Pants Down Aprons On: A Professional Chef's Recipes for Real Home Cooking

Restaurant-level recipes, written for your kitchen.For over twenty years, Charlé Visser cooked in five-star hotels and luxury kitchens for some of the most demanding clients on earth — from Forbes-listed names to celebrities and global brands. Pants Down, Aprons On puts that experience in your hands: 110 professionally developed, properly tested recipes that work every time, on a home stove, with ingredients you can actually find.No copied, untested internet recipes. No fuss for the sake of it. Just one chef's honest philosophy — cook something simply, and cook it well.Inside you'll find:Dressings, pastes and condiments that earn a permanent place in your fridgeWeeknight meal-prep favorites and dishes built to feed a crowdShowstoppers for when you want to impress a guestA beginner's path into fermentation and curingEasy baking, weekend projects, and the rock-solid basics every cook should ownRecipes you won't find anywhere else, exclusive to this bookEvery recipe comes with clear weights, real timings, pro tips, and the substitutions and storage notes you only get from someone who has cooked them a thousand times — spanning South African classics, Eastern European comfort, Middle Eastern mezze, and dishes from kitchens around the world.Whether you're finding your feet or you already cook with confidence, this is a cook's education between two covers.Aprons on. Let's cook. Read more