Monday, August 24, 2009
Shit. You know one of those situations when you yearn for something, and when it finally comes, you don't really know what to do with it? Well, I'm stuck here, with truffles. I've got truffle oil, truffle salt, and was just bitching to Yx about getting my paws on some fresh truffles. Now I've finally got access to them (not from the hotels, Yx - commercial stock!), I'm actually deliberating!!
Thing is that they last just 1 week at best, and are through-the-nose expensive. Also, these aren't the swoon-inducing Perigord winter truffles - they're Italian summer black truffles. But ooh ooh OOH I do so want to cook with them!
Was pacing my room and deliberating, haha .. such a comical sight. All this, for mushrooms. Ugly mushrooms, at that. I wouldn't actually bat an eyelid about buying, say, 200grams of the stuff, but Yx is leaving for Korea in a few days' time, and I really don't fancy eating the truffles all alone.
I am, however, suddenly moved by passion to plant more edibles in the garden. I'm thinking eggplant, peppers, rosemary, squash. Dang this perfectly disgusting weather. Imagine what I could do up in the Cameron Highlands.
Further to this out-of-the-blue gastronomy post, Yx and I visited this Cold-Storage lookalike at Ion Orchard (they are run by the same company, according to Yx). Our friend Ariel had tipped me off on cheap white asparagus there, but alas! They looked like they were out. We did have a good look around though, and I liked what I saw. In particular, they had baby vegetables (imagine farm-style baby carrots with roots and leaves intact - YUUUUMMM on a grill with salt and pepper!), smoked salt and white truffle salt (salt .. Mmmmmmmm), and sevruga caviar (I can only afford lumpfish pseudo-caviar, muahahahahaha). Guess I'll be back when/if my pocket gets fuller.
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