Adria-Style Toasted Bread With Chocolate

I was thinking about how to make a quick simple dessert on a warm fall day. Looking through my library, I found Ferran Adria’s Toasted Bread With Bittersweet Chocolate (Food & Wine Chef Recipes Made Easy,p. 11).  I found the online recipe at: https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/toasted-bread-and-bittersweet-chocolate The recipe was staggeringly simple.  But I wanted to add my […]

‘Boiled’ Anago/Sawara, Nobu-Style

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/nobu-hakuni-style-simmered-anagosawara/ Today was a very warm fall day and I was thinking about wanting to have una-don for dinner. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any store bought unagi.  I did have a nice large sawara fillet.  Remembering how I prepared sawara hakuni-style, I thought I could prepare the sawara fillet using […]

Nobu-Style ‘Breakfast Sobagaki’

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/world-of-nobu-nobu-style-sobagaki-nobu-nyc-downtown-nobu-tokyo/ I recently came across a menu listing at https://london-shoreditch.nobuhotels.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/nobu-menu-br.pdf which had an item listed as Buckwheat Bircher Muesli. The menu items was described as oatmeal and buckwheat porridge, dried fruits   nuts, brown sugar, soy milk.  Applying what I learned earlier in making the ‘dinner sobagaki’, I realized I might […]

White Peach ‘Aliantha’

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/jody-adams-fresh-fruit-with-balsamic-pepper-syrup/ I’d been thinking about how to reproduce a flavor I’d read about in a novel years ago.  That flavor profile was described as …a light, sweet taste like that of a ripe peach faintly blended with salt and lime… One of summer’s offering is a perfectly juicy ripe white […]