Sea urchin / UNI arancini
sea urchin risotto fried balls…topped with sea urchin. The creaminess needs to be tasted and felt. With UNI, you can’t skimp, otherwise you are wasting your time.
Wan Chai wet market
Some pictures from today, a lot of walking around Central & Admiralty, Lan Kwai Fong (the area where people don’t come scuttling out like cockroaches until it gets dark). and then Wan Chai wet market with seafood and fresh pork Yung Kee restaurant – best roast goose in Hong Kong
Top things I would make for potluck?
So I got an email: Hi Erik, Sorry to bother you. I wanna pick your brain. If you had to bring something for a pot luck what are the top 5 things/ dishes (appies can be included) you would make? 🙂 I had to ask. Thanks in advance. Short version: Dear —–, I don’t …
Small food rant ;)
tiger grouper – steamed – Lei Yue Mun, Hong Kong. A recipe everyone knows, but they do it right…
Abalone
ABALONE SASHIMI in a few steps. After driving a million miles and diving with the great white sharks… assuming you were successful and your limbs are somewhat in tact… take it out of the shell with a rice spoon or similar…
fortune cookie makin'
so, I don’t make dessert. unless you want a ribeye for dessert… trying to figure out how to make fortune cookies… loll #random 1am texts in preparation for www.LAPICNIC.org event. Yeah it’s for a good charity 🙂 come support.
Eating Wild Game
“Eating wild game and hunting last year with you before we opened the restaurant made me a better chef. It did. I realized how good it can taste. How good it should taste.” – Ori Menashe, Bestia raw almonds from the farm the wild boars tear up at night
"Hookup" Ragu
wild boar legs and shoulders marinating in wine & aromatics & herbs There’s a few principles that I use whether in a duck ragu, a wild boar ragu, or oxtail vaccinara. 1) I like to use the best quality meat in my ragus (all of my dishes, really). I see chefs doing expensive pop ups …
Midnight Mission – 2 Wild Boars
I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 2000 meals! #foodislove www.midnightmission.org
400 pound wild boars
boom boom boom. #45 and #46 from the last 3 months go down.
Snapshots from the field
A few pictures from the field – a snippet, a glimpse, a snapshot of what is Driving through almond fields mighty ducks crazy clouds and crazy cows moonrise ahead and the simultaneous sunset behind
"Even the grass looks tasty" – Montana Video
So my last post about Montana here: