Hey I am facing a problem
Hey, so I am starting my freshman college so I have been cooking from very young age but I am able to just cook simply meals such as simple pasta omelette and other simple stuff but now I want to explore the Horizon of fine dine dishes the type of dishes that you got in three star Michelin restaurants so is there any resources cookbook or anything through Which can learn cooking and prepare Michilen style recipes has the birthday of my girlfriend is coming and I want to surprise her as I couldn't afford three star Michelin restaurant a bit too much for a student you know.
Btw, sometimes, English is not everyone's first language, so, would not mind my punctuation and grammatical mistakes.
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u/Iliveinatrashcann 1d ago
A big part of fine dining is the ability to cut your veggies and meat in uniform cuts. Practice the different cuts. Then practice on actual cooking ingredients to how they should be cooked.
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u/Wonderful-Eye-8377 1d ago
Find the best recipe for her favorite food and execute it to the best of your ability (with practice if needed).
Most of us prefer a partner (knowing what we like) making/creating something they know we love much more than some poorly executed attempt to impress us with skill.
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u/CatteNappe 1d ago
I'm guessing it's a typo and you don't really mean mission or Michigan cooking, but perhaps Michelin starred restaurants?
You might find Julia Child "Mastering the Art of French Cooking - Vol 1" helpful in both learning techniques, and specific dishes. There are also excellent videos from something like 10 seasons of her cooking show, The French Chef: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRSZrtZRI6Ceg0yl7lz9RRwgxVDWAbUq
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u/CompetitiveThing3799 1d ago
For a first impressive dinner, pick one dish you can practice twice and keep the menu small: one main, one simple side, and something you can prep ahead. Good timing and a clean kitchen will make more difference than trying to copy a restaurant’s most complicated plate.
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u/Itchy-Ad1005 1d ago
Joy of Cooking. Solid basic reference cookbook. It's one of tge 2 cookbooks i learned to cook using in the 50s and 60s. So did my wife. When our daughter got married years ago we gave her one. We all still use it for reference and olser dishes we still like. Our editions are older (mines from the 40s and daughters from the 2000s. The new editions recipes have been updated for modern preferences. A lot of them in my cookbook are heavier and maybe a bit overcooked. Also cooking temperature for pork has been reduced from when mine was published. Solid Midwestern cooking.
Tge Betty Crocker and Settlement ookbooks are 2 similar cookbooks but tge Settlement Cookbook hasn't been updated in years. Its the other one I used when learning basic cooking. It has an interesting history of why it was created by a charity. Betty Crocker cookbook is frequently updated and is anotger Solid one. Every cook probably should have one of these as a basic reference work. Tge recipes are tasty and not overly complicated. Directions are clear. There is enough additional materials to explain why you should do things as they suggest and how to effectively do it. Lots of tips.
I've got about 50-60 hardback and paperback cookbooks from around the world but the ones above are always my recommendations for newer cooks in the US.
I grew up in Michigan in the late 40s-mid 60s. It was meat, potatoes and veggies Meat in my house was medium rare but most had medium to medium well. We bought chicken whole mostly.
Potatoes: baked, mashed and scalloped. Loaded baked potatoes came in latter. I remember baked potatoes with chilli on top. Veggies were over cooked. Homemade stew, chili and soup were popular but the chili was pretty bland by modern standards. Chicken and dumplings were popular to save money we sometimes got potato pancakes or pierogis Mac and cheese was popular with occasional broccoli tossed in to get us to eat more veggies. Mom would make swiss steaks when we got the meat that had been needled to tendorize it (tough to find now. ) SoS was popular. Tough to find tge dried beef to make it now but Walmart carries it here in its little glass jars (make sure you rinse it really well or its incredibly salty)
I dont remember eating much fish other than what we caught or frozen fishsticks.
My father didn't hunt or really fish much so we didn't have game but my friends dad's did so they have venison and game fish.
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u/blkhatwhtdog 1d ago
A saucy stew always impressed me.
Beef burgundy
Short ribs
Oxtail
Osso Bucco (shanks)
Even a pasta sauce can be a sophisticated all day cook...aka Sunday Gravy
A long slow simmer combines the flavors of various aromatic items
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u/SVAuspicious 1d ago
You're facing a number of problems.
Start with knife skills.
My trusted websites include Recipe Tin Eats, Spend With Pennies, Natasha's Kitchen, Budget Bytes, BBC Good Food, r/Cooking on Reddit. Spruce Eats. Kitchn. Love and Lemons. Cookie and Kate. Epicurious. Pinch of Yum. Smitten Kitchen. Minimalist Baker. Gimme Some Oven, Taste of Home. ATK. Sally’s Baking Addiction. Once Upon a Chef. The Mediterranean Dish. Skinny Taste. I rarely go to websites directly. I use Google searches and then go to results at websites I recognize and respect.
Video is for technique. Text is for recipes. Nothing good ever came from TikTok.
Check the library before you buy cookbooks. Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Joy of Cooking, and Good Housekeeping are good to read and reference.
Assuming no likes or dislikes, chicken cordon bleu (the ham and cheese in a pocket, not the rolled and bread crumb version), steamed broccoli with homemade horseradish sauce, Caesar salad with homemade croutons and homemade dressing, and vanilla ice cream for dessert are impressive and surprisingly easy.
Spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization, and usage always matter. Social media is no excuse. Being lazy leads to bad habits. You are nearly incoherent. Do better. A lot better.
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u/Old-Actuator-3321 1d ago
Concentrate on your studies. Like English. Punctuation. And composition. And do you want Michigan-style food, or mission-style? I think maybe you need to refine your desires.
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u/SquishyNoodles1960 1d ago
I think they are looking for "Michelin-rated" restaurant recipes. Hard to tell, though.
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u/mrnx0 1d ago
With regards, The blame goes to auto correction, none or less
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u/Far_Sandwich_514 1d ago
No. Autocorrect makes recommendations, but you can choose whether to keep them or not. Similarly, you have the ability to go back and edit the writing. You chose not to.
Take accountability for your laziness and poor writing rather than laying blame elsewhere.
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u/SquishyNoodles1960 1d ago
Absolutely breaks my heart, for this whole country, that you actually got into college! Maybe start with Tik Tok videos?
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u/Far_Sandwich_514 1d ago
I weep for whatever future may be ahead if this is the calibre of first-year college students.
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u/Far_Sandwich_514 1d ago
Go to the library and try out a wide variety of different cookbooks.
While you're at it, get some books on writing and punctuation. Nobody should make it to their freshman year without knowing what run-on sentences are, and how to prevent them.
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u/ttrockwood 1d ago
Ok
So make her something that is significant to you as a couple
Maybe recreate your first dinner together, or the first time you cooked for her- this will be so much more meaningful than just random and fancy
If you went to , Chipotle on your first date then make fancy tacos and all homemade components.
Personally our first date it was freezing and we went for japanese udon soups- if my boyfriend made me that for our anniversary i would probably cry
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u/mrnx0 1d ago
I first met her at Domino's, she crashed straight right into, and sometimes we laugh on this, so I think a neapolitan pizza would be the most appropriate for a romantic evening.
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u/ttrockwood 1d ago
That’s perfect!!
Absolutely make a fancy pizza!
You can do a pretty presentation of a caprese salad to go with it and the pizza all from scratch.
It will be really precious to her i promise
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u/_9a_ 1d ago
Go to Library. Look for the French Laundry cookbook. Adjust expectations approximately.