Pain Perdu Cube Stuffed with Quail Egg

Seared on all sides, hollowed out, filled with a quail egg, baked and topped with maple bacon marmalade.

Pan Roasted Duck

Short Ribs with Sweet Potatoes, Beets and Truffle Tremor Cheese

Putting said orange salt roasted beets to good use.

Orange Salt Roasted Baby Beets

Here lies several beets encased in a salt, egg white and orange zest insulating shell.
Once baked in its shell, it is cracked open to provide you with your evenly cooked beets scented with orange yet not salty in the least. Combi, Shmombi. But I'd love to have a combi oven don't get me wrong.

Then just pick the beets from the shell, rub the skins off with a towel and slice to see the beauty inside!

Yum!

What did that groundhog say, again?

I wanted to create a dish that was light enough for the warmer weather we've been enjoying yet I still wanted to hang on to winter, like a confused groundhog. Here I treated striped bass like red meat seasoning it with cracked pepper and pairing it with chantrelles, bacon, onions, potatoes, hollandaiseand lots of thyme.

Super Duper Fresh Striped Bass

Handsome Fish! OK I'll say it. Sexy Fish!!!!!!

Red Snapper

This is a app. feature we are running at the restaurant. The dish has pan roasted red snapper, tomato+saffron infused cous cous, orange-fennel "slaw", kalamata tapenade and it is garnished with orange dust, tangerine lace micro greens and a grape tomato.

Fudgesicle, Creamsicle, Beef Carpaccio

Recently a box came to the kitchen from my old stomping grounds of New Bedford Ma. I opened it to find a few great things, one of which was a small box of chocolate chevre from Southcoast Farms, I gave it a try and it brought me back to the days of sucking on a fudgesicle as a kid and getting all over my face and oshkosh overalls.

I knew i had to use it that night, but how, bouche!

So here it is, I made a mousse of the chevre and an eggless custard flavored with orange and vanilla, and finished it with a slice of Painted Hills beef carpaccio topped with tangerine lace micro greens.

Beet Cake and Smoked Trout

Beet Cake, Pickled Onions, Baby Arugula, Smoked Trout, Cream Cheese, Truffled Caviar

Very Good Stuff!

Travis does it again!

Beet Curing Salmon

Admittedly not the best picture, but under the plastic, wrapped in plastic is a nice test piece of wild salmon wrapped in beet and horseradish curing salt w/ sugar. See you in a few days salmon...