With what ingredients do you cook?

[pianoman9701]

I'm a lucky guy. My work allows me to cook with stuff that most people never see. Here are some of the best and my favorites.

[pianoman9701]

More.

[merkaba93]

Uni, Vanilla bean, sablefish, finger limes, lions mane, hedgehogs, black truffles?
That's all I recognize, going to need a hint or two for the rest....?

[LDennis24]

I'm gonna need to know how to cook that Lions Mane!

[simondude]

I don't know if I would eat food with all that weird looking stuff in it.

[merkaba93]

I'm gonna need to know how to cook that Lions Mane!

Lions mane has a texture similar to crab. Some people say it tastes like crab.
So risotto works well. I just made a bears head crab cake a few weeks back.
Bears head is very very similar to lions mane but doesn't grow on hardwoods, it grows on certain pines. I've never seen bears head for sale.
Cooking it is easy. Cut into pieces off the main stem, dry saute for a few minutes (3-4) and add some olive oil in the last minute of cooking. Cut the stem into large pieces and dehydrate to use in stock.

[pianoman9701]

I'm gonna need to know how to cook that Lions Mane!

You can saute, roast it brushed over with olive oil, deep fry it.

[quadrafire]

Please post up some recipes with those ingredients........ Cool

[pianoman9701]

Uni, Vanilla bean, sablefish, finger limes, lions mane, hedgehogs, black truffles?
That's all I recognize, going to need a hint or two for the rest....?

White Alba Truffles, fukushu kumquats, Buddha hands, mountain rose apples, the black truffles are Perigord, organix quince, live green urchin and uni.

[pianoman9701]

Appetizer - Scallops and trout roe with savory vanilla cream reduction and Alba Truffles. 4 servings.

I vanilla bean
1/2 cup fish stock
1/4 cup white wine
Medium shallot diced
1/4 onion diced
1/4 tsp sea salt
1/8 tsp white pepper
1 Tahitian vanilla bean
1/2 cup heavy cream
Seasame oil (good quality
8 U10 fresh scallops
2 oz golden trout roe
20 grams white Alba Truffle shaved
4 tsp Noble aged Bourbon barrel maple syrup


strip a vanilla bean of its seeds and set aside (split the pod and use a tsp to strip the seeds from the halves of bean). Bring the stock and wine to simmer in a skillet. throw in the shallots and onions and reduce liquid to a viscous syrup. Add the cream, salt, pepper, and vanilla bean seeds and continue to reduce until thick enough to stick to the spoon. Add salt and pepper slowly and only to taste. Strain and set aside.

Heat another skillet with sesame oil until it starts smoking. Sear the scallops for two minutes on each side. their color should be gold to orangish-brown on both sides and the center iridescent, not cooked through. On to four med-sized plates, pour a tsp of the cream reduction, set the scallop down (two per plate), put a couple truffle shavings on each, put a small dollop of trout roe on top, and pour 1/2 teaspoon of the Noble bourbon maple syrup over the whole thing.

It's frikkin elegant, easy to make if you can get the ingredients, and the flavors meld perfectly.

[quadrafire]

Ok keep em coming. I'll  bookmark for when I have the ingredients.

[PlateauNDN]

 

[Mtnwalker]

A couple of my favorites. Man I need to expand my horizons

[merkaba93]

2018 Working with some super local ingredients...
Picked some apples from the orchard. Fermented into cider, only 8 days to leave some residual sugar. Then heated to kill off the yeast and halt alcohol fermentation. Then backslopped a previous batch of apple cider vinegar into this batch to start a second fermentation. Soon to be apple cider vinegar.

[merkaba93]

2018 Some other local ingredients.
Wheat from some family friends. Water from Washington. Salt from Oregon. Aspergillus oryzae from Washington. Soy beans from Canada.
Soon to be pressed out into some awesome soy sauce.