This was my first crack at cooking from the Alinea cookbook. Flipping through this massive book with beautiful food porn(photographs), I am filled with a sense of awe. This is not every day cooking, Grant Achatz & his team are really pushing cooking as we know further. by the way he writes a great column [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Chilled Pea Soup, Mint Chantilly & Parmesan Crisp
This lovely soup is about all the peas you use, so taste the peas raw before deciding if you want to use them to make the soup. Tasting will also help you decide if you want to tweak the sweetness with some sugar. The method I used to prep this soup is loosely based Thomas [...]
Chicken ballotine, potato puree & carrot jus
08 Apr 2009 at 23:31
Kiplagat
French Lessons by Justin North, La Technique by Jacques Pepin, Random Recipe
Sometime last year I had lunch at Caveau a great little restaurant in Wollongong. Head chef at Caveau is Peter Sheppard, a protege of Liam Tomlin. Anyway, the lunch special on that day was a chicken ballontine with potato puree, mushrooms, buttered spinach & cepe(porcini) sauce. The chicken was cooked perfectly, I am still trying [...]
Simplicity: Gooey chocolate brownie with creme anglaise
Brownies are supposed to be easy to make but the three brownies I have had recently at different cafes here in Nairobi have not done it for me. First one was very dry but very buttery(a good thing for me! hehe), second was dry with almost no chocolate, & third was a dry brick. I [...]
