PhysioProf’s amuse bouche is a miniature morel mushroom and duck confit chawanmushi (Japanese savory egg custard). Recipe is inside the crack.
Ingedients:
4 eggs
1 cup concentrated demi-glace
1 cup water
2 tbsp white wine
salt
morel mushrooms (fresh or reconstituted dried)
duck confit
little ceramic cups with lids
(1) Break eggs and mix yolks and whites by stirring (not beating), introducing as few bubbles as possible.
(2) Gently mix in demi-glace, water, and wine. (The exact ratio of demi-glace and water depends on how concentrated the dem-glace is. Combine the demi-glace and water separately, make sure it tastes fucking good at that ratio, and salt to taste before adding to the eggs.)
(3) Strain this mixture through a fine sieve.
(4) Place one piece of morel mushroom and some shreds of duck confit in each of the little ceramic cups, and then pour in the egg mixture to cover the morel and confit. (Don’t get too close to the top of the cup.) Put the fucking lids on.
(5) Steam the motherfuckers over high heat for approximately ten-fifteen minutes. To test if they’re done, poke the top with a thick toothpick. If the custard is solidified and clear broth (not cloudy with egg) comes out of the hole, they’re done.
(6) Serve with a little tiny spoon. To eat, remove the fucking lid, stir the shit up a bit to break up the custard and mix the flavors, and YUM!
Vote here! And do not be bamboozled by pretty pictures. Remember, this is a Recipe War!
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Dr. Jekyll & Mrs. Hyde
September 1, 2008 at 12:33 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
a) You both did way more interesting stuff than I expected. Congratulations.
b) Do you make your own demi-glace???
distributorcap
September 1, 2008 at 7:39 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
call me an ignoramus
what is demi-glace (i know i can do the google)
Diva
September 1, 2008 at 8:04 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
This is a recipe I will certain try. And you make reading it very entertaining! You’re a funny man.
Nan
September 1, 2008 at 8:12 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Morels? Duck confit? Did the gibes about the junk food snacks hit a nerve?
Jenn
September 1, 2008 at 8:16 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
meh, I want pictures. Prove you made it.
drdrA
September 1, 2008 at 10:03 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Who knew you had a hidden talent for cooking. I’ve got to say though- you are going to have to put up some photogaphs if you are seriously going to compete with Isis.
I’d love to judge this little contest.
pinus
September 1, 2008 at 11:25 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
this sounds tasty.
A few questions before I vote….did you make the duck confit and the demi-glace?
If so, wow.
PhysioProf
September 1, 2008 at 12:26 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
This is a Recipe War, not a cooking war.
Isis the Scientist
September 1, 2008 at 12:38 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Seems to me that you are a bit sore at the outcome so far, PP. Also, seems that you left out the “recipes” for your duck confit and demi-glace. Unless, of course, your readers have the ability to pull them out of their collective arses.
I give you minus 5 points for the incomplete nature of your recipe.
PhysioProf
September 1, 2008 at 1:07 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I am a big-picture Recipe Artist. Details such as how to make duck confit and demi-glace are left to the reader.
drdrA
September 1, 2008 at 2:19 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
PP-
There is going to be a smackdown… you better be careful when competing with the domestic goddess.. she’s taking this to a higher level. Can you match her?
pinus
September 1, 2008 at 2:50 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Part of this contest is that these have to be recipes that the person has made…not just some pie in the sky fancy recipe..no?
PhysioProf
September 1, 2008 at 2:53 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Of course these have to be recipes that the Recipe Artist has made!
Isis
September 1, 2008 at 2:57 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Pinus, I think you have nailed it. Isis clearly has made her. PP is just making shit up.
Isis
September 1, 2008 at 2:58 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“made hers,” even.
ScienceWoman
September 1, 2008 at 3:24 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Loves me morels, but need pictures before voting for you.
Ewan
September 1, 2008 at 4:23 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
This manuscript reports the method for preparation of a potentially novel and delicious amuse bouche. However, enthusiasm for the report is markedly reduced by the incomplete nature of the introduction (for example, the means by which demi-glace may be prepare, or the supplier from whom it was obtained). In addition, the norm in the field is for such reports to be accompanied by substantive figures detailing and verifying the experimental procedures described, and the absence of such should be addressed prior to resubmission.
drdrA
September 1, 2008 at 4:51 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ewan-
That was PRICELESS!
Arlenna
September 1, 2008 at 9:50 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ahhh hahahaahahaha I love it Ewan.
See PhysioProf, it is harder for us to visualize and flavorolize what these might be like without pictures and further graphical language description.
Either you gotta make it all experiential, or you gotta require that judges actually make and try the recipes, too. Go Nature Methods on us.
Jenn
September 2, 2008 at 4:11 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hahahahahaha Ewan! I love it!
Kim
September 3, 2008 at 8:57 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Impressive!
Kim “Microwave” Bastante
ScientistMother
September 3, 2008 at 6:47 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
LOL ewan LOL
Physiogroupie IV
September 5, 2008 at 3:09 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
you’re my favorite blogger by far. there’s science, career advice, cursing, liberal views, feminism, and recipes, motherfucker. i still have to see what isis posted before i vote, though.
Physiogroupie IV
September 5, 2008 at 3:20 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I have been out of the country in locales that did not have internet access. I refrained from being swayed by my personal BIAS towards you and your site. I also did not look to see what the current vote tallies were in the first recipe showdown. That said, I did vote for you. Congrats to Isis, who not only gets bragging rights but apparently some sort of ‘prize’ from PP! You lucky woman you!!
bikemonkey
September 7, 2008 at 12:44 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I think it is quite possible that the combination of Isis’ triumph and Sarah Palin has …. broken PhysioProf.
tai haku
September 7, 2008 at 10:39 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
bm – I think he’s probably toiling away in the kitchen on a dozen or so different salad recipes in a frantic attempt to draw level.
Perhaps he’s off trying to track down SP’s Moose Stew recipe ahead of the meat rounds?
bikemonkey
September 7, 2008 at 10:51 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
moose stew! Yeah that should be the meat course. Bring it!
Isis the Scientist
September 7, 2008 at 1:09 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Physiogroupie IV? PP has groupies? How can I possibly believe that a vote from Physiogroupie IV and the previous three Physiogroupies is unbiased?
PhysioProf
September 7, 2008 at 2:12 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yeah, I’m sure your cadre of boot-licking sycophants is totally unbiased!
Isis the Scientist
September 7, 2008 at 3:34 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
My readers are only unbiased, honest, caring people.
larue
September 8, 2008 at 1:11 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
This contest should be over.
That way we could save the poor mangled food stuffs from Physio’s inept paws . . . .
Escoffier is turning in his grave, and he’s not turning chantrelle’s, either.
The Chick Wins!!! *G*
Now please, can we save the food?
nutty chef
December 10, 2008 at 3:49 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
i know the competition is over but…
i think your chawan mushi amuse bouche is fucked!
-the eggs will be full of pimples! u have to turn your steaming heat to simmer and not on high like you are on crack
-the resultant will be brown and dull which kinda defies the reputation of an amuse bouche
markew
December 27, 2008 at 12:34 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Great recipe explained with temperate tranquility. Will make this for Hogmanay. Like your blog – might become a fan!
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