Elevate Your Everyday Cooking with Curtis Stone

Overview

Elevate your cooking skills with eye-opening (and mouth-watering) techniques from Michelin-starred chef Curtis Stone himself.

In this course, Elevate Your Everyday Cooking with Curtis Stone, you’ll learn how to create 27 delectable recipes, transforming fresh ingredients into impressive meals. Chef Stone will teach you essential cooking techniques and how to incorporate a variety of vegetables, meats, and flavors into your everyday cooking.

Course Outline

1. Open Fire Cooking: Creating an Open Fire
   • Duration: 6 min
   • Discover techniques for cooking with an open fire and learn to appreciate this age-old method.

• Dry Rubs and Brines
  • Duration: 14 min
  • Gain insights into the differences between dry rubs and brines as Chef Stone demonstrates how to prepare both.

• Marinades
  • Duration: 11 min
  • Learn three delicious marinade recipes to ensure your grilled food is tender and juicy.

• Spit Roasting
  • Duration: 11 min
  • Master the art of spit roasting for an impressive, flavorful dish that will wow your guests.

• Sauces
  • Duration: 6 min
  • Create a bright chimichurri sauce that complements a wide range of dishes.

6. Grilling Steaks
   • Duration: 14 min
   • Use live fire grilling techniques to prepare perfect wagyu steaks and lamb skewers.

• Making Breakfast on a Plancha
  • Duration: 8 min
  • Cook breakfast dishes using a plancha, a flat-top griddle suitable for high-heat cooking.

• Cooking in a Caldron
  • Duration: 10 min
  • Learn to cook hearty dishes like porcini-braised short ribs using a traditional caldron.

9. Roasting Vegetables on Embers
   • Duration: 10 min
   • Discover how to roast vegetables perfectly using the gentle heat of embers.

• Brick Oven Favorites: Building a Brick Oven Fire
  • Duration: 5 min
  • Get tips for building the perfect fire for wood-burning ovens to enhance your cooking.

• Pizza
  • Duration: 13 min
  • Prepare delicious pizza from scratch using a brick oven.

12. Bread
    • Duration: 11 min
    • Make a special breadstick recipe that impresses even the toughest critics.

• Vegetables: Salt Crust Cooking
  • Duration: 12 min
  • Learn to use salt crust to cook vegetables, achieving excellent flavor and texture.

• Seafood
  • Duration: 14 min
  • Master cooking delicate seafood in a brick oven, ensuring perfect results.

15. Meat
    • Duration: 7 min
    • Discover how to prepare rack of lamb using two different cooking methods.

• Creative Garden Vegetables: Stems
  • Duration: 12 min
  • Cook a delicious dish using white asparagus and poached eggs.

• Roots
  • Duration: 16 min
  • Explore the flavors of root vegetables and learn tasty cooking methods.

• Leaves
  • Duration: 13 min
  • Prepare dishes featuring cabbage and Brussels sprouts, bringing out their best flavors.

• Tubers and Mashed Potatoes
  • Duration: 12 min
  • Transform potatoes and sweet potatoes into a creamy mashed dish.

• Flowers and Cauliflower Steaks
  • Duration: 7 min
  • Cook cauliflower with a flavorful Italian agrodolce sauce.

• Bulbs
  • Duration: 9 min
  • Understand the flavors of bulbs like leeks and garlic and their culinary uses.

22. Seeds, Beans, and Peas
    • Duration: 10 min
    • Learn how to prepare and season legumes and create delicious dishes.

• Custom Condiments: Pickling
  • Duration: 12 min
  • Master pickling techniques to add crunch and flavor to your meals.

24. Relishes
    • Duration: 9 min
    • Prepare a tangy piccalilli relish to enhance a variety of dishes.

25. Chutneys
    • Duration: 8 min
    • Create two chutneys that complement stews and soups perfectly.

26. Jams
    • Duration: 8 min
    • Learn the differences between marmalades, jams, and jellies with a recipe from Chef Stone’s mum.

27. Sauces
    • Duration: 10 min
    • Explore versatile sauces using a base of homemade aioli.