For all practical purposes, when you clicked the “Recipes & Techniques” tab on the top navigation banner of this web site you opened the cover on a cookbook.
One of the most challenging things facing a cookbook author is deciding what the reader does and does not know about cooking techniques in the context of the cuisines discussed in the cookbook.
Here at Chef Nick’s we’re promoting the idea that everyday meals and weekend BBQ’s can, realistically, span the culinary traditions of any of this planets nations. Suddenly assumptions about what our readers do or do not already know become more difficult. If you grew up in, and never ventured outside of Kansas, chances are you never had the opportunity to learn very much about the culinary traditions of Tibet (really, do you know what Baglep is let alone how to prepare it? Neither did I until I looked it up ten minutes ago).
This section of the web site is where all the “weird and wonderful” stuff is located. When something that requires an uncommon cooking technique is mentioned in one of our recipes there will be a link to that technique in this section. While it may be pretentious on our part, this Recipes & Techniques section of our site is the best reason we’ve found for actually having a computer in the kitchen.