Esplette Pepper.RSS


Growing your own Esplette peppers yield a far more nuanced powder after drying and milling than one gets from even the best commercial products. The best food experiences will only be achieved by having full control of all your ingredients no matter how relevant.




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Coriander "Hay" for Slow Roasting.RSS


Freeze Dried Coriander "Hay" keeps it's color and aroma and should be fantastic as a bed for slow roasted meats.
Composed of Roots-Twigs-Stems-Leaves.
The entire plant at maturity.
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Dill Pollen 2012. Version 1.RSS

Essentially plant a huge raised bed with a ton of dill and wait till it gets to pollinated stage.
Harvest and dehydrate immediately on the same day.
Freeze drying would obviously be better however technologically inaccessible.
Grind with a coffe grinder reasonably dedicated to anything but coffee.
Store in an airtight container frozen till needed.

It has all the floral flavor augmentation qualities of fennel pollen but obviously with dill perfume.
The taller thicker stems can be saved for "Hay" in the post below this HERE.















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Fresh Dill Seeds 2012.RSS


Allowing Dill plants to go to seed yield these green floral fresh dill seeds which add a new dimension of dill flavor to various preparations. You can Imagine a green dill granola or a sea urchin pasta with green dill and horseradish butter.
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60 Day Dry Aged Duck.RSS


Above BEFORE:    ORIGINAL POST LINKED HERE.

Below  AFTER : 60 Days Exactly Today.





Original Weight : 732 Grams

60 Day Weight : 717 Grams

Flavor : Intensely complex with a slight aftertaste of the cheese "Ami Du Chambertin"

REALLY GOOD READING MATERIAL......if you are interested in advanced Dry-Aging.
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Bemuse-BoucheRSS

The macaroon appears to have universal appeal even if you make it with radioactive isotopes therefore it is the perfect vehicle for absurd flavor combinations. I have a bored scientist friend with a huge freeze dryer who likes to eat good food and it makes for an excellent quid pro quo. He freeze dries whatever I send him...I cook for him. The operative ingredient is green coriander powder which requires you to do the following. 1. Plant a whole bunch of Cilantro. 2. Treat it like your first born child until it actually goes to seed. 3. Let is seed generously. 4. Remove the ENTIRE plant including the roots from the growing medium or soil. (This was hydroponic obviously since it is december on the East Coast of USA) 5. Wash it well and freeze dry the entire plant and roots. 6. Grind it to a powder. The powder above in the initial grind was just a mechanical grinding in a huge      BLIXER          but was eventually cryo-milled into a fine powder with liquid nitrogen. It has all the complexity of cilantro plus the floral sweetness of fresh coriander seeds. The final preparation was a Green Coriander Macaroon with Pistachio-Kosho (Green Yuzu Kosho + Sicilian Pistachio + Agave Syrup) Your bouche unfortunately will be more bemused than amused but it is a rather curiously odd assembly of flavors. It is topped with    LONG PEPPER.
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