Some Pictures of my food!

Well today was my last of a 10 day stretch of work and I finally have 2 days off coming to me. In that time I am hoping to finally fire up my grill and test out some new ideas I have been toying with. I have also been glued to this cookbook COCO for the past week or so and it has been the source of many of my ideas I want to experiment with. COCO is much more of a professionally driven book. Basically it is 10 world renowned chefs that pick 10 of their favorite up and coming chefs from all over the world. Most of the content is focused towards the professional kitchens but some of the plates and photography are stunning.


Anyways, I wanted to share a couple of plates that I have done in the past couple of months. The first one is the most recent. I did this a couple of weeks ago as a vegan option for one of our dinners. This is a Zucchini box that is stuffed with sauteed leeks, zucchini, tomatoes, garlic and thyme. The sauces are a charred red pepper coulis, balsamic reduction and basil oil. This is a picture of it to the right. I served the actual plate with a potato risotto during dinner but at the time of taking this I hadn't quite figured out the final product.


The second plate is one that I did late last fall for three different events I think. It is a Roasted Buffalo Tenderloin with braised micro carrots, brussel sprouts and pearl onions. It was served on top of a parsnip puree and the sauces were a simple demi glace and red wine reduction. I was just starting to play around with molecular gastronomy at the time too and did some espresso caviar and mushroom foam as garnish. This is the picture to the left (it's kind of blurry, sorry).


Well that's it for me now. Soon I will have some recipes to post on here I just have to start putting them on to my computer. That has been a goal of mine for a while now so maybe having this blog will help me get my ass in gear and do it. 


Talk to you all soon!