TTC Video The Everyday Gourmet: Making Great Meals in Less Time

TTC Video – The Everyday Gourmet: Making Great Meals in Less Time
eLearning | Course No. 9211

We’d all love to create the same wholesome, delicious meals that professional chefs make. But the one thing that often prevents us from doing so: lack of time.

The secrets to making great meals in less time are simple and easy to learn. And once you’ve mastered them, you’ll be able to

– use your time more effectively in the kitchen,
– enhance your cooking skills with a range of everyday items,
– avoid giving in to the temptation-and poor nutrition-of fast food, and
– discover just how enriching and rewarding the experience of cooking can be.

In The Everyday Gourmet: Making Great Meals in Less Time, award-winning Chef-Instructor Bill Briwa of the prestigious Culinary Institute of America gets you off the fast-food treadmill to learn tips, techniques, recipes, and simple ingredients to keep on hand for quick, healthy meals that will delight your family and friends. These six innovative and practical lessons, filmed on location at the CIA’s Greystone campus in Napa Valley, are your chance to learn the time-saving secrets of chefs so you can make tasty and rewarding dishes-from appetizers to main courses to desserts-whenever you’re strapped for time.

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Every lesson of Making Great Meals in Less Time is filled with insights you can return to again and again whenever you crave a home-cooked meal but are pressed for time.

– Use what you already have: There is an untapped wealth of cooking ideas right in your pantry or fridge. Chef Briwa suggests getting creative (and economical) by using what’s already around you, such as leftovers and canned or jarred items. Then, all you need to do is incorporate a single fresh ingredient to elevate your meal into something spectacular.
Delicious Recipes from an Expert Chef

Of course, a highlight of this course is the recipes themselves. In Making Great Meals in Less Time, Chef Briwa provides you with many recipes that you can add to your collection or enhance with your own personal touches.

Some of the dishes and meals you’ll learn how to make include

– breakfast fried rice, complete with eggs and mushrooms;
Making Great Meals in Less Time allows you to follow Chef Briwa step by step as he prepares, cooks, and plates these and many other magnificent, good-for-you dishes and meals. And the course comes complete with a guidebook featuring recipes, techniques, and full-color photos.

So whether you’re cooking for an everyday meal or a special occasion, take the stress out of your kitchen and discover just how rewarding it can be to make delicious home-cooked meals in less time.

6 Lectures
1 Into the Mind of a Chef
2 Launching the Day
3 One Fresh Thing
4 Evolution of a Quick Dish
5 What Makes a Meal?
6 A Chef Entertains

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