Mushroom Stock

Now for one of the best smelling stocks you will ever make (in my opinion). Mushroom stock is not used much in this book but I can find many uses for it in other recipes. Just like the vegetable stock you have to grind the ingredients in the grinder to get all those lovely flavors out of the vegetables. You can really smell the curry once it is added to the stock but after a while I did start to get back the mushroom sent, that earthy smell. Later on down the line I will make the truffled mushroom stock. The flavor is really concentrated in this recipe because the yield on it is only 3 cups of stock and when you start out with this recipe you have 4 quarts of water.

I don't think this is a stock that should be on anybody's "prep" list at home.







The song for this video is Coldplay: Don't Panic

Vegetable Stock

Now i know this is not my first rodeo. I know what most of the things that I a making are. I just want to give the book justice for my self. I have made a couple of these recipes in this book and have failed miserably but know I am going to be focused 100% on all the recipes. So here is my first recipe.



When making the Vegetable Stock, Keller wants you to really extract as much flavor from every single ingredient as possible but with out having it cloud or ruin the final product, i.e. forcing the stock through the chinois. When making this stock it filled my house with a pleasant sweet smell, closing my eyes and it would have been like listening to angles play the harp on a pillow of honey good, a smell that wasn't to strong but not lost. The recipe makes about 3 quarts and once it has been cooled it freezes very nicely.

The music playing in the video is Beulah: Night Is The Day Turned Inside Out

Flip Ultra HD

Just got the camcorder that I am going to be using for this project. I am going to start out by making all the stocks. See you soon.

Ideas

I have an idea. I will be blogging about cooking the French Laundry and I will also take pictures and as a bones I will also take a video of the dishes that I make. From start to finish I will have about 2 minutes or maybe 5 minutes of me cooking the dishes and then at the end the final product. I cant wait to get started.

Cooking the book

I have just created this blog site and am now going to go over the book to see what order I am going to cook things in.
There are 100 recipes in this cookbook.
18 Canapes
24 First Courses
15 Fish
13 Meat
10 Cheese
20 Dessert
Not to mention all the stocks, oils powders and other side recipes are in each recipe. This will be a monumental challenge but I think that I can pull it off. So here I go. I will be back soon to give you a list of the details on how I will break down my menu and get coking.