Foie Gras & Potato Tortelloni
These were the leftover tortelloni (which I imagined in a dream) from my dinner with Al that year. They were an oddball creation, but tasted pretty damn good.
Skillet Meatball Parm
I love parmigiana-style food - I had the idea to try baking it all together in one skillet. The results were a total hit, even better with chicken, a few pics down.
Bouchon Bakery Chocolate Chip/Chunk Cookies
For my dinner with Al that year I decided to make the Bouchon Bakery crepe cake. The recipe hilariously claims that it's the easiest recipe in the entire book (apparently Thomas Keller is a pro troll - who knew?).
Looking for an "ultimate" chocolate chip cookie recipe, I decided to try Bouchon's. I was thrilled with the results (huge, perfect outer crust and inner softness), and can definitively say that they are significantly easier to make than any crepe cake...
Skillet Chicken Parm
Pot Roast
Banh Mi Dogs
North Sea Oil
A wonderful cocktail I discovered at Eleven Madison Park / NoMad Bar, which is reasonable to make at home:
Mix 1/4 oz Combier, 1/2 oz Laphroaig 10y Scotch, 3/4 oz Cocchi Americano, and 1 1/2 oz Linie Aquavit with ice. Strain into a chilled rocks glass with a large ice cube and garnish with a grapefruit twist.
Chocolate Cake
Leah and I had been watching a ton of the Great British Baking Show, so, on a whim, I decided to bake a chocolate cake. In true GBBS fashion, I made an amateur mistake, forgetting to add eggs to one of the cakes (which I baked in two batches). You can see the bottom cake is way more dense as a result. No Hollywood Handshake for me! Oh well, it still tasted good.
Truffle Gnocchi w/ Ricotta
Buttermilk Ice Cream
Strawberry Sauce, Shortbread Crumble
My friend Nathanael is nuts about ice cream, so I often like to churn my own when we have him and his partner over for dinner. My idea here was to make a sort of strawberry shortcake in ice cream form - it turned out great!
Milk Punch
The leftover whey after making homemade ricotta has a lot of delicious uses. Here I used it as the base of one of my favorite cocktails, the classic Milk Punch. Though this method of curd/whey separation doesn't get nearly as clear as when you're doing it specifically in the cocktail method, it still tastes great. My preferred spirit to mix with it is tequila or mezcal.
Spaghetti w/ Clams
Ravioli w/ Fresh Tomato Sauce
Eggplant Parm
Sodium Citrate Mac N' Cheese
Pork Chops w/ Sweet Potato Mash
Sous Vide Eggs
My wonderful sister and brother in-laws always get us great food-related gifts. For Christmas 2018 we received a sous vide stick, which I immediately put to use for it's best purpose - perfect slow cooked eggs.
I hadn't quite gotten the temp/time settings down so these were a tiny bit overdone, but seriously nothing beats one of these eggs on a buttered English muffin topped with a dash of truffle powder.
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