Monday, October 20, 2008
Finally in the mood to cook some decent (or decadent) food! Had a surprisingly pleasant clinic with the bitch today, and that slab of foie gras had been sitting around for some time anyway. Actually on hindsight, I really need to cut back on food expenditure - although doing up haute cuisine at home is still way cheaper than pigging out at some stupid expensive restaurant. Managed to buy a whole lobe of duck foie gras at Culina (go check out the Dempsey one!) and a precious little bottle of sale con tartufo nero (essentially sel gris de Guerande with 1% dried summer black truffles).
Mind - it's actually an experimental run tonight so the foie gras aren't perfect. Also, the recipe was completely made-up so there's just that wee bit of fine-tuning to do. Flambéd foie gras with lavender jus, wild aragula and sale con tartufo nero :
For tonight's trial run I was seriously caught between fleur de sel and the sel gris, so I actually put fleur de sel on the foie, and the sel gris as a side together with the dried lavender flowers (top left in the picture). Next time I'll just forget the fleur de sel. Recipe's on the
food blog! The food blog recipe version is NOT with aragula - this is the one thing that killed this dish. Normal aragula, yes - but wild aragula is just way too tangy. Try it with celery instead! Yes, and I desperately need to work on the presentation. I'm thinking "square plates".
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