This dish belongs in the spring section of the Alinea book. With ramps and green garlic as two of its main components (ramps goes where that scallions is in the heading of the original recipe) it really can only be served on their Spring menu. Ramps are wild leeks that look like a cross between a leek and a green onion. Their [...]
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Alinea: Pork Cheek, Pumpernickel, Gruyere, Scallions
Posted in Book Recipes, Food, Green Vegetables, Pork, tagged Alinea Recipe, Caramelized Onion Powder, Caramelized Onion Salt, Grant Achatz, Panko, Pickled Green Onions, Pig Jowl, Raisin Sauce, Sous Vide Pig Jowl, Worcestershire on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cassoulet and Green Salad, Country Bread and Red Wine, Walnut Tart – A Dinner from Southwest France
Posted in Baking, Book Recipes, Bread, Breads and Pies, Duck, Food, Green Vegetables, Legumes, Pastry, Pork, Sausage, tagged Cassoulet de Toulouse, Clay Pot Cooking, Duck Confit, French Cooking, Homemade Sausage, Paula Wolfert, Toulouse Sausage, Winter Bean Dishes on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A long titled post suitable to a properly labor-intensive and delicious cold-weather meal. Both the Toulouse-style Cassoulet and the Walnut Tart are based on Paula Wolfert’s recipes in her book “The Cooking of Southwest France“. The bread is the Pain de Campagne (country bread) recipe from Peter Reinhart’s “The Bread baker’s Apprentice“. Making a proper Cassoulet is a good bit [...]
Alinea: Chocolate, warmed to 94 degrees
Posted in Chocolate, Dairy, Eggs, Food, Fruits, Ice Cream and Frozen Treats, tagged Bergamot, Dark Chocolate, Earl Grey Tea, Fall Desserts, Figs, Grant Achatz, Ultratex-3 on November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From the title of this recipe one would not know what to expect. Is it a hot chcolate drink? Just warmed chocolate? Honestly it sounds a bit boring. Boring, though, this recipe is not! Without waxing with no end about the nuances of this dish I have to say that this dessert from Alinea is [...]
Homemade Fresh Mozzarella
Posted in Book Recipes, Dairy, Food, tagged fresh mozzarella, Homemade Cheese, Ideas in Food, Rennet on October 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’ve tried making mozzarella a couple of times before with no success..until now. This was fantastic. The recipe that worked for me was from the “Ideas in Food” book (I just did not use the Lipase enzyme). Now, this time I used raw non-homogenized milk from a farm. So, it still remains to be seen [...]
Alinea: BOAR, Shallot, Cider, Burning Oak Leaves
Posted in Book Recipes, Food, Fruits, Game, Sous Vide, tagged Apple Cider Gel, Burnt Oak, Fall Dishes, Grant Achatz, Wild Boar on October 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Fall is finally here -more or less I suppose- and changing the way I cook is natural. Even if I can find tomatoes and peppers well into November and December I still prefer to cook more “orange” and “brown” stuff. It makes me and Diana happy to pick up some winter squashes or sweet potatoes and start cooking [...]
Pork Chop
Posted in Food, Pork, Root Vegetables, Sous Vide, tagged Fall Dishes, Maple Vinegar, Pastured Pork, Sweet Potatoes, Yonder Way Farm on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been so enjoying Yonder Way Farm’s pork chops that I had to post something about it. All the pork from them is delicious, but these prime thick cuts are just heavenly and worth every penny. I’ve taken to salting/flavoring them 24 hours before cooking them. I usually use a mixture of thyme, sage and [...]
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