Monday, May 16th, 2011, marked the beginning of the "Girls Cooking Meat" adventures in the kitchen with Mama Blom.
"Mama Blom" aka Beth is none other than my wonderful mother and best friend who has so graciously offered to teach a few lessons to me and my friends on the fundamentals of cooking meat in an attempt to educate all of us on the correct way go about buying, preparing, cooking and ultimately eating meat.
Mama Blom, among many things, is a wonderful cook and experienced teacher. Her credentials encompass owning and running a bakery cafe with my father for over 12 years. More recently, she taught cooking and food safety courses at a community college, a local non-profit and even to prisoners enrolled in job training courses.
One of her greatest accomplishments though (in my opinion anyway) is her family. My father, three brothers and I are very blessed to have such giving and loving woman in our life. Mom is always whipping up something delicious for us and our waist lines attest to this truth!
The friends that are joining me on these adventures into uncharted cooking waters are none but the best and dearest there are. As it turns out, we have already been cooking together for years sometimes as often as once a week and sometimes less often. No matter where we have ended up or how busy our lives get, we always make time to get together and enjoy a home-cooked meal. There is nothing better than great food and great friends.
"Mama Blom" aka Beth is none other than my wonderful mother and best friend who has so graciously offered to teach a few lessons to me and my friends on the fundamentals of cooking meat in an attempt to educate all of us on the correct way go about buying, preparing, cooking and ultimately eating meat.
Mama Blom, among many things, is a wonderful cook and experienced teacher. Her credentials encompass owning and running a bakery cafe with my father for over 12 years. More recently, she taught cooking and food safety courses at a community college, a local non-profit and even to prisoners enrolled in job training courses.
One of her greatest accomplishments though (in my opinion anyway) is her family. My father, three brothers and I are very blessed to have such giving and loving woman in our life. Mom is always whipping up something delicious for us and our waist lines attest to this truth!
The friends that are joining me on these adventures into uncharted cooking waters are none but the best and dearest there are. As it turns out, we have already been cooking together for years sometimes as often as once a week and sometimes less often. No matter where we have ended up or how busy our lives get, we always make time to get together and enjoy a home-cooked meal. There is nothing better than great food and great friends.
As it happens though, our group was really just a "bunch of girls"; one of whom is a vegetarian, and our knowledge and experience with cooking MEAT was limited. A few of us are single and felt that all the trouble to buy and cook meat for one person just was not worth the hassle. Some girls found it frustrating how expensive it was to buy meat and then not know how to cook it properly. One girl being a vegetarian of course does not eat meat, but cooks it for her husband and just really wanted to know how to cook meat well. Of course, at some point my mother "Mama Blom" found out about this little problem we had and came to the rescue insisting she would teach us all the basics on cooking meat. Furthermore, Mama Blom insisted it was easy and fool-proof at that!
So that brings us to the present. We decided to just pick one night a month and each time learn how to cook a different meat. As it turns out, Mama Blom is right! Cooking meat is pretty simple. I never doubted her of course :)
May 2011's menu was centered around cooking pork tenderloin. Before we dive into that though, we all learned that the real secret behind perfectly cooked meat rests with one important kitchen tool - a properly calibrated meat thermometer! Note: Any old thermometer will not do. More on all of this later in another blog post.
My next post will include all of the recipes from our first adventure in cooking meat which we appropriately named PORK-O-LICIOUS!
Happy cooking and let me know if you catch any mistakes in the recipes or have any comments or suggestions.
- Christen aka Mama Blom's Daughter
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