Karen’s Killer Fixin’s **AUTHOR SPECIAL** with INES GARCIA!
Welcome to my Friday bonus feature called Karen’s Killer Fixin’s **Author Special**!! Today, in lieu of one of my own recipes, I’m going to introduce you to a new author who will share one of her favorite recipes. Not only will you and I occasionally learn how to make something new and delicious, but we’ll get a chance to check out some wonderful authors. Introducing author, INES GARCIA, and her favorite Secret Formula!
FOODFORCE FOR GOOD
The 101 Plant-Based Deliciousness of the World
BY INES GARCIA
Blurb
This cookbook offers a bit of everything to help liven up meals and snacks. From tips on choosing cooking utensils to advice on preparing a wide variety of dishes, you are introduced to food preparation that helps both the planet and your pocket. In addition, your purchase will contribute to charity work aimed at helping those without enough to eat.
The 101 plant-based recipes are packed full of ideas that the authors have gathered from their own journeys with food. You will find a smorgasbord of ideas with which to experiment and are invited to share your successes with a community of cooks.
So come along, join us and share in our scrumptious adventure!
All profits goes to Action Against Hunger charity, helping those without enough to eat: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09XN2B3Z5/
FOODFORCE FOR GOOD
The 101 Plant-Based Deliciousness of the World
BY INES GARCIA
Interview
#foodforce for good is an invitation to fall in love with the kitchen and spruce up the dinner table as the contributors share recipes they learnt to love in childhood, created in their kitchens or gathered from their travels. Every recipe is a family favourite, and you are invited to pull up a seat and share in the tastes and memories you will find on these pages. Along with the 101 recipes, many of which can be prepared quickly and easily, you will find tips on how to keep mealtimes and snack times interesting, healthy and delicious.
Food is the great equalizer. From royalty to poverty, we all need to eat in order to survive. The dinner table has also been at the epicentre of human relationships. Romantic meals, family dinners, business meetings, catchups over a light snack, celebrations around tables ladened with food. Food is not just a necessity, but a pleasure around which numerous traditions have been built up over time
However, in our modern world, several realities have struck at the heart of the food story. While some have plenty, with extra to throw away, others do not have enough. While industries have burgeoned to provide variety and consistency of supply, these same industries are causing difficulties for the planet, the environment and threatening that supply. And despite this supply of variety in our food aisle, our busy lives mean that we too often return to the same tired recipes or just go for whatever is quick.
About Author Ines Garcia…
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Links to Ines’s website, blog, books, #ad etc.:
All profits goes to Action Against Hunger charity, helping those without enough to eat: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09XN2B3Z5/
Website: https://tiny.cc/authorinesgarcia
I hope you enjoy the recipe Ines is sharing today on Karen’s Killer Fixin’s. Happy Eating!
Karen
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SECRET FORMULA
Note from Ines: My favourite thing about the cookbook is the ‘planet manners’ and the ‘secret formula’ to designing a meal that is as good for your taste buds as is for your health.
Magic Formula
Even without a cook magician, one can bring it up a notch with a simple frame for every meal. This frame has been used across generations and cultures all over, and now it can become a great tool to have under your belt. For an experience to be truly satisfying, you need to have all the senses involved: including flavours, textures, colours, smells, ways of cooking. These are all important for creating something that as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This concept is clearly expressed in Japanese Cuisine:
Gomi – the Five tastes
Sweetness, Sourness, Saltiness, Bitterness and Umami (this last one is a flavour from meals with glutamic acid – which can also be called savoury deliciousness!)
Gokan – the Five senses
Sight, Hearing, Smell, Touch and Taste. Invoking all of these helps us to have a 360 experience. Looking back at student times, Cristina, one of Ines’ closest friends, always insisted on the presentation and structure definition of the plates. This is still stuck to today. Getting all the senses involved, not only the looks and taste, is summoning your whole self. Every bite is an opportunity; don’t miss out.
Goshiki – the Five colours
Enhancing the visual appeal of the food, including the use of colours, can also enhance its taste. Ines often remembers this mantra when preparing meals from the days of cooking together with a good friend from Brazil who she met in the early days after moving to London. Juliano’s grandma always passed on the importance for all colours to be present on your dish.
Goho – the Five cooking methods
Inspired by this last one, it’s how we have organised the contents of the book. From “Nama” which means cutting for ease of eating and beauty, we focus on raw items. “Niru” is for simmering to make ingredients softer and tastier. “Yaku” is for grilling, which includes a wide variety of methods. “Musu”, which means steaming, is where ingredients come together inside a pot. And “Ageru” for frying, means items cooked in a short time without loss of flavour.
We have also taken the liberty of including a section for Pickled. Either fermented or not, pickles are a great source of Vitamin K which is good for our bones. Pickling is easy, preserves items for longer and has other health benefits from helping our gut to lowering blood sugar.
When preparing your meals, remember the looks and colours, the different textures and cooking methods, the senses and tastes for all around whole goodness. That is as satisfying as it is balanced!
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Thanks, Ines, for sharing your book with us!
Don’t miss the chance to read this book!
Good morning, Ines, and welcome to Karen’s Killer Fixin’s. What a wonderful book to add to our recipe blog. I love cooking and am always looking at ways to improve my efforts. This book sounds informative and interesting. Thanks for sharing your book with us today!
Very interesting.
Intriguing to see how you can change your eating habits. Thanks for sharing.
Great charity.