Turducken
Thanksgiving the next day was completely different from the previous day in terms of food. I have to say we are very fortunate to be able to regularly sample W’s fab cooking. He’s extremely creative and innovative in his cooking and experiments a lot.
So he sous vide almost the entire Thanksgiving dinner. I contributed a simple dish of cauliflower gratin and honeyed carrots (loads of recipe sharing coming up next – taking a pause from my travel entries to mix things up a little). Instead of a traditional turkey, we had a turducken. Damn does he have some impressive knife skills! He also threw in a couple other methods like spherification (for the green eggs and ham where the ‘green eggs’ were spheres of peas!), a deconstructed cheesecake made into little balls with jam in between and rolled in crushed biscuits with popping sugar, an agar shot, and a splendid slab of roasted pork.
We spent the afternoon cooking together – T and I were like W’s sous chefs, helping him wherever he needed and I cooked my dishes in between. The thing about cooking is that you don’t really feel like eating a lot after it all! It’s tiring but satisfying when people enjoy the food. With that said, I’ve announced to my family that T and I will cook Christmas dinner for the 8 of us. We’ll stuff a raw turkey, season it, roast it, make the gravy, cranberry sauce etc, side dishes and the works. I think my mom was tad skeptical because she was reluctant to invite my Aunt and her partner over for fear we would have no food -_- Well, I just received the recipes so *rubs hands in glee, I am going to COOK UP a storm!
Anyway.. I’ll just leave you with the gazillion pictures that we took. Heavy loading of pictures! You’ve been warned..
The spherification process
Uh. I think T got over-enthusiastic creating the pea spheres -_-
If you want a perfect crispy skin on the pork, ensure it's dry!
Isn't it impressive on how W perfectly skinned the duck??!
A twist on green eggs and ham
Agar shots that T and W invented
My gratin - was very pleased when the French dude said it was GOOD.
Took out the carrots too early so they didn't turn out as tender as expected -_-
Homemade guacamole is the best!
W and G's little cutie -C
This is what I call PORK!!
This is all homemade!!!
Sigh. These homemade cheesecake balls were soooo good
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W says:
December 6, 2011 at 12:00 (UTC 8)
Thanks for helping out! Things really went much quicker with you and T in the kitchen
And please post the cauliflower gratin and glazed carrot recipes… G and I devoured the leftovers the next day. We want more!
Andrea says:
December 6, 2011 at 14:55 (UTC 8)
You’re most welcome! It’s coming up!
Yi-Ling says:
December 5, 2011 at 10:23 (UTC 8)
These look sooooo good! Esp the pork! Is that a blowtorch in addition to the hairdryer I see? Haha.
A Modernist Thanksgiving | Grace and Wen says:
December 6, 2011 at 22:11 (UTC 8)
[...] Additional photos can found on A’s site. [...]