broccoli roasted with garlic, curry powder, mushrooms, olive oil, salt and shredded coconut at 450C, 15 mins or so.

Dressing of a little fish sauce, black pepper, touch of sesame, touch of olive oil, lemon juice

combine with radishes whilst all warm.

dinner

Potato, queso fresco and mint ravioli, consomme, roasted pig ears and spring onions, finished with parsley

Dinner, 19th of Jan, 2013


First
- Hummus
- Roasted eggplant salad
- Cherry tomato, queso fresco and couscous salad with mint and tahini dressing

Second
- Saffron and wild mushroom chicken stew with Moorish spices
- Roasted mash squash
- Picada

Third
- Flourless chocolate cake, green apple sorbet/vanilla ice cream

Roast pork belly

Dry pork belly with paper towels, score vertically making sure to cut into the fat but not meat, season generously with salt and let sit uncovered in fridge for a few hours.

Take meat out to temper, dry again and re-season skin.

For the meat side, season with whatever herbs or spice mixture.

Pre-heat oven to 220C. Roast pork in container skin side up for 20 mins, then turn heat down to 150C and cook for 30-40 mins until it looks done. Skin should have rendered a lot of the fat out. Take pork out of oven and turn heat up to highest setting or put broiler on. Broil skin until super crispy making sure you dont burn it.

Scrape off any burnt skin.

Serve with fennel and pomegranate salad, citrus and radish salad, chutney, plum sauce, etc.

Sourdough and ice cream

Basic sour dough at 70% hydration.
275g water + 500g 100% hydration.
400g bread flour + 100g whole wheat mixed with hydrated starter to autolyse for 30 mins.

Stretch and fold x 3 at 10 min intervals.
Rise for 1-2 hrs
Stretch and fold
Rise for 1hr (heat oven at 500F)
Tension pull 
Score
Bake for 20 mins covered, then for 30 mins at 430F


Rum-whiskey raisin, cinnamon and nutmeg ice-cream

- salt a little too much, maybe less cinnamon also.
- fresh vanilla would be nice
- less cream, more milk
- 173g yolks, 173g sugar, salt
- 10 oz milk, 10 oz cream - scalded
- temper eggs, return back to heat and cook until custard like. strain, cool down overnight, churn. Partway churning add whiskey and rum soaked raisins

Green pea soup

white aromatics, leeks, sweat.
add in green peas, lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves.
cover with stock, bring to boil and cook for 5 mins.
puree, garnish with lime juice and optional lime zest.

saute spam with broccoli florets, garnish for soup for more substance.

grits

Tomato sauce with anchovies
grits, cooked with water, salt, tomato sauce
heat roasted chicken
parsley, chilies, radish and cheese. mix, bind with one egg.
olive oil, salt, pepper