Fun With Chemistry

Tomato juice gelled with agar, poached in olive oil, and topped with basil powder. The powder was created by mixing basil oil with tapioca maltodextrin. It was pretty tasty.

What Happiness Looks Like

Again with the orange

Orange roughy poached in Tazo Wild Sweet Orange Tea and a sauce made from the poaching tea mixed with xanthan gum, with an orange gel cube made of orange juice and agar, mixed greens salad with a lemon vinaigrette. The lemon was too pronounced. I should have watered it down some.

Sometimes It's the Simple Things...

Homemade wheat bread & a fried egg. That's good stuff!

First Attempt at Caviar

Most were nice & round, with the occasional blob. I used a pomegranate juice cocktail. timing is very important, as some of the caviar took on a rather nasty taste if they sat too long in the calcium bath. Definitely a technique that requires a bit of practice, but a lot of fun.

My Chemical Romance

No modern kitchen is complete without a few hydrocolloids around. These were purchased from Le Sanctuaire.

I'm sorry

I feel the need to publicly apologize to the chickens that I butchered in order to make stock for the first time. The stock turned out well, but man, those poor chickens.

Orange + Orange = Culinary Gold

Carrots simmered in orange juice with a pan-seared chicken breast. The orange juice was seasoned with cardamom and possibly something else that I don't remember. When the carrots were done I used the juice to deglaze the chicken pan, adding a little bit more orange juice and a little apple juice.

Saturday Morning(-ish) Breakfast

Though probably a good way to start every day. Alton Brown's recipe for French toast along with a fruit salad and mimosas. And no I did not really use Veuve to make the mimosa.

My Bread's Got Ass

I never realized the importance of proper loaf shaping until I made my own bread for the first time.