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Seared Maine Scallops with Wood Roasted Vegetables & Marjoram Dressing
Paired with Allagash White
The Kitchen Café
1039 PEARL STREET
BOULDER CO 80302
PH:303-544-5973
Chef Dakota Soifer
For 4 apps
- 12 Maine Scallops
- 3 carrots
- 2 parsnips
- 1 rutabaga
- 1 winter squash (acorn or a small butternut)
- Olive oil
- Salt & pepper
- 1 shallot
- 3 tablespoons champagne vinegar
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 12 sprigs of marjoram
- 2 cloves of garlic
- Olive oil
- Salt & Pepper
Fire up your wood oven or set your standard oven to high (500f)
Vinaigrette - Finely mince the shallot and pour the vinegar over them. Wait 5 – 10 minutes then add the olive oil.
Dressing – Mash the garlic into a smooth paste with a mortar and pestle. Pick the leaves of marjoram off the stalks and mash with the garlic. Add olive oil until the consistency is like a thick dressing, season with salt & pepper.
Veggies - Peel and chop your veggies keeping them separate. Toss them in a little olive oil, salt and pepper and lay tem out on a baking tray. Roast the vegetables (careful: as each vegetable has a different cooking time) until just soft.
Scallops - Season the scallops with salt & pepper. Heat a large frying pan on high with just enough olive oil to coat the bottom until it stats to smoke. Add the scallops & sear until the have a nice caramel crisp, flip them and do the same to the other side.
Finish – Toss the warm roasted veggies all together with a spoon full or two of the vinaigrette. Spread them out on four warm plates, place 3 scallops on the bed of veggies and drizzle the marjoram dressing.
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RECIPES
Seared Maine Scallops with Wood Roasted Vegetables & Marjoram Dressing
Steak Tartare with Root Chips
Glazed Pork Belly with Barley Pilaf
Allagash White Beer Sabayon
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Steak Tartare with Root Chips
Paired with Victor
The Reef Restaurant
2446 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-518-3800
Chef Ken Kaiser, Chef Ryan Smith
Ingredients (serves 4):
- 1 lb all natural, grass-fed chateaubriand
- 1 shallot, minced
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 2 tablespoon capers, chopped
- 1 egg yolk
- Tabasco, to taste
- Salt, to taste
- Fresh cracked black pepper, to taste
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon red curry paste
- 1 russet potato
- 1 Yukon gold potato
- 1 red beet
- 1 golden beet
- 4 quail egg yolks
Directions:
Root Chips
- Thinly slice potatoes and beets (1/8 inch thick) on a mandolin.
- Placed the sliced vegetables between two silpats on a sheet tray; bake at 275° until crispy.
- Season chips with salt and fresh cracked black pepper as soon as they are out of the oven.
Spicy Mayo (garnish)
- Mix the mayonnaise with the red curry paste.
Tartare
- Fine dice the beef; be sure to remove all silver skin and tendons.
- Mix the shallot, garlic, capers, egg yolk, dash of Tabasco; season with salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste.
Plating Procedure
- Fill ring molds with about four ounces of the tartare.
- Top the tartare with a quail yolk.
- Garnish plate with the red curry mayo and the root chips.
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Glazed Pork Belly with Barley Pilaf
Paired with Fluxus
The Reef Restaurant
2446 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-518-3800
Chef Ken Kaiser, Chef Ryan Smith
Ingredients (serves 4):
- 1lb 8oz uncured all natural smoked slab bacon
- ¾ cup quality white wine
- 2 onions, rough chopped
- 7 clove garlic, smashed
- 2 heaping tablespoons tomato paste
- Fine olive oil (as needed)
- ¼ cup whole grain mustard
- 1 cup pearl barley
- 1 heaping tablespoon butter
- ½ cup burnois (equal parts shallot, carrot, and celery)
- Salt, to taste
- Fresh cracked white pepper, to taste
Directions:
Cooking the Pork Belly
- Coat the bacon generously with the whole grain mustard; set aside.
- Heat approximately 1 tablespoon fine olive oil in a large pot or rondo.
- Sauté chopped onions until soft and translucent.
- Add the garlic and sauté for a few minutes longer, until the garlic becomes lightly golden.
- Add the tomato paste and cook to a light brown.
- Deglaze with the wine.
- Add the mustard encrusted pork belly.
- Add cold water until slab of bacon is covered by 1 inch.
- Let pot cool until it is able to be handled; cover with plastic wrap and then aluminum foil.
- Place in 300° oven and cook for 5 hours.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool overnight in the liquid.
Making the sauce
- Remove bacon and all visible fat from cooking liquid.
- Reduce until the liquid coats the back of a spoon; strain.
- Season with salt and pepper, hold warm and covered until needed.
- Just prior to saucing the plate, add whole grain mustard and just a touch of butter to add texture and flavor to the sauce.
Barley Pilaf
- Heat butter in a small pot.
- Quickly sauté the barley in the pot.
- Add one and half cups of water and cover pot; cook over very low heat for about 40 minutes.
- Season with salt and fresh cracked white pepper to taste.
- Sauté brunois of vegetables in hot pan for about 2 minutes; immediately stir into the barley.
- Hold warm until needed.
Plating Procedure
- Cut the bacon to proper portion sizes (approximately 4 oz).
- Grill one side of the bacon until slightly caramelized and defined grill marks appear.
- Heat through in a 350° oven.
- Sauce plate, add barley and top with the warm bacon in an artistic manner.
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Allagash White Beer Sabayon
L’Espalier
30 Gloucester Street
Boston, MA 02115
617 262 3023
Chef Kristopher Woyshner
Sabayon, also known by its Italian name, Zabaglione, is a simple dessert. It can be served warm, cold, frozen or as a substitute for the custard filling of certain pies. Some people complement Sabayon with fruit; this recipe simply calls for whipped cream.
Enjoy!
Ingredients
1 cup Allagash White
1/3 cup egg yolks
2 and ½ oz sugar
½ tsp lemon zest
½ tsp lemon juice
To finish
½ cup whipped cream
Assembly
Whisk in large mixing bowl on a double boiler until the sabayon thickens. Fold ½ cup whipped cream.
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