Cooking Basics

I won’t normally do this on this blog but from time to time I’ve been known to watch the foodchannel, of which I especially enjoy watching Alton Brown. Recently he had a show where he mentioned some of the foundations of cooking recipes. I always forget these some I’m documenting them here so I won’t have to go looking for them again!

Definition of terms

mirepoix (meer-ah-pwah)

Equal parts of onion, carrot, & celery. Basis for most French cuisine.

sofrito – (so-frito)

Equal parts of tomato, garlic, & pepper. Spanish heritage.

the trinity (aka. the holy trinity)

1 onion, 2 green peppers, 3 stalks of celery. A combination of the two.

This forum thread on cheftalk.com proved helpful in explaining some of the history etc. about these.