That pear looks delicious, but I really want that pourer in the background.
(via ffffood)
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Liquid Centered Meatballs
These were designed by Daniel and I with Josh Ozersky to compete in the 2009 NY Wine and Food Festival Meatball Madness.
It was essential that we include all three main meats in our meatball for flavor but instead of mixing the ground meat together we let each meat be expressed in a different layer of the dish.
The center is a veal ragu. This was veal bones and ground veal cooked into a smooth tomato ragu with onions and garlic. It was then set with 2% gelatin and place into a mold.
It was wrapped with pork, herbs, spices, grated cheese, bread crumb, and eggs.
It was then rolled in flour, egg, and then covered in coarse breadcrumbs and frozen.
They are then deep fried in beef tallow and seasoned with salt, locetilli cheese, and beef bone marrow fat that had been powdered with n-zorbit tapioca maltodextrin.
We didn’t win but Giada did get hot sauce all over her face because she refused to listen to me tell her to eat it in one bite. Happens…
No way to describe how much I want to try making some rendition of this amazing meatball. Research into suppliers of the bits I’ll need will commence shortly…
But why in the name of all that’s tasty, are the sphere molds so damn expensive? :(
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Duck, Duck, Goose
Duck confit has been made in a traditional style and is then shredded off the bone and lightly bonded together with transglutaminase
The confit is topped with duck egg yolk that has been slow poached at 62C in gellan fortified black truffle juice (this creates a black truffle juice skin around the egg yolks that perfumes the dish and adds a little bit of salinity)
The mache salad is dressed with a goose foie gras vinaigrette, of which we had two recipes and Daniel always made his, which was brilliant but we have yet to try my recipe.
Whole dish is topped with fresh slices of summer truffles and shaved whole goose foie gras.
*gibbers* *drools*
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Sneak Preview! | Little Thoughts Group
Okay, the Little Thoughts site is now bookmarked. I am in lust with quite a number of the things in the Designing for Memories sneak preview, and would be causing myself some financial damage if they were all ‘affordable’.
This “Ants can’t swim” holder is perfect. Noone who has lived in Malaysia (and similar neighbouring regions) would not be familiar with the food cabinets and dining tables with their legs sitting on special saucer things filled with water. Or sitting bottles of honey or cans of sweetened condensed milk in saucers of water because “ants can’t swim”.
Doesn’t matter that that’s not an issue here. I’d want this all the same as a standing threat to any ants that may even consider camping out near my food.
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