Akelare cooks a lobster dish tableside in a coffee vacuum siphon. Here’s the recipe as listed in the Akelare book. My notes and substitutions are in parentheses. Ingredients: 2 spiny lobsters, weighing 400/500 g each (I used one 1.2 kg Maine lobster) 1 chive flower (could not find a suitable substitute) 30 g marsh samphire…
Month: January 2013

Puffed Egg with Bacon Dashi
Chef David Chang made Momofuku Ko’s Puffed Egg in episode 9 of The Mind of a Chef, but the show did not provide a complete recipe. After some research and experimentation, here’s the recipe I compiled for my adaptation: The bacon dashi recipe is from the Momofuku book. You’ll need: 2 3×6 inch pieces of…