I have an obsession. I love buying cookbooks. And not just the easy-to-make weeknight recipe books but super hard and complicated cookbooks produced by amazing chefs that have some of the best restaurants in the nation (some of them ~ the world). When I buy these cookbooks I read through them with post-it notes flagging countless recipes I want to cook. But I rarely cook them. I’m not even a very good cook. I also have run out of space for them on my bookshelf. So before the cookbooks take over my house I think I should use them… cook with them.
So here’s my project: to cook every recipe in my fancy-smancy cookbooks. And to document them here, as I hope my blog obsession will force me to actually cook these recipes so that I can blog about them.
December 29, 2010
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Fuji Apple Salad with Kimchi, Bacon, Maple Labne
from the Momofuku cookbook.
After 2 days of searching I finally found kim chee (next to the premade sushi) to puree. However, since the spicyness was way too mild for my tastes I added a whole bunch of sriracha sauce. Much much better.
Four apples were peeled and cut into large cubes and then tossed with the kim chee puree.
1 lb of bacon was fried up.
Then a sauce was made by combining greek yogurt (the recipe called for labne - which I couldn’t find anywhere) and 1/4 C maple syrup.
Once everything was plated it was topped with fresh black pepper.
