STUDIOKITCHEN

Chocolat Demi-Sel Croquant

Chocolate Salt for Ice Cream Below.

Olive-Cocoa

Dehydrated Olives
Candied

Plus:

Cocoa Nibs
Atomized Chocolate
Toasted Black Bread
Maldon Salt
Muscovado Sugar

Works with Foie Gras

Chicken Skin Condiment

Anybody who truly loves a roast chicken knows the crispy skin is the best part.
Chicken skin should therefore make a good base for a delicious condiment or perhaps a crust for a different protein.
Certainly it's easy enough to try to glue chicken skins to other things with Activa but I was leaning more along the lines of a post cooking textural flavorful crust for a lamb loin or perhaps a scallop.

I simply salted and roasted some chicken skins flat in the oven till they were golden and crisp.
The rest of the condiment is composed of Roasted Chicken skin (predominantly)

Toasted Sesame Seed
Gingerbread
Salt
Pepper
Sugar
Fennel Pollen

This in fact worked very well with Scallops.
The Full dish was :

Sea Scallop
Kosho Hosui Pear
Black Trumpet Mushrooms
Parsley Root Cream

Smoked Chocolate Soil

The idea of smoked chocolate soil came from eating a chocolate cupcake that was topped with Bacon bits and Sea Salt. While I would not rush back for more, it certainly proved smoke and salinity have some affinity with chocolate.

Making smoked chocolate soil obviously required a dry medium since regular chocolate would melt.

The resulting mixture is composed of in specific ratio :

Smoked Dehydrated Chocolate Cake

Oreo Cookies

Atomized Chocolate

Cocoa Nibs

Muscovado Sugar

Sea Salt

On to the pairing with Pistachio Oil and Ice Cream.

"Gingerbread"

 

Part 1. 

25% Pure Ginger Oil 

75% Grapeseed Oil 

Requisite Tapioca Maltodextrin a.k.a. "Malto" 

Part 2. 

Gently fried Panko till golden brown. 

Part 3. 

Gently Fried Marcona Almond, crumbled and salted lightly. 

"Gingerbread" = 60% Part 1 + 20% Part 2 + 20% Part 3.

Gingerbread Soil

Ginger Snaps
Golden Fried Marcona Almond
Super finely diced Crystallized Ginger
Salt
Brown Butter Solids from Ideasinfood
Toasted Brioche

Candied Celery Salt

Candied Celery Dehydrated.
Sea Salt.
Bee Pollen.

For:
Goat Cheese Ice Cream
Endive-Elderflower Marmalade
Lemon Oil

Atomized Shellfish Roe

Lobster and sea Urchin For finishing sauces.
Steam, Dehydrate, Grind, Sieve.

Green Tea, Bee Pollen, Fennel, Celery Salt, Sugar.

Candied Chestnut, Chocolate, Sichuan Pepper