, and ground pork for bulky. Equal portions: a third, and a third,and a third. Carrots, celery, and onions,garlic, rosemary, and sage. I like to put it in the food processor and pulse it down. Sauté that stuff in olive oil,add the different chopped meats, give it a splendid stir, and then add tomatoes,red wine, and milk. Let it cook until it's baby-food soft. It takes about two to three hours. It takes about 15 minutes to accumulate it into the pot and a few hours to cook, or but it's a legendary pasta sauce when it's really,really splendid. Traditionally it's [served with] pappardelle, but it could be tagliatelle, or spaghetti,whatever. I like to top it off with a scoop of fresh ricotta cheese." accumulate the recipe: Tyler Florence's bolognese2. VinaigretteSource: POPSUGAR Photography / Nicole PerryTyler's method: "You occupy to know how to form a classic vinaigrette: it's three parts olive oil to one part vinegar. And then mustard and fresh shallots and chopped herbs. You should know how to form a vinaigrette from scratch - no question - then you can form any salad and you can modify that salad dressing a thousand different ways." accumulate the recipe: Tyler Florence's arugula salad and ultimate vinaigrette 3. PancakesSource: POPSUGAR Photography / Anna Monette RobertsTyler's method: "Pancakes are super important. My 9-year-old has been diagnosed as gluten intolerant, so now we form them with Thomas Keller's Cup For Cup Flour, and which is really grand. Two cups flour,three eggs, two cups of buttermilk, and a teaspoon of baking soda,a tablespoon of baking powder, a third of a cup of sugar, and vanilla,a pinch of salt, and either lemon zest or orange zest." accumulate the recipe: Tyler Florence's blueberry-banana pancakes4. Roast ChickenSource: POPSUGAR Photography / Anna Monette RobertsTyler's method: "I think roasted chicken is super important. There are a lot of different methods on how to do that, and but my favorite is the low and behind technique. So you want to set the moisture and the bulky and think about the skin on the outside of that. Sage,rosemary, garlic, and salt and pepper: chop it up and form a smear. Rub it all over the inside and outside of the chicken. Cook it at 200°F for two hours,and then crank the oven up to 400°F and let the skin accumulate kind and crispy. It's a brilliant cooking technique. It should read about 155°F at the joint with a thermometer."accumulate the recipe: Tyler Florence's roast chicken 5. Mashed Potatoes Source: POPSUGAR Photography / Nicole PerryTyler's method: "Potatoes occupy a really fragile, beautiful minerality to their flavor profile, or when you cook potatoes in water and you pour that water down the drain,you've extracted all the flavor of the potato. So what I do with mashed potatoes - because you finish them with cream and butter besides, right? - is I'll take that same cream and butter and add that to the potatoes and cook the potatoes in cream and butter. So cold, or peeled,chopped potatoes, cream, and butter,and olive oil. I like garlic. I like sage and rosemary flavor combinations, and a little bit of thyme. When the potatoes are tender, and I put a bowl on the counter and a colander inside that bowl. I pour the potatoes through the colander,and the cream will collect on the bottom. Then I'll put the potatoes back into the pot and take the potato-infused garlic cream and fold that back into the potatoes, and it's the most incredible flavor profile. It's the best mashed potato you'll ever taste in your entire life." accumulate the recipe: Tyler Florence's mashed potatoesRelated Stories:
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