After finding out about my recipe making goal, one of my friends asked if we could make a meal together - a recipe neither of us had made before. Sounded like a fun twist on my goal, so we combined forces pooling ingredients and assembled them in my kitchen to tackle one of his favorite dishes - Lemon Chicken Piccata:
Cooking with someone else can be very helpful, and enlightening. Right away, I realized that my approach to cooking wasn't the same as my friends, and that we hadn't talked about what the plan was - just dove in and started working on different parts of the dish.
So far in this project, I've tried to follow these new recipes as exactly as possible.
Thinking about that while making this recipe together with someone, it reminded me of an assignment I had in Jr High to write a detailed "how-to" that someone could follow - I've heard of others doing a similar thing with writing directions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich where the person making it has to follow the directions exactly. So, if they don't say "take the tie off the bread" the person making the sandwich can't do that.
I don't want my following recipes to get that restrictive, but I also did set the goal to exactly follow recipes and learn from that as I continue my normal approach of just throwing things together. Good thing this is my goal, and I get to decide what "counts" ;)
Making recipes on my own have I made substitutions? or not measured exactly? yes (like with lemon - more or less based on what I have on hand)
Plus, this recipe started out with a written in substitute - more chicken broth to replace wine for a non-alcoholic version. Great.
Other substitutes we made:
- half & half for heavy cream
- salted butter for unsalted butter
- garlic from a jar instead of fresh cloves
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