One step ahead.
One meal ahead rather, is the way i dream of cooking.
Planning the next or better yet beginning it when i am already within the previous...
When the creation of one meal can create the base ingredients for another, you are working well in the kitchen.
Again this is why i sing the praises of roasting a chicken.
From the enjoyment the first eve of the crisp and savory skin, the legs and the wings, to the chicken enchiladas or curry chicken salad with apples that will follow, there is delight.
Then comes the broth. Whether long simmered filling your home for hours with the enchanting aroma, or a short melding of flavors with vinegar and citrus, the broth is its own reward. A nourishing tea for all and particularly for the littles that run around my kitchen floor. When mixed with a bit of lemon, salt and a good amount of honey... it becomes honey tea.
A comforting tonic or soothing cup of warmth and love that nourishes from the inside out.
Part of the magic of this comes from all the bits and pieces of kitchen creations that you can add to the broth making. Grated bits of ginger added for spice, garlic skins and cloves for their pungent presence, onions for their healing qualities, carrot tops for their hidden richness of nutrients and any number of dried herbs stems from the line of gathered bundles of garden herbs. Never the same combination twice.
Currently i am listening to the BBC food programme about the revolutionary Alice Waters
i recommend that you do too.
