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Butter Poaching
13 August 2007 | delicious, fat, food, food porn, pate choux, pictures, pig | 2 Responses
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
10 August 2007 | bacon, food, food porn, pictures, pig | No Responses
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.
Old Blue
9 August 2007 | old blue, pictures | No Responses
Old Blue is my 30, 000 BTU candy stove. It has many great uses. It rules.
Good tasting everybody!
9 August 2007 | blueberries, dessert, fenouil, funnel cakes, pictures, plated dessert, tasting | 1 Response
So we were sitting in the bar, and a young woman entered and remarked, ”Oh you get to taste your own food?” Chef turns, with all three of us sitting in whites and says “Of course.” I was reminded of how important it is, as a chef, to taste your food! We were sitting at the bar of course because today was my tasting at the restaurant with Chef Pascal. It went extremely well. The Funnel Cakes, pictured here in the final presentation, looked beautiful. I only wish Keri was there to take the picture.
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.
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…
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