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Archive for August, 2007
New Book
Posted in books, home garden, relax on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Infusion
Posted in booze, taste on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
gin, grains of paradise, tasmanian peppercorns, cucumbers, szechuan green peppercorns and angelica branch
Local Eggs
Posted in execution, farmers, products, purveyors, taste on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These are poached at 70c for 10 minutes then topped with????????????????? The possibilities are unlimited. My latest thoughts are uni with passion fruit and Sake cured steelehead roe
Products-Ideas-Execution
Posted in execution, farmers, home garden, products, purveyors, taste, tools on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I love how certain dishes come together and how they spark new ideas for other dishes….Here we wanted to serve this great Hawaiian tuna with cucumbers, avocado and olive. The cucumber is hidden inside the tuna…after compressing it we noticed that the tuna formed a nice seal. This sparked the idea of putting a gel on the [...]
Campari-Watermelon
Posted in execution, meat glue, products, purveyors, taste on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The sweetness of the wartermelon plays nicely with the bitterness of the campari…Here we serve it with peekytoe crab and citrus
Peekytoe Crab
Posted in agar, products, purveyors, tools on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Spice Roasted Lamb
Posted in methocel, products, technology, tools on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Cauliflower, Huckleberry, Bok Choy
The Black Truffle Menu
Posted in black truffles on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Black Truffle Soup
Niman Ranch Beef Tartar with preserved and grated truffles
Spiced Tuna with summer vegetables braised with truffle butter and truffle saba
Slow Cooked Egg with truffle puree, pumpernickel and malabar spinach
Grass Fed Beef with truffle-potato puree, local chanterelles and sauce perigord
Black Truffle Milkshake
Parsnip Cake with whipped banana and truffle caramel
Truffled Truffles
Umbria, Italy
Posted in black truffles on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tomato Salad
Posted in execution, farmers, garden, home garden, old skool, products, purveyors, taste, tools on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This tomato weighed nearly 2.5 pounds….we serve it with mozzeralla sheets. We make traditional mozz and then poach it at 65C for 30 minutes. This allows us to then roll the mozz into thin sheets.
SGA150
Posted in execution, methocel, taste, technology on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Duck Ham
Posted in execution, old skool, taste on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We cured this with several spices and salt….we served it roasted with local figs and bliss elixir
Pears from Farmer Joseph Fields
Posted in execution, farmers, products, purveyors, taste, technology, tools on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We compressed these with agave nectar and hazelnut oil…..We served the pears with duck ham, balsamic pearls and blue cheese
Classic
Posted in black truffles, old skool, taste on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Beef Tartare with preserved and grated black truffles. The second course of our black truffle menu.
Summer Vegetables
Posted in execution, farmers, products, purveyors, service, taste on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The vegetables are braised with vegetable juices and truffle butter. We serve them on our truffle menu with tuna spiced with bee pollen, fennel pollen, Indian green coriander and Lucknow fennel seeds.
Braised Truffles
Posted in black truffles, products, taste on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
these are preserved trufffles from Italy
Potatoes from Kennerty Farms
Posted in farmers, products, purveyors, taste on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These potatoes are wonderful, we braise them submerged in a mixture of duck fat, olive oil , bacon fat and butter. They are stored in the fat and seared on the plancha to order. We serve them with grass fed beef, beet glazed beets and allium puree
Black Truffle Soup
Posted in black truffles, products, taste on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is part of our truffle menu….we braise black truffles from Umbria in truffle juice and puree them into a smooth soup…topped with frothed truffle stock
Ice
Posted in home garden on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This stuff has a super cool texture….very refreshing
Turnips
Posted in farmers, products, taste on August 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Local Chanterelles
Posted in foraging, products, staff on August 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We picked these ourselves at a local plantation.
Beets
Posted in execution, farmers, juicer, products, purveyors, taste, technology, tools on August 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We cook these beets in the pressure cooker with beet juice. The yellow blocks are pressure cooked golden beets restructured with gellan.
Some Random Pics from Today
Posted in biodynamic, farmers, garden, home garden, products, purveyors on August 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bacon
Posted in execution, pork, silly on August 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our Summer Garden
Posted in biodynamic, farmers, home garden, products, relax, staff, team on August 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »