2 posts tagged “heston blumenthal”
Today I wanted to make cheese slices à la Heston Blumenthal that he used in his perfect hamburger recipe. Problem was that I had no sodium citrate laying around. What to do on a sunday morning when all shops are closed? Call your chemist buddy of course. After a few text messages and a quick call I was ready to make my own sodium citrate. Dead simple really:
- 19,2 g citric acid, dissolved in 200ml water at 25C
- 25,2 g sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), dissolved in 200ml water at 25C
Pour the sodium bicarbonate into the citric acid until the reaction stops (it fizzes like crazy)
Then you'll have 400ml sodium citrate solution. 16g solidified sodium citrate = 250 ml
A friend of my mother sent me a mail.. would I cook at her sons 30th birthday party? A few days later I talk to her son. Turns out he's a Blumenthal fan and we get all excited about molecular gastronomy on the phone. So I agree to cook for a medium sized group (about 16-20). Now, what to cook? After lots of preparations this was the finished menu:
- Green tea and vodka foam - the Blumenthal palate cleaner
- White Chocolate and caviar
- Haddock Margarita, only inverted with the guacamole on bottom and the chevice on top
- Olive oil and rosemary Salmon confit (ala Blumenthal), beetroot risotto
- A fat, deconstructed duck (Duck confit, perfect roasted poatoes)
- Stilton shot, Chevre chantilly (ala Hervé This), cranberry powder, blood orange
- Siphon made Frozen Chocolate souffle, Creme Anglaise Ice-Cream, Custard
- Maplemallows, campfire style
