Single Man's Kitchen

The beginning of galangal ice cream. As with all gingers, the galangal should be blanched before being heated with the milk and cream, or it can cause the milk to curdle. In China they do that deliberately.
The active ingredient is proteolytic enzyme called zingibain that breaks down the k-caesin that keeps milk stable and forces the proteins to form in clumps.

I picked some basil, chard and flatleaf parsley from the garden.
I guess pesto is in my future.
This is just the basil.

Scallops crudo with violet petals and lemon zest.

Scallops crudo as an amuse-bouche.

I love fresh scallop crudo and looking back, here are some of my variations. This was from a while back because my source of microgreens went out of business.

One of my explorations that never got repeated, desiccated carrot slices.

Now I remember. It was the third to last farm dinner I did and this was the old location of Fincas Tres Robles.
50 people, here is the menu.

Thai style cucumber salad with suyo cucumbers, hot banana peppers, lemongrass and chives
Texas Gulf Coast bycatch barrel fish ceviche

Green carrot soup with turmeric

Texas cheese plate with local bread, lavash crackers, farm butter, Castelvetrano olives, runner bean chutney

Organic Texas lamb fore-shanks with mint and port wine reduction (this was changed to roasted, rolled lamb shoulder)

Sweet corn with chef’s butter

Sautéed chard

Duck egg crème brûlée

Organic oatmeal cranberry cookies

Source farms:
Sullivan’s Happy Heart Family Farm, Nawara Family Farm, Finca Tres Robles, Cellar Farms, Animal Farm, IO Ranch Lamb, Moorhead’s Blueberry Farm, Pure Milk Farm, Texas Olive Ranch

Local businesses:
Houston Dairymaids, Airline Seafood, Angela’s Oven

I like to go back and see what I was doing 10 years ago.
Apparently I was washing ramekins prior to making creme brulee. :-)

The hand hammered wok was a gift from a friend 40 years ago.
Inside the vegetable part of the stir fry: Toasted sesame oil, olive oil, tamari sauce, mirin, lime juice and fish sauce for the liquids:
Broccoli, carrots, onions, garlic, zucchini and enoki mushrooms for the vegetables.

Left over roasted pork shoulder, chopped and seared with tamari sauce and a little balsamic vinegar for the meat portion of a stir fry.