Category Archives: Food Photography

Mile End Restaurant, Brooklyn

We’ve noticed the weekend crowds at this 5-table-plus-counter restaurant for a while now and finally made it out to Hoyt Street to check it out. Mile End calls itself a “Montreal Jewish Delicatessen,” serving breakfast treats like lox sandwiches, brisket platters and whitefish salad. I was craving maple syrup that morning and did not go wrong with the breakfast burger. Bonus points for this restaurant for being the very few ones who serve a bottle or pitcher of water at the table without being asked.
Breakfast Burger

Turkey sausage, apple sauce, Vermont butter, egg, maple syrup.
I saw the chef put a few squares of butter on top of the patty as it was cooking on the griddle, then placed a steel bowl to cover it while cooking.

Smoked meat hash. Smoked brisket, eggs, potatoes, chives.

Served with sriracha. The hash is so rich that it needed a side piece of toast (ordered separately).

Kitchen and baked goods (double toasted almond challah, cinamon bun, English muffin, apple turnover)

Style elements include vintage Canadian hockey photos.

Great meal fit for champions.
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Doenjang Chigae Dinner, Woodside

Doenjang Chigae is a traditional Korean soup made with doenjang (fermented soybean paste), meat, tofu, potatoes and vegetables.

Style elements of this home  are here.

Hungarian duck liver pate with homemade bread from Japan and crackers.

Cheeses and caperberries.

Fried shishito peppers.

Olives and cheese.

A nice fume blanc.

Cutting bread.

Kimchi

Kim

Rice

Japchae

Doenjang chigae in a bowl.

Dinner plate

Cutting some ginger for tea.

Oh what do we have here?

Pour that bubbly.

Vintage 1999 Dom Perignon, strawberries and cream.

Happy New Year!

Ching-I’s Frutti de Mare Dinner

I might just be really getting into documenting food preparation and presentation. We were fortunate enough to be invited to partake of and prepare a meal to celebrate friendship and the coming year. Thank you to Ching-i for the very special evening. Only you can pull something like this off.
Please check out the preparation photos for each dish!
“Italian Sushi” – Rigatoni stuffed with uni, seeweed, panko and soy sauce.

Fresh shucked Kusshi oysters.

Grilled scallops, dashi, ponzu, sesame.

Grilled eggplant with ginger, mustard leaves, sprouts, anchovies and greens with onion sesame dressing.

Steamed snow crab.

Fresh sea urchin (uni) from Maine and California.

Documenter, sous chefs and chefs.

A tribute to Cheateau Montelena is here.

Style elements are here.

The evening’s spirits are here.

Maine and California Sea Urchins (How To Prepare Sea Urchins for Uni)

A Maine urchin.

Careful.

A California urchin.

How to open a sea urchin for uni.

Hidden treasure.

Opening the California urchin.

Scoop out the roe with a spoon.

Wash and remove innards, rinse.

Remove black stuff.

Soak in a bowl, drain and return to shell.

For the occassion, a 2003 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay from a Sonoma trip in 2006.

California uni (urchin roe) have a deeper, richer flavor.

But no complaints on the Maine uni, a cool, unique taste that is full of ocean life.
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