Sunday Seven (The Journeyman edition)
1) "Hot tomato / cold tomato" - Chipotle confit cherry tomato with tomato sorbet. Cold on the palate right up until the chipotle hits you. :-)
1a) House made bread with sea-salted butter. I should note that butter is something many restaurants fail at, by providing something that is either rock hard, or has been whipped into insubstantiality. This butter was perfectly smooth and spreadable.
2) September salad - a little bit of everything, in strong autumn flavors - carrot, microgreens, a concord grape, a bit of watermelon radish, kale chip, dehydrated onion, icicle radish, beans, a puree of zucchini and another of roasted peppers. Wonderful strong flavors, and nicely balanced. The only disadvantage to the salad is that there was a relatively small amount of each of its constituent parts, which made experimenting with flavor combinations hard.
3) Wheatberry risotto in corn milk with sauteed hen-of-the-woods and accented with raspberry. I would not have though raspberry juice would have worked there, but the sweetness set off the solidity of the wheatberries and the mushroom just so.
4) Chinese custard in tomato serracha water with century egg and fried shallots. The custard had a very mild flavor and tofu-esque texture, so it took on the flavor of the tomato water, while the egg and shallots provided a strong accent.
5) Pumpkin anneletti, ricotta salata, apple and sabra. The platonic ideal of pumpkin ravioli.
5a) Gin and tonic jelly, cucumber sorbet, mint. Gin and tonic in a jelly is a very odd experience, but much tastier than the usual form. The cucumber sorbet was intensly flavorful, and the mint added an excellent note.
6) Roasted apple, caramel, and brown butter. The apple preparation was apparently remarkably complex, but yielded and fanstically sweet dessert apple that nonetheless had much of the firmness of something fresh off the tree.
7) Caramel three ways - macaroon, pudding, ganache. My sweet tooth died happy at this point.
In sum: OMGsotasty!
(And hopefully prosicated will let me know anything I missed in my attempts to frantically take notes and eat at once. :-)
1a) House made bread with sea-salted butter. I should note that butter is something many restaurants fail at, by providing something that is either rock hard, or has been whipped into insubstantiality. This butter was perfectly smooth and spreadable.
2) September salad - a little bit of everything, in strong autumn flavors - carrot, microgreens, a concord grape, a bit of watermelon radish, kale chip, dehydrated onion, icicle radish, beans, a puree of zucchini and another of roasted peppers. Wonderful strong flavors, and nicely balanced. The only disadvantage to the salad is that there was a relatively small amount of each of its constituent parts, which made experimenting with flavor combinations hard.
3) Wheatberry risotto in corn milk with sauteed hen-of-the-woods and accented with raspberry. I would not have though raspberry juice would have worked there, but the sweetness set off the solidity of the wheatberries and the mushroom just so.
4) Chinese custard in tomato serracha water with century egg and fried shallots. The custard had a very mild flavor and tofu-esque texture, so it took on the flavor of the tomato water, while the egg and shallots provided a strong accent.
5) Pumpkin anneletti, ricotta salata, apple and sabra. The platonic ideal of pumpkin ravioli.
5a) Gin and tonic jelly, cucumber sorbet, mint. Gin and tonic in a jelly is a very odd experience, but much tastier than the usual form. The cucumber sorbet was intensly flavorful, and the mint added an excellent note.
6) Roasted apple, caramel, and brown butter. The apple preparation was apparently remarkably complex, but yielded and fanstically sweet dessert apple that nonetheless had much of the firmness of something fresh off the tree.
7) Caramel three ways - macaroon, pudding, ganache. My sweet tooth died happy at this point.
In sum: OMGsotasty!
(And hopefully prosicated will let me know anything I missed in my attempts to frantically take notes and eat at once. :-)