Today I'm making sriracha pearls, or caviar, whatever you want to call it using a technique called cold oil spherification. This is a pretty popular molecular gastronomy technique used in a lot of high end restaurants. It sounds complicated but it's actually fairly simply and involves mostly items you should have in any commercial kitchen and can easily get at home. Agar is the main gelling agent and it's fairly easy to find at health stores or asian supermarkets but I'll link to some down below if you'd like to order it off amazon. If you'd like your sriracha pearls to be more consistent in their size and shape I'd recommend using a syringe to drop the liquid into the cold oil but for my purposes a squeeze bottle did the trick.
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I'm showing you how to make this caramel pecan banana bread with caramel toffee sauce. Yes, it really is as delicious as it sounds.
Caramel Pecan Banana Bread Recipe:
Banana Bread:
60 g (1/4 cup) butter
260 g (1 cup) packed dark brown sugar
2 large eggs
275 g (1 1/2 cups) all purpose flour
1 1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
100 ml buttermilk
4 very ripe bananas
100 grams 1/2 cup pecans
Caramel Toffee Sauce:
260 g (1 cup) packed brown sugar
113 g (1/2 cup) butter
250 ml (1 cup) whipping or heavy cream
1 tbsp golden syrup or corn syrup
Cream together butter and brown sugar in a mixing bowl. Then add in two eggs and mix that together until well combined. For the dry ingredients, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. You will also need 100 ml of buttermilk, you can buy it or make your own. If you want to make your own check out this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iATeIvaGVXE
Alternate additions of the dry ingredients and buttermilk to the batter. Once those are both completely incorporated, keep the mixer going and add in four super ripe bananas and the chopped pecans.
Grease and line a loaf tin with parchment and pour in your batter.
Bake at 175 c or 350 f for about 45 minutes. Baking time always varies depending on your oven so make sure to check your banana bread periodically after the 30 minute mark to see how it’s doing. Once its firm to the touch and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean, it’s done.
For the caramel toffee sauce, combine sugar, butter, cream and golden syrup in a pot and heat this for 5-10 minutes until all the sugar has dissolved and the sauce is a bubbling and rich golden brown. Take this off the heat and stir in vanilla then transfer to a shallow container and cool in the fridge. Once cool , transfer to a jar and store or serve.
To serve, slice up your banana bread, top with caramel toffee sauce, some pecans and some dried banana chips if you fancy.
I don’t want to say this is the best, most perfect banana bread you’ll ever eat, but if such a thing did exist, this would come pretty close. It’s moist but not too dense, rich, warming and an overall great combination of the flavours of pecan, caramel and banana.
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Today we head up to a local mushroom inoculation and cultivation business in Ontario that inoculates hardwood logs with shitake and oyster mushroom spawn. We talk to Bruno and his wife Paula about what it takes to run this business and why running Mycosource is so important to them.
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Next week, I'll be making a dish based on my favourite mushroom dish, mushrooms on toast.
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Today, I’m showing you how to make a beautiful vibrant green basil oil. Fresh and full of flavour, this bright green plating oil can be used as garnish, on salads, in dressings, on cheese and anywhere else that the bright flavour of basil is normally goes.
I’ve done a similar video to this in the past which you can check out here:
That method is slightly more complicated and time consuming while this method is super easy and only takes about 5 minutes.
Bright Green Basil Oil Recipe:
100 g fresh basil
50 g fresh baby spinach
250 ml neutral flavoured oil (light canola/ vegetable)
Method:
Blitz everything together on high in a blender for approximately 3 minutes. The heat from the base of the blender will heat through the herbs and release a more vibrant colour. Once the oil is warm to the touch and steaming a little, place a medium sized bowl over an ice bath and line it with a strainer lined with cheesecloth or a coffee filter. Pour in the oil into the strainer and leave to seep through. Once all the oil has strained through, place in a container or squeeze bottle and store in the fridge for up to 5 days.
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Here are two basic methods of making watercress purée. Both are super simple and add great additional flavour and colour to a plate.
For the first method you'll need, half a white onion diced, a small potato, diced, 40 g butter and 150 g watercress.
For the second method, 150 g water cress, salt, and about 3 tablespoons (50 ish grams) olive oil, clarified butter or any other oil or fat your little heart desires.
You will get better results making the watercress puree if you are using a better blender like a vitamix or a thermomix but even if you have a cheap blender like me you can still get fairly good results.
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Wanted to test out this #shorts thing with this clip of the mirror glaze from episode 3 of The Best Laid Schemes series, an immersive cooking series created as a love letter to Scotland. The Skye Boat dish, inspired by one of Scotland's most famous songs, is a cake is made up of a lemon curd mousse, blueberry mousse, lemon cake, white chocolate sail boat, mirror glaze and of course a cotton candy cloud. Check out the full episode if you're interested in pastry, recipe tutorials, cake decorating or Scotland.
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MUSIC IN THIS #SHORT:
Avenoir
By Katharine Petkovski
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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, artistic, 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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Found some purple sweet potatoes at the grocery store the other day so I wanted to do something cool with them. I also recently got a dehydrator so had to put that to use :p
This purple sweet potato powder is super easy to make and mostly involves inactive cooking. Once you've blitzed it up, store it in a cool dry place for up to a month. Use it for plating, as a natural purple food colouring in pasta and bread doughs, as a colourant in desserts, creams, fillings, icings, ice creams etc. I used small stokes purple sweet potatoes but if you can somehow get your hands on ube the same technique would work.
If you don't have a dehydrator I have a video showing you how to make powders in your oven which you can check out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZdCbTAE0OQ&t=7s
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I haven’t posted in a few weeks because I burned out. Here’s a video about why and some other stuff.
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Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe
Recipe:
2 cups strawberries, roughly chopped
2 tbsp vodka
2 tbsp glucose
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Want to know how to make those super cool squid ink coral/ lace tuiles? They're easier than you might think. All it takes is flour, water, oil and squid ink. That and a little patience to and you'll get this beautiful modernist cuisine style garnish.
Recipe:
90 g water
10 g flour
1 tsp squid ink
30 g oil
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I got to head up to Willowtree Farm in Port Perry Ontario with my friend Casey Chessman. She is a super talented and passionate food and farming student who knows her stuff! In this episode we talk abit about corn, growing it, which kinds we eat and how there are a number of uses for corn that most of us don't know about.
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