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No, but I will when I return from SF. I've never had a problem with par-cooking pastas for service. They don't stick together, they've always been fine. This just seems like a complicated solution.
Commented Aug 17, 2009 on One Minute Pasta at IDEAS IN FOOD
One Minute Pasta
Cooking pasta is about heat and hydration. We asked ourselves what would happen if we separated the two processes. Soaking the pasta was slightly counter-intuitive. What if it got to soft? What if it all stuck together? We decided that the only thing to do was try it and see what happened. A...
I still don't see how this is any different than par-cooking the pasta.
Commented Aug 17, 2009 on One Minute Pasta at IDEAS IN FOOD
One Minute Pasta
Cooking pasta is about heat and hydration. We asked ourselves what would happen if we separated the two processes. Soaking the pasta was slightly counter-intuitive. What if it got to soft? What if it all stuck together? We decided that the only thing to do was try it and see what happened. A...
So how or why is this substantially different from par-cooking pasta before service?
Commented Aug 17, 2009 on One Minute Pasta at IDEAS IN FOOD
One Minute Pasta
Cooking pasta is about heat and hydration. We asked ourselves what would happen if we separated the two processes. Soaking the pasta was slightly counter-intuitive. What if it got to soft? What if it all stuck together? We decided that the only thing to do was try it and see what happened. A...
We've been doing this as corn pudding on our summer menu. Serving it with catfish and tartar vinaigrette
Commented Aug 2, 2009 on Fresh Polenta at IDEAS IN FOOD
Fresh Polenta
Alex had dinner at One Market while he was in San Francisco and one of the things he tasted was their "fresh polenta" essentially a scraped and cut corn gently heated with its juices and finished with a touch of butter and salt. It tasted like summer corn at it's peak. The texture was amazing...
Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies is a good one as well. There are online versions here http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/EditionOther.html scroll down to bottom of page.
Commented Jun 2, 2009 on Don't Leave It In The Box at Bonne Chance @ DAHplaytime
Don't Leave It In The Box
I've had Roger von Oech's 'Creative Whack Pack' on or near my desk, in more-or-less plain sight, for several years. It's a set of 64 cards, like playing cards, that each carry a different suggestion of how to 'whack' yourself out of habitual ways of thinking, to look at situations in a different...
Whenever I put things on the menu *knowing* that people will buy them, I am nearly always wrong. It's surely in part, snobbery on my part, because they are always the more common or pedestrian things. I've learned the hard way to not edit. That's the GM's job.
Commented May 25, 2009 on Tea Sandwiches at IDEAS IN FOOD
Tea Sandwiches
Just because you think you know does not mean you know. We were invited to help prepare an array of tea sandwiches for a bridal shower. The menu was loosely based on the tea sandwiches prepared for Aki's baby shower. We saw the list of sandwiches and kept some true to form and interpreted a few ...
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