{"id":76399,"date":"2017-06-19T13:30:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=76399\/"},"modified":"2017-06-19T13:30:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T17:30:21","slug":"the-magic-four-for-a-perfect-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/pt-pt\/journal\/the-magic-four-for-a-perfect-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Four for a Perfect Meal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chef Kevin Callaghan is the Wanderlust Festival Executive Chef for the 2016 and 2017 season. For more information on Kevin, check out this profile<\/a>. Click here<\/a> to meet Kevin at a festival!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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A typical Saturday: Go to the farmers market. Get some fish from Whole Foods. Clip some herbs from pots in the backyard. Then chop and slice and mince, channeling our inner Tom Colicchio. We scurry around the kitchen. Dirty pots start to pile up. The time is ticking before the guests arrive\u2014time to hustle. Finally, the moment is here; we sit down to dinner. And the meal? Well, if you looked up \u201cmeh\u201d in the dictionary\u2026<\/p>\n

This happens all the time. To everybody. It\u2019s an epidemic. How is it that you can buy the very best ingredients, spend your entire Saturday cooking, and still end up with a dinner that’s\u00a0flawed and mediocre? Well, what if I told you that the meal could be saved? That you were 99 percent of the way there and that with just a few tweaks, magic?<\/p>\n

As a chef, I see this all the time with people who cook for a living. It’s not reserved for amateur chefs: We’re talking people who have been to prestigious cooking schools. I taste behind them and make alterations\u2014a really straight-forward process, actually\u2014that bring what they are cooking into focus and balance. And you want to know the best part? You can do it, too. Read on for how.<\/p>\n