Agar agar is a vegan gelatine alternative derived from algae. I'll be telling you what it is and how to use it. It's use in culinary applications is becoming more widespread as more people choose to eliminate animal products from their diets. In this video, I made a rain drop cake to show the gelling properties of agar powder. There are a number of differences between agar agar and gelatine which I highlight in the video and I also explain how to properly use it for maximum success. There is a very specific method for making agar agar based gelled products that needs to be followed.
If you are looking to purchase agar, you can find it at your local health food store or asian supermarket.
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Here's a recipe (kind of) for slow roasted strawberries. The flavour in these things is super concentrated by the time you serve them and I'm going to be making these a lot in the summer when strawberries come into season! All you need to do is cut the tops of some strawberries, place them into a roasting pan, cake pan or the like, coat them in sugar and bake at 300F for about 3 hours until the strawberries are a dark burgundy and the syrup has thickened.
I'm serving mine with greek yogurt but you can serve these with ice cream , as part of a plate or dessert or on a charcuterie board. They are crazy delicious and the flavour is super powerful. They taste like how jam smells when it's cooking if that is a good enough example haha.
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I'm showing you how to make whipped Vietnamese egg coffee. It's a frothy whipped coffee recipe that is believed to have been invented when there was a shortage of milk in Vietnam in the 1940's. Most recipes use eggs yolks and condensed milk but I found that adding sugar gave me better, frothier results. If you are concerned about raw eggs, you can whisk this in a bowl for a few minutes over a double boiler to pasteurize them.
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Vietnamese Egg Coffee Recipe:
4 egg yolks
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp condensed milk
Method:
Whisk ingredients together by hand using a whisk, a hand mixer or in a stand mixer until light and fluffy. Serve over strong coffee.
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In this video I’m making a "Poison" apple Halloween dessert. It's made with cranberry, apples and white chocolate and then mirror glazed to give it a beautiful glossy shine. Perfect for Halloween, once you cut into the mirror glazed apples the bright red cranberry filling oozes out onto the plate. Spooky and delicious.
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Recipe:
Cranberry Apple Centre
2 medium sized apples, peeled and diced
200 grams sugar
500 ml water
500 ml ( 2 cups) cranberries
Method: Simmer the diced apples, sugar, water and cranberries until soft. Use a hand blender to blitz until smooth. Transfer mixture to to a pitcher or bowl with a spout so it’s easy to pour. Pour into semi-sphere silicone molds and freeze until solid.
Once frozen completely you can begin your white chocolate mousse.
White Chocolate Mousse:
350 grams white chocolate
180 grams cream
360 grams crean
1 tsp vanilla bean paste
6 grams gelatine
Method:
Bloom 6 grams of gelatine in cold water. Over a double boiler, melt together the white chocolate and 180 ml of cream. Once melted remove from heat and mix in the bloomed gelatine. In a stand mixing bowl, combine the 360 grams of cream and tsp of vanilla bean paste. Whisk until it reached soft peak stage. Wait until the white chocolate and gelatine mixture comes down to about 33 degrees Celsius before folding the whipped cream into it in three additions making sure not to knock out too much air.
Transfer the white chocolate mousse to a piping bag and pipe into apple silicone molds. Pipe 75% of the way up so when you mush in the cranberry sphere it pushes the mousse all the way to the sides and up the top. I’ve found thats the easiest way to get a smooth mousse all the way around.
Once you’ve piped in the mousse, press two cranberry half spheres together to form a full sphere and shove it into the molds allowing them mousse to push up and around it. Flatten off the top with mousse and an offset spatula. Do this for all the apples in the mold and then freeze over night until solid.
Prepare your chocolate stems. Mix together cocoa and a bit of activated charcoal and dust heavily on a parchment lined baking sheet. Pipe melte
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This recipe for balsamic caramel sauce follows a basic caramel sauce method but adds in balsamic vinegar to give the flavour a bit more richness and intensity. It might sound weird but it's actually really delicious and goes well over vanilla ice cream and on fresh berries (especially strawberries).
Here's the recipe:
100 grams sugar
60 grams balsamic + 20 grams reserved
100 ml 35% cream
Pinch of salt
Method: Cook the sugar and 60 g balsamic until the syrup reaches 300 F (148 C) remove from the heat and slowly add in 100 ml cream. Finish with 20 g balsamic and a pinch of salt. Cool and serve. This will keep in the fridge for 2 weeks.
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Here's a simple recipe for making ricotta cheese at home. All you need is whole milk, salt and lemon juice. Making fresh ricotta at home is a lot easier than you might think and you probably have the ingredients already. Started watching Internet Shaquille's channel recently and loved his video on ricotta toast. So, I was inspired to do a recipe tutorial on how to make fresh ricotta cheese at home. If you haven't seen his channel you should definitely check it out, his stuff it awesome.
