http://mrjeffmccarthy.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:07:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A week or so ago I woke up to several voice mails, text messages, and emails from loved friends and loved ones wondering how I ended up in the UK, and why they should send me money.  Somebody had gotten a hold of my password and was using my personal ... http://mrjeffmccarthy.com/2010/03/07/fuck-facebook/ A fucking bomb went off! Chocolate flourless cake, salty caramel core,  milk chocolate shell and blood orange ice cream.  The dessert is inspired by a pastry I had in Paris, from the shop of the revered pastry Chef Pierre Herme.  It was a bombe, tempered shell and caramel core, I enjoyed it ... http://mrjeffmccarthy.com/2010/02/11/the-bomb/ At the restaurant we call them Beignets but really they are simple donuts.  They fry up GBD with a thin buttery crust and a fluffy cakey center.  They can easily be adjusted to taste like gingerbread by subbing in molasses for some of the sugar, and using ginger, cinnamon, and ... http://mrjeffmccarthy.com/2010/01/26/cake-donuts/ Two thousand and motherfucking TEN?!? The future is now my faithful readers. I command the powers of the internet in my pants. I make ice cream base in an immersion circulator. As a race we fringe on symbiosis with technology; and I can't wait to realize this next phase ... http://mrjeffmccarthy.com/2010/01/07/2010-the-future-is-now/ My good friend and fellow Chef Arturo Lopez was quite suddenly and shamefully deported back to Mexico over a year ago.  It was so sad the way it went down; one day he was there, the life of our kitchen, the backbone of it's mise en place, the next he ... http://mrjeffmccarthy.com/2009/11/30/arturo-bakes-a-cake/ It's funny how one idea leads to another and sometimes the most obvious idea is the best one.  Looking at my Fat Spouse dessert, it was good; hell it was great even.  What it lacked however was a warm element.  Something to start melting that malted milk ice cream and ... http://mrjeffmccarthy.com/2009/11/18/pootang-30/ Just something I threw together for me and wifey on a Monday night.  I've been cooking for her when I can, usually Mondays, and usually chicken.  My lovely better half has a very refined palate; that is to say she won't eat shit.  So it's normally chicken I cook, I've ... http://mrjeffmccarthy.com/2009/11/09/chicken-broccoli-gratin-bacon-fat-biscuits/ homeless observation A crushing glow, a heavy wet light, I sheild my eyes in the sudden bright.  As fast as it came it's goes, now a thundering hiss of blades, a chopper cruising bent low with speed.  It's passing  marked by a thin loudness, a recorded whisper in full volume.  Silent now save the sound ... http://mrjeffmccarthy.com/2009/11/09/some-shit-i-wrote/ This here dessert is like a bong hit.  It's all "Dude, It'll be all hazelnut, banana and mascarpone, man!"  I based it on an excellent brunch item I had over at Belly Timber, a Stuffed French Toast. It combined house made Nutella, mascarpone, hazelnuts, and a specially made brioche.  ... http://mrjeffmccarthy.com/2009/10/25/toasted-hazelnut-cake-gianduja-mascarpone-ice-cream/ Why do you lose, ladies; you might be asking?  Well that's because my skinny ass is officially off the market.  The love of my life said "I do, " and I said it back in a dream-like setting.  We danced our asses off with friends and family, there were over ... http://mrjeffmccarthy.com/2009/10/19/sorry-ladies-you-lose/