Writer: Helena Bergström
What do you do when you want to relax with a hobby? Peter watches cooking videos on YouTube and then spends hours in the kitchen… Right now, good food at home is what it’s all about. Here are Peter’s top tips for those of you who also want to experiment with purees, tweezers and decorative arrangements!
Delicious food at home
What do we mean by good food at home? So yes, Peter is inspired by the kind of meals you can get in Michelin restaurants and other better places. Some weekend evenings, when he has time, he finds himself in the kitchen tinkering and experimenting… After all, Peter is not a chef, nor an expert in cooking – he just likes to be creative and try new things in the kitchen. These are his best tips!
1. Find inspiration online
Peter finds inspiration for his cooking experiments on the internet. He mainly watches YouTube videos, and his favorite is Chef Mikewhich shows how to cook fine dining at home.
2. Check the equipment
Of course, you don’t have to buy a lot of new, expensive items to experiment with cooking, but it can still be worth taking a closer look at the equipment in the kitchen. Peter has purchased a blender/mixer, as we did not have one yet, and also some plastic bottles to store purees and sauces. He has a sous vide from the past, which comes in handy now.
Peter also longed for new porcelain, with color, and during Black Week we found really affordable plates at Åhléns, so we seized the opportunity. That’s why there are different signs in different photos!
3. Use potatoes and root vegetables in many ways
Peter notes that potatoes are a common carbohydrate source in many gourmet recipes. Potatoes are a good raw material that can be used in many ways, for mashed potatoes, potato cakes and a thousand other innovative potato dishes.
Root vegetables are also used fresh, in the form of carrots, beets and parsnips, for example. The root vegetables are often used in several ways at the same time, for example both as a puree and as a cooked side dish.
4. Use vegetables in many ways
In addition to potatoes and other root vegetables, vegetables play a major role in gastronomic cuisine. These can be very “basic” vegetables, such as cabbage and leek, or slightly more exclusive vegetables such as asparagus and Asian mushrooms.
Often the vegetables are used in more than one way. You can make a vegetable puree from one piece of vegetable, while another piece of vegetable can be cut, cooked and served as a side dish.
Peter says that the vegetable puree often contains a lot of pure vegetable raw material and only small amounts of cream. In other words, it feels like a nutritious and useful seasoning, and we store what’s left in the bottles in the refrigerator to use for other meals.
5. The ingredients do not have to be “fancy”, but carefully prepared
You would think that good food should be very exclusive, but Peter has often used relatively common ingredients, such as chicken, turkey or salmon. The focus is instead on carefully preparing the ingredients, which in our case often happened because Peter used sous vide.
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6. Be creative with the layout
A lot of attention is paid to being creative with the layout! When Peter cooks a delicious meal at home, he spends a lot of time preparing the food neatly and decorating it with small blobs of vegetable puree and small sprigs of vegetables or herbs. How should the food be classified? Yes, it’s a matter of taste… just try it!
7. Bring inspiration to everyday dishes
Last but not least… why not bring the inspiration to everyday eating? When Peter recently made meatballs and mashed potatoes, they became one rather new layout…
Do you like to experiment with tasty food at home?
Do you like to experiment with tasty food at home? Do you like cooking? Or to go to a restaurant?
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