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Well he has a blog about the venture, I don't imagine he plans to kill it.

I'm ashamed to admit I had no idea what beer gel was until I saw it on the menu and looked it up. Now I really want to try it.

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Originally Posted by Thief Silver

Well he has a blog about the venture, I don't imagine he plans to kill it.

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This I did not know.

Click the penis.

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Originally Posted by icarusfall

Another example is that sweet potato. It's not just a baked sweet potato loaded up with stuff. It's sweet potato cut into the shape of diver scallops, cooked sous vide, then scored and seared. It looks like an orange scallop and has a similar texture. The cabbage is braised in red wine until tender. The bacon is actually perfectly flat - not wrinkled and wavy like regular bacon (it's a neat trick), and shards of it stick up on an angle out of the sweet potato on the plate. The sherry caramel is turbinado sugar and sherry vinegar with chopped pistachio. Again, all of the ingredients are sourced locally when possible and of good quality/provenance when not.

I'll actually type up how to make that dish in the microwave for Sats later. I had to wake up all early and I'm taking a nap.

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I fucking love you and I absolutely suck at cooking but I love sweet potatoes so much so i will try my best. I swear, dude - if I was down the street I would be at your joint EVERY.DAY.

Peel a sweet potato and cut it into slices about an inch thick. Stab them with a fork a few times and microwave them for 3 minutes. If they're not tender enough keep doing it in 1 minute increments.

Shred some red cabbage and put in a non-stick pan over medium with some red wine and salt until the cabbage is tender (or not if you like the crunch!). Just get it a little soft. Put the cabbage aside in a bowl. Wipe out the pan with a paper towel and add some butter. Put the sweet potato slices in and turn them over every 2 minutes until they're nicely browned. Set them aside. Wipe out the pan again. pour 1/4 or so sherry vinegar in the pan and add the same amount of sugar. Cook till thick and glazey.

Put the cabbage on a plate. Put the scallops on the cabbage. drizzle with the sauce. Sprinkle with bacon bits.

Even if it's bad eat it to punish yourself so you do it better next time.

Flavor stuff I'm messing with. Trying to make a black bean pudding thing with accoutrements.

Black bean dessert flavor possibilities:
-carrot, anise, peanut, malt, sesame, vanilla, cocoa, beet, pepper, chili, baking spice, orange, pumpkin, goat cheese.

I'm actually with butthole on this. It's going to be harder to sell $15 catfish than $30 bass. It's a risk. Not only for an item which may not sell, but branding the image of the restaurant as pretentious dandies. You'll need God tier chef skills, which I think you have, to get the reaction you want, and both an insider critic/food reviewer and some local wealthy and low class patrons to vouch for it and tell everyone at work and the gym/bar. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, and I don't know your audience. But I think in any neighborhood in any city, fancy catfish is a bigger risk than fancy burgers.

If you pull this off, I would like to request a $12 bologna sandwich.

I can make the bologna myself.