This is a way to test your ideas (a very simple example) The soup made yesterday on keep your fucking chest up dot com was epic. Though many thought that surely I could not have made my best dish out of asparagus and dried anchovies, I tried an experiment to give credence to my contentions that it truly is epic.
The Challenge: Make a better soup using the same fundamental ideas, with slightly different ingredients. Asparagus yesterday, fresh oyster mushrooms today. Dried Asian anchovy yesterday, dried Asian sardine today. All else was a wash.
The Conclusion: That asparagus shit was seriously, a home run. This mushroom dish was fine, but you should go heavy sardine, heavy sardine soaking oil, lemon squeeze required. Would be better with heavy cream (Almost Paleo).
Sardines were by far the best part, but too big for small bites.
Sorry dude that looks horrible
ReplyDeleteYou can learn a lot from this skill development process. The idea here was to contrast two dishes by changing one major thing (with similar pungencies, masticated textures, and favorable flavor pairings, i.e. the oyster mushrooms for the asparagus), and one minor thing (with distinct difference, but both are described as gross and too fishy). Hold all else constant and react genuinely.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, tell me about it. Mushroom soup looks like this: brown mush. Dried Fish with eyes and skull look like this: gross.