Upcoming weekend menu

[mraltariel]

More for my own memory's benefit, here's this weekend's menu for our esteemed visitors.

"Bloody Mary"
Invisible tomato and black olive ravioli
Blue cheese, pear, pickled walnuts and rocket salad
Egg on toast (100% egg)
Champagne-infused cucumber, celeriac and a beurre blanc
Celery, beetroot and goat's cheese with horseradish icecream
Melon, soy, sesame

Comments

[vilakins]

That sounds amazing, and you're right: I salivated through it without realising there wasn't any meat. Anyway, I love vegetarian food, not being a great meat-eater.

What do you make the invisible ravioli of? Those thin rice wrappers whose name I'm blanking on?

60C? Nah. I've been in 45C but that was in Israel. 6 by any chance?

[mraltariel]

Haha! 60F. I'm so used to giving temps in C in food posts!

The invisible ravioli I make with a cunning hydrocolloid gel. They are genuinely completely transparent and quite beautiful.

[vilakins]

I don't even know what 60F is. I was told you guys were metric now. Uses handy little converter] Ah, 16C. About what it was a couple of days ago here. [shivers]

I bet they are. How very cool. It must be fun finding fillings that will look good.

[mraltariel]

Tomato, black olive "caviar" and a baby basil leaf, in this case :-)

[toft_froggy]

I am particularly excited for those consuming it for the blue cheese salad, the celery/beetroot/goats cheese with horseradish ice cream (that involves so many of my favourite things it's criminal). I also want to know a) what is the world coming to that we've now managed to breed invisible tomatoes, b) in the egg on toast which is 100% egg, is the toast also made of egg?

[mraltariel]

Egg on toast being 100% egg: oh, yes.

It turns out that if you cook egg yolks (and a bit of baking powder) in a pressure cooker, it succumbs to a maillard reaction (i.e. browns like meat) and turns into a muffin *that you can slice and toast*.

Experimental egg (mc)muffin cooking will be the main feature of my Saturday.

[toft_froggy]

Whaaaaat!? This is a strange new world we live in.

[mraltariel]

Isn't food awesome?

[kalypso_v]

Obviously I tend to read menus thinking "is this vegetarian?" first, because if it isn't there's little point in my reading it...

[sallymn]

Mmmmm.... lucky visitors :)