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Fries With One Hand

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If I can make a custard with one arm, then I can make bread pudding.  If I can make bread pudding, then I can deep fry it.  Jaybill came up with idea as a joke, but I really liked the idea of taking old croissants, soaking them in custard, baking them in a waterbath, breading them with panko, and then deep frying them.  Anyway here’s Panko-Fried Chocolate Bread Pudding.  PFBP for short.  Check out how to make it in my new Recipes section.


Butter Poaching

Here is a couple of pork loins that Jaybill and I butter poached.  We used an infused clarified butter to poach, and then seared them on a hot griddle.  The infusion of shallots, sage, peppercorns, garlic and bayleaf imparted such a great flavor to the butter during clarification that we have been using as much as possible over the last week.  Roux, garlic bread,  pate choux,  poached eggs, yum yum yum yum yum.  I can hear my fat…it says…butter poach bacon.


Food Porn

No, this isn’t about the thing with the butter and the guniea pig, so dont get excited.  Sometimes when I look at food being prepared or served I think: That is Food Porn.  Seeing a pig rotate slowly rotate over a hot fire, watching someone fold whip cream into eggs and choclolate, a case of red peppers cut up into a perfect julienne, are all great examples. This pig spun over hot coals for 27 hours.  Then I ate an eyeball.