Receta Mise en place, huh?

I've not been doing a lot of cooking lately, I got a couple of new cookbooks on my Kindle and have been having fun reading recipes, bookmarking them and planning out some cooking. But, one of the cookbooks made note of the fact that you have to plan, and I do. But there is a very specific term for planning in a kitchen.

Mise en place.

Sounds pretty fancy, don't it? Mise en place is French for 'putting in place', and pretty much every professional kitchen has everything organized so that the recipe ingredients are all at hand and prepped, which means onions chopped, meat trimmed, etc. Which means, no one is searching for anything at the last minute. Ovens are usually turned on, pans ready to go, water boiling if…