Sunday's class enjoyed a four course tasting menu featuring chilled local seafood from oyster champagne shooters to chilled lobster salad with pickled shiitakes.
The dog days of summer have a way of ruining appetites, few things sound as good as sticking your head in the freezer for a popsicle, and maybe you linger in the freezer for a moment, or two or three...or the rest of the day. I may or may not have threatened to crawl into my friend's ice box. Can you blame me?
Sunday's class featured simple preparations for the hottest of summer nights!
Oyster Champagne Shooters made for an elegant starter.
Scallop Ceviche in a horseradish and lobster vinaigrette was the perfect follow up, allowing the acids in the lemon juice to cook the scallops without using any heat source at all!
Next we had a beautiful Lobster Salad with pickled shiitakes, spicy mustard greens, mint and basil leaves and a simple honey ginger vinaigrette. Not a stove turned on, not an oven in site!
We ended our meal with a lovely white chocolate mascarpone and raspberry parfait, garnished with pistachios and chocolate balsamic.
That's how we kept cool...what was your trick?!
I had to laugh about stepping into the icebox!. Guilty!
ReplyDeleteHaha! Smoke Master Joe has been thanked with a 6 pack of cold beer! I've never seen him take such great care of a group!
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