It’s been a few weeks since my last post. I’ve been working on a few recipes that need some fine tuning and definitely some planning for when it comes to plating. Some food can be plated easily, like pasta for example. This dish I’m working on is a pasta dish, but it does not look […]
Top Sirloin “Roast” Sous Vide : 14 hour 55C-131F
Hey guys! Cold cuts, yeah! I love this stuff. Cold roast beef. Awesome. Top Sirloin makes a pretty damn good roast beef and.. add sous vide into the equation and you end up with super awesome. I’ve been meaning to do more sous vide cooking lately but I tend to get lazy.. the bag, the timing, […]
Poulet au feu D’enfer : Enoki and Shimeji Mushrooms : Sous Vide Chicken Breast
I don’t know how to speak or read french but I want to learn it. I know poulet means chicken. I also know that I adapted this recipe from The Modernist Cuisine books. Probably one of the few full recipes in the whole series that didn’t require special equipment like a laser cutter… (sure, an […]
Turkey Breast Roulade Sous Vide 140F : Beer Braised Savoy Cabbage : Cranberry Chutney : Gravy
Finally found some time to post about thanksgiving this year. And the famous and anticipated turkey night came and went, it happened so fast! I hope everybody had a great time and survived the cleaning marathon that usually follows the cooking olympics. Three days of prep, about 10-15 hours of cooking, gone in less than […]
Pasteurizing Eggs or Mayo at Home : Sous Vide : 134.6 °F for 2hr
And more on eggs… I don’t think there’s any other ingredient I find as fascinating as eggs. In my previous post on homemade mayo/aioli, I talked about an incredibly easy way to get the emulsion going with the help of a hand blender then I wondered how many people out there could be concerned with […]
how does salt affect eggs in cooking: I’ve had enough! gotta test it myself!
I might be in over my head when it comes to food science (definitely am), but I will give it my best shot here. What do I have to lose? 4 eggs? that’s worth the risk. We’re going to get down and dirty with this salt-effect-on-eggs business. Please read and don’t make me “begg” yah! […]
tangerine + tarragon infused pork belly : sous vide 36h 140ºF
Leaving even a crockpot alone in my apartment freaks me out. The idea of something generating heat and being unattended at the same time is a bit unsettling and has never happened under my watch. I don’t even own a crockpot, but I have an immersion circulator which I’ve used quite a bit but never […]
Give Chicken Liver Pâté a Chance! pistachios and duck fat edition
Ok, it’s been probably 2 weeks without posting a thing… actually what I’m posting tonight I made a few days ago but never had the chance to document it, luckily it got better spending some fridge time which tends to happen with rich complex flavors. Work has been taking up all of my time and […]