Like many people, I tend to be a visual learner. I need to see "big picture", especially if the thing I'm trying to learn about is fairly complex. Recipes, therefore, are often difficult for me to remember because of the way they are traditionally structured. They're written at only at the micro level, which is fine as long as you don't have anything in a frying pan. At that moment, you need to see what the next step is at a glance and it is in this moment that the traditional structuring of recipes fails! Talk to just about any chef out there and they'll tell you that details aren't nearly as important as understanding the process behind a dish.
So, this is an attempt to step back and start to look at cooking from a distance and therefore features very little writing. For my first stab at this, I've chosen a recipe that I've made dozens of times but can never seem to remember. Taken from the French Laundry Cookbook (any foodie's wet dream), this salad dressing is a classic example of an emulsion and I have to say, its incredible!
As I said, this format is a prototype and needs testing. So, give it a go, and let me what you think. I need help developing this and can't do it alone. What do you think?
