Robuchon Mashed Potatoes

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 […]

Considering mashed potatoes/puree de pommes de terre

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 […]

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 […]

Watercress Appetizer Soup

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/on-appetizer-soups/ So, I was thinking about how I was going to go about making an appetizer watercress soup and maintain it’s pepperiness.  After doing some research, I realized that the cream of cauliflower soup I’d made for New Years Eve dinner was not unlike the preparation from The Complete Robuchon […]