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Tag Archives: Le Creuset
The Amazing Potato Gratin
(and Le Creuset GIVEAWAY)
My daughter was assisting Donna during these videos for Le Creuset cookware (which I love, and am genuinely honored to be working with this company; seriously, not worthy, but I try). After the shoot, Addison said, angrily, real anger, "Why don't you make that potato cheesy thing for me?!"
"Good lord," I said, "I'd make them all the time if I thought you'd eat them!" [I didn't say, "Because of all the things you refused to eat when I tried to make good food for you!"] I cherish her but she's difficult.
Fact is, these are the easiest, best potatoes ever, and in this Le Creuset gratin dish, they not only cook perfectly, they're gorgeous to serve. Watch the video—shallots are key, and I love that you can start the dish on the stovetop.
And Le Creuset is GIVING AWAY ten—yes, TEN!—of these gratin ...
Posted in aromatics, baking, From Scratch, Giveaway, Recipes, sidedishes, Technique Also tagged butcher & larder, Chicago, El Ideas, events, Floriole, gratin, Salumi, The Publican Comments closed
Le Creuset Giveaway: The Way to Braise
We're back with another cooking lesson and Le Creuset giveaway! This time with my favorite cooking method: braising. Why is it my favorite? Because it so definitively expresses what real cooking is: transformation.
Great cooking is about transforming something that would be unpleasant to eat into something exquisite. In my view, grilling a steak is not cooking, it's heating. That's not to diminish grilling steaks—one of my favorite activities and foods to eat. It can be done well or poorly, but it doesn't transform food, which is what truly inspires me in the kitchen. To transform pork shoulder into a sausage is cooking. Whether caramelizing onions to develop their sweetness or toasting seasonings in a pan to grind and create a curry, that's cooking.
And braising, transforming tough cuts of meat into meltingly tender mouthfuls of pleasure—that is cooking.
In the above video, I talk about the ...
Posted in Beef, Braise, Kitchen Tools, Main Courses, Recipes Also tagged beef, braise, kitchen equipment, short ribs Comments closed
Le Creuset Giveaway!
Announcing the first episode of my Le Creuset Technique series!
In December, in Charleston, South Carolina, while promoting my book, Ruhlman’s Twenty, I met Will Copenhaver and Grimsley Matkov, from the Marketing Communications team at Le Creuset US. They loved my book (and the many photos of the food we cooked in Le Creuset products, which Donna shot). I told them I love Le Creuset, it’s the best stuff on the market, that’s why we use it.
A month later, while cooking in Key West (brought my 7-quart Le Creuset French oven along with other tools, bien sûr), a colleague of mine, Warren Johnson, of Taste Five Media in Charleston, asked if I’d consider working with Le Creuset. I told him nothing would please me more, and Warren got to work.
Le Creuset wanted to teach people how easy ...
