My interest in Sous Vide was all the fault of Herve This (ThEEs). Dr. This is a mad scientist. He dedicates his studies to understanding food and cooking and coined the term `Molecular Gastronomy` (based on work he had done with Nicholas Kurti). He was the first person in the world to obtain a PhD [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Sous Vide – Eggs two ways
Posted in Sous Vide on January 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sous Vide Tuna – Chicken of the sea
Posted in Fish, Sous Vide on January 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Our Sous Vide adventure continued with a fish course. This time we trusted a very reliable source – Thomas Keller’s Sous Vide Cookbook, Under Pressure. The recipe was simple. A great piece of tuna sealed with precisely weighed oil – 50% olive oil and 50% canola. There was no final seer and the recipe was [...]
Cooking Sous Vide at home – pork belly
Posted in Pork, Sous Vide on January 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We had mentioned the Sous Vide Supreme a few months back. It is a new product that joins a few competitors in offering home consumers an appliance that they can use to create sous vide at home. We were curious so we wrote to them and they kindly arranged to send a sample unit for [...]
Sous Vide – a video walkthrough
Posted in Sous Vide on January 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If a picture tells 1,000 words, what must a video be worth? Here are two short ones with further insight into Sous Vide – less than 5 minutes total.
Under Pressure – an introduction to Sous Vide
Posted in Sous Vide on January 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Today marks the start of a short mini-series featuring recent adventures with Sous Vide and learning to cook in this style at home. While many here may be familiar with the term, we thought it would be a good idea for a short introduction to this technique. Sous Vide was pioneered in France in the [...]
Cheap Tuesday Gourmet – Slow Baked Beans
Posted in Budget, tagged cheap tuesday gourmet on January 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Cheap Tuesday Gourmet continues with another vegetarian option this week – after a month of pork I feel like we are paying our karmic duty. I suppose that baked beans challenge the definition of gourmet but this was not a series emphasizing gourmet – it was about trying to eat healthy home cooking without [...]
Update on Infused Vodka – what to do when an infusion goes bitter
Posted in Infusing on January 25, 2010 | 10 Comments »
For those of you who followed WellPreserved over the Holidays you may recall a post on infusing vodka. The idea was simple and we followed tested techniques. We were on a path to success. And then I left the fruit in too long… Despite warnings in all I read, I did not pull the apples [...]
Together at the table
Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged catering, italian, Italian Food, Italian Supperclub, Italy, Massimo Bruno, personal chef, Piemonte, Sicily, Toronto, Tuscany on January 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We’ve been really fortunate this year to have met a lot of new, interesting friends. Through WellPreserved and through the path of life in general. I’ve long made a joke that one of my hobbies is ‘collecting people’. Meeting different people brings all kinds of new perspectives, experiences and flavours into our lives. Our idea [...]
Taste TO – Getting to know our City
Posted in Books on January 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I should have written this post long ago – I am actually a little disappointed with myself that I didn’t do it sooner. Some things are just so obvious that they hide in plain sight in front of your face but somehow stay hidden. Better late than never… TasteTO.com is a Toronto-based website dedicated what’s [...]
Stunning Upset…. Raw Milk now legal in Ontario (kind of)
Posted in Food Politics on January 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A package of cigarettes is around $10 in the province of Ontario. 40 ounces of hard liquor is around $40. Genetically modified food is, on occasion, subsidized. Mass produced cold cuts, municipal water and even broccoli have caused great sickness and even death. But raw milk was long ago deemed too dangerous to sell at [...]
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