Maillard™ · Culinary Foundations

Delegate the prep;own the moment.

We finish the first fifteen minutes of any recipe — onion, carrot, celery brought to translucence in olive oil and sea salt, pre-portioned and frozen at peak. You build from a foundation of craft, even on hour ten of a long day.

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Elizabeth’s kitchen — a white enameled pot on the cooktop, garlic beside it, warm wood cabinetry and a framed landscape on the backsplash

How it works

From freezer to flavor in three steps.

Step 1 — Easy prep: snap one 3 oz portion cube straight from the packaging and re-seal the rest

Step 2 — Warm 2 to 3 minutes: drop into a warm pan; aromatics are already sautéed to translucence

Step 3 — Build your dish: add stock, protein, grains, whatever you're making; the foundation is set

The family · Five foundations

One standard of care, five ways to begin.

“The cook on hour ten of a long day deserves the same depth of flavor as anyone with an afternoon to spare.”

A sealed pack of NO.01 Classic Mirepoix on a cutting board with fresh rosemary, thyme, garlic and a wooden spoon

“Military service taught me care is preparation.”

Maillard began in an ordinary kitchen, on an ordinary weeknight — from a simple wish that a good meal could still come together when the day has already worn you out. So we take care of the part that drains you, and leave the cooking — the part worth keeping — to you.

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Our Story

How one overfilled pot became a company.

I love feeding people well. What I never loved was the prep. For the longest time, I was dicing aromatics every night. Every. Night.

Then one evening I got a little zealous with the chopping — lost in thought, knife on autopilot — and ended up with far more mirepoix than the pot needed. I froze the extra. Days later, soup night: I opened the freezer and dinner was already started. Same soup. Same smell filling the kitchen. None of the tears.

That was the whole idea. So I started making foundations on purpose — sautéed slowly, portioned honestly, frozen at their peak. First for my family, then for friends, now in small batches at a licensed New Jersey kitchen.

A finished bowl of rice, shrimp, crawfish, sausage and sweet corn, served at the table — Dinner, from a foundation started days earlier.

My time in the Air Force and raising a family taught me the same lesson: care is preparation. Good ingredients, prepared with intention, are how we take care of each other — and the table is where it shows.

Thank you for letting us start dinner with you.

— Elizabeth & the Based In Good family

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