A Homage to Early Citrus
“Hot Grapefruit and Yuzu Gels, “Unpickled” Cardamom Blood Oranges,
Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette, and Local Basil”
I have been wairy of working with agar agar, why? I dont know, but definetly not anymore. I was working pantry station today so I had to make an amuse and in the cooler I saw several differnt kinds of citrus which was very tempting to work with. I made the gels with agar agar. Sometimes blood oranges especially early blood oranges are a little too tart to eat on their own.
I thought about the fact that some people just put them in simple syrup and hope for the best but I decided to concentrate the flavor of the orange by dehydrating them some and then adding them to cardamom and crystallized ginger syrup. The syrup rehydrated the rest of the orange and kept the strong flavor of the fruit. The meyer lemon vin. accented all of the other components and the basil was a finishing addition.
There is an interesting agar-agar recipe at http://miraclenoodle.com/index-2.html#agar-agar
Cheers!
interesting site but your pics are way to big to put on the internet > visitors need to WAIT much to long > resize them with photoshop, or photoshop elements or with easier graphic editing programs ! it is easy and the amount of people you like to share your secrets with will be growing and growing … good luck, ina