Abe says
For me as a fan of good food, sometime-neurotic person, and maintainer of multiple chronically-behind to-do lists, it is important to periodically develop grand plans for a multicourse dinner party and then make frantic attempts to execute on them. As personal milestones they are markers of my culinary progress and opportunities to completely focus [...]
Filed under: Desserts, Main Courses, Recipes, Sauces, Side Dishes, Soups and Stews, Vegetables by Abe on April 19, 2009. Tagged with: balsamic vinegar, beet greens, beets, caramel, cheese, dinner group, garlic, ghost chili, gnocchi, gougeres, grapefruit, ice cream, mache, mushrooms, parmesan, peas, romano, shallots, tarragon, tasting menu, the french laundry, truffles, vanilla, vegetarian, vinaigrette, white beans, xanthan gum.
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Abe says
The eponymous thought of this post occurred to us somewhere around the sweet corn kernels in the calotte de bœuf grillée, or maybe as early as the Yukon Gold “croutons” in Ann’s sashimi, I don’t really know. They say you get nine courses in the French Laundry’s tasting menus, but honestly you lose track [...]
Filed under: Restaurants by Abe on August 19, 2008. Tagged with: the french laundry, thomas keller.
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