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By Thomas Keller
Artisan - 2009
Beef Stroganoff : page 42
Hauntingly good!!! This was so good my girlfriend that is known for her Beef Stroganoff was pissed that I blew her out of the water.. like not a little pissed.. really pissed.
It took 2 days with the Braised beef short ribs.. but hint hint, I can leave out the short ribs.. use hamburger.. or even steal the wine spice mix from the beef shortrib, mix it with the hamburger - lower portions- and let the Stroganoff recipie do all the work.. the fresh mushrooms, heavy cream.. this and the creamed corn have been my two favorites so far!!
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Caramelized Fennel : page 194
This was good.. not great.
It was interesting and I can see it being a neat side to be paired with a 'wow' factor main dish.
Some of this stuff you have to say.. hey, it's fennel.. just fennel...
So it was nice, and good.. but I think maybe adding something else might have gave it some more pow.
Like some cinnemon, brown sugar.. heck maybe even just browning it more to give it a crunch.
Fennel is neat as it tastes a bit like black liquerice or anise.. so it has a good start and intersting taste.
I'd make it again.. but wouldn't focus too hard on it...
It's ok?
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Creamed Summer Corn : page 189
Ok, well this was my flagship recipie from this book... and it didn't disappoint. This is the book that was recommended to me from a well established chef in Boston/NY.
He said that he steals recipes from this regularly.
This recipie was hauntingly good. It was easy, fast and was so good that I felt like eating food/crack. I couldn't stop... it was unbelievable!!!
Try it tonight... easy.... too easy not to!!
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Nantes Carrot Stew : page 190
Ok, so this isn't fair because I used the carrots from my garden and didn't use cheese cloth since I didn't have one but a coffee filter instead.
With my modified version.. I wasn't impressed. It tastes like buttery carrots.
Maybe this is my own fault as I'm not a huge carrot fan to begin with.. but just not overwhelmed by this.
I may need to go buy the correct carrots and cheese cloth and try this again.
I'd hope that it would kill me like his creamy corn did.. wow... but so far this wasn't a A list recipe for me.
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Hmmm.
This taught me the trick to that perfect roasted skin!!!
Pretty good. chicken was great.
But.....
Well, he nailed grandmas cooking, but this isn't gourmet the way I hoped. Other recipes are incredible, but this is easy comfort food. This recipe just wasn't enough. YES I wil make it again as a easy family meal, but not as a wow dish.
As a side note cut the vegetables as meat portion would need. Cut your veggies by 1/4 or 1/3.
Ok......
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