Dinner. Dusting off some old pantry items that have been neglected. The egg is from my backyard flock – absolutely better than any other egg I’ve had.
Ricotta Gnocchi, early spring vegetables and herbs, slow farm egg enrobed in Parmesan, lemon infused chicken bouillon (not pictured). Thanks to Aki and Alex for the “hot mozz sheet” [...]
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Dusting off
Posted in agar, egg, experiments, local, organic, techniques, tagged egg, sous vide on March 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
More Pig Photography
Posted in egg, local, organic, pork, techniques on February 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I forgot to add the pictures of the pig a couple posts ago. Here’s the ‘porchetta di testa’ that’s sliced, lightly breaded on one side and fried – with the obligatory egg (from my new-ish backyard flock of hens-more on that later).
Sweet Jesus it was good.
Niman Ranch: The sad state of the world
Posted in beef, local, organic, pork, whole animals on February 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I just read a disturbing article about good ol Niman Ranch. As a cook in San Francisco, their meats were on at least 50% of all the fine dining menus around town. People loved them, and their product was good. Really good. Apparently they have been losing money for years, and finally sold the company [...]
Mugaritz Meal
Posted in Mugaritz, organic, staging, techniques on October 25, 2008 | 37 Comments »
After working at Mugaritz for three moths, I finally ate in the dining room. It was really amazing to be able to see all the hard work realized in the dishes. The presentation of the food is very simple and straightforward, but the dishes themselves are quite the opposite.
Kaolin potatoes
Shrimp and aioli
Concord grape and squash [...]
Lamb
Posted in agar, mushrooms, organic, techniques on February 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Roasted Sonoma Lamb, Bluefoot and shiitake mushroom hash, Braised red chard, Natural jus and hibiscus.
Some extras that needed to be sold. We sold out. Happy times.
Pheasant
Posted in organic, whole animals on February 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My meat supplier from Biaggio Meats in O-Town came over with this fine specimen as a very generous sample. Since the picture is of an uncooked bird, staring back at you, click below to see the bird. If you’d rather use your imagination, so be it. But I’ve got nothing but respect for [...]
Organic Produce that rocks
Posted in farmers market, lettuce greens, organic on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The farmers market is really starting to show signs of having great spring produce. I went to a new stand I hadn’t seen before and was completely blown away – Marin Roots Farm. Apparently a newcomer to the Ferry Plaza Farmers market, they instantly have produced a following… I saw some amazing baby beets, [...]
