working on a couple of new dishes

Here are a few shots, one is the Feijoa Balloon I am working on for a appearance im doing at Food Science week in auckland and the other is the first draft of a new passionfruit , banana, white chocolate and Dandelion and burdock dessert  , bit average on the photos, but you get the Idea 

So its a Feijoa Balloon, with Salted Caramel Espuma, Feijoa mi cake, granny smith apple and vanilla cream with Dulce de leche and rum soaked raisins

this is a white chocolate cream, with passion fruit, banana, and Dandelion and Burdock foam, Been trying to find a pairing with this old english favourite, apricots was my normal choice but the seasons just passed so i have just recieved some amazing passionfruit which are more sweet than sour, the dandelion and burdock works so well with it, The white chocolate cream is encased in a passionfruit jelly using kappas fast setting powers to encase it. The squiggly thing is a passionfruit yogurt set on the antigriddle, just finding more uses to the machine, working on petit fours for it too. it freezes so fast !! its about time i put the machine to more use. Although in summer our kitchen is a little too humid to do temperature sensitive work.

Other things keeping me busy are plans to hold dinners once a month at my apartment for twelve people, twelve courses, 6 wines, and hopefully a guest chef here and there to keep things interesting, we will be looking at menu design in the next few days, it  looks like it will be a 120 dollar membership for the night for food, with drinks on top. Sort of a tester for us to do the things we want that probably cant be done in a 80 or 90 seater restaurant. and hopefully a dynamic little place for people to see learn and  participate if they choose or even just to sit back and enjoy a meal, will keep you posted on that, any enquries though just send me a message if you want to take part or be a guest,

 

Comments

[Giulio]

You have 2 in your list.

[Leslie]

Looks great, Brian - I wanna have another dessert-dinner at Kermadec!
I'd certainly be keen on one of your 'dinner club' sessions. We won't be getting to Auckers quite as often this year, but you may have just provided a reason to come ...

[Trig]

A great idea Brian. Everything we are doing at Viajante was run successfully at The Loft http://www.nunomendes.co.uk/loft.html in Nuno's home, which was incredibly successful.

[Brian]

that looks awesome, really looks like such a cool place.damn, I got so many questions to ask Nuno Mendes about how he set it up!! looks like you landed on your feet buddy, good luck with it