"Most of the fancy techniques you see at restaurants don't really matter. Many tropes of fine-dining cookbook recipes -- the hyperspecificity, the rigidity of the recipes -- don't matter, either. You're more likely to make the recipe if it's infinitely less work (and you'll get the same results and have more fun). Nothing matters but delicious, and this book shows you exactly how it is done. In Nothing Matters ... but Delicious, award-winning chef and restaurateur Greg Baxtrom invites you into his kitchen, sharing his honest and encouraging methods for crafting exquisite home-cooked dishes with minimal effort. This is what a chef cooks when no one's watching: No-Big-Deal Roasted Beet Salad with Pickled Raspberries; An Ode to Popcorn and Its Many Variations; Nuts, but the Fun Kind; Heirloom Tomato Schnitzel; Garlicky Braised Chicken with Tostitos Salsa; Super-Crunch Pork Nugs with Blood Orange Sweet and Sour Sauce; Sad Cookie for One. Throughout the book, you'll find insightful anecdotes and chef's notes, and you will glean a new way of understanding kitchen processes and flavor combinations. So release your need for perfect techniques and complicated plating. Rich and informative, candid and irreverent, Nothing Matters...but Delicious will free you to rediscover the joy of cooking by letting go of traditional rules in the kitchen...and out of if." --