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There are four ingredients to good cooking. First and foremost are the ingredients. If even one of the ingredients in a dish is of poor quality then that dish can only ever be as good/bad as that ingredient. In another words get the absolute best ingredients you can if you don't you probably won't like the results. The second thing is patience, lots of it. Trying to take shortcuts will lead to less than ideal results and will often lead to disaster. Also if at first you don't succeed try try again. Professional chefs take many many tries to get a recipe down right and that's after all their training and years of experience. Third - good equipment. Ask any tradesman why he buys tools that cost so much more than the least expensive and on-sale ones. The same goes for cooking, a good knife and pan can not be substituted. Recipes are useless. The things you actually want to learn are cooking techniques and the way in which different ingredients influence the taste of a dish. It's much more important to know how to make a sauce that it is to know the recipe for any given sauce. It's much more important to know that if a dish is lacking in some flavor what and how much of something you should add to enhance the dish. That being said here are a few of my favorites for entertaining friends as well as some standards for day to day. Not all the the items have been posted as yet. If I get a request for a particular one I'll move it to the top of the list for future deployment. Salads Soups
Appetizers Main Course and Sides
Deserts
Drinks
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