Archives for August 2007
Another dessert Idea…
8 August 2007 | bacon, chocolate, dessert, nuts, pictures, plated dessert, tasting | 1 Response
Who loves bacon?! Boy howdy I sure do. This plate was an experiment envolving sweet applications of bacon, and the smoking of white chocolate. The end result was Sage Smoked White Chocolate Mousse with Maple Bacon Caramel. I originally tried smoking the chocolate with mesquite wood, but that wasn’t what i was looking for. Jaybill came up with the concept of an herb smoke (heh heh) which turned out quite nicely. The mousse was a bavarian style recipe. My idea for the sauce came from breakfast. You know when you’re eating pancakes and the syrup and butter gets all over your bacon and turns into this gooey mess on your plate? I love that goo!! That’s my sauce. When Jaybill shows me how to do it, I’ll be posting recipes and demos for all this stuff. Thanks again Keri for these beautiful pictures.
Replate!
7 August 2007 | blueberries, custard, dessert, fenouil, funnel cakes, pate choux, plated dessert, tasting | 1 Response
I did some refining to the funnel cake concept. One reason is I knew I could get in cleaner, and another is that as much as I love stinky cheese, tallegio mousse is just gross. So I went with a butternilk custard instead, and it turned out quite nicely. Getting there!! Keri’s picture is practically edible.
PuniChoux
6 August 2007 | dessert, funnel cakes, pate choux, pictures | 1 Response
Just did 12 hours in the test kitchen…and when I saw this ominous symbol rise from the bottom of the fryer, I knew it was time to pay…
Can I smoke it?
6 August 2007 | bacon, chocolate, dessert, pictures | No Responses
Easy kids…that’s not a crack rock…it’s white chocolate!! And yes, it can be smoked. Why would you want to smoke white chocolate you ask? Because I’m trying to get bacon onto the dessert plate, silly. More on this to come.
So we had a few beers…
5 August 2007 | pictures | 2 Responses
If you drink all day at Sauvie Island, this is what can happen to you…
Remember the County Fair?
5 August 2007 | blueberries, dessert, funnel cakes | 2 Responses
With this dessert I was trying to capture all the fun and excitement of a hot summer day at the carnival. Funnel cakes with a blueberry tallegio mousse, lemon tuile, mango sorbet, and mascerated blueberries. I think I’ll use a watermelon sorbet in the final presentation. Isn’t that a beautiful picture? It was taken by my sister in-law Keri. Check out her other pictures.
mrjeffmccarthy.rules.net.org
4 August 2007 | dog, mountain, news, pictures | 2 Responses
Well everybody, thanks to my brother Jaybill, I’m finally staking my claim in cyberspace. This page will be a little insight into my life, and a little reminder to all you sinners out there how awesome I am. I hope to include but not limit to my adventures in food, (pastry, cooking, eating, drinking, kitchens, ) hiking, biking, skateboarding, snowboarding, backpacking, and generally being awesome. So tune in at your leisure to sample a little slice of my life…mrjeffmccarthy.com