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CHEFS JOHN B. SHIELDS AND KAREN URIE

5.22.2009

Indian inspired...eggplant




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Labels: basmati, black cardamon, black olive, cataloupe..pickled..seared..cured, corriander, ginger pudding, lamb jus, maple, muscavado, peanut, smoked mango, tamarind "raisins"

same but different...white asparagus


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Labels: almond milk, brown butter, eggyolk, miso, peekytoe crab

same but different...spring peas




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Labels: bacon, dashi, pork jowl, smoked salmon

"Squab nest"


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Labels: burnt vanilla, foie gras cotton candy and jam, long pepper, red wine, rhubarb, spring onion

Strawberries


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Labels: calamansi, honey, jasmine rice pudding, orange flower water, tempura of locust flower

5.09.2009

John Dory




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Labels: galia melon, horseradish, pil pil of kohlrabi and ham fat, rose water

5.08.2009

Hamachi



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Labels: beer, marinated hamachi, salted cherry blossom sugar, soy, sudachi
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Blog Archive

  • ▼  2009 (93)
    • ►  December (2)
      • scrambled egg mousse
      • Nantucket bay scallop
    • ►  November (7)
      • Squab and duck...the final version
      • Thai green curry with beef...heirloom pippin apple...
      • "brulee of smoked salmon roe"
      • quince charlotte
      • eel
      • minestrone
      • duck
    • ►  October (12)
      • "caramelized onion"
      • lamb shank cooked is ash
      • "caramelized onion" with egg yolk
      • Rib of beef
      • the ocean...my favorite food
      • The orange from Valencia
      • powdered chocolates
      • Salt cod pudding
      • French butter pear
      • The orange from Valencia
      • Foie gras butter
      • Pomme gris
    • ►  September (10)
      • Butternut squash "risotto"
      • smoked salmon
      • shortrib...revisited
      • turbot...revisited
      • Milk chocolate mousse
      • toro...rethought
      • Looking ahead...the frozen lake
      • ash, wood & fire...the aftermath
      • chocolate cake
      • crustaceans
    • ►  August (15)
      • The orange from Valencia
      • powdered chocolates
      • lamb neck
      • crab
      • slow roasted peach
      • o toro
      • gently cooked tomato
      • mussels a la gruet
      • o toro
      • Hamachi & Bev Eggleston's pig tail
      • mountains
      • squash seeds with caper gelee
      • gazpacho of fruits and vegetables
      • peach
      • crab
    • ►  July (6)
      • tomatoes
      • peekytoe crab
      • corn and foie gras
      • karen and i are making it official...we are gettin...
    • ►  June (7)
    • ▼  May (7)
      • Indian inspired...eggplant
      • same but different...white asparagus
      • same but different...spring peas
      • "Squab nest"
      • Strawberries
      • John Dory
      • Hamachi
    • ►  April (5)
    • ►  March (8)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (8)
  • ►  2008 (55)
    • ►  December (3)
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