https://www.saltshaker.net/20120901/the-august-photos Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:48:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.saltshaker.net/20120901/the-august-photos#comment-260818 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:48:34 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=8542#comment-260818 […] referred to it as his “madeleine”. Albamonte, Corrientes 6735 in Chacarita, is a spot I’ve only been to once, and swore I’d get back to. Why? Because in the evenings (and only in the evenings), they […]

]]> https://www.saltshaker.net/20120901/the-august-photos#comment-230600 Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:04:15 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=8542#comment-230600 […] I’d decided that I really wanted to emphasize the celery component, it’s not something I normally cook with. So in addition to the celery seed in the seasoning of the chicken and its skin, there were three additional celery components. Earlier in the day, prior to starting, I’d made a concentrated chicken stock, so one component was to braise celery stalks in that with a little smoked mustard. Second component was a celery leaf fluid gel – simply pureed celery leaves with some salted water, added a little agar-agar, simmered it to activate then chilled it to gel and finally blitzed it with a stick blender – it was a little thicker than I wanted it to be, but that was a measurement issue on the gelling agent. And finally, I bleached and dehydrated celery leaves – notes on how to do that here, down at the bottom. […]

]]> https://www.saltshaker.net/20120901/the-august-photos#comment-227465 Fri, 30 May 2014 15:16:06 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=8542#comment-227465 […] and when it finished up we were famished. Starting out tentatively walking a few blocks to Albamonte for some pizza, we stumbled across El Pollo Rico, Olleros 4172 and thought that that sounded like a […]

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