Tips from professional Chef Tallyrand:
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Tallyrand
Food and Cooking Tips
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Food
tip on tomatoes
 Forget
fresh tomatoes in the winter time, they are dull, lifeless
and insipid. This is because they have lacked the summer
sun which means they cannot convert all the natural
sugars and will not be sweet and juicy.
Instead
replace them with tinned tomatoes in your recipes, like
I have with the Bolognaise sauce, these tomatoes will
have been picked at just the right time and be full
of flavour. If you must use fresh for anything, cut
them in half and pop them in a warm oven for two hours
(preferably a fan oven). The drying effect will concentrate
the flavours by evaporating the moisture content and
caramelising the natural sugars, resulting in a type
of 'sundried' tomatoes.
Also
forget that dried, powdered parmesan cheese. Treat yourself
to some fresh parmesan and enjoy the taste difference,
it will surprise you, as the fresh is nothing like the
smelly powdered variety.
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Recipe:
Published
29
January
2001
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