Egg a la Fernand Point

Place a lump of fresh butter in a pan or egg dish and let it melt – that is, just enough for it to spread, and never, of course, to crackle or spit; open a very fresh egg onto a small plate or saucer and slide it carefully into the pan; cook it on heat […]

Nobu Steamed Bass With Vegetables and Spicy Garlic Sauce

So when my wife and I were menu planning earlier in the week, we happened to come across this steamed fish entree from Nobu.  It isn’t in his cookbooks, but it looked like a hybrid between his Squid ‘Pasta’ With Light Garlic Sauce (Nobu: The Cookbook ,p 82) and Chicken And Prawns Spicy Garlic Don […]

“Patriots’ Day” Menu

Su Soy braised drumsticks      Morimoto Congee Nobu Tomato Avocado ‘Ceviche’ Mo Iron Chef Chen Szechwan Chili Shrimp Sauteed Gai Lan Tsai Tu Unagi Kabayaki Donburi      Carrots, Asparagus We Matsuhisa Dressing Flavored ‘Lionhead’      Steamed Napa Th Steamed Seabass (http://images.nymag.com/restaurants/articles/recipes/stripedbassginger.htm)      Mixed Vegetables, Nobu Spicy Garlic Sauce Fri Steak   […]

What is teppanyaki butter?

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/nobu-miso-pecan-compound-butter-for-matcha-waffles/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2020/01/13/matcha-waffle-nobu-style/ …Beurre beurre, donnez-moi du beurre, toujours du beurre… – Fernand Point After making the Nobu style matcha waffles and miso pecan butter, I started thinking about the applications of compound butters. One of the things I’d wondered about over the years were flavored butters as part of […]

Nobu Miso Pecan Compound Butter For Matcha Waffles

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2020/01/13/matcha-waffle-nobu-style/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/a-quick-note-on-hazelnuts/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/nobu-style-saikyo-miso/ In looking back at my Nobu-style matcha waffle project, I figured out could make the ‘yuzu honey’ sauce garnish by melting 3 T of yuja and 1/2 T of water.  But what of the pecan miso butter?   After doing some reading about the web, […]

Scallion Pancakes

Over the years, I’ve eaten my share of scallion pancakes.  And then there’re my friends John and Kevin who’ve joined me in chowing down on large orders of these addictive items.   When I first learned to make this from my grandmother, she taught me to rollout the dough, brush it with oil, spread a nice […]

Quick note on cherry juice and Agar ‘Jell-O’

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/agar-jell-o/ My wife wanted me to make a cherry agar ‘Jell-O’ as a weekend dinner dessert.  I was concerned about the juice she wanted me to use the Stanton Orchards juice to make the dessert.  A quick check told me that the Montmorency cherries had a PH value of 3.28 […]