Tarte Tatin

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/jacques-pepins-country-apple-tart/ As I had recently been meditating on local seasonal food/produce, it occurred to me that I should continue my exploration with another dessert. This time I was considering an apple tarte tatin. Clearly, this topic has been covered at other internet sites, but I thought I would try to […]

The Stainless Steel French Omelette

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/nobu-west-dashimaki-tamagoyaki-unagi-white-truffle-egg-roll-technical-notes/ …Great restaurants are extraordinarly consistent and great restaurants have to be consistent -Thomas Keller I’d been thinking about the classic french omelette with the constraint that my wife doesn’t like heated butter.  After doing some internet reading, it made me ask the question – why the insistence on non-stick […]

Jacques Pepin’s Country Apple Tart

As much as I like chocolate, I’m more inclined to fruit based desserts; particularly those of the cooked variety.  I’d been looking at Jacques Pepin’s Country Apple Tart from his Jacques Pepin’s Table (p. 358-359) for the longest time.  When I’d heard my wife had bought a smattering of apples, I thought it was about […]

Darphin Potatoes

So as I was thinking about the holidays meals for 2018, I was reminded of the various constraints on my menu planning. In contemplating things like meat-and-potatoes,  it had occurred to me that I maybe I could do something like darphin potatoes.  Joel Robuchon’s (The Complete Robuchon, p. 627) darphin potatoes were basically 2 lbs […]

Jacques Pepin’s Cognac Apricot Sauce

Recently my wife volunteered to make pancakes for breakfast.  I started thinking, pancakes and maple syrup are nice, but how about a change up?  I had in mind Jacques Pepin’s cognac apricot sauce, since I’d seen him use that sauce on a lot of dessert items.  So why not use the sauce for pancakes? The […]

Roast Boneless Prime Rib Of Beef With Jacques Pepin’s Wine Merchants Sauce

So my wife wondered if  I could do a roast beef dinner this weekend.  Thinking about what to do for the dish, I remembered doing a roast beef about 5 or 6 years back based on the online recipe: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Roast-Beef-for-Beef-on-Weck-102025 I selected the cut of beef for the roast based on an article in Cooks […]