Carbonara, Morimoto-Style

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2023/08/25/fernand-point-sole-duglere/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/savory-custards/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/dashi-soy/ I’m not as big a pasta person as my wife is, but I will occasionally indulge in a decent bowl of ramen or carbonara when I got out to eat.  That being said, I was thinking about making carbonara at home and then I came […]

Nobu Creamy Spicy Scallops “Dynamite”

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/bluefish-and-creamy-spicy-sauce/* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2024/03/09/on-chili-garlic-sauce/ Given the recent scramble in replacing a number of my store bought chili products, it occurred to me the best way to test my microbatch of Nobu Miami chili garlic sauce recipe would be make Matsuhisa-sama’s Scallops With Creamy Spicy Sauce from Nobu: The Cookbook (p. 36,37). In […]

On Chili Garlic Sauce

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com –* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2020/04/24/nobu-steamed-bass-with-vegetables-and-spicy-garlic-sauce/ Recently my wife alerted me to some issues with chili peppers from Asia. Essentially, we ended up dumping all of our Korean chili flakes (gojugaru) and chili paste (gojujang). Moreover, she was extremely suspicious and also wanted to dump our jar of Lee Kum Kee chili garlic sauce which I’d […]

Bouchon Poule Au Pot (sans Farci)

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com –* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/beef-roasted-a-la-matignon/* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/a-simple-chicken-stew/ ..don’t think about it as the recipe we’re giving you today, think about how you can make it your own recipe… -Thomas Keller (Lamb Matignon youtube presentation) During the 2023 holidays, a request got made about making a chicken stew that was lighter than I normally make. So, I started […]

Ingredient Alert: Dark Chocolate

I have been very fortunate to have had the circle of friends which I’ve had over the years. One of them introduced the Lake Champlain chocolates to me about 2 years after the company was founded in Burlington, VT. Since then, this maker has been my preferred source for chocolate. Yes, I have used other […]

Kikunoi’s Duck Hotpot (Kamo Nabe)

Previously, on tastingmenu.wordpress.com –* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/on-dashi/* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/burger-wars-the-patties-strike-back/* https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/the-yolks-on-me/ The meal we had for Thanksgiving for 2023 was a nice one. There was something that I was reminded about life and that fact is that we all age. That being said, my parent turned out to have some difficulty in swallowing the sliced pan roasted duck. While […]

“The Yolks On Me”

Lately, I’ve been making a study of 2 disparate recipes – Chef Thomas Keller’s Bouchon recipe for creme anglaise and Chef Yoshihiro Murata’s Kikunoi recipe for Kamo Nabe (duck hotpot). The point of all this being was to understand how far down I could scale/microbatch the recipe. In the case of the creme anglaise, I […]