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Consolidated replies for Ozark Tasting Menu dinner at Bulrush 7:30 PM Thursday 16 May 2019. attending (7 people): - curls - Kerry Beal - Chocolot - jbates - RobertM - tikidoc + Maddie maybe: - Anniebakes

@TandemChocoPC I'm sorry you will no longer be able to join us for dinner but I look forward to meeting you Friday.

Interesting the variety of techniques. I just foot what will be the bottom of my slab & it is on the bottom when I cut the slab on the guitar. If I remember, I'll try the pre-bottoming - put a thin coat of chocolate on a guitar slab prior to pouring your ganache method next time I do a ganache slab. Looks like that could work even better than what I am doing now. For those that coat top and bottom... why do like to do it this way, what are the advantages?

D. Put them in a box, put box in foodsaver bag, suck a bit of air out with food saver, seal bag before box is crushed. Manual process, no setting on the machine to control pressure levels.

Consolidated replies for Ozark Tasting Menu dinner at Bulrush 7:30 PM Thursday 16 May 2019. attending: - @curls - @TandemChocoPC - @Kerry Beal - @Chocolot - @jbates - @RobertM - @tikidoc + Maddie Pending response: - @Anniebakes

It's almost dinner time and Rob is very kindly saving a table for us. I'm still waiting for final confirmation from a few of you. Here is the list that I have so far. Please reply by Tuesday, 16 April if there any updates to your status. If we don't need all the seats that Rob has reserved for us, he should be able to offer them to other customers. From the Bulrush website the Ozark Tasting Menu is a chance to "Celebrate Chef Rob's Ozark cuisine, rooted in extensive research to the foods of the Ozark settlers, given a hyper-seasonal, modernist approach." The price for the dinner is $100 all inclusive (food, tax, and hospitality). Drinks are optional/additional. If anyone else would like to join us now is the time to speak up. It is going to be an amazing dinner with a great group of people. Looking forward to seeing everyone in St. Louis! Consolidated replies for Ozark Tasting Menu dinner at Bulrush 7:30 PM Thursday 16 May 2019. attending: - @curls - @TandemChocoPC - @Kerry Beal - @Chocolot - @jbates - @RobertM Pending response: - @tikidoc + Maddie - @Anniebakes

Thank you Rob!

@Kerry Beal thanks for mentioning them, I’ll check them out next time I’m in that part of Maryland.

That desk is gorgeous. Looking forward to seeing the other things you acquired. Congrats on the 3D printer!

Around Baltimore, at the old family run candy houses, you can still get beautiful sugar eggs. I am pretty sure that they are also available at Stever's in Rochester NY. @heidih very cool that your aunt and uncle learned how to make them.

Looks lovely even without some bread for smooshing in the sauce. I'm sure you'll be able to dial in the right amount of cook on the poached eggs. And as I keep saying to myself... I don't need or have space for a Control Freak, CSO, Freeze Dryer, Thermomix, Selmi, melanger, etc.... Don't worry, you have all tempted me into many purchases. Just holding firm (for now) on quite a few more! 🙂

So, what's on the menu for breakfast? I'm hoping for Control Freak eggs benedict.

@Jim D. are you making any chocolates and/or confections for Easter? Please share your items.

Since it appears that quite a few of us are interested in the tasting menu with a later dinner time... what do you think of a 7:30pm reservation for Thursday 16 May? Please feel free to suggest another time if that does not work for your schedule. What are your thoughts?

Ah ha, finally, I know the purpose of those wooden stands at the counter! Still waiting to see the golf tee tables in their final state. Beautiful space Rob! Looking forward to experiencing it myself next month!!!

Very nice selection @A Polderman. I have yet to try starch molding, looks like you have mastered it. Such delicate and lacey chocolate baskets! They look quite delicate. Did they travel well? How did you keep them from breaking during transport? I’m confused about your question... what do you mean with are the dragons cocoa butter shells? I have polycarbonate dragon moulds. For this season I am shelling them in dark or milk chocolate and then filling them with a mixture of chocolate & crispy rice cereal. Same process that one uses for chocolate bon bons. Please let me know if I have answered your question.

Good luck with your move! Of course you can borrow the love bunnies name. I just happen to prefer love bunnies to f'ing bunnies. But f'ing bunnies sounds much cooler when Kerry says it than when I do!

So, what is everyone doing for the pastry & baking side of Easter? I'm working on the following chocolates: fruit & nut eggs, hollow bunnies, Jelly Belly filled bunnies, coconut bunnies, dragons (filled with rice krispies & chocolate), peanut butter hedgehogs, and malted milk hens. Hoping to finish my dark chocolate production today and get started on all my milk chocolate items. My father-in-law will be baking the traditional family Easter bread a day or two before Easter. Its an enriched bread and he makes two versions -- one with raisins and one without (I prefer the one with raisins). And I was lucky enough to spot this couple in the sale moulds stock at last year's eGullet chocolate & confections workshop in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. These love bunnies help so very much with Easter chocolate production! ;-)

Consolidated replies for Thursday, 16 May, dinner at Bulrush. Tasting menu with later dinner time: - Curls - TandemChocoPC - Kerry Beal - tikidoc + Maddie - jbates (any time is ok) Going with the consensus: - Chocolot Pending response: - RobertM - Anniebakes

Consolidated replies for Thursday, 16 May, dinner at Bulrush. Tasting menu with later dinner time: - Curls - TandemChocoPC - Kerry Beal Going with the consensus: - Chocolot Pending response: - @jbates - @tikidoc + Maddie - @RobertM - @Anniebakes

TIme for everyone to weigh in @Kerry Beal, @jbates, @tikidoc, @TandemChocoPC, @RobertM, @Chocolot, @Anniebakes . We need to decide on the following: - dinner time - tasting menu or bar My preference is for the tasting menu and I would prefer a later dinner since I am coming in Thursday on a late afternoon / early evening flight. What are your preferences?

Thanks Rob, I truly appreciate that, I'm expecting all of St. Louis to be vying for reservations at Bulrush! Wishing all the best to you and your staff. Will wait until the Bulrush website is fleshed out with hours and pricing and then we'll get everyone on board with a dinner time.

It looks like Bulrush's reservation system will be coming online soon. Will post more details when it does. Start thinking about what time you would like to gather for dinner at Bulrush! I'm so looking forward to dining at chef @gfron1's new restaurant!!!! 🙂

Perhaps you could use your vacuform to make a bottom sealed rabbit mould and then use the mould filling method recommended by Teonzo.

Cool haul! Thanks for introducing me to a new word and item -- the delicator! Good luck finding that Nespresso for @Alleguede's new love.