January 15, 2012

SUNCHOKES?!?!?!




Sunchokes! From Raven Rock Farm, Blowing Rock, NC



Saturday Special: Grilled Salmon, Sunchoke Asian Cake, Sauted Mushroom-Kanzuri, Mache, Shigoku oyster, Udon Broth "poured table side" 


Sunchoke: A vegetable with white flesh and brown skin, has a nutty, sweet crunchy flavor when eaten raw...Sunchokes are available year around, but best through the months of  October- March. 

Mache: aka Corn Salad, a lettuce green grown wild  in corn fields, has a tangy nutlike flavor, " a gourmet green" 

Shigoku Oyster: Are Pacific oyster that attached to stationary lines and floats that rise and fall with the tide.  It’s a  low maintenance technique that forces them to “cup up” getting a scoop shaped shell. Has a very clean, sweet-nutty flavor.

Udon Broth:  An asian stock or dashi, made with soy sauce 

Kanzuri: A paste of red chili peppers, rice malt, yuzu….Japanese tradition to salt the peppers and begin fermenting in snow, aged for 3 years, and  finished as a paste


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