Cooking from French Laundry

I love cooking, clearly, but I actually rarely cook. I bake often, and throw together basic dinners nightly, but I rarely have to opportunity to try new techniques or attempt a bit more challenging applications. The French Laundry cookbook is very accesible, minus a few recipes, and one of my favorites to cook from. Luckily, I had veal and chicken stock, truffle oil, and grey salt in the kitchen, so cooking a six course meal wasn't actually that hard.

Quail Eggs

Making Fennel Oil

White Truffel English Pea Soup

Red Pepper and it's aborted fetus...

While chopping up a pepper, I found this mini pepper inside the other pepper, and it looks...exactly what the caption suggests. It was a bit upsetting.

Soft poached quail eggs with bacon

 My first time working with quail eggs, they proved a lot easier to poach than regular eggs, but essentially taste the same. This dish was pretty simple, and absolutely incredible (mentally filing for later use)

Parmesan Crisps with Goat Cheese Mousse

Fennel, Fig, and Pepper Salad

Dry Aged Rib Eye

With Chantrelles and pommes anna

Dark Chocolate Mousse Filled Meringues with Chocolate "Salad" and Vanilla Creme Anglaise 

Ridge