Olive Oil Jelly

put a 100 grams of water. I put 2 grams of iota. [MACHINE STIRRING RAPIDLY] [STIRRING WITH WHISK] I bring to boil. [STIRRING WITH WHISK] 100 grams of olive oil. Poor in mold and refrigerate.

Thickening or Gel

Use 1/2 to 1 percent agar to thicken or gell a liquid

CARLES TEJEDOR: OLIVE OIL SPREAD

100 grams olive oil to 7 grams glycerol
warm to 40 C to melt glycerol
cool in bowl in ice bath while stirring  

Darker more flavorful beef stock

Marinate bones in water, salt and vinegar for 8 hours
Brown in warm oven 30 mins.

Wine to deglazed pan and then another 10 mins to reduce liquid in oven
Pork skin to add jelly? Gelatin?

Add braised vegetables and water

Use water in bone pan on heat to deglaze.

Reduce

added golden shallot and porto wine (reduced sweet and dry sherry)

Perfect eggs: omelet and scrambled

for omelet, add frozen butter in small chucks before cooking

For scrambled eggs use 1/2 and 1/2 and one extra yoke per 4 eggs.  Whip with fork.

1/4 cup half and half for 8 eggs plus 2 yokes.  1/4 teaspoon of salt and pepper.  Cook in small pan using 1 tablespoon of butter. Cook over medium high heat.

Gently fold and remove from pan when still a little wet.  They will continue to cook.

Grilled flavor on vegetables

Requires fat to drip on coals.  Use a squirt bottle to squirt fat (butter, oil, etc) directly on coals beneath the food being cooked.

Salting and Baking Soda for caramelization

1% salt by weight
.5% baking soda by weight

Best Brussel Sprouts Recipe

Best brussel sprouts receipt ever:

http://chefshelton.blogspot.com/2013_08_01_archive.html

Ingredients Required:

• apples to juice or apple juice

exact same weight in 

• Maple Syrup 

reduce juice and syrup by half or 60-65 Brix or 60-65% sugar

• pecans deep fried
• Brussels Sprouts.  Cored and quartered

Peduce juice and syrup by half or 60-65 Brix or 60-65% sugar

Deep fry 280 F a minute or so

Drizzle sauce, add salt, toss with pecans.