5 things I learned while cooking in 2010

5.  A properly reduced cream sauce is lovely.  An over-reduced cream sauce is greasy.
4.  If you over-garlic (what? over-garlic? is that even possible?) a little brown sugar tones it right down.
3.  Cooking rice in chicken stock is tasty.  Cooking rice in coconut milk is also tasty.  Cooking rice in coconut milk and chicken stock is super tasty. 
2.  Poaching an egg is harder than it looks.
1.  Nothing can compensate for a dull knife.