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Recipe:
2 L whole milk
Pinch of salt
3 tbsp lemon juice
Method:
Bring milk and salt up to 200 F (93 C). Take milk off heat and add lemon juice. Stir gently and leave to curdle for 10 minutes. Set four layers of cheese cloth over a strainer and strain for 15 minutes to an hour. The less time you leave the ricotta the softer the texture. The longer you leave it the firmer the finished cheese will be.
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This footage was taken up in Haliburton, Ontario during the summer. I foraged for some wild strawberries, wood sorrel and wild roses then plated them all to create a bit of a play on strawberries and cream. I made a creme anglaise, candied the rose petals and let the wood sorrel and wild strawberries as they are since they're flavour is best untampered with. The plate I used came from a local Potter named Rickie Woods, ( http://rickiewoodspotter.ca) there will be a longer video coming that highlights her story in more detail. Essentially this is a bit of a cooking and travel video showing off Haliburton and the food available locally. The poem read over the video is called No Leaders Please and it's by Charles Bukowski. It's one of my favourite poems ever. Voice over by Tom O'Bedlam or Spoke Verse: https://www.youtube.com/user/SpokenVerse/featured
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In this video I’m making flexible ganache also known as Flexi ganache or pliable ganache. You can use different types of chocolate for this, I'm even thinking about using white chocolate for a recipe at the restaurant soon. Its a gelatine and agar based set ganache that can be cut into different shapes and sizes to suit your needs. The texture is really nice but it’s good to mention to people you’re serving it to that it is like a jelly as the texture is rather interesting and unusual for a chocolate based product. In the video I’ve plated it kind of like a s’more so I just made a quick marshmallow fluff and used some graham crackers and crumb. This is a pretty popular modern or molecular cuisine technique but it's in fact pretty easy to do with a little bit of know how! So I'd encourage you to try it out!
Note: I learned this recipe while working in my current restaurant but while doing research for this video found that it was originally made popular by Chef Grant Achatz of Alinea. While recipes are meant to be shared and enjoyed by everyone, with ideas such as this that are so unique and original I always want to give credit where credit is due.
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Want to know how to make goat's cheese at home? It's easier than you might think. All you need is goat's milk, lemon juice and a little bit of time and you're left with a beautiful spreadable chèvre style goat milk cheese. I rolled mine in these beautiful edible flowers but you can serve your plain or roll it in chopped nuts, cranberries or mixed herbs.
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Recipe for Fresh Goat Cheese:
1 L goat whole goat's milk
3 tbsp (40 grams) fresh lemon juice
Pinch of salt to taste
Method:
Heat your goat's milk on low until it reaches 180 F ( 82 C). Remove from heat once it comes to temperature and stir in 40 grams of lemon juice. The curd and whey will separate as you stir. Leave to rest for 15 minutes then strain though two sheets of cheese cloth placed in a strainer. Allow to sit for a minimum of 1 hour for a soft and spreadable cheese or place in the fridge to drain overnight for a firmer more crumbly goat cheese. Serve as is or roll in fresh flowers, herbs, chopped nuts, or chopped dried fruit.
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In this episode of The Best Laid Schemes, a cooking series inspired by the lands and lochs of Scotland, I’m making a dish inspired by Scotland's forests. The edible forest floor dish is made up of a chocolate mousse mushroom, a chocolate log filled with rosemary and chocolate whipped ganache, edible moss made from blitzed up rosemary shortbread, chocolate twigs made using a technique that involves cold vodka to set the chocolate rapidly, a dense chocolate sponge cake and edible chocolate leaves.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
0:56 Chocolate Cake Recipe
1:45 Edible Moss (Rosemary Shortbread Crumb)
2:48 Edible Chocolate Logs (Filled with rosemary and chocolate ganache)
4:20 Chocolate Mousse Mushrooms
6:07 Mirror Glaze for Chocolate Mushrooms
6:53 Edible Chocolate Leaves (Painted Gold)
7:14 Chocolate Twigs Garnish
7:40 Plating the Edible Forest
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And We Walk After
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Maps
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Ashes to Wind
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I've lived in Scotland for the past few years and wanted to create this series as a love letter to the place I call home. I had originally intended to film and create the series in Scotland but when I came back to Canada during the pandemic I found myself unable to return. I decided, instead of feeling down about it, I would create something.
This is the first of what are hopefully many seasons of Chef Studio, an immersive food and cooking show focused on creating dishes inspired by the world around us. Each season, the subject will change and the subject can be almost anything. This season is inspired by the lands and lochs of Scotland.
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