4 Common Mistakes When Cooking Produce

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 28 February 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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I'm far from a great chef, so how do I not ruin my garden harvests in the kitchen? Here are 4 mistakes to avoid. Connect With Natasha Ho: Natasha Ho is a master-trained chef and avid traveler who has studied culinary traditions from cuisines around the world. She is the founder of The Well-Traveled Palate, a fast-growing company focused on helping food lovers learn how to cook a wide variety of meals that are consistently delicious so they can have more fun, ease and joy in their kitchen. Natasha is also the host of the online cooking show Tasty Kitchen. Each week, she helps home cooks bring infinite variety to their kitchens with globally-inspired recipes and virtual cooking lessons. Natasha is obsessed with making adventure and joy accessible through food. Her passion is teaching foodies how to master globally inspired flavors, sharpen their skills in the kitchen and learn to cook the most delicious meals. The Well Traveled Palate Book a Consult With Natasha Natasha on Facebook Natasha’s Instagram Natasha’s YouTube Channel Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast, Kevin here and Natasha Ho is back
0:17.7	on the show.
0:18.7	She is a master train chef, avid traveler.
0:21.2	She studied culinary traditions from cuisines all around the world and the founder of the
0:25.3	Well-traveled Palette.
0:27.3	We've been talking a lot about cooking this week and today we're going to talk about
0:30.5	perhaps some things to avoid when you are cooking produce and I'm certain I've probably
0:35.5	made every single one of these mistakes Natasha we've got four of them for you guys today
0:39.4	so why don't we kick it off at number one.
0:41.1	Well you're not alone Kevin I've made all of these mistakes myself as well so you don't
0:45.7	have to feel bad but learning how to do this better has transformed the way that I cook
0:50.8	in the kitchen and I think it will help your listeners as well so the first one is crowding
0:55.6	the vegetables that you cook.
0:58.0	I think this is really a product of wanting to get through the kitchen and the prep process
1:04.0	faster so we toss everything into the pot or toss everything into the pan without really
1:09.0	thinking about the effect of what that's going to do when we do that and the problem with
1:13.9	crowding is that we are going to be steaming our vegetables instead of using the high heat
1:19.9	that we're likely actually trying to apply to our food so if you're trying to saute something
1:24.5	if you're trying to caramelize or brown like we talked about in some of the earlier conversations
1:29.4	if you're trying to do that when you put too much vegetable in the pot what happens is
1:35.6	all the liquid that's inside of those vegetables and now has to go somewhere it starts to evaporate
1:39.6	out of the vegetables and then that is what's cooking the vegetables that are next to it
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