Gourmet home cuisine

Culinary goals

We designed Fivemile Hill cuisine with two goals in mind:

1

Eat a tasty, healthy, sustainable diet on a regular basis.

2

Create unforgettable culinary experiences at home.

What is Fivemile Hill cuisine?

Fivemile Hill cuisine is a gourmet wood-fire cuisine using natural heirloom ingredients, fit for the Texas Hill Country environment, inspired by tropical, Asian, and Mediterranean traditions.

It fits a balanced, varied, plant-rich diet supporting human and planet health.

Although Fivemile Hill cuisine emphasizes wood-fire cooking, it also includes indoor cooking with stove and oven. Therefore, culinary courses also include non-wood-fire culinary compositions and recipes.

Culinary courses

Each culinary course focuses on a specific topic. The topic of a course can be some fundamental knowledge (e.g. Cooking Essentials), cooking technique (e.g. Fivemile Wood-Fire Cooking Techniques), or culinary composition (e.g. Grilled Swordfish on the Beach). A culinary composition comprises several dishes designed to form a harmonious taste ensemble and served together.

The topic of each course is broken down into several chapters, each explaining in detail a sub-topic of the course, which could be a specific ingredient, technique, or recipe for a dish.

We have carefully crafted Fivemile Hill culinary courses and their chapters as a progression, with each course building on the content of previous ones, to make it easy to learn and remember. Therefore, we strongly recommend to read the courses and their chapters in order to get the most out of them.

An index is provided at the end of this page, with links to the searchable list of ingredients, recipes, and compositions. This is similar to the index at the end of a book.

Course series 00: Fundamentals

01 - Foundations of Fivemile Hill cuisine

4 chapters

In this first course, we explain the genesis of Fivemile Hill cuisine, its core culinary principles, and the nutritional knowledge that guides its design.

02 - Course: Fivemile Hill wood-fire cooking techniques

11 chapters

Wood-fire cooking is a pillar of Fivemile Hill cuisine. We have developed a new way of cooking with wood fire using a conventional BBQ. In this course, we describe in detail our approach to wood-fire cooking including equipment and tools, types of fuel, and techniques.

03 - Course: Cooking essentials

8 chapters

In this course, we go over essential cooking notions and ingredients such as measuring quantity and temperature, salt and pepper, olive oil. We provide reference lists for spices, condiments, aromatics, herbs, and garnishes commonly used in Fivemile Hill cuisine.

Course series 10: Introduction to Fivemile Hill wood-fire cooking

11 - Course: Grilled Swordfish on the Beach

8 chapters

This is the first composition course to learn Fivemile Hill wood-fire cooking. We explain the background of this easy wood-fire culinary composition. We go over the ingredients that were not presented in the Fundamentals courses and provide the recipes to make it.

12 - Course: Exquisite Wood-Fire Salmon and Arctic Char

10 chapters

This is the second composition course to learn Fivemile Hill wood-fire cooking. We focus on salmon and Arctic char, cooked in the same way, but showcased in two different compositions.

13 - Course: Grilled American Bison Filet

7 chapters

In this course, we focus on the finest cut of high-quality bison or beef. We explain the cultural background of this composition, discuss bison and beef in detail, and provide recipes.

14 - Course: Yogurt bowl with fruits, nuts, and seeds

5 chapters

In this course, we explain in detail the different types of ingredients that we combine to create this healthy and satisfying yogurt bowl.

Course series 20: Introduction to wood-fire tropical flavors

21 - Course: Sate Ayam

13 chapters

This course is an introduction to Indonesian cuisine with a focus on Sate Ayam, the famous Indonesian grilled chicken skewers served with peanut sauce.