Monthly Archives: October 2011

Trout Roe, Coconut, Licorice, Pineapple

Sarah and I decided this is our favorite one yet, for all of the reasons: it’s beautiful, it’s delicious, and it was fun as hell to make. I picked this dish arbitrarily; other than the fact that it’s in the Fall menu, nothing else about it seemed especially tricky or seasonal. Then I tried gathering [...]

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Junsai, Bonito, Soy, Mirin

I’d almost – ALMOST – resigned to myself that if there would be one recipe that I completely failed it, this would be the one. The irony is that this recipe is laughably simple, save one extremely-rare and exotic ingredient that I’ve been trying to find off and on for a couple of years. Junsai, or [...]

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Skate, Traditional Flavors Powdered

A steak cut from a skate wing is poached gently in butter, and placed top a fan of banana slices and haricot vert rounds. It’s topped with brown butter powder. Nearby lies a hurricane swirl of lemon, caper, and parsley powders. This one is awesome! It’s also not particularly difficult, given some patience and timing. [...]

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Chocolate, Warmed to 94 Degrees

I continue to vacillate on this project between feeling relentless obligation to keep marching forward with it despite not having much fun some of the time and feeling euphorically hungry for more other times. Last week’s dish exemplified the former; when it started becoming evident to me my odd stump-carving idea wasn’t going to pan out like [...]

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Yuba, Shrimp, Orange, Miso

  When Sarah and I first started dating, I liked sending her care packages from New Zealand. While collecting things for one package, I came across this interesting little thing in a cultural souvenir shop in downtown Wellington. I asked an employee what it was, and she explained it was an air freshener. She pulled a tiny [...]

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