Archive for November, 2019
Robuchon Mashed Potatoes
Posted by tastingmenu in Robuchon At Home on November 30, 2019
Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2019/11/24/considering-mashed-potatoes-puree-de-pommes-de-terre/ Like last year, I needed to stay put and prepare to share the workload with my teammates on websites all through the Thanksgiving/Black Friday/CyberMonday shopping period. Since I was going to be working overnight between Thanksgiving dinner into Black Friday again, I didn’t want to over do it and […]
Morimoto ‘Tofu’ Cheesecake
Posted by tastingmenu in Morimoto At Home on November 25, 2019
Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/no-bake-cheesecake-mechanics/ Over the years, a local Japanese eatery at Chestnut Hill had served a ‘tofu’ cheesecake dessert that was not overly heavy and not cloying sweet. Unfortunately, they stopped serving it a few years back and I was really in the mood to have that dessert again. I did notice […]
A note on Yaki Onigiri
Posted by tastingmenu in Fundamentals, HomeCooking, Kamakura, Boston, MingTsai At Home on November 24, 2019
Previously, on tastingenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/category/omakase-menus/kamakura-boston/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2019/10/19/planning-the-christmas-2019-menu/ On recent visit to Kamakura for dinner, our last course was Onigiri yaki ikura, kizame nori, wasabi dashi Since I was planning to on doing a version of this as my last savory course for 2019 Christmas meal, I needed to learn the technique for crisping onigiri […]
Considering mashed potatoes/puree de pommes de terre
Posted by tastingmenu in Fundamentals, HomeCooking, Robuchon At Home on November 24, 2019
I recently had the experience of helping out to cook a dinner serving 22+ diners for a charity shelter. The dish I chose to do with the volunteers was Gordon Ramsay’s Shepherds Pie. The difficult step in making this dish was turning 15 lbs of yukon gold potatoes into a mashed potato topping. For years […]
No Bake Cheesecake: Mechanics
Posted by tastingmenu in Fundamentals, HomeCooking on November 4, 2019
Not being gifted in making desserts, I’d been meditating on how I would approach making Iron Chef Morimoto’s ‘Tofu’ Cheesecake (The New Art Of Japanese Cooking, p.236-238). I was first intrigued by that dish from the Iron Chef Tofu [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp8ImnpXobY at time index 30:46 ] and Iron Chef America Tofu battles. While I did […]
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