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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Mousseline
(and recipe for easy shrimp toast)
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Cheesecake Factory:
The Alexander Challenge
A visit to the Cheesecake Factory In Suburban Cleveland, or, How To Use a Fancy Pants Word Like "Insipid" Twice In a Two-Minute Video (insipid: 1. without flavor, tasteless 2. not exciting or interesting, dull; lifeless).
A week or so ago I made fun of author and journalist Kelly Alexander after she wrote an article in praise of the Cheesecake Factory. She quickly issued a challenge by email: "OK, Ruhlman: A wager is in order, clearly. If you go to the Cheesecake Factory, taste that miso salmon, and after that can honestly tell me it doesn't rock, I will not only pay for your salmon but ...
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Tarragon-Garlic Pickles
Photo by Donna
I screwed up the brine for these and wound up with amazing short rib pastrami, below, but I remade the brine and got it right, nothing but tarragon and garlic. I like dill and dill pickles, but I love tarragon flavored pickles, which is the dominant herb in cornichon.
I also prefer the flavor of the "natural" or "traditional" pickle, one that uses no vinegar. Allowing lactic acid bacteria to feed on sugars in the vegetable and release acid, you create a sharp, but not vinegar-sharp, flavor. You also get the pleasure in this style of pickling of working with something that's ...
Posted in Charcutepalooza, Food Photography, Ratios, Recipes, Vegetables Tagged pickles, tarragon Comments closed
Homemade Short Rib Pastrami
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