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fried Brussels sprout, confit chestnut, shallot-bacon vinaigrette

Some Korean style chicken nuggets with fried potatoes.

If you want to leave more meat on the belly rather than on the bones use a rib puller (or make one using some twine and a piece wooden dowel). The linked video is how you can expect most seam butchers to cut a midsection.

That looks really good Andrew. What's in it and did it also come with a sauce? Thanks. The beef is boneless short rib that I seared and pressure cooked with beef stock, charred ancho chilies, espresso and onion consomme (inspired by red-eye gravy). I did a natural release, then chilled the braise in its liquid. The next day I removed the meat and clarified the braising liquid, then reduced it by half and finished with salt and an espresso-chipotle vinegar. The meat was gently rewarmed in an oven and then researed. I glazed it with the sauce and served it on crispy shoe string potatoes with a poached and fried quail egg.

I was playing around the other day with the idea of meat and potatoes the other day.

Inspired by ramen. malted pork jowl, xo demi, grano arso ramen, bacon and eggs

Not a dinner I ate, but a birthday dinner that I helped create. Left: persimmon jelly, 45 day dry aged fatback cured into lardo, lemon basil, smoked sea salt Center: crab salad, chicharrón, serrano chili, pickled enoki, cilantro Right: green papaya, braised pork belly, nuoc mam, pickled carrot and radish nitro-fried liverwurst, bass caviar, radish, cornichon, purslane, roasted cippolini tagliatelle al nero di seppia, gulf shrimp, XO purgatory sauce 45-day dry-aged kombu cured Mangalitsa loin, brown butter gnocchi, Texas tarragon, wild mushroom, wood ear broth smoked and braised goat, goat sausage, smoked goat coppa, creamed mustard greens, sweet potato, goat demi sanguinaccio dolce, graham cracker, sorghum marshmallow and meringue, lard shortbread

tea cured duck breast, fried milk, pickled shallot, marcona puree, roasted lemon and honey sauce

Haha first thing I thought. Always look forward to your creations man! To be fair, the technique isn't one I thought up. I saw it at Blackbird when I spent a couple weeks staging there.

I used raw broccoli. I think the slight bitterness and green flavor help bring out the kale chips and with the tomato confit help balance with the relatively rich nature of the dish (pork, egg yolk, risotto).

Quail yolk prepared however you like it most. Raw, poached or cooked sous vide the yolk is gently enrobed in broccoli tips. Raw eggs are more apt to break while being enrobed. The real trick is cutting the tips so that there is virtually no stalk attached, just the green flower part. Gently roll the yolk in the broccoli and the two will stick together.

dry aged pork, xo pearl barley risotto, tomato confit, kale chips, broccoli crusted quail egg

Slaughter houses salt the blood before delivering it to butcher shops. Even salted it will coagulate within a day or two. Your best bet will probably be finding a quality butcher shop and see if they can get blood from their next pig delivery in. Some slaughter houses will have the capability to fulfill such a request and the blood will be extremely fresh. I would recommend tasting the blood before cooking with it to get an idea of the salt level. Some places salt very heavily while others use salt much more sparingly. As a side note: I have had good luck blending coagulated blood with a high powered blender and using it as I normally would when it had never coagulated. Not ideal, but a possibility.

I took some work home tonight. Starting at the top left and going row by row: Genoa, peperone, antelope, sant'olcese, campagnia, saucisson sec, bison hunter, bison bresaola

Fermento is a buttermilk powder that gives a slight tang, mimicking the flavor of fermentation. You could use a small amount of buttermilk or skip it all together.

A quick meal using some extremely fresh ingredients red long beans, okra, egg plant, queen snapper, tomato jam, browned vadouvan butter

I just remembered to update here. I dry aged two red wattle X mangalitsa loins for 30 days. At the end of the 30 days they were trimmed and prepared for sale, after one was cooked off. The chop was more tender and had become slightly more waxy in texture. Additionally, the meat and fat developed aroma and flavors of browned butter and blue cheese. A complete success and one of the best chops I've had in my life. We are now developing a regular rotation to ensure we always have some loins dry aging.

Two recent dinners. First, breakfast for dinner. monkey bread french toast, brown butter solids, peaches and cream, bruleed bourbon candied peaches Then another attempt at pulled noodles, plated two different ways. pulled noodles, pickled mushroom, ox tail broth, quail egg, bok choy, lotus root

shrimp scampi

shrimp, roasted grits, cheddar crisp, caramelized onion-shrimp sauce, onion snow, chives

Thank you. I started with peeled and seeded tomatoes and caramelized them in a hot pan. Deglazed as needed with tomato water and finished with a nice fish sauce.

The noodles were stretched by my pulling motion alone, not gravity.

dover sole, caramelized tomato jam, mushroom puree, country ham chip

I've spent a couple days working on pulling noodles. I still need to work on my technique to even out the noodles. From what I understand, this is an issue of pulling the noodles at the ideal timing and technique, hopefully I'll get there. At the same time, I am slowly adjusting the recipe to better fit my goals. That said, these were delicious. Not the most best shot, but it shows the noodles well.

Scalloped Potatoes