Sean Kahlenberg
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Learn how to trim, score, and tie beef before you start cooking to help with flavor and presentation later on. After oven searing, you'll use a chef's thermometer to determine when to remove the meat, resting it with carryover cooking to complete the process. You'll learn to make a delicious potato gratin, as well.
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What really brings color to this meal is the bright green persillade that will coat the lamb after it has been seared in a pan and before it goes into the oven. You'll also learn to make a caponata (a warm vegetable salad with eggplant, raisins, capers, and pine nuts) as an accompaniment.
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In this episode, learn how to determine exactly how much flour and eggs you'll need to measure for pasta. Once the dough is made and rested, you'll learn how to use the pasta roller until the dough is exactly the correct consistency and how to use a piping bag to insert the roasted butternut squash mixture.
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Gnocchi, sometimes called Italian dumplings, is a pasta made with flour and potatoes. Learn about a few of the 200+ types of potatoes, their range of starch-to-moisture ratios, and which potatoes are best for making gnocchi. You'll learn to mill, cut, and shape this pasta with a gnocchi pallet, and how to make a delicious sauce to accompany this Mediterranean comfort food.
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You might think monkfish is an unusual choice for a gourmet meal: It's a bottom-feeder formerly called garbage fish and is considered so "ugly"_x009d_ that it's almost never sold with the head on. But with Chef Kahlenberg's instruction, you will turn monkfish to a golden-brown delicacy, accompanied by a whole-grain salad.
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While vegan menus can be a challenge for any chef, as umami can be difficult to include, Chef Kahlenberg shares his own tricks to address the issue. You'll learn how to clean, peel, and prepare celeriac; clean and prepare a variety of carrots; and how to season, cook, and plate this delicious vegan meal.
10) Cooking Basics: What Everyone Should Know: Episode 2,Choosing the Best Method to Cook Vegetables
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Should you peel a vegetable before cooking or not? Cook it in water or oil? Put a lid on the pot or leave it off? Add salt to the water and, if so, why? Chef Kahlenberg answers these questions and more as he begins with kitchen basics. Learn which knives you need in the kitchen and other tools you might need to add.
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Dover sole is a flat fish and a bottom-feeder that almost always comes whole with the intestines left in, requiring very different preparation and cooking than a round fish. Chef Kahlenberg demonstrates how to remove the skin by hand, which must be done before cooking. You'll also make perfectly sized fondant potatoes, as well as beautiful asparagus.
13) Cooking Basics: What Everyone Should Know: Episode 24,My Big Steak: Executing a Three-Course Meal
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In this episode, you'll learn how to create a three-course meal and have it all come together with perfect timing. You'll prepare filet mignon from a beef tenderloin, create a spinach salad, a potato salad, and a chocolate tarte with raspberry coulis.
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Coq au vin is a French chicken dish, all made in one pot. You'll learn how to create a 24-hour marinade, braise the chicken while keeping the fond golden-brown, safely add and cook off brandy, and create the perfectly sized cartouche for oven cooking. To accompany the chicken, you'll make a pomme puree and a garnish of onions and mushrooms.
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Paella is an ancient, summertime, one-pot seafood and rice dish originating near Valencia, updated here to include pork and chicken. In this lesson, you'll learn how to render fat from chorizo to use as a cooking medium, create a sofrito, parch rice, bloom saffron, prepare artichokes, and bring it all together in one special pan for a unique culinary experience.
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Learn how to safely pound pork to create a thin, wide cutlet that will fill almost your entire plate. You'll also learn how to bread the pork with seasoned flour, egg, and breadcrumbs, and how to pan-fry it, not deep fry. In addition, you'll make a beautiful salad with supremed grapefruit.
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Rice is one of the most versatile grains in the world, and this risi e bisi, "rice with peas,"_x009d_ is one of the most delicious ways to use it. Among other techniques, you'll learn how to keep the chlorophyll from turning black while cooking, how to relax the risotto on the plate for best presentation, and how to make perfect arancini with the leftovers.
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Cioppino is a Portuguese seafood stew that made its way to San Francisco and is now considered a classic of that area. For this dish, you'll learn how to prepare shrimp, mussels, calamari, clams, halibut, and scallops, as well as how to clean, cut, and cook leeks. Grill a baguette to finish and you'll have the perfect seafood meal!
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To brine or not to brine? While there are pros and cons to both, in this episode, you'll learn Chef Kahlenberg's method of brining and cooking turkey, as well as creating delicious stuffing and cranberry sauce. With the chef's tips on prep and cook times, it will all come together exactly as you've always hoped.