24, 24, 24: The Establish On Foodbuzz 24-Item Tasting Menu

This three-part video spider web log chronicles an epic, 24-item tasting menu, done for Foodbuzz's "24 Meals, 24 Hours, 24 Blog Posts" global “live blogging” event. The storey behind this is…well, why don’t I allow my friends at Foodbuzz explain.

"The thought for the "24 Meals, 24 Hours, 24 Blogs," was born out of our finish inwards wanting to create a global "blogging" outcome that would celebrate the scope, diverseness as well as quality of our Featured Publisher Community. The "24, 24, 24" captures the cultural diverseness as well as unique local perspective of our Featured Publishers: it's existent food, experienced past times existent people shared real-time."

I'd planned for my "Found on Foodbuzz" menu to endure inspired past times mindlessly surfing the site - looking at photos, scanning eatery reviews, browsing spider web log posts, as well as reading recipes. I wanted the repast to endure an edible steam of culinary consciousness.

The deliciously diabolical feature of Foodbuzz, is the agency you lot are teased as well as tempted to become from ane slice of content to about other - a photograph takes you lot to a blog post, which takes you lot to a recipe, where you lot meet a foodie's profile picture that you can't assist click on, because it looks similar bacon.

In no time, I had a notepad amount of apps, mains, sides, as well as sauces. Clearly, 7 courses weren't going to endure enough. The card speedily expanded to nine courses, as well as thence 12, as well as and thence I realized…Foodbuzz had taken control. My "24, 24, 24" menu was going to endure 24 courses, as well as I was powerless to stop it.

So, without farther adieu, I present my 24-item tasting menu, divided into three easily digested parts. The videos were shot over the course of didactics of the six-hour meal. Enjoy!The Beginning: Items 1 to 8
One: Caviar on Pringles
Is this the outset fourth dimension caviar has ever been paired amongst Pringles? Maybe. At the adventure of seeming immodest, I retrieve the footage of Nora tasting caviar for the outset fourth dimension is priceless.
Two: Tuna Poke
This diced sushi-grade Ahi tuna was dressed lightly amongst ginger juice, Sambal chili sauce, minced greenish onion, as well as a spot of soy sauce. As I spooned the glistening jewels of fish on to the crisp fried wontons, I wondered why I similar poke thence much to a greater extent than than tartar.

Three: Seared Tuna
A Nicoise-inspired tuna, featuring ane of the kitchen's sexiest sights - the rare, ruby-red middle of the loin, framed past times seared, cumin as well as pepper flecked crust. It was actually prissy amongst the "just tender" greenish beans, which held the fragrant gist inwards a higher identify a dark as well as delicious dark olive tapanade.Four: Tuna Stuffed Tomato
I've never understood the tuna stuffed tomato. Why stuff, when you lot tin simply throw some tomato plant wedges inwards a tuna salad as well as tuck in? That beingness said, I can’t imagine this would have been quite the same. The tuna trimmings from the in conclusion 2 courses were piece of cake poached inwards warm olive oil, spiked amongst capers, garlic, as well as salt. When cool, the tuna was stuffed into little dry-farmed Early Girl tomatoes from Wild Boar Farms. These were sublime.

Five: Smoked Salmon as well as Fried Capers
This smoked salmon, purchased at Whole Foods, bore the refer of Chicago celebrity chef, Charlie Trotter. It had a nifty texture, amongst a prissy residuum of sweetness citrus flavors. The fried capers were a perfect foil to the salmon's rich, oily, goodness.Six: Shrimp Cocktail on Tomato Ice
This may guide keep been my favorite course. The sweetness wild shrimp, buttery avocado, as well as homemade cocktail sauce, hot amongst horseradish, all sitting on an intensely flavored tomato plant ice. I was stunned at how beautiful the frozen, freshly squeezed cherry tomato plant juice looked. It was a color that tin solely endure created amongst food.
Seven: Seared Salmon on Dill Cucumbers, as well as Smoked Paprika Oil
I loved the contrast of hot, seared salmon resting on cold, diced cucumber salad. The dressing, made from simply 2 ingredients, yogurt as well as fresh dill, rewarded my self-control.

Eight: Butter Lettuce Salad amongst Sweet Herb Dressing
Sometimes you lot need a intermission from the ubiquitous babe mixed greens, as well as what improve agency than a caput of soft, sweetness butter lettuce?



The Middle: Items nine to 16tortellini, but who cares? The retention of that gingery chopped chicken, encased inwards tender, translucent wonton skins, bathed inwards the rich homemade chicken broth, is yet thence vivid.

Ten: Grilled Quail amongst Cherry Tomatoes as well as Curry Oil
Yogurt actually is a magical marinade. Combined amongst an aromatic blend of curry spices, it made the sweet, fragile gist of the quail come upward alive.

Eleven: Chicken Ballantine amongst Dijon Cream
I couldn't produce upward one's heed what stuffing to use, thence I decided to non purpose one; as well as it was spectacular. Salt, pepper, as well as fresh garden herbs were the argue this chicken tasted like…chicken. Also, I hope to present the butcher-tie used to truss this chicken. That reminds me, isn’t the Folsom Street Fair happening soon? (Preceding joke intended for Bay Area readers only)gastrique recipe inwards several videos, as well as it has to endure the easiest, most delicious sauce for game ever.

Thirteen: Wild Boar Sausage amongst Mission Figs as well as Balsamic Reduction
It actually is surprising how differently wild as well as domestic pork tastes. The flavour of this sausage was thence much bigger - it almost has a Pate character to it. I nation allow the pigs roam free.

Fourteen: Pork Tenderloin amongst Sweet Pickled Peppers as well as Shallots
A quick pickle using sweetness peppers made a beautiful base of operations for the mild, tender pork. It was topped amongst caramelized shallots to residuum the acidity. It was delicious, but every bit I ate, I thought how nifty the mutual depression temperature sandwich was going to be.

Fifteen: Pork Shoulder amongst White Bean Puree as well as Sage Jus
When you lot instruct to heaven, you lot as well as your God sit down downward on beanbag chairs, as well as swallow slow-roasted pork shoulder. This includes everyone, fifty-fifty vegans.

Sixteen: French Onion Soup
Forget most muffin tops, what if nosotros opened a shop that simply sold the overstep of the French onion soup? Now, what would nosotros telephone scream upward it? The cave-aged Gruyere cheese, browned over soup-soaked bread, is dissimilar anything else inwards the world.