I've had some Calcium Chloride and Sodium Alginate sitting in my home kitchen for a few months now. Today I dug them out and had some fun. You may be wondering why I have chemicals in the kitchen. Cleaning? Nope. Preserving? Nope. These two chemicals are used for a process called Spherification.
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A couple months ago, I was inspired by a post on Alex & Aki's blog Ideas In Food. They made a marinade for beef short ribs using Dr. Pepper, Red Miso paste and Coffee. Instantly the light bulb went off in my head to try making a marinade using the official soft drink of Maine, Moxie.
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Sous Vide
cooking. The term is becoming more and more familiar with people
nowadays, thanks to Thomas Keller and cooking related reality TV. In
order to really understand what it is, you have to try food cooked Sous
Vide. Another option is to continue reading, and I'll do my best to describe it.
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Last week, I attended two courses at the Culinary Institute of
America at Greystone in St. Helena, California. One of the courses was
"Food and Wine Pairing for Chefs".
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I'm back in Maine after returning from California around 12:30AM. Overall, it was an amazing trip. I cooked a lot of great food, met countless interesting people, took a boatload of pictures, did some shopping, and many other things I'm either forgetting or can't really discuss here.
I wrote a ton in my journal while traveling around, practically enough for a small book. Over the next couple weeks I'll try my best to gather my scribblings and pair them to pictures, quotes and other thoughts.
For now, some random notes and pics:
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For years I was a huge coffee drinker. There's this new thing for me called "getting old-er", which doesn't agree with coffee so much. So I needed a replacement...
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Every once in a while we need to do something different. To climb out of from the trench that is our daily routine and mix things up a bit. This week on my days off, I decided to visit Portland, Maine.
